diff --git a/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_cli_model.py b/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_cli_model.py
index b1199d72..1ed1fb05 100644
--- a/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_cli_model.py
+++ b/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_cli_model.py
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class TesseractOcrCliModel(BaseOcrModel):
         self._version: Optional[str] = None
         self._tesseract_languages: Optional[List[str]] = None
         self._script_prefix: Optional[str] = None
-        self._is_auto: bool = False
+        self._is_auto: bool = "auto" in self.options.lang
 
         if self.enabled:
             try:
@@ -192,7 +192,6 @@ class TesseractOcrCliModel(BaseOcrModel):
         decoded_data = output.stdout.decode("utf-8")
         df_list = pd.read_csv(io.StringIO(decoded_data), header=None)
         self._tesseract_languages = df_list[0].tolist()[1:]
-        self._is_auto = "auto" in self._tesseract_languages
 
         # Decide the script prefix
         if any(lang.startswith("script/") for lang in self._tesseract_languages):
diff --git a/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_model.py b/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_model.py
index f826dc2d..d00ba05a 100644
--- a/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_model.py
+++ b/docling/models/tesseract_ocr_model.py
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ class TesseractOcrModel(BaseOcrModel):
             accelerator_options=accelerator_options,
         )
         self.options: TesseractOcrOptions
-
+        self._is_auto: bool = "auto" in self.options.lang
         self.scale = 3  # multiplier for 72 dpi == 216 dpi.
         self.reader = None
         self.script_readers: dict[str, tesserocr.PyTessBaseAPI] = {}
@@ -76,8 +76,6 @@ class TesseractOcrModel(BaseOcrModel):
             if not self._tesserocr_languages:
                 raise ImportError(missing_langs_errmsg)
 
-            self._is_auto: bool = "auto" in self._tesserocr_languages
-
             # Initialize the tesseractAPI
             _log.debug("Initializing TesserOCR: %s", tesseract_version)
             lang = "+".join(self.options.lang)