New posts from the OCR.Space team now appear in the Blog category of our OCR API forum

Why

This page had no comments and our answers to questions about a post ended up in the forum anyway. Putting the posts where the discussion already happens saves everyone a hop. Every release note, article and announcement is a forum topic you can reply to, and the category is written by the team only, so it stays a blog and not a support queue.

What stays

Everything published here remains online at its current address. Nothing is deleted and no links break.

What is coming

The first two articles in the new place are a measured comparison of the browser automation tools an AI agent can use: Playwright MCP vs Claude in Chrome vs Ui.Vision MCP, and Claude in Chrome vs the OpenAI Codex extension vs Ui.Vision. Both come with the raw numbers and the scripts.

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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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