How to Install and Uninstall tesseract-ocr Package on Kali Linux

Last updated: February 24,2025

1. Install "tesseract-ocr" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install tesseract-ocr on Kali Linux


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                tesseract-ocr
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "tesseract-ocr" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to uninstall tesseract-ocr on Kali Linux:


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                tesseract-ocr
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the tesseract-ocr package on Kali Linux

Package: tesseract-ocr
Source: tesseract
Version: 5.3.4-1
Installed-Size: 2228
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data
Depends: libarchive13 (>= 3.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcurl4 (>= 7.16.2), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libharfbuzz0b (>= 1.2.6), libicu72 (>= 72.1~rc-1~), liblept5 (>= 1.75.3), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.44.3), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libstdc++6 (>= 13.1), libtesseract5 (= 5.3.4-1), tesseract-ocr-eng (>= 4.0.9~), tesseract-ocr-osd (>= 4.0.9~)
Size: 419460
SHA256: ecff5c025855ebbb14c457f9511fcd6f12ebf290c3c2778a0774eca583f487e3
SHA1: 25d42fd9b99e66b397cabc179a6125e2a0e3e789
MD5sum: 1604dbfc4d4bfde35d961c8ef9b0e356
Description: Tesseract command line OCR tool
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. It supports a wide variety of
languages. This package includes the command line tool.
Description-md5:
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Tag: accessibility::ocr, implemented-in::c++, interface::commandline,
role::program
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tesseract/tesseract-ocr_5.3.4-1_amd64.deb