How To Install tesseract-ocr-mal on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-mal on Kali Linux.
What is tesseract-ocr-mal
tesseract-ocr-mal is:
Tesseract is an open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine. It can be used directly, or (for programmers) using an API to extract printed text from images. This package contains the data needed for processing images in Malayalam language.
There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-mal on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tesseract-ocr-mal Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-mal using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-malInstall tesseract-ocr-mal Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-mal using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-malInstall tesseract-ocr-mal Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude updateAfter updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-mal using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-malHow To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-mal on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-mal package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-malUninstall tesseract-ocr-mal And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tesseract-ocr-mal and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-malRemove tesseract-ocr-mal Configurations and Data
To remove tesseract-ocr-mal configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-malRemove tesseract-ocr-mal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-mal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-malDependencies
tesseract-ocr-mal have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-mal package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
