How To Install tesseract-ocr-por on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-por

tesseract-ocr-por 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 Portuguese language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-por Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-por

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-por

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-por on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-por

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-por And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-por Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-por have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-por website

Summary

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