From 5921a551d963003dd46a5280aefe11a72b5b6872 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trenton Holmes <797416+stumpylog@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 08:28:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Adds an initial check that tesseract is locatable

---
 src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py b/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py
index 82d255005..4d5d98284 100644
--- a/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py
+++ b/src/paperless_tesseract/checks.py
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ def get_tesseract_langs():
 
 @register()
 def check_default_language_available(app_configs, **kwargs):
+    if shutil.which("tesseract") is None:
+        return [Error("Executable 'tesseract' was not located")]
+
     installed_langs = get_tesseract_langs()
 
     if not settings.OCR_LANGUAGE: