How To Install tesseract-ocr-uig on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-uig

tesseract-ocr-uig 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 Uyghur language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-uig Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-uig

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-uig

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-uig on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-uig

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-uig And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-uig Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-uig have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-uig website

Summary

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