How To Install tesseract-ocr-nep on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-nep on Kali Linux. tesseract-ocr-nep is tesseract-ocr language files for Nepali

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-nep on Kali Linux.

What is tesseract-ocr-nep

tesseract-ocr-nep 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 Nepali language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-nep 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-nep Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-nep using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-nep

Install tesseract-ocr-nep Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-nep using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-nep

Install tesseract-ocr-nep 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 update

After updating apt database, We can install tesseract-ocr-nep using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-nep

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-nep on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the tesseract-ocr-nep package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-nep

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-nep And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tesseract-ocr-nep and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-nep

Remove tesseract-ocr-nep Configurations and Data

To remove tesseract-ocr-nep configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-nep

Remove tesseract-ocr-nep configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tesseract-ocr-nep configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-nep

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-nep have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-nep package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.