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)
• 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 (Mandarin, Simplified and 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)

Engine 3 includes language auto-detection and support for vertical text OCR.

Handwriting OCR

OCR Engine3 version can also read handwritten documents. It works even with messy, cursive, and challenging handwriting. More on this in our next blog post.