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 ## Tesseract.recognize(image: [ImageLike](#imagelike)[, options]) -> [TesseractJob](#tesseractjob)
 Figures out what words are in `image`, where the words are in `image`, etc.
 - `image` is any [ImageLike](#imagelike) object.
-- `options` is either absent, a string specifing a language short code from the [language list](./tesseract_lang_list.md), or a flat json object that may:
+- `options` is either absent (in which case it is interpreted as `'eng'`), a string specifing a language short code from the [language list](./tesseract_lang_list.md), or a flat json object that may:
     + include properties that override some subset of the [default tesseract parameters](./tesseract_parameters.md)
     + include a `lang` property with a value from the [list of lang parameters](./tesseract_lang_list.md)