[TIKA-3298] Add a "preloadLangs" parameter to TesseractOCRParser

• Type: Task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Tim Allison
• Created: 10/Feb/21 22:40
• Updated: 16/Feb/21 21:45
• Resolved: 10/Feb/21 22:41

Description

peterkronenberg on the user/dev lists and on TIKA-3297 and TIKA-3296 has observed that the tesseract error message for "lang data doesn't exist" is not extremely clear.  We could add a "preloadLangs" option to TesseractOCRParser (default would be false).  If set to true, the parser (upon initialization) if it finds tesseract, will call tesseract --list-langs and then store those langs. At parse time, if the langs set has anything in it, the TesseractOCRParser will check that set against the user-requested language and throw a clearer exception to the user that the language data doesn't exist for the requested language.