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Add language(s) hint to TextDetector's detect function

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Description

OCR libraries like Tesseract tend to work better if the input language is known. I would thus suggest to add a language(s) hint option to the detect function of the TextDetector.

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Research direction

Start by reading the TextDetector detect() definition in the linked Shape Detection API specification and compare the language-hint motivation with Tesseract's documented options. The work is complete when the API proposal specifies how the language(s) hint is represented and used, including its expected behavior.

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Domain
api
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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