Language support for Computer Vision
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Some features of Computer Vision support multiple languages; any features not mentioned here only support English.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Computer Vision's OCR APIs support several languages. They do not require you to specify a language code. See Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for more information.
| Language | Language code | OCR API | Read 3.0 and 3.1 | Read v3.2-preview.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arabic | ar |
✔ | ||
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh-Hans |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh-Hant |
✔ | ||
| Czech | cs |
✔ | ||
| Danish | da |
✔ | ||
| Dutch | nl |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| English | en |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Finnish | fi |
✔ | ||
| French | fr |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| German | de |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Greek | el |
✔ | ||
| Hungarian | hu |
✔ | ||
| Italian | it |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Japanese | ja |
✔ | ✔ | |
| Korean | ko |
✔ | ||
| Norwegian | nb |
✔ | ||
| Polish | pl |
✔ | ||
| Portuguese | pt |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Romanian | ro |
✔ | ||
| Russian | ru |
✔ | ||
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | sr-Cyrl |
✔ | ||
| Serbian (Latin) | sr-Latn |
✔ | ||
| Slovak | sk |
✔ | ||
| Spanish | es |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Swedish | sw |
✔ | ||
| Turkish | tr |
✔ |
Image analysis
Some actions 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.
| Language | Language code | Categories | Tags | Description | Adult | Brands | Color | Faces | ImageType | Objects | Celebrities | Landmarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinese | zh |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | - | - | - | ❌ | ✔ | ✔ |
| English | en |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Japanese | ja |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | - | - | - | ❌ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Portuguese | pt |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | - | - | - | ❌ | ✔ | ✔ |
| Spanish | es |
✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | - | - | - | ❌ | ✔ | ✔ |
Next steps
Get started using the Computer Vision features mentioned in this guide.