How To Install tesseract-ocr-ton on Kali Linux

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

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-ton

tesseract-ocr-ton 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 Tonga language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-ton Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-ton

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-ton

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ton on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-ton

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-ton And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-ton Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-ton have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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