Latin Languages Autodetect (Engine 2)


Engine 2 autodetects the correct OCR language (language=auto, the default). The specific language codes are deprecated; if an existing integration still sends one, Engine 2 runs auto-detection first and uses the code only as fallback if auto-detection fails. The engine always detects all supported Latin language characters:

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Natural languages that use ISO basic Latin letters are (for example): Afrikaans, Basque, Breton, Celtic British, Catalan, Cornish, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Extremaduran, Fala, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Javanese, Karakalpak, Kurdish, Modern Latin, Luxembourgish, Malay, Mirandese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Slovak, Spanish, Sundanese, Swedish, Tswana, Tunisian Arabic,Uyghur, Venda, Võro, Walloon, West Frisian, Xhosa, Zhuang and Zulu.

Engine 2 has dedicated language models for English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Indonesian, Malay, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Finnish and Vietnamese. Other Latin-script languages (for example Croatian, Slovak, Slovenian, Hungarian) are read through the same Latin recognizer, so expect occasional errors on accented characters there. See the full Engine 2 language list.

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