Language Property

  • Article

Returns the language identifier for the recognized text. Read-only Long.

expression.Language

*expression   * Required. An expression that returns a Layout object.

Remarks

The Language property returns a standard Windows language identifier, for example, 1033 for English (USA). For additional information on language identifiers, please see the "International Features" section of the Microsoft Windows Platform SDK.

Example

The following example loads a document, performs optical character recognition (OCR) on the first page, and then displays information, including the language, about the page's OCR layout.

Sub TestLayoutProperties()

  Dim miDoc As MODI.Document
  Dim miLayout As MODI.Layout
  Dim strLayoutInfo As String
  
  Set miDoc = New MODI.Document
  miDoc.Create "C:\document1.tif"
  
  miDoc.Images(0).OCR
  
  Set miLayout = miDoc.Images(0).Layout
  strLayoutInfo = _
    "Language: " & miLayout.Language & vbCrLf & _
    "Number of characters: " & miLayout.NumChars & vbCrLf & _
    "Number of fonts: " & miLayout.NumFonts & vbCrLf & _
    "Number of words: " & miLayout.NumWords & vbCrLf & _
    "Beginning of text: " & Left(miLayout.Text, 50) & vbCrLf & _
    "First word of text: " & miLayout.Words(0).Text
  MsgBox strLayoutInfo, vbInformation + vbOKOnly, _
    "Layout Information"
  
  Set miLayout = Nothing
  Set miDoc = Nothing

End Sub

Applies to | Layout Object