: Customize the language that paperless will attempt to use when
parsing documents.
- It should be a 3-letter language code consistent with ISO 639:
- https://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/code_list.php
+ It should be a 3-letter code, see the list of [languages Tesseract supports](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/Data-Files-in-different-versions.html).
Set this to the language most of your documents are written in.
This can be a combination of multiple languages such as `deu+eng`,
- in which case tesseract will use whatever language matches best.
- Keep in mind that tesseract uses much more cpu time with multiple
+ in which case Tesseract will use whatever language matches best.
+ Keep in mind that Tesseract uses much more CPU time with multiple
languages enabled.
Defaults to "eng".
!!! note
- If your language contains a '-' such as chi-sim, you must use chi_sim
+ If your language contains a '-' such as chi-sim, you must use `chi_sim`.
`PAPERLESS_OCR_MODE=<mode>`