Automatic language detection for OCR

[Athanaze]

Is there a plan to automatically detect language for Tesseract OCR ?
What I am doing right now is doing OCR in English mode, then see if the results contain German or French, and rerun using the appropriate mode. Obviously this is not very elegant and does not work well since often the OCR in English mode is pretty bad.

[Goldziher]

Is there a plan to automatically detect language for Tesseract OCR ?
What I am doing right now is doing OCR in English mode, then see if the results contain German or French, and rerun using the appropriate mode. Obviously this is not very elegant and does not work well since often the OCR in English mode is pretty bad.

Yup it crossed my mind.

Any suggestions?