ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 for Windows

Recognition Languages

ABBYY offers highly accurate OCR, ICR, OMR and barcode recognition technologies with the widest language support available in the industry – 198 languages for OCR and 113 for ICR. In addition, the FineReader Engine’s recognition API delivers special features for pattern training and creation of user languages.

Below is a list of recognition languages, supported by ABBYY FineReader Engine. Some of them may be licensed as separate add-on modules. Please contact your regional sales representative for details.

Description of the data contained in the columns:

  

Language OCR ICR Full-text dictionary support  Data capture dictionary support
Natural Languages        
Abkhaz Yes      
Adyghe Yes      
Afrikaans Yes Yes    
Agul Yes      
Albanian Yes Yes    
Altai Yes      
 Arabic (technical preview) Yes    Yes   
Armenian (Eastern) Yes   Yes  
Armenian (Grabar) Yes   Yes  
Armenian (Western) Yes   Yes  
Avar Yes      
Aymara Yes Yes    
Azerbaijani (Cyrillic) Yes      
Azerbaijani (Latin) Yes Yes    
Bashkir Yes   Yes  
Basque Yes Yes    
Belarusian Yes      
Bemba Yes Yes    
Blackfoot Yes Yes    
Breton Yes Yes    
Bugotu Yes Yes    
Bulgarian Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Buryat Yes  Yes     
Catalan Yes   Yes  
Cebuano Yes Yes    
Chamorro Yes Yes    
Chechen Yes      
Chinese (Simplified) Yes      
Chinese (Traditional) Yes      
Chukchee Yes      
Chuvash Yes      
Corsican Yes Yes    
Crimean Tatar Yes Yes    
Croatian Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Crow Yes Yes    
Czech Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Dakota (Sioux) Yes Yes    
Danish Yes   Yes  
Dargwa Yes      
Dungan Yes      
Dutch (Belgium) Yes Yes Yes  
Dutch (Netherlands) Yes Yes Yes  
English Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Eskimo (Cyrillic) Yes      
Eskimo (Latin) Yes      
Estonian Yes Yes Yes  
Even Yes Yes    
Evenki Yes Yes    
Faroese Yes      
Fijian Yes Yes    
Finnish Yes Yes Yes  
French Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Frisian Yes Yes    
Friulian Yes Yes    
Gagauz Yes      
Galician Yes Yes    
Ganda Yes Yes    
German Yes Yes Yes  Yes
German (Luxembourg) Yes Yes    
German (new spelling) Yes Yes Yes  
Greek Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Guarani Yes Yes    
Hani Yes Yes    
Hangul Yes
Hausa Yes      
Hawaiian Yes Yes    
Hebrew Yes Yes
Hungarian Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Icelandic Yes      
Indonesian Yes Yes Yes  
Ingush Yes      
Irish Yes Yes    
Italian Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Japanese Yes    Yes   
Jingpo Yes Yes    
Kabardian Yes      
Kalmyk Yes      
Karachay-balkar Yes Yes    
Karakalpak Yes      
Kasub Yes Yes    
Kawa Yes Yes    
Kazakh Yes Yes    
Khakass Yes      
Khanty Yes      
Kikuyu Yes      
Kirghiz Yes Yes    
Kongo Yes Yes    
Korean Yes      
Koryak Yes      
Kpelle Yes Yes    
Kumyk Yes Yes    
Kurdish Yes Yes    
Lak Yes      
Latin Yes Yes    
Latvian Yes Yes Yes  
Lezgi Yes      
Lithuanian Yes Yes Yes  
Luba Yes Yes    
Macedonian Yes      
Malagasy Yes Yes    
Malay (Malaysian) Yes      
Malinke Yes Yes    
Maltese Yes      
Mansi Yes      
Maori Yes Yes    
Mari Yes      
Maya Yes Yes    
Miao Yes Yes    
Minangkabau Yes Yes    
Mohawk Yes Yes    
Moldavian Yes Yes    
Mongol Yes Yes    
Mordvin Yes Yes    
Nahuatl Yes Yes    
Nenets Yes  Yes     
Nivkh Yes Yes    
Nogay Yes Yes    
Norwegian (Bokmal) Yes   Yes  
Norwegian (Nynorsk) Yes   Yes  
Nyanja Yes Yes    
Ojibway Yes Yes    
OldEnglish Yes   Yes  
OldFrench Yes Yes Yes  
OldGerman Yes Yes Yes  
OldItalian Yes Yes Yes  
OldSpanish Yes Yes Yes  
Ossetian Yes      
Papiamento Yes Yes    
Polish Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Portuguese (Brazil) Yes   Yes  
Portuguese (Portugal) Yes   Yes  
Provencal Yes      
Quechua Yes Yes    
Rhaeto-Romanic Yes Yes    
Romanian Yes Yes Yes  
Romany Yes Yes    
Rundi Yes Yes    
Russian Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Russian (Old Spelling) Yes      
Rwanda Yes Yes    
Sami (Lappish) Yes Yes    
Samoan Yes Yes    
Scottish Gaelic Yes Yes    
Selkup Yes Yes    
Serbian (Cyrillic) Yes      
Serbian (Latin) Yes Yes    
Shona Yes      
Slovak Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Slovenian Yes Yes Yes  
Somali Yes Yes    
Sorbian Yes      
Sotho Yes Yes    
Spanish Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Sunda Yes      
Swahili Yes Yes    
Swazi Yes Yes    
Swedish Yes   Yes  
Tabasaran Yes      
Tagalog Yes Yes    
Tahitian Yes Yes    
Tajik Yes Yes    
Tatar Yes   Yes  
Thai Yes   Yes  
Tok Pisin Yes Yes    
Tongan Yes Yes    
Tswana Yes Yes    
Tun Yes Yes    
Turkish Yes Yes Yes  
Turkmen Yes      
Tuvinian Yes  Yes    
Udmurt Yes      
Uigur (Cyrillic) Yes      
Uigur (Latin) Yes Yes    
Ukrainian Yes Yes Yes  Yes
Uzbek (Cyrillic) Yes      
Uzbek (Latin) Yes      
Vietnamese Yes    Yes   
Welsh Yes      
Wolof Yes Yes    
Xhosa Yes Yes    
Yakut Yes      
Yiddish Yes
Zapotec Yes Yes    
Zulu Yes      
Artificial Languages Yes      
Esperanto Yes      
Ido Yes Yes    
Interlingua Yes Yes    
Occidental Yes      
Numbers Yes      
Arabic numbers Yes Yes    
Arabic-Indian numbers Yes Yes    
Special Yes
CMC7 Yes
E13B Yes

 

    

ABBYY FineReader Engine specifications list:

Developer Environments
System Requirements
Input/Output Formats
Recognition Languages
Barcode Types

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