DetectLanguage Method

int DetectLanguage( 
   IOcrPage page,
   string[] languages,
   int[] confidences,
   int minimumConfidence
)

'Declaration
 

Function DetectLanguage( _
   ByVal page As IOcrPage, _
   ByVal languages() As String, _
   ByVal confidences() As Integer, _
   ByVal minimumConfidence As Integer _
) As Integer

'Usage
 

Dim instance As IOcrLanguageManager
Dim page As IOcrPage
Dim languages() As String
Dim confidences() As Integer
Dim minimumConfidence As Integer
Dim value As Integer
 
value = instance.DetectLanguage(page, languages, confidences, minimumConfidence)

int DetectLanguage( 
   IOcrPage page,
   string[] languages,
   int[] confidences,
   int minimumConfidence
)

- (NSUInteger)detectLanguage:(LTOcrPage *)page 
                   languages:(NSArray<NSNumber *> *)languages 
                 confidences:(NSArray<NSNumber *> * _Nullable * _Nullable)confidences 
           minimumConfidence:(NSUInteger)minimumConfidence 
                       error:(NSError **)error
            

public int detectLanguage(OcrPage page,
                          String[] languages,
                          int[] confidences,
                          int minimumConfidence)
            

function Leadtools.Forms.Ocr.IOcrLanguageManager.DetectLanguage( 
   page ,
   languages ,
   confidences ,
   minimumConfidence 
)

int DetectLanguage( 
   IOcrPage^ page,
   array<String^>^ languages,
   array<int>^ confidences,
   int minimumConfidence
) 

Parameters

page

The IOcrPage to detect its language.

languages

An array of String objects that contain the names of the languages to check for. The language values used throughout the LEADTOOLS OCR toolkit are string values based on RFC 4646 (Windows Vista and later). The name could be an ISO 639 two-letter lowercase culture code associated with a language or a combination of ISO 630 and ISO 3166 two-letter uppercase subculture codes associated with a country or region.

confidences

An array of Int32 objects updated by the confidences of the languages. The array size must be equivalent to the number of items in languages array. If it is set to null it will be ignored. The confidence value range is between -1 and 100. A value of -1 means the language is not supported, 0 means it is not confident, and 100 is fully confident.

minimumConfidence

The minimum confidence value to stop checking other languages when a language confidence is equal to or higher than its value.

Return Value

DetectLanguage is supported in the LEADTOOLS OCR Advantage Engine only.

Zone language detection is a dictionary based method. The confidence of a language without a dictionary is low. If a language does not have a dictionary installed, then that language will not be detected and the default (main) language will be used to recognize the text. For example, Asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean do not have dictionaries. If an Asian language text is present in the input image, then you should set the desired language as the default (main) language in the OCR engine in order to recognize text with the highest accuracy. To determine whether a given spell language (dictionary) is supported by the current spell checker engine use IsSpellLanguageSupported. In order to get a list of the languages (dictionaries) supported by the current spell checker engine use GetSupportedSpellLanguages. For more information on OCR languages and spell checkers, refer to IOcrLanguageManager and IOcrSpellCheckManager.

Use the GetSupportedLanguages to obtain a list of the languages supported by the IOcrEngine.

Use the IsLanguageSupported to check if a given language is supported by the IOcrEngine.

This example will detect images with English, French, and German languages.

• C#
• Visual Basic
• WinRT C#
• WinRT JavaScript
• Silverlight C#
• Silverlight VB

Copy Code  

Imports Leadtools
Imports Leadtools.Codecs
Imports Leadtools.Forms.Ocr

Public Sub DetectLanguageExample(engine As IOcrEngine, page As IOcrPage)
   Dim languages As String() = New String(2) {}
   languages(0) = "en"
   languages(0) = "fr"
   languages(0) = "de"
   Dim confidences As Integer() = New Integer(languages.Length - 1) {}
   Dim maxIndex As Integer = engine.LanguageManager.DetectLanguage(page, languages, confidences, 90)
   If maxIndex = -1 Then
      Console.WriteLine("No language has been detected")
   Else
      Console.WriteLine("The page language with the highest confidence is: " & languages(maxIndex) & ", with confidence: " & confidences(maxIndex))
   End If
   For i As Integer = 0 To languages.Length - 1
      Console.WriteLine("Language: " & languages(i) & ", with confidence: " & confidences(i))
   Next
End Sub

using Leadtools;
using Leadtools.Codecs;
using Leadtools.Forms.Ocr;

private void DetectLanguageExample(IOcrEngine engine, IOcrPage page)
{
   string[] languages = new string[3];
   languages[0] = "en";
   languages[0] = "fr";
   languages[0] = "de";
   int[] confidences = new int[languages.Length];
   int maxIndex = engine.LanguageManager.DetectLanguage(page, languages, confidences, 90);
   if (maxIndex == -1)
      Console.WriteLine("No language has been detected");
   else
      Console.WriteLine("The page language with the highest confidence is: " + languages[maxIndex] + ", with confidence: " + confidences[maxIndex]);
   for (int i = 0; i < languages.Length; i++)
      Console.WriteLine("Language: " + languages[i] + ", with confidence: " + confidences[i]);
}

using Leadtools;
using Leadtools.Codecs;
using Leadtools.Forms.Ocr;

private void DetectLanguageExample(IOcrEngine engine, IOcrPage page)
{
    string[] languages = new string[3];
    languages[0] = "en";
    languages[0] = "fr";
    languages[0] = "de";
    int[] confidences = new int[languages.Length];
    int maxIndex = engine.LanguageManager.DetectLanguage(page, languages, confidences, 90);
    if (maxIndex == -1)
        Debug.WriteLine("No language has been detected");
    else
        Debug.WriteLine("The page language with the highest confidence is: " + languages[maxIndex] + ", with confidence: " + confidences[maxIndex]);
    for (int i = 0; i < languages.Length; i++)
        Debug.WriteLine("Language: " + languages[i] + ", with confidence: " + confidences[i]);
}

Target Platforms

Reference

IOcrLanguageManager Interface
IOcrLanguageManager Members
IOcrLanguageManager Interface
GetSupportedLanguages Method
IsLanguageSupported Method
EnableLanguages Method
IOcrEngine.Startup
IOcrEngine.IsStarted
IOcrEngine.Shutdown
OcrEngineManager Class
OcrEngineType Enumeration
Programming with the LEADTOOLS .NET OCR
Working with OCR Languages
OCR Languages and Spell Checking