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.. _lang-packs:
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Installing additional language packs
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OCRmyPDF uses Tesseract for OCR, and relies on its language packs for
languages other than English.
Tesseract supports `most
languages <https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/blob/master/doc/tesseract.1.asc#languages>`__.
For Linux users, you can often find packages that provide language
packs:
Debian and Ubuntu users
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.. code-block:: bash
# Display a list of all Tesseract language packs
apt-cache search tesseract-ocr
# Install Chinese Simplified language pack
apt-get install tesseract-ocr-chi-sim
You can then pass the ``-l LANG`` argument to OCRmyPDF to give a hint as
to what languages it should search for. Multiple languages can be
requested using either ``-l eng+fre`` (English and French) or
``-l eng -l fre``.
Fedora users
============
.. code-block:: bash
# Display a list of all Tesseract language packs
dnf search tesseract
# Install Chinese Simplified language pack
dnf install tesseract-langpack-chi_sim
You can then pass the ``-l LANG`` argument to OCRmyPDF to give a hint as
to what languages it should search for. Multiple languages can be
requested using either ``-l eng+fre`` (English and French) or
``-l eng -l fre``.
macOS users
===========
You can install additional language packs by
:ref:`installing Tesseract using Homebrew with all language packs <macos-all-languages>`.
Docker users
============
Users of the OCRmyPDF Docker image should install language packs into a
derived Docker image as
:ref:`described in that section <docker-lang-packs>`.
Windows users
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The Tesseract installer provided by Chocolatey already includes 100 languages.