unstructured/example-docs/jpn-vert.jpeg
shreyanid eb8ce89137
chore: function to map between standard and Tesseract language codes (#1421)
### Summary
In order to convert between incompatible language codes from packages
used for OCR, this change adds a function to map between any standard
language codes and tesseract OCR specific codes. Users can input
language information to `languages` in any Tesseract-supported langcode
or any ISO 639 standard language code.

### Details
- Introduces the
[python-iso639](https://pypi.org/project/python-iso639/) package for
matching standard language codes. Recompiles all dependencies.
- If a language is not already supplied by the user as a Tesseract
specific langcode, supplies all possible script/orthography variants of
the language to the Tesseract OCR agent.

### Test
Added many unit tests for a variety of language combinations, special
cases, and variants. For general testing, call partition functions with
any lang codes in the languages parameter (Tesseract or standard).

for example,
```
from unstructured.partition.auto import partition

elements = partition(filename="example-docs/layout-parser-paper.pdf", strategy="hi_res", languages=["en", "chi"])
print("\n\n".join([str(el) for el in elements]))
```
should supply eng+chi_sim+chi_sim_vert+chi_tra+chi_tra_vert to Tesseract
2023-09-18 08:42:02 -07:00

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