PredefinedLanguages Object (IPredefinedLanguages Interface)

PredefinedLanguages object (IPredefinedLanguages interface) in the ABBYY FineReader Engine API — Collection of all predefined recognition languages created at Engine initialization; accessible via the Engine object and searchable by internal name with Find.

This object represents a collection of predefined languages. Predefined languages are recognition languages supported by ABBYY FineReader Engine by default. The collection of predefined languages is created upon FineReader Engine initialization and exists until it is deinitialized.

Besides standard collection functionality, this object exposes the Find method that allows you to get a PredefinedLanguage object by its internal name. The collection is accessible via the Engine object.

• The indexing of ABBYY FineReader Engine collections starts with 0.
• The foreach statement in C# (for each in Visual Basic .NET) can be used to manipulate the collection.

Properties

Name	Type	Description
Application	Engine, read-only	Returns the Engine object.
Count	int, read-only	Stores the number of elements in the collection.
Element	PredefinedLanguage, read-only	Provides access to a single element of the collection.

Methods

Name	Description
Find	Finds a predefined language in the collection by the internal name of the language.
Item	Provides access to a single element of the collection.

Related objects

Object Diagram

Samples

C# code

FREngine.IEngine engine;
// Create new TextLanguage object as a copy of predefined English language
ILanguageDatabase languageDatabase = Engine.CreateLanguageDatabase();
ITextLanguage textLanguage = languageDatabase.CreateTextLanguage();
// Copy all attributes from predefined English language
ITextLanguage englishLanguage = Engine.PredefinedLanguages.Find( "English" )
 .TextLanguage;
textLanguage.CopyFrom( englishLanguage );
textLanguage.InternalName = "SampleTextLanguage";

The object is used in the following code samples:

• Linux: CustomLanguage
• Windows: CustomLanguage; and demo tools: BatchProcessingRecognition, Classification, Engine Predefined Processing Profiles, MultiProcessingRecognition, PDFExportProfiles

See also

PredefinedLanguage

Working with Languages

Predefined Languages in ABBYY FineReader Engine

Working with Collections

Working with Properties