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Language support for Azure AI Vision

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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

Print text

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 ✅