The OCR Software Blog

Our OCR Engine 3 features advanced handwriting recognition capable of reading over 200 new OCR languages - including Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

You might tried OCR before — Adobe, Google, scanner apps and our very own OCR engines 1 and 2. Great for printed text, but not useable for handwriting. But retyping by hand takes hours, and without converting the handwritten documents to text you can not search or use them.

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With the March 2026 OCR API update we added support for more than 200 new OCR languages to our OCR Engine 3:

Supported OCR languages:

• Acehnese (ace)
• Acholi (ach)
• Adangme (ada)
• Afrikaans (afr)
• Akan (aka)
• Albanian (sqi)
• Algonquinian (alg)

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The January 2025 OCR API update not only added six new OCR languages, but also added language auto-detection.

To use the new language autodetect feature, select the option to “Autodetect OCR Language on our Online OCR page:

In the OCR API call, you can enable the OCR language autodetection with the parameter language="auto" instead of e. g. language="eng" or language="chs".

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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.

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Taking responsibility for the environment means there is an increasing need to obtain energy from renewable sources. We are happy to report that the Ocr.Space cloud OCR API uses only energy from renewable sources to power its server.

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