Supported OCR languages

ABBYY FineReader PDF  supports the following OCR languages:

Natural languages

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

Artificial languages

  • Esperanto
  • Ido
  • Interlingua
  • Occidental

Formal languages

  • Basic
  • С/С++
  • COBOL
  • Fortran
  • JAVA
  • Pascal
  • Simple chemical formulas
  • Simple math formulas

* Language with dictionary support. Dictionary support improves recognition results by means of dictionary checks (looks for unreliably recognized words and words with spelling mistakes).

20.03.2024 7:50:39

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