How To Install tesseract-ocr-oci on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-oci

tesseract-ocr-oci 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 Occitan (post 1500) language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-oci Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-oci

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-oci

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-oci on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-oci

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-oci And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-oci Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-oci have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-oci website

Summary

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