How To Install tesseract-ocr-tam on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-tam

tesseract-ocr-tam 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 Tamil language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-tam Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-tam

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-tam

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tam on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-tam

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tam And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-tam Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-tam have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-tam website

Summary

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