How To Install tesseract-ocr-pol on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-pol

tesseract-ocr-pol 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 Polish language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-pol Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-pol

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-pol

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-pol on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-pol

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-pol And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-pol Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-pol have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-pol website

Summary

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