How To Install tesseract-ocr-sun on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install tesseract-ocr-sun on Kali Linux. tesseract-ocr-sun is tesseract-ocr language files for Sundanese

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-sun

tesseract-ocr-sun 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 Sundanese language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-sun Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-sun

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-sun

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-sun on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-sun

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-sun And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-sun Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-sun have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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