ABBYY Recognition Server 3.5 Specifications – Recognition (OCR) Languages
Below is the list of the recognition languages that are supported in ABBYY Recognition Server 3.5. Availability of a recognition language depends on whether you have the corresponding modules installed (see footnote). ABBYY Recognition Server provides its own system dictionaries for the languages that have built-in dictionary support.
Recognition languages are specified on the Process tab of the OCR Workflow Properties dialog box.
Below you can find the following groups of the recognition languages:
- Languages with full dictionary support
- Languages without dictionary support
- Artificial languages
- Formal languages
OCR Languages with full dictionary support
Arabic
Armenian (Eastern)
Armenian (Grabar)
Armenian (Western)
Azerbaijani (Latin)
Bashkir
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
German (new spelling)
Greek
Hebrew^
Hungarian
Indonesian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Norwegian. Group of Norwegian (Nynorsk) and Norwegian (Bokmal) languages.
Norwegian (Bokmal)
Norwegian (Nynorsk)
Old English^
Old French^
Old German^
Old Italian^
Old Spanish^
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Romanian
Russian
Slovak
Slovenian
Spanish
Swedish
Tatar
Thai^
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese^
OCR Languages without dictionary support
Abkhaz
Adyghe
Afrikaans
Agul
Albanian
Altaic
Avar
Aymara
Azerbaijani (Cyrillic)
Basque
Belarusian
Bemba
Blackfoot
Breton
Bugotu
Buryat
Cebuano
Chamorro
Chechen
Chinese Simplified*^
Chinese Traditional*^
Chukchee
Chuvash
Corsican
Crimean Tatar
Crow
Dakota
Dargwa
Dungan
Eskimo (Cyrillic)
Eskimo (Latin)
Even
Evenki
Faroese
Fijian
Frisian
Friulian
Gagauz
Galician
Ganda
German (Luxembourg)
Guarani
Hani
Hausa
Hawaiian
Icelandic
Ingush
Irish
Japanese*^
Jingpo
Kabardian
Kalmyk
Karachay-Balkar
Karakalpak
Kasub
Kawa
Kazakh
Khakass
Khanty
Kikuyu
Kirghiz
Kongo
Korean*^
Korean (Hangul)*^
Koryak
Kpelle
Kumyk
Kurdish
Lak
Latin
Latvian Gothic
Lezgi
Luba
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay (Malaysian)
Malinke
Maltese
Mansi
Maori
Mari
Maya
Miao
Minangkabau
Mohawk
Moldavian (Latin)
Mongol
Mordvin
Nahuatl
Nenets
Nivkh
Nogay
Nyanja
Occitan
Ojibway
Ossetian
Papiamento
Quechua
Rhaeto-Romanic
Romany
Rundi
Russian (Old Spelling)
Rwanda
Sami (Lappish)
Samoan
Scottish Gaelic
Selkup
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Latin)
Shona
Somali
Sorbian
Sotho
Sunda
Swahili
Swazi
Tabasaran
Tagalog
Tahitian
Tajik
Tok Pisin
Tongan
Tswana
Tun
Turkmen
Tuvinian
Udmurt
Uighur (Cyrillic)
Uighur (Latin)
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
Uzbek (Latin)
Welsh
Wolof
Xhosa
Yakut
Yiddish^
Zapotec
Zulu
OCR for Artificial languages
Esperanto
Ido
Interlingua
Occidental
OCR for Formal languages
Basic
C/C++
COBOL
Fortran
Java
MICR (E-13B). Recognition language for MICR (E-13B) text type.
Numbers
Pascal
Simple chemical formulas
^ — Additional optional licensing modules are needed to be purchased on top of Base package to use these languages.
* — When exporting texts in hieroglyphic languages to PDF, ABBYY Recognition Server uses the following fonts:
PMingLiU and MingLiU for Chinese Traditional,
SimSun for Chinese Simplified,
MS Mincho and MS PMincho for Japanese,
Batang and BatangChe for Korean.
To be able to export texts in East Asian languages to PDF, you must have these fonts installed in Windows OS on all computers which are used as Processing Stations. In Asian versions of Windows these fonts are installed by default. In other versions of Windows you can install them by enabling the Install files for East Asian languages option in the Languages tab (Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages).
Ilya Evdokimov is a long-term practitioner and expert in leading Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Data Capture and Document Processing techniques, technologies and solutions. With over 15 years of experience spanning enterprise software implementations, mobile applications development, cloud-based systems integration and desktop-level automation, Ilya Evdokimov uses through industry knowledge and experience to achieve high efficiency and workflow optimization in most challenging paper-dependent and digital image capture environments.
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