How To Install tesseract-ocr-osd on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-osd

tesseract-ocr-osd 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 identifying script and orientation.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-osd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-osd

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-osd

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-osd on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-osd

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-osd And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-osd Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-osd have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-osd website

Summary

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