tesseract-ocrHow do I set the language for tesseract OCR?

The language for Tesseract OCR can be set using the -l command line argument. This argument takes an ISO 639-3 language code as its value. For example, to set the language to French:

tesseract -l fra image.jpg output

This will set the language to French and output the result to the output file.

Code explanation

• tesseract: The name of the command line program.
• -l: The command line argument for setting the language.
• fra: The ISO 639-3 language code for French.
• image.jpg: The name of the image file to be processed.
• output: The name of the output file.

Helpful links

• Tesseract Command Line Usage
• ISO 639-3 Language Codes

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