Language support for Computer Vision

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

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

The Computer Vision OCR APIs support many languages. Read can extract text from images and documents with mixed languages, including from the same text line, without requiring a language parameter. See the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) overview for more information.

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.

The preview model includes any enhancements to the current GA version of the API. See How to specify the model version to use the preview languages and features.

Handwritten languages

The following table lists the languages supported by Read for handwritten text.

Language Language code (optional) Read
English en ✅
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans ✅ preview
French fr ✅ preview
German de ✅ preview
Italian it ✅ preview
Portuguese pt ✅ preview
Spanish es ✅ preview

The following table lists the languages supported by the OCR APIs for printed text.

Language Language code (optional) Read OCR
Afrikaans af ✅
Albanian sq ✅
Arabic ar ✅
Asturian ast ✅
Azerbaijani (Latin) az ✅ preview
Basque eu ✅
Belarusian (Cyrillic) be ✅ preview
Belarusian (Latin) be ✅ preview
Bislama bi ✅
Bosnian (Latin) bs ✅ preview
Breton br ✅
Bulgarian bg ✅ preview
Buryat (Cyrillic) bua ✅ preview
Catalan ca ✅
Cebuano ceb ✅
Chamorro ch ✅
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans ✅ ✅
Chinese Traditional zh-Hant ✅ ✅
Cornish kw ✅
Corsican co ✅
Crimean Tatar (Latin) crh ✅
Croatian hr ✅ preview
Czech cs ✅ ✅
Danish da ✅ ✅
Dutch nl ✅ ✅
English en ✅ ✅
Erzya (Cyrillic) myv ✅ preview
Estonian et ✅
Faroese fo ✅ preview
Fijian fj ✅
Filipino fil ✅
Finnish fi ✅ ✅
French fr ✅ ✅
Friulian fur ✅
Gagauz (Latin) gag ✅ preview
Galician gl ✅
German de ✅ ✅
Gilbertese gil ✅
Greek el ✅
Greenlandic kl ✅
Haitian Creole ht ✅
Hani hni ✅
Hawaiian haw ✅ preview
Hmong Daw (Latin) mww ✅
Hungarian hu ✅ ✅
Icelandic is ✅ preview
Inari Sami smn ✅ preview
Indonesian id ✅
Interlingua ia ✅
Inuktitut (Latin) iu ✅
Irish ga ✅
Italian it ✅ ✅
Japanese ja ✅ ✅
Javanese jv ✅
K'iche' quc ✅
Kabuverdianu kea ✅
Kachin (Latin) kac ✅
Kara-Kalpak (Latin) kaa ✅
Kara-Kalpak (Cyrillic) kaa-cyrl ✅ preview
Karachay-Balkar krc ✅ preview
Kashubian csb ✅
Kazakh (Cyrillic) kk-cyrl ✅ preview
Kazakh (Latin) kk-latn ✅ preview
Khasi kha ✅
Korean ko ✅ ✅
Koryak kpy ✅ preview
Kosraean kos ✅ preview
Kumyk (Cyrillic) kum ✅ preview
Kurdish (Latin) ku ✅
Kyrgyz (Cyrillic) ky ✅ preview
Lakota lkt ✅ preview
Latin la ✅ preview
Lithuanian lt ✅ preview
Lower Sorbian dsb ✅ preview
Lule Sami smj ✅ preview
Luxembourgish lb ✅
Malay (Latin) ms ✅
Maltese mt ✅ preview
Manx gv ✅
Maori mi ✅ preview
Mongolian (Cyrillic) mn ✅ preview
Montenegrin (Cyrillic) cnr-cyrl ✅ preview
Montenegrin (Latin) cnr-latn ✅ preview
Neapolitan nap ✅
Niuean niu ✅ preview
Nogay nog ✅ preview
Northern Sami (Latin) sme ✅ preview
Norwegian no ✅
Occitan oc ✅
Ossetic os ✅ preview
Polish pl ✅ ✅
Portuguese pt ✅ ✅
Ripuarian ksh ✅ preview
Romanian ro ✅ preview ✅
Romansh rm ✅
Russian ru ✅ preview ✅
Samoan (Latin) sm ✅ preview
Scots sco ✅
Scottish Gaelic gd ✅
Serbian (Cyrillic) sr-cyrl ✅
Serbian (Latin) sr-latn ✅ preview ✅
Skolt Sami sms ✅ preview
Slovak sk ✅ preview ✅
Slovenian sl ✅
Southern Sami sma ✅ preview
Spanish es ✅ ✅
Swahili (Latin) sw ✅
Swedish sv ✅ ✅
Tajik (Cyrillic) tg ✅ preview
Tatar (Latin) tt ✅
Tetum tet ✅
Tongan to ✅ preview
Turkish tr ✅ ✅
Turkmen (Latin) tk ✅ preview
Tuvan tyv ✅ preview
Upper Sorbian hsb ✅
Uzbek (Cyrillic) uz-cyrl ✅
Uzbek (Latin) uz ✅
Volapük vo ✅
Walser wae ✅
Welsh cy ✅ preview
Western Frisian fy ✅
Yucatec Maya yua ✅
Zhuang za ✅
Zulu zu ✅

Image analysis

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 image analysis. Languages for tagging are only available in API version 3.2 or later.

Language Language code Categories Tags Description Adult Brands Color Faces ImageType Objects Celebrities Landmarks
Arabic ar ✅
Azeri (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 It ✅
Latvian Iv ✅
Macedonian mk ✅
Malay Malaysia ms ✅
Norwegian (Bokmal) nb ✅
Dutch nl ✅
Polish pl ✅
Dari prs ✅
Portuguese-Brazil pt-BR ✅
Portuguese-Portugal pt/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/ zh-Hans ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Chinese Traditional zh-Hant ✅