Bug 317486 - Okular and Document Languages
Summary: Okular and Document Languages
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.16.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs All
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2013-03-28 13:32 UTC by Anıl Özbek
Modified: 2013-03-28 13:32 UTC (History)
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Description Anıl Özbek 2013-03-28 13:32:18 UTC 
As far as I know currently Okular can't determine language of opened documents. It would be nice to have such a feature at Okular. This feature may help in two areas:

1. In text based documents: can be implemented e-book devices like built-in dictionaries ( http://books.torontoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Kindle_WP3.jpg )

2. In image based documents: can be developed simple OCR tools to convert selection, one page or entire document to text ( http://i.imgur.com/02xC46E.png )

I don't sure but probably doing this not a big deal for PDF, ePUB, MOBI, etc. Can be obtained from some values of documents. But I don't have any idea for CBR, CBZ, etc. Maybe following may help for this type files:

1. An option to (temporarily) define the language of the current document can be added to the menu. For example: File > Document Language > English

2. A fallback language like KDE text editors' fallback encoding feature. If a user read mostly English comics she/he can set English as fallback language, If she/he likes manga then it can be setted to Japanese.

Reproducible: Always