How To Install tesseract-ocr-spa-old on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-spa-old

tesseract-ocr-spa-old 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 Spanish, Castilian - Old language.

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

sudo apt-get -y install tesseract-ocr-spa-old

Install tesseract-ocr-spa-old Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-spa-old

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-spa-old

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-spa-old on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-spa-old

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-spa-old And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tesseract-ocr-spa-old

Remove tesseract-ocr-spa-old Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge tesseract-ocr-spa-old

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tesseract-ocr-spa-old

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-spa-old have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-spa-old website

Summary

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