How To Install tesseract-ocr-tir on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-tir

tesseract-ocr-tir 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 Tigrinya language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-tir Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-tir

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-tir

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tir on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-tir

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-tir And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-tir Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-tir have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-tir website

Summary

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