How To Install tesseract-ocr-script-arab on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-script-arab

tesseract-ocr-script-arab 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 Arabic script.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-script-arab

Install tesseract-ocr-script-arab Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-script-arab

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-script-arab

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-arab on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-script-arab

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-script-arab And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-script-arab

Remove tesseract-ocr-script-arab Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-script-arab

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-script-arab

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-script-arab have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-script-arab website

Summary

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