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Predefined Languages in ABBYY FineReader Engine

Here is the list of internal names of the predefined languages that are supported in ABBYY FineReader Engine. Availability of this or that predefined recognition language depends on the availability of the corresponding modules among ABBYY FineReader Engine files. See the Installation section to know which recognition languages correspond to which ABBYY FineReader Engine modules.

ABBYY FineReader Engine provides core recognition languages for OCR and ICR with full built-in dictionary support. Some recognition languages are available only for OCR, or do not have full built-in dictionary support. See details in the table below.

Internal name Recognition language Can be used for OCR Full dictionary support available Can be used for ICR Can be used for text-based classification* Can be used for BCR
Abkhaz Abkhaz +
Adyghe Adyghe +
Afrikaans Afrikaans + +
Agul Agul +
Albanian Albanian + +
Altaic Altaic +
Arabic Arabic (Saudi Arabia) + + ** +
ArmenianEastern Armenian (Eastern) + + +
ArmenianGrabar Armenian (Grabar) + + +
ArmenianWestern Armenian (Western) + + +
Awar Avar +
Aymara Aymara + +
AzeriCyrillic Azerbaijani (Cyrillic) +
AzeriLatin Azerbaijani (Latin) + + + +
Bangla Bangla +
Bashkir Bashkir + + +
Basic Basic programming language +
Basque Basque + +
Belarusian Belarussian +
Bemba Bemba + +
Blackfoot Blackfoot + +
Breton Breton + +
Bugotu Bugotu + +
Bulgarian Bulgarian + + + +
Burmese Burmese +
Buryat Buryat + +
C++ C/C++ programming language +
Catalan Catalan + + +
Chamorro Chamorro + +
Chechen Chechen +
Chemistry Simple chemical formulas +
ChinesePRC Chinese Simplified + +
ChineseTaiwan Chinese Traditional + +
Chukcha Chukcha +
Chuvash Chuvash +
CMC7 For MICR (CMC-7) text type +
COBOL COBOL programming language +
Corsican Corsican + +
CrimeanTatar Crimean Tatar + +
Croatian Croatian + + + +
Crow Crow + +
Czech Czech + + + + +
Danish Danish + + + + +
Dargwa Dargwa +
Digits Numbers + +
Dungan Dungan +
Dutch Dutch (Netherlands) + + + + +
DutchBelgian Dutch (Belgium) + + + +
E13B For MICR (E-13B) text type +
English English + + + + +
EskimoCyrillic Eskimo (Cyrillic) +
EskimoLatin Eskimo (Latin) +
Esperanto Esperanto +
Estonian Estonian + + + + +
Even Even + +
Evenki Evenki + +
Faeroese Faeroese +
Farsi Farsi + + +
Fijian Fijian + +
Finnish Finnish + + + + +
Fortran Fortran programming language +
French French + + + + +
Frisian Frisian + +
Friulian Friulian + +
GaelicScottish Scottish Gaelic + +
Gagauz Gagauz +
Galician Galician + +
Ganda Ganda + +
Georgian Georgian*** +
German German + + + + +
GermanLuxembourg German (Luxembourg) + +
GermanNewSpelling German (new spelling) + + + +
Greek Greek + + + + +
Guarani Guarani + +
Hani Hani + +
Hausa Hausa +
Hawaiian Hawaiian + +
Hebrew Hebrew + + +
Hungarian Hungarian + + + + +
Icelandic Icelandic +
Ido Ido + +
Indonesian Indonesian + + + + +
Ingush Ingush +
Interlingua Interlingua + +
Irish Irish + +
Italian Italian + + + + +
Japanese Japanese + + + +
JapaneseModern Japanese (Modern) + + + +
Java Java programming language +
Kabardian Kabardian +
Kalmyk Kalmyk +
KarachayBalkar Karachay-Balkar + +
Karakalpak Karakalpak +
Kasub Kasub + +
Kawa Kawa + +
Kazakh Kazakh + +
Khakas Khakas +
Khanty Khanty +
Kikuyu Kikuyu +
Kirgiz Kirghiz + +
Kongo Kongo + +
Korean Korean + + + +
KoreanHangul Korean (Hangul) + + +
Koryak Koryak +
Kpelle Kpelle + +
Kumyk Kumyk + +
Kurdish Kurdish + +
Lak Lak +
Lappish Sami (Lappish) + +
Latin Latin + + + +
Latvian Latvian + + + +
LatvianGothic Latvian language written in Gothic script +
Lezgin Lezgin +
Lithuanian Lithuanian + + + +
Luba Luba + +
Macedonian Macedonian +
Malagasy Malagasy + +
Malay Malay +
Malinke Malinke + +
Maltese Maltese +
Mansi Mansi +
Maori Maori + +
Mathematical Mathematical +
Mari Mari +
Maya Maya + +
Miao Miao + +
Minankabaw Minangkabau + +
Mohawk Mohawk + +
Mongol Mongol + +
Mordvin Mordvin + +
Nahuatl Nahuatl + +
Nenets Nenets + +
Nivkh Nivkh + +
Nogay Nogay + +
Norwegian NorwegianNynorsk and NorwegianBokmal + + + + +
NorwegianBokmal Norwegian (Bokmal) + + + + +
NorwegianNynorsk Norwegian (Nynorsk) + + + + +
Nyanja Nyanja + +
Occidental Occidental +
OcrA For OCR-A text type +
OcrB For OCR-B text type +
Ojibway Ojibway + +
OldEnglish Old English + + + +
OldFrench Old French + + + +
OldGerman Old German + + + +
OldItalian Old Italian + + + +
OldSlavonic Old Slavonic +
OldSpanish Old Spanish + + + +
Ossetic Ossetian +
Papiamento Papiamento + +
Pascal Pascal programming language +
PidginEnglish Tok Pisin + +
Polish Polish + + + + +
PortugueseBrazilian Portuguese (Brazil) + + + + +
PortugueseStandard Portuguese (Portugal) + + + + +
Provencal Provencal +
Quechua Quechua + +
RhaetoRomanic Rhaeto-Romanic + +
Romanian Romanian + + + +
RomanianMoldavia Romanian (Moldavia) + +
Romany Romany + +
Ruanda Ruanda + +
Rundi Rundi + +
RussianOldSpelling Russian (old spelling) + + +
Russian Russian + + + + +
RussianWithAccent Russian (with accents marking stress position) + + +
Samoan Samoan + +
Selkup Selkup + +
SerbianCyrillic Serbian (Cyrillic) + +
SerbianLatin Serbian (Latin) + +
Shona Shona +
Sioux Sioux (Dakota) + +
Slovak Slovak + + + +
Slovenian Slovenian + + + +
Somali Somali + +
Sorbian Sorbian +
Sotho Sotho + +
Spanish Spanish + + + + +
Sunda Sunda +
Swahili Swahili + +
Swazi Swazi + +
Swedish Swedish + + + + +
Tabassaran Tabassaran +
Tagalog Tagalog + +
Tahitian Tahitian + +
Tajik Tajik + +
Tatar Tatar + + +
Thai Thai + + +
Tinpo Jingpo + +
Tongan Tongan + +
Tswana Tswana + +
Tun Tun + +
Turkish Turkish + + + + +
Turkmen Turkmen +
TurkmenLatin Turkmen (Latin) + +
Tuvin Tuvan + +
Udmurt Udmurt +
UighurCyrillic Uighur (Cyrillic) +
UighurLatin Uighur (Latin) + +
Ukrainian Ukrainian + + + + +
UzbekCyrillic Uzbek (Cyrillic) +
UzbekLatin Uzbek (Latin) + +
Vietnamese Vietnamese + + +
Visayan Cebuano + +
Welsh Welsh +
Wolof Wolof + +
Xhosa Xhosa + +
Yakut Yakut +
Yiddish Yiddish ****
Zapotec Zapotec + +
Zulu Zulu +

* The classifier which uses only image characteristics can be used for documents in any language. The text-based classifiers (ClassifierTypeEnum::CT_Combined, ClassifierTypeEnum::CT_Text) are only available for recognized documents in languages which have full dictionary support.

** Arabic ICR is not supported. However, handprinted Arabic digits can be recognized. See Recognizing Handprinted Arabic Digits.

***The Nuskhuri and Mtavruli characters are recognized separately from each other, but both types of the characters are saved in the Unicode strings for Nuskhuri.

****A few standard characters (veys בֿ, pasekh alef אַ, komets alef אָ, pasekh tsvey yudn ײַ, melupm vov וּ) are not supported in the predefined Yiddish language. To recognize these characters you should create a new custom language and add these characters to it using the LetterSet property of the TextLanguage object (see Working with Languages), then set the new language as recognition language.

See also

LanguageIdEnum

Working with Languages

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