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How to Build a Bilingual (Hindi + English) Question Bank
Many competitive-exam papers print every question in both Hindi and English. Here's how to extract that correctly instead of losing one language.
Why bilingual papers are harder to extract
State-level competitive exams — MPSC, various PSC papers, teacher-eligibility tests — routinely print every question twice: once in English, once in the regional language, side by side or in two columns on the same page. Naively extracting this kind of paper tends to produce one of two failures: only one language survives and the other gets silently dropped, or the two renditions of the same question get treated as two separate questions, quietly doubling the question count (and the cost, if you're paying per question).
Keeping both languages attached to one question
The right behavior is recognizing that a Hindi block and an English block with matching options and the same correct answer are the same question stated twice, and folding them into a single entry that carries both renditions — not two separate cards. Test Formater does this even when a two-column source page gets OCR'd into two separate blocks (a full page of Hindi questions, then the same page's English questions) rather than neatly interleaved — a common failure mode for coaching-institute PDFs that a plain per-line extraction misses.
Choosing how to view and export it
Once a question set is bilingual, the review screen lets you switch between showing Hindi only, English only, or both together — and the export follows whichever choice you make, so the downloaded file matches what you were reviewing rather than defaulting back to one language. For a source that's only in one language to begin with, none of this changes anything; the bilingual handling only kicks in when there's actually a second language present to preserve.