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How do I remove installed Enhanced OCR languages?

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The "Enhanced OCR Languages (Select items you want to download and install)" window lists the OCR languages available for download and installation. But how do you remove some of them? Languages with the "Installed" status have neither a context menu when pressing RMB, nor the ability to tick them and then click the (missing) "Delete" button.
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Re: How do I remove installed Enhanced OCR languages?

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Hello Jensen Head,

You should be able to find those files under:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Tracker Software\Common\ABBYY\Data\ExtendedDictionaries
Files are named with the language first - so removing the bunch for a specific language should also "uninstall" it from the list of languages in the Editor.

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Re: How do I remove installed Enhanced OCR languages?

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For example, I need to remove the Czech language. The following files correspond to it:
Czech.amd
Czech_Address.amd
Czech_Address_City.amd
Czech_Address_CityDistricts.amd
Czech_Address_PhoneNumber.amd
Czech_Address_PhonePrefixes.amd
Czech_Address_Street.amd
Czech_Address_ZipCode.amd
Czech_Currency_ByDigits.amd
Czech_Currency_Names.amd
Czech_DateTime_MonthByWords.amd
Czech_DateTime_WeekDayByWords.amd
Czech_HumanProperName.amd
Czech_HumanProperName_Initial.amd
Czech_HumanProperName_Name.amd
Czech_HumanProperName_Surname.amd
After moving them to another folder, I launch PDF-XChange Editor, and I see the following line in the "Enhanced OCR Languages" window:
Czech / Cestina / 1,94 MB / Installed, obsolete
i.e. not
Czech / Cestina / 1,94 MB / Not Installed
like other languages that I have never installed before.
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Re: How do I remove installed Enhanced OCR languages?

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Hello Jensen Head,

After looking at this more thorougly myself - there seems to be other files - the ones with the 'hash' names - that are also related.
Please order this folder by date - and then see if there are other files modified on the same date - and try moving them out as well:
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E.g. when I move all of the selected files - Italian is properly "uninstalled" on my end.

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Re: How do I remove installed Enhanced OCR languages?

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Alas, not my case:
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Re: How do I remove installed Enhanced OCR languages?

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Hi Jensen.

Removing installed EOCR lang-files isn't a good idea at all. Because often the same files are used for different languages and it's hard to say exactly when. By removing such files you may break related languages too or even the whole EOCR subsystem...

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Re: How do I remove installed Enhanced OCR languages?  SOLVED

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Build 10.0.0.370 ( 14 Jun 2023 )
Requires maintenance through 14 Jun 2023
NEW Added the ability to uninstall OCR languages via the 'OCR Languages' (Resource Updater) dialogue.
Thank you!
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