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

Last updated: February 03,2025

1. Install "tesseract-ocr-eng" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install tesseract-ocr-eng on Kali Linux


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

Please follow the steps below to uninstall tesseract-ocr-eng on Kali Linux:


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

Package: tesseract-ocr-eng
Source: tesseract-lang
Version: 1:4.1.0-2
Installed-Size: 4032
Maintainer: Alexander Pozdnyakov
Architecture: all
Replaces: tesseract-ocr-data (<< 2)
Provides: tesseract-ocr-lang, tesseract-ocr-language
Recommends: tesseract-ocr (>= 4.9.9)
Breaks: tesseract-ocr (<< 4.9.9)
Size: 1593640
SHA256: 9242d054563262398f8cf41fbd96fcc72f9dde70db16de18539882a6cff74f9d
SHA1: aaf923ad6564a65b85f33406451374e4a49bf39b
MD5sum: 496001dc0df6b4ebf7cb5c0560abe921
Description: tesseract-ocr language files for English
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 English language.
Description-md5:
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/
Tag: accessibility::ocr, culture::TODO, role::app-data
Section: graphics
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/t/tesseract-lang/tesseract-ocr-eng_4.1.0-2_all.deb