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Document Reader SDK OCR Languages and Transliteration Support

The table below lists the languages supported by the Document Reader SDK Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine, along with the corresponding alphabetic scripts and an indication of which languages support transliteration.

Language Alphabetic script Transliteration
Afrikaans (Afrikaans) Latin Supported
Albanian (Shqip) Latin Supported
Amharic (አማርኛ) Amharic Not supported
Arabic (العربية) [Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen] Arabic Supported
Armenian (հայերեն) Armenian alphabet Not supported
Assamese (অসমীয়া) Bengali Not supported
Azerbaijani (Azərbaycan) Latin Not supported
Basque (Euskara) Latin Supported
Belarusian (Беларуская) Cyrillic Supported
Bengali (বাংলা) Bengali Not supported
Bosnian (Bosanski) Latin Not supported
Bulgarian (Български) Cyrillic Supported
Burmese (မြန်မာ) Mymr Not supported
Catalan (Català) Latin Supported
Chewa (Chichewa) Latin Not supported
Chinese (汉语, 漢語 ,中文) Chinese characters (Traditional / Simplified) Supported
Corsican (Corsu) Latin Not supported
Creole (Kreyòl Ayisyen) [Haiti] Latin Not supported
Croatian (Hrvatski) Latin Supported
Czech (Čeština) Latin Supported
Danish (Dansk) Latin Supported
Dutch (Netherlands) [Belgium, Netherlands] Latin Supported
English (English) [Australia, Belize, Canada, Caribbean, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, South Africa, Trinidad, United Kingdom, USA, Zimbabwe] Latin Supported
Esperanto (Esperanto) Latin Not supported
Estonian (Eesti keel) Latin Supported
Farsi (Afghanistan, Iran) Arabic Supported
Faroese (Føroyskt mál) Latin Supported
Filipino (Filipino) Latin Supported
Finnish (Suomi) Latin Supported
French (Français) [Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Monaco, Switzerland] Latin Supported
Frisian (Frysk) Latin Not supported
Galician (Galego) Latin Supported
Georgian (ქართული) Georgian Not supported
German (Deutsch) [Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland] Latin Supported
Greek (Ελληνικά) Greek Supported
Hausa (Harshen) Latin Not supported
Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi) Latin Not supported
(עברית) Hebrew Hebrew Not supported
Hindi (हिन्दी) Devanagari Not supported
Hmong Latin Not supported
Hungarian (Magyar) Latin Supported
Icelandic (Íslenska) Latin Supported
Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) Latin Supported
Irish (Gaeilge) Latin Not supported
Italian (Italiano) [Italy, Switzerland] Latin Supported
Japanese (日本語) Japanese Supported
Kashmiri (कॉशुर) Devanagari Not supported
Kazakh (Қазақ) Cyrillic Supported
Khosa (Xhosa) Latin Not supported
Khmer (ភាសាខ្មែរ) Khmer Not supported
Konkani (कोंकणी) Konkani Not supported
Korean (한국어) Korean Supported
Kurmanji Latin Not supported
Kyrgyz (Кыргыз тили) Cyrillic Supported
Latin (Latine) Latin Not supported
Latvian (Latviešu) Latin Supported
Lao (ພາສາລາວ) Lao Not supported
Lithuanian (Lietuvių) Latin Supported
Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch) Latin Not supported
Macedonian (Македонски) Cyrillic Supported
Malagasy Latin Not supported
Malay (Bahasa Melayu) [Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia] Latin Supported
Maltese (Malti) Latin Not supported
Marathi (मराठी) Devanagari Not supported
Mongolian (Монгол) Cyrillic Supported
Norwegian (Norsk) [Bokmal, Nynorsk] Latin Supported
Pashto(پښتو) Pashto Not supported
Persian(فارسی(fārsi)) [Afghanistan, Iran] Persian Not supported
Polish (Polski) Latin Supported
Portuguese (Português) [Brazil, Portugal] Latin Supported
Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ) Gurmukhi Not supported
Romanian (Română) Latin Supported
Russian (Русский) Cyrillic Supported
Sanskrit (संस्कृतम्) Sanskrit Not supported
Scottish (Gaelic) Latin Not supported
Serbian (Српски, Srpski) Cyrillic, Latin Supported
Sindhi(سنڌي) Sindhi Not supported
Sinhala (සිංහල) Sinhala Not supported
Slovak (Slovenčina) Latin Supported
Slovenian (Slovenščina) Latin Supported
Somali (Af Soomaali) Latin Not supported
Sotho (Sesotho) Latin Not supported
Spanish (Español) [Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Spain, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, Venezuela] Latin Supported
Swahili (Swahili) Latin Supported
Swedish (Svenska) [Sweden, Finland] Latin Supported
Tajik (Тоҷикӣ) Cyrillic Supported
Tamil (தமிழ்) Tamil Not supported
Tatar (Татар теле) Cyrillic Supported
Thai (ไทย) Thai Not supported
Turkish (Türkçe) Latin Supported
Turkmen (Türkmençe) Cyrillic Not supported
Ukrainian (Українська) Cyrillic Supported
Urdu(اردو) Urdu Supported
Uzbek (Oʻzbekcha, Ўзбекча) Cyrillic, Latin Supported

(Cyrillic only)

Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) Latin Supported
Welsh (Cymraeg) Latin Not supported
Yiddish(יידיש) Hebrew Not supported
Zulu (IsiZulu) Latin Not supported

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