Six New OCR Languages

With the January 2025 OCR API update we added support for six new OCR languages to our OCR Engine 2:

Korean OCR
Japanese OCR
Russian OCR
Ukranian OCR
Thai OCR
Vietnamese OCR

We also added language auto-detection and support for vertical text OCR.

Vertical Text OCR

The new OCR Engine2 version can read/OCR vertical text OCR, too. This is especially useful for languages that often use vertical writing, such as Japanese or Chinese. Here is an example that uses a Japanese Manga as input image:

Vertical OCR, for example for Japanese
Manga Reading

To test the new OCR languages and vertical OCR, select the option to “Autodetect OCR Language” on the OCR.space website:

In the OCR API call, you can enable OCR language autodetection with the parameter language="auto".