Supported OCR and document comparison languages

ABBYY FineReader PDF 15 supports 201 OCR languages:

Supported languages may vary in different versions of the product.

Natural languages

  • Abkhaz
  • Avar
  • Agul
  • Adyghe
  • Azeri (Cyrillic), Azeri (Latin) **
  • Aymara
  • Albanian
  • Altai
  • English phonetic transcriptions
  • English*, **
  • Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
  • Armenian (Eastern, Western, Grabar)*
  • Afrikaans
  • Nahuatl
  • Basque
  • Bashkir*, **
  • Belarusian
  • Bemba
  • Blackfoot
  • Bulgarian*, **
  • Breton
  • Bugotu
  • Buryat
  • Welsh
  • Hungarian*, **
  • Wolof
  • Vietnamese*, **
  • Hawaiian
  • Gagauz
  • Galician
  • Ganda
  • Greek*, **
  • Guarani
  • Kawa
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Dakota
  • Dargwa
  • Danish*, **
  • Tun
  • Dungan
  • Zulu
  • Hebrew*
  • Yiddish
  • Ingush
  • Indonesian*, **
  • Irish
  • Icelandic
  • Spanish*, **
  • Italian*, **
  • Kabardian
  • Kazakh
  • Kalmyk
  • Karakalpak
  • Karachay-balkar
  • Catalan*, **
  • Kashubian
  • Quechua (Bolivia)
  • Kikuyu
  • Kirghiz
  • Chinese Simplified**, Chinese Traditional
  • Kongo
  • Korean, Korean (Hangul)
  • Corsican
  • Koryak
  • Xhosa
  • Kpelle
  • Crow
  • Crimean Tatar
  • Kumyk
  • Kurdish
  • Lak
  • Latin*
  • Latvian*, **
  • Lezgi
  • Lithuanian*, **
  • Luba
  • Sorbian
  • Maya
  • Macedonian
  • Malagasy
  • Malay (Malaysian)
  • Malinke
  • Maltese
  • Mansi
  • Maori
  • Mari
  • Minangkabau
  • Mohawk
  • Romanian (Moldova)
  • Mongol
  • Mordvin
  • Miao
  • German (Luxembourg)
  • German**, German (New Spelling)*, **
  • Nenets
  • Nivkh
  • Dutch**, Dutch (Belgian)*, **
  • Nogay
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk)**, Norwegian (Bokmal)*, **
  • Nyanja
  • Ojibway
  • Ossetian
  • Papiamento
  • Polish*, **
  • Portuguese**, Portuguese (Brazilian)*, **
  • Occitan
  • Rhaeto-Romanic
  • Rwanda
  • Romanian*, **
  • Rundi
  • Russian*, **
  • Russian (Old Spelling)
  • Russian with stress marks
  • Sami (Lappish)
  • Samoan
  • Zapotec
  • Swazi
  • Cebuano
  • Selkup
  • Serbian (Cyrillic), Serbian (Latin)
  • Slovak*, **
  • Slovenian*, **
  • Somali
  • Swahili
  • Sunda
  • Tabasaran
  • Tagalog
  • Tajik
  • Tahitian
  • Thai*
  • Tatar*, **
  • Tok Pisin
  • Tongan
  • Tswana
  • Tuvinian
  • Turkish*, **
  • Turkmen (Cyrillic), Turkmen (Latin)
  • Udmurt
  • Uighur (Cyrillic), Uighur (Latin)
  • Uzbek (Cyrillic), Uzbek (Latin)
  • Ukrainian*, **
  • Faroese
  • Fijian
  • Finnish*, **
  • French*, **
  • Frisian
  • Friulian
  • Khakass
  • Hani
  • Khanty
  • Hausa
  • Croatian*, **
  • Jingpo
  • Romany
  • Chamorro
  • Chechen
  • Czech*, **
  • Chuvash
  • Chukchee
  • Swedish*, **
  • Shona
  • Evenki
  • Even
  • Eskimo (Cyrillic), Eskimo (Latin)
  • Estonian*, **
  • Sotho
  • Yakut
  • Japanese

  • Old English*
  • Old French*
  • Old German*
  • Old Italian*
  • Old Spanish*
  • Latvian Gothic

Artificial languages

  • Ido
  • Interlingua
  • Occidental
  • Esperanto

Formal languages

  • Basic
  • C/C++
  • COBOL
  • Fortran
  • Java
  • Pascal
  • Simple math formulas
  • Numbers

To find out which fonts are required to display the characters of a specific language, see Fonts required for the correct display of texts in supported languages.

*Dictionaries are available for this language, enabling ABBYY FineReader to identify unreliably recognized characters and detect spelling errors in texts written in this language.

**Document comparison language. ABBYY FineReader can compare documents written in 37 languages. See also: ABBYY Compare Documents.

04.03.2022 7:13:07

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