How To Install tesseract-ocr-yid on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is tesseract-ocr-yid

tesseract-ocr-yid 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 Yiddish language.

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

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

Install tesseract-ocr-yid Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tesseract-ocr-yid

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

sudo aptitude -y install tesseract-ocr-yid

How To Uninstall tesseract-ocr-yid on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove tesseract-ocr-yid

Uninstall tesseract-ocr-yid And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove tesseract-ocr-yid Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

tesseract-ocr-yid have the following dependencies:

References

• tesseract-ocr-yid website

Summary

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