How To Install tesseract-ocr-tha on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-tha

tesseract-ocr-tha 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 Thai language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-tha Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-tha

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-tha

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tha on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-tha

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tha And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-tha Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-tha have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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