tesseract-ocrHow do I add a language to Tesseract OCR on Windows?

1. Download the language data files you want to add from the Tesseract language data repository.
2. Extract the downloaded language data files to the tessdata folder in the Tesseract installation directory.
3. To check if the language data is correctly installed, run the following command in a command prompt, replacing <lang> with the language code of the language you installed.

tesseract --list-langs

The output should include the language code you installed:

List of available languages (3):
eng
<lang>
osd

4. You can now use the language code to set Tesseract's language when running it from the command line. For example:

tesseract image.png output -l <lang>

5. If you want to use the language in your own code, you can use the SetVariable method of the TesseractEngine class. For example:

TesseractEngine engine = new TesseractEngine(@"./tessdata", "<lang>");

6. You can also set the language when calling the Process method of the TesseractEngine class. For example:

Page page = engine.Process(pix, "<lang>");

7. You can find more information about using Tesseract in the Tesseract.NET documentation.

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