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From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:02:07 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix(ocr): set default OCR languages to English + German
 (eng+deu / en,de)

Co-authored-by: christianlouis <361235+christianlouis@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 app/config.py                 | 4 ++--
 app/utils/settings_service.py | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/config.py b/app/config.py
index 2dd8c967..aaf0c067 100644
--- a/app/config.py
+++ b/app/config.py
@@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
 
     # Tesseract OCR settings (used when "tesseract" is in OCR_PROVIDERS)
     tesseract_cmd: Optional[str] = None  # Path to tesseract binary (e.g. /usr/bin/tesseract)
-    tesseract_language: str = "eng"  # Tesseract language code(s), e.g. "eng" or "eng+deu"
+    tesseract_language: str = "eng+deu"  # Tesseract language code(s), e.g. "eng" or "eng+deu"
 
     # EasyOCR settings (used when "easyocr" is in OCR_PROVIDERS)
-    easyocr_languages: str = "en"  # Comma-separated language codes, e.g. "en,de,fr"
+    easyocr_languages: str = "en,de"  # Comma-separated language codes, e.g. "en,de,fr"
     easyocr_gpu: bool = False  # Enable GPU acceleration for EasyOCR
 
     # Mistral OCR settings (used when "mistral" is in OCR_PROVIDERS)
diff --git a/app/utils/settings_service.py b/app/utils/settings_service.py
index 6f9d44ac..49275757 100644
--- a/app/utils/settings_service.py
+++ b/app/utils/settings_service.py
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ SETTING_METADATA = {
     },
     "tesseract_language": {
         "category": "OCR Engines",
-        "description": "Tesseract language code(s), e.g. 'eng' or 'eng+deu'. Default: eng.",
+        "description": "Tesseract language code(s), e.g. 'eng' or 'eng+deu'. Default: eng+deu (English + German).",
         "type": "string",
         "sensitive": False,
         "required": False,
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ SETTING_METADATA = {
     # OCR – EasyOCR
     "easyocr_languages": {
         "category": "OCR Engines",
-        "description": "Comma-separated EasyOCR language codes, e.g. 'en,de,fr'. Default: en.",
+        "description": "Comma-separated EasyOCR language codes, e.g. 'en,de,fr'. Default: en,de (English + German).",
         "type": "string",
         "sensitive": False,
         "required": False,