How To Install tesseract-ocr-nld on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-nld

tesseract-ocr-nld 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 Dutch language.

There are three methods to install tesseract-ocr-nld 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-nld 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-nld using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install tesseract-ocr-nld Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-nld

Install tesseract-ocr-nld 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-nld using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-nld

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-nld on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-nld

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-nld And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-nld Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-nld have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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