Recognition languages

ABBYY OCR Container can recognize texts in more than 200 languages. When sending an image for processing, you need to specify the languages of the text, using the internal names of the languages separated by commas. This table lists the available languages with their internal names.

Recognition language Internal name
Abkhaz Abkhaz
Adyghe Adyghe
Afrikaans Afrikaans
Agul Agul
Albanian Albanian
Altaic Altaic
Arabic Arabic
Armenian (Eastern) ArmenianEastern
Armenian (Grabar) ArmenianGrabar
Armenian (Western) ArmenianWestern
Awar Awar
Aymara Aymara
Azeri (Cyrillic) AzeriCyrillic
Azeri (Latin) AzeriLatin
Bangla Bangla
Bashkir Bashkir
Basque Basque
Belarusian Belarusian
Bemba Bemba
Blackfoot Blackfoot
Breton Breton
Bugotu Bugotu
Bulgarian Bulgarian
Burmese Burmese
Buryat Buryat
Catalan Catalan
Chamorro Chamorro
Chechen Chechen
Chinese (Simplified) ChineseSimplified
Chinese (Traditional) ChineseTraditional
Chukcha Chukcha
Chuvash Chuvash
CMC7 CMC7
Corsican Corsican
Crimean (Tatar) CrimeanTatar
Croatian Croatian
Crow Crow
Czech Czech
Danish Danish
Dargwa Dargwa
Digits Digits
Dungan Dungan
Dutch Dutch
Dutch (Belgian) DutchBelgian
E13B E13B
English English
Eskimo (Cyrillic) EskimoCyrillic
Eskimo (Latin) EskimoLatin
Esperanto Esperanto
Estonian Estonian
Even Even
Evenki Evenki
Faeroese Faeroese
Farsi Farsi
Fijian Fijian
Finnish Finnish
French French
Frisian Frisian
Friulian Friulian
Gaelic (Scottish) GaelicScottish
Gagauz Gagauz
Galician Galician
Ganda Ganda
Georgian Georgian
German German
German (Luxembourg) GermanLuxembourg
German (New Spelling) GermanNewSpelling
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
Japanese (Modern)* JapaneseModern
Jingpo Tinpo
Kabardian Kabardian
Kalmyk Kalmyk
Kam Kam
Karachay (Balkar) KarachayBalkar
Karakalpak Karakalpak
Kasub Kasub
Kawa Kawa
Kazakh Kazakh
Khakas Khakas
Khanty Khanty
Kikuyu Kikuyu
Kirgiz Kirgiz
Kongo Kongo
Korean Korean
Korean (Hangul) KoreanHangul
Koryak Koryak
Kpelle Kpelle
Kumyk Kumyk
Kurdish Kurdish
Lak Lak
Lappish Lappish
Latin Latin
Latvian Latvian
Latvian (Gothic) LatvianGothic
Lezgin Lezgin
Lithuanian Lithuanian
Luba Luba
Macedonian Macedonian
Malagasy Malagasy
Malay Malay
Malinke Malinke
Maltese Maltese
Mansi Mansi
Maori Maori
Mari Mari
Mathematical Mathematical
Maya Maya
Miao Miao
Minankabaw Minankabaw
Mohawk Mohawk
Mongol Mongol
Mordvin Mordvin
Nahuatl Nahuatl
Nenets Nenets
Nivkh Nivkh
Nogay Nogay
Norwegian Norwegian
Norwegian (Bokmal) NorwegianBokmal
Norwegian (Nynorsk) NorwegianNynorsk
Nyanja Nyanja
Occidental Occidental
OcrA OcrA
OcrB OcrB
Ojibway Ojibway
Old English OldEnglish
Old French OldFrench
Old German OldGerman
Old Italian OldItalian
Old Slavonic OldSlavonic
Old Spanish OldSpanish
Ossetic Ossetic
Papiamento Papiamento
Pidgin (English) PidginEnglish
Polish Polish
Portuguese (Brazil) PortugueseBrazilian
Portuguese (Standard) PortugueseStandard
Provencal Provencal
Quechua Quechua
Rhaeto (Romanic) RhaetoRomanic
Romanian Romanian
Romanian (Moldavia) RomanianMoldavia
Romany Romany
Ruanda Ruanda
Rundi Rundi
Russian Russian
Russian (Old Spelling) RussianOldSpelling
Russian (With Accent) RussianWithAccent
Samoan Samoan
Selkup Selkup
Serbian (Cyrillic) SerbianCyrillic
Serbian (Latin) SerbianLatin
Shona Shona
Sioux Sioux
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
Tongan Tongan
Tswana Tswana
Turkish Turkish
Turkmen Turkmen
Turkmen (Latin) TurkmenLatin
Tuvin Tuvin
Udmurt Udmurt
Uighur (Cyrillic) UighurCyrillic
Uighur (Latin) UighurLatin
Ukrainian Ukrainian
Uzbek (Cyrillic) UzbekCyrillic
Uzbek (Latin) UzbekLatin
Vietnamese Vietnamese
Visayan Visayan
Welsh Welsh
Wolof Wolof
Xhosa Xhosa
Yakut Yakut
Zapotec Zapotec
Zulu Zulu

Note: We recommend using Japanese (Modern) for modern printed documents.

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