One line of code recognizes 80 languages (optical character recognition)

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pip install paddlepaddle paddleocr
paddleocr --image_dir img_12.jpg --lang en --use_gpu false

change `--lang en` according to the language-abbreviation list below:

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|Language|Abbreviation|Language|Abbreviation|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|Chinese & English|ch|Arabic|ar|
|English|en|Hindi|hi|
|French|fr|Uyghur|ug|
|German|german|Persian|fa|
|Japan|japan|Urdu|ur|
|Korean|korean|Serbian(latin)|rs\_latin|
|Chinese Traditional|chinese\_cht|Occitan|oc|
|Italian|it|Marathi|mr|
|Spanish|es|Nepali|ne|
|Portuguese|pt|Serbian(cyrillic)|rs\_cyrillic|
|Russia|ru|Bulgarian|bg|
|Ukranian|uk|Estonian|et|
|Belarusian|be|Irish|ga|
|Telugu|te|Croatian|hr|
|Saudi Arabia|sa|Hungarian|hu|

full language list: [https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/release/2.5/doc/doc\_en/multi\_languages\_en.md#5-support-languages-and-abbreviations](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/blob/release/2.5/doc/doc_en/multi_languages_en.md#5-support-languages-and-abbreviations)

code: [https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR](https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR)

character recognition code computervision line optical character recognition