Language support for Azure AI Vision

Some capabilities of Azure AI Vision support multiple languages; any capabilities not mentioned here only support English.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

The Azure AI Vision Read API supports many languages. The Read API can extract text from images and documents with mixed languages, including from the same text line, without requiring a language parameter. See How to specify the Read model to use the new languages.

Note

Language code optional

Read OCR's deep-learning-based universal models extract all multi-lingual text in your documents, including text lines with mixed languages, and do not require specifying a language code. Do not provide the language code as the parameter unless you are sure about the language and want to force the service to apply only the relevant model. Otherwise, the service may return incomplete and incorrect text.

Handwritten text

The following table lists the OCR supported languages for handwritten text by the most recent Read GA model.

Language Language code (optional) Language Language code (optional)
English en Japanese ja
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans Korean ko
French fr Portuguese pt
German de Spanish es
Italian it

The following table lists the OCR supported languages for print text by the most recent Read GA model.

Language Code (optional) Language Code (optional)
Afrikaans af Khasi kha
Albanian sq K'iche' quc
Angika (Devanagiri) anp Korean ko
Arabic ar Korku kfq
Asturian ast Koryak kpy
Awadhi-Hindi (Devanagiri) awa Kosraean kos
Azerbaijani (Latin) az Kumyk (Cyrillic) kum
Bagheli bfy Kurdish (Arabic) ku-arab
Basque eu Kurdish (Latin) ku-latn
Belarusian (Cyrillic) be, be-cyrl Kurukh (Devanagiri) kru
Belarusian (Latin) be, be-latn Kyrgyz (Cyrillic) ky
Bhojpuri-Hindi (Devanagiri) bho Lakota lkt
Bislama bi Latin la
Bodo (Devanagiri) brx Lithuanian lt
Bosnian (Latin) bs Lower Sorbian dsb
Brajbha bra Lule Sami smj
Breton br Luxembourgish lb
Bulgarian bg Mahasu Pahari (Devanagiri) bfz
Bundeli bns Malay (Latin) ms
Buryat (Cyrillic) bua Maltese mt
Catalan ca Malto (Devanagiri) kmj
Cebuano ceb Manx gv
Chamling rab Maori mi
Chamorro ch Marathi mr
Chhattisgarhi (Devanagiri) hne Mongolian (Cyrillic) mn
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans Montenegrin (Cyrillic) cnr-cyrl
Chinese Traditional zh-Hant Montenegrin (Latin) cnr-latn
Cornish kw Neapolitan nap
Corsican co Nepali ne
Crimean Tatar (Latin) crh Niuean niu
Croatian hr Nogay nog
Czech cs Northern Sami (Latin) sme
Danish da Norwegian no
Dari prs Occitan oc
Dhimal (Devanagiri) dhi Ossetic os
Dogri (Devanagiri) doi Pashto ps
Dutch nl Persian fa
English en Polish pl
Erzya (Cyrillic) myv Portuguese pt
Estonian et Punjabi (Arabic) pa
Faroese fo Ripuarian ksh
Fijian fj Romanian ro
Filipino fil Romansh rm
Finnish fi Russian ru
French fr Sadri (Devanagiri) sck
Friulian fur Samoan (Latin) sm
Gagauz (Latin) gag Sanskrit (Devanagari) sa
Galician gl Santali(Devanagiri) sat
German de Scots sco
Gilbertese gil Scottish Gaelic gd
Gondi (Devanagiri) gon Serbian (Latin) sr, sr-latn
Greenlandic kl Sherpa (Devanagiri) xsr
Gurung (Devanagiri) gvr Sirmauri (Devanagiri) srx
Haitian Creole ht Skolt Sami sms
Halbi (Devanagiri) hlb Slovak sk
Hani hni Slovenian sl
Haryanvi bgc Somali (Arabic) so
Hawaiian haw Southern Sami sma
Hindi hi Spanish es
Hmong Daw (Latin) mww Swahili (Latin) sw
Ho(Devanagiri) hoc Swedish sv
Hungarian hu Tajik (Cyrillic) tg
Icelandic is Tatar (Latin) tt
Inari Sami smn Tetum tet
Indonesian id Thangmi thf
Interlingua ia Tongan to
Inuktitut (Latin) iu Turkish tr
Irish ga Turkmen (Latin) tk
Italian it Tuvan tyv
Japanese ja Upper Sorbian hsb
Jaunsari (Devanagiri) Jns Urdu ur
Javanese jv Uyghur (Arabic) ug
Kabuverdianu kea Uzbek (Arabic) uz-arab
Kachin (Latin) kac Uzbek (Cyrillic) uz-cyrl
Kangri (Devanagiri) xnr Uzbek (Latin) uz
Karachay-Balkar krc Volapük vo
Kara-Kalpak (Cyrillic) kaa-cyrl Walser wae
Kara-Kalpak (Latin) kaa Welsh cy
Kashubian csb Western Frisian fy
Kazakh (Cyrillic) kk-cyrl Yucatec Maya yua
Kazakh (Latin) kk-latn Zhuang za
Khaling klr Zulu zu

Analyze image

Some features of the Analyze - Image API can return results in other languages, specified with the language query parameter. Other actions return results in English regardless of what language is specified, and others throw an exception for unsupported languages. Actions are specified with the visualFeatures and details query parameters; see the Overview for a list of all the actions you can do with the Analyze API, or follow the How-to guide to try them out.

Language Language code Categories Tags Description Adult, Brands, Color, Faces, ImageType, Objects Celebrities, Landmarks Captions, Dense captions
Arabic ar
Azerbaijani az
Bulgarian bg
Bosnian Latin bs
Catalan ca
Czech cs
Welsh cy
Danish da
German de
Greek el
English en
Spanish es
Estonian et
Basque eu
Finnish fi
French fr
Irish ga
Galician gl
Hebrew he
Hindi hi
Croatian hr
Hungarian hu
Indonesian id
Italian it
Japanese ja
Kazakh kk
Korean ko
Lithuanian lt
Latvian lv
Macedonian mk
Malay Malaysia ms
Norwegian (Bokmal) nb
Dutch nl
Polish pl
Dari prs
Portuguese-Brazil pt-BR
Portuguese-Portugal pt
Portuguese-Portugal pt-PT
Romanian ro
Russian ru
Slovak sk
Slovenian sl
Serbian - Cyrillic RS sr-Cryl
Serbian - Latin RS sr-Latn
Swedish sv
Thai th
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Vietnamese vi
Chinese Simplified zh
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans
Chinese Traditional zh-Hant

Multimodal embeddings

The latest Multimodal embeddings model supports vector search in many languages. The original model supports English only. Images that are vectorized in the English-only model are not compatible with text searches in the multi-lingual model.

Language Language code 2023-04-15 model 2022-04-11 model
Akrikaans af
Amharic am
Arabic ar
Armenian hy
Assamese as
Asturian ast
Azerbaijani az
Belarusian be
Bengali bn
Bosnian bs
Bulgarian bg
Burmese my
Catalan ca
Cebuano ceb
Chinese Simpl zho
Chinese Trad zho
Croatian hr
Czech cs
Danish da
Dutch nl
English en
Estonian et
Filipino (Tagalog) tl
Finnish fi
French fr
Fulah ff
Galician gl
Ganda lg
Georgian ka
German de
Greek el
Gujarati gu
Hausa ha
Hebrew he
Hindi hi
Hungarian hu
Icelandic is
Igbo ig
Indonesian id
Irish ga
Italian it
Japanese ja
Javanese jv
Kabuverdianu kea
Kamba kam
Kannada kn
Kazakh kk
Khmer km
Korean ko
Kyrgyz ky
Lao lo
Latvian lv
Lingala ln
Lithuanian lt
Luo luo
Luxembourgish lb
Macedonian mk
Malay ms
Malayalam ml
Maltese mt
Maori mi
Marathi mr
Mongolian mn
Nepali ne
Northern Sotho ns
Norwegian no
Nyanja ny
Occitan oc
Oriya or
Oromo om
Pashto ps
Persian fa
Polish pl
Portuguese (Brazil) pt
Punjabi pa
Romanian ro
Russian ru
Serbian sr
Shona sn
Sindhi sd
Slovak sk
Slovenian sl
Somali so
Sorani Kurdish ku
Spanish (Latin American) es
Swahili sw
Swedish sv
Tajik tg
Tamil ta
Telugu te
Thai th
Turkish tr
Ukrainian uk
Umbundu umb
Urdu ur
Uzbek uz
Vietnamese vi
Welsh cy
Wolof wo
Xhosa xh
Yoruba yo
Zulu zu