OCR Languages for Engine 3


OCR Engine 3 supports more than 200 OCR languages. Important: Use language=auto as language code, or simply omit the "language=" parameter.

Supported OCR languages:

  • Acehnese (ace)
  • Acholi (ach)
  • Adangme (ada)
  • Afrikaans (afr)
  • Akan (aka)
  • Albanian (sqi)
  • Algonquinian (alg)
  • Amharic (amh)
  • Ancient Greek (grc)
  • Arabic (ara)
  • Armenian (hye)
  • Araucanian/Mapuche (arn)
  • Asturian (ast)
  • Athabaskan (ath)
  • Azerbaijani (aze)
  • Balinese (ban)
  • Bambara (bam)
  • Bantu (bnt)
  • Bashkir (bak)
  • Basque (eus)
  • Batak (btk)
  • Bemba (bem)
  • Bengali (ben)
  • Bikol (bik)
  • Bislama (bis)
  • Bosnian (bos)
  • Breton (bre)
  • Bulgarian (bul)
  • Burmese (mya)
  • Catalan (cat)
  • Cebuano (ceb)
  • Cherokee (chr)
  • Chechen (che)
  • Chinese (chi)
  • Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified) (zho)
  • Chinese (Mandarin, Traditional) (zho)
  • Croatian (hrv)
  • Czech (ces)
  • Dakota (dak)
  • Danish (dan)
  • Duala (dua)
  • Dzongkha (dzo)
  • Dutch (nld)
  • Efik (efi)
  • English (eng)
  • English (British) (eng)
  • Esperanto (epo)
  • Estonian (est)
  • Ewe (ewe)
  • Faroese (fao)
  • Fijian (fij)
  • Filipino (fil)
  • Finnish (fin)
  • Fon (fon)
  • French (fra)
  • French (Canadian) (fra)
  • Fulah (ful)
  • Ga (gaa)
  • Ganda (lug)
  • Galician (glg)
  • Gayo (gay)
  • Georgian (kat)
  • German (deu)
  • Gothic (got)
  • Greek (ell)
  • Guarani (grn)
  • Gujarati (guj)
  • Haitian Creole (hat)
  • Hakkanese (hak)
  • Hausa (hau)
  • Hawaiian (haw)
  • Hebrew (heb)
  • Herero (her)
  • Hiligaynon (hil)
  • Hindi (hin)
  • Hungarian (hun)
  • Iban (iba)
  • Igbo (ibo)
  • Iloko (ilo)
  • Icelandic (isl)
  • Irish (gle)
  • Italian (ita)
  • Japanese (jpn)
  • Javanese (jav)
  • Kabyle (kab)
  • Kachin (kac)
  • Kalaallisut (kal)
  • Kamba (kam)
  • Kanuri (kau)
  • Kara-Kalpak (kaa)
  • Kannada (kan)
  • Khasi (kha)
  • Khmer (khm)
  • Kinyarwanda (kin)
  • Komi (kom)
  • Kongo (kon)
  • Korean (kor)
  • Kosraean (kos)
  • Kuanyama (kua)
  • Lao (lao)
  • Latvian (lav)
  • Lingala (lin)
  • Lithuanian (lit)
  • Lozi (loz)
  • Luba-Katanga (lub)
  • Low German (nds)
  • Latin (lat)
  • Madurese (mad)
  • Malagasy (mlg)
  • Malay (msa)
  • Malayalam (mal)
  • Mandingo (man)
  • Manx (glv)
  • Maori (mri)
  • Marshallese (mah)
  • Marathi (mar)
  • Mende (men)
  • Mongolian (mon)
  • Middle English (enm)
  • Middle High German (gmh)
  • Minangkabau (min)
  • Mohawk (moh)
  • Mongo (lol)
  • Nahuatl (nah)
  • Navajo (nav)
  • Ndonga (ndo)
  • Niuean (niu)
  • North Ndebele (nde)
  • Northern Sotho (nso)
  • Nyanja (nya)
  • Nyankole (nyn)
  • Nyasa Tonga (tog)
  • Nzima (nzi)
  • Nepali (nep)
  • Norwegian (nor)
  • Occitan (oci)
  • Ojibwa (oji)
  • Old English (ang)
  • Old French (fro)
  • Old High German (goh)
  • Old Norse (non)
  • Old Provencal (pro)
  • Ossetic (oss)
  • Pampanga (pam)
  • Pangasinan (pag)
  • Papiamento (pap)
  • Pashto (pus)
  • Persian (fas)
  • Polish (pol)
  • Portuguese (por)
  • Portuguese (European) (por)
  • Quechua (que)
  • Romansh (roh)
  • Romany (rom)
  • Rundi (run)
  • Russian (rus)
  • Sakha (sah)
  • Samoan (smo)
  • Sango (sag)
  • Scots (sco)
  • Scottish Gaelic (gla)
  • Shona (sna)
  • Songhai (son)
  • Southern Sotho (sot)
  • Spanish (spa)
  • Spanish (Latin American) (spa)
  • Sundanese (sun)
  • Swahili (swa)
  • Swati (ssw)
  • Swedish (swe)
  • Tahitian (tah)
  • Tagalog (tgl)
  • Tajik (tgk)
  • Tatar (tat)
  • Taiwanese (twn)
  • Temne (tem)
  • Tibetan (bod)
  • Tigrinya (tir)
  • Tongan (ton)
  • Tsonga (tso)
  • Tswana (tsn)
  • Turkmen (tuk)
  • Turkish (tur)
  • Udmurt (udm)
  • Ukrainian (ukr)
  • Urdu (urd)
  • Uzbek (uzb)
  • Venda (ven)
  • Votic (vot)
  • Vietnamese (vie)
  • Western Frisian (fry)
  • Wolof (wol)
  • Welsh (cym)
  • Xhosa (xho)
  • Yiddish (yid)
  • Yoruba (yor)
  • Zapotec (zap)
  • Zulu (zul)

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