How To Install tesseract-ocr-tat on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-tat

tesseract-ocr-tat 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 Tatar language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-tat Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-tat

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-tat

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tat on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-tat

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tat And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-tat Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-tat have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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