Language Detection

A Docker image that detects the language of a PDF or text and writes the result to a TXT file or sets language on a PDF output.

Table of Contents

• Language Detection
  • Getting started
  • Usage
  • Commands
  • Arguments
  • Examples
  • Help & support
  • Licenses

Getting started

You need Docker installed. The first run downloads the image and may take longer than later runs.

Usage

Mount a folder into the container and run a subcommand:

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data -w /data pdfix/detect-language:latest <command> [options]

Commands

• lang-detect: Detect language from PDF, TXT, inline text, or text string → output PDF or TXT

Arguments

lang-detect

Supported combinations: PDF → PDF, PDF → TXT, TXT → TXT, or free text → TXT.

Option	Required	Type / expected value	Description
--input, -i	yes	Path to an existing .pdf or .txt file, or a raw text string	Source text or file
--output, -o	yes	Path for output .pdf or .txt (must match the chosen mode)	Output file
--name	no	String (PDFix account license name); required for PDF → PDF	PDFix license name
--key	no	String (PDFix account license key); required for PDF → PDF	PDFix license key

Examples

Detect language and write a language code to output.txt:

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data -w /data pdfix/detect-language:latest \
  lang-detect -i /data/input.pdf -o /data/output.txt

Set detected language on an output PDF (requires PDFix license for PDF output):

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)":/data -w /data pdfix/detect-language:latest \
  lang-detect --name "${LICENSE_NAME}" --key "${LICENSE_KEY}" \
  -i /data/input.pdf -o /data/output.pdf

Help & support

For PDFix SDK licensing or issues, contact support@pdfix.net.

Licenses

• PDFix Terms

Trial versions of the PDFix SDK may apply watermarks and redact random content in the output PDF.