> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.onvision.ai/api-book/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.onvision.ai/api-book/language-support.md).

# Language support

The API uses universal script models to extract all multi-lingual text in your images or documents, including mixed language text lines. Do not provide the language parameter unless you are sure that there is only one language in the image or document. Otherwise, the service may return incomplete and incorrect text.

## Handwritten text

Language  Language code                                                                                                                                         English en\
Chinese Simplified zh-Hans (preview)                                                                                                                                         French fr (preview)                                                                                                                                                       German de (preview)                                                                                                                                                   Italian it (preview)                                                                                                                                          Portuguese pt (preview)                                                                                                                                          Spanish es (preview)

## Print text

Language   |   Language code (optional)\
• Afrikaans | af ✅\
• Albanian | sq ✅\
• Arabic | ar (IN DEVELOPMENT)                                                                                                                                   • Asturian | ast ✅\
• Azerbaijani | (Latin) az ✅ (preview)\
• Basque | eu ✅\
• Belarusian | (Cyrillic) be ✅ (preview)\
• Belarusian | (Latin) be ✅ (preview)\
• Bislama | bi ✅\
• Bosnian | (Latin) bs ✅ (preview)\
• Breton | br ✅\
• Bulgarian | bg ✅ (preview)\
• Buryat | (Cyrillic) bua ✅ (preview)\
• Catalan | ca ✅\
• Cebuano | ceb ✅\
• Chamorro | ch ✅\
• Chinese Simplified | zh-Hans ✅\
• Chinese Traditional | zh-Hant ✅\
• Cornish | kw ✅\
• Corsican | co ✅\
• Crimean Tatar | (Latin) crh ✅\
• Croatian | hr ✅ (preview)\
• Czech | cs ✅\
• Danish | da ✅\
• Dutch | nl ✅\
• English | en ✅\
• Erzya | (Cyrillic) myv ✅ (preview)\
• Estonian | et ✅\
• Faroese | fo ✅ (preview)\
• Fijian | fj ✅\
• Filipino | fil ✅\
• Finnish | fi ✅\
• French | fr ✅\
• Friulian | fur ✅\
• Gagauz | (Latin) gag ✅ (preview)\
• Galician | gl ✅\
• German | de ✅\
• Gilbertese | gil ✅\
• Greek | el (IN DEVELOPMENT)                                                                                                                                     • Greenlandic | kl ✅\
• Haitian | Creole ht ✅\
• Hani | hni ✅\
• Hawaiian | haw ✅ (preview)\
• Hmong Daw | (Latin) mww ✅\
• Hungarian | hu ✅\
• Icelandic | is ✅ (preview)\
• Inari Sami | smn ✅ (preview)\
• Indonesian | id ✅\
• Interlingua | ia ✅\
• Inuktitut | (Latin) iu ✅\
• Irish | ga ✅\
• Italian | it ✅\
• Japanese | ja ✅\
• Javanese | jv ✅\
• K'iche' | quc ✅\
• Kabuverdianu | kea ✅\
• Kachin (Latin) | kac ✅\
• Kara-Kalpak | (Latin) kaa ✅\
• Kara-Kalpak | (Cyrillic) kaa-cyrl ✅ (preview)\
• Karachay-Balkar | krc ✅ (preview)\
• Kashubian | csb ✅\
• Kazakh (Cyrillic) | kk-cyrl ✅ (preview)\
• Kazakh (Latin) | kk-latn ✅ (preview)\
• Khasi | kha ✅\
• Korean | ko ✅                                                                                                                                                                 • Koryak | kpy ✅ (preview)\
• Kosraean | kos ✅ (preview)\
• Kumyk | (Cyrillic) kum ✅ (preview)\
• Kurdish | (Latin) kur ✅\
• Kyrgyz | (Cyrillic) ky ✅ (preview)\
• Lakota | lkt ✅ (preview)\
• Latin | la ✅ (preview)\
• Lithuanian | lt ✅ (preview)\
• Lower Sorbian | dsb ✅ (preview)\
• Lule Sami | smj ✅ (preview)\
• Luxembourgish | lb ✅\
• Malay (Latin) | ms ✅\
• Maltese | mt ✅ (preview)\
• Manx | gv ✅\
• Maori mi | ✅ (preview)\
• Mongolian | (Cyrillic) mn ✅ (preview)\
• Montenegrin | (Cyrillic) cnr-cyrl ✅ (preview)\
• Montenegrin | (Latin) cnr-latn ✅ (preview)\
• Neapolitan | nap ✅\
• Niuean niu | ✅ (preview)\
• Nogay nog | ✅ (preview)\
• Northern Sami | (Latin) sme ✅ (preview)\
• Norwegian | no ✅\
• Occitan | oc ✅\
• Ossetic | os ✅ (preview)\
• Polish | pl ✅\
• Portuguese | pt ✅\
• Ripuarian | ksh ✅ (preview)\
• Romanian | ro ✅ (preview)\
• Romansh | rm ✅\
• Russian | ru ✅ (preview)\
• Samoan | (Latin) sm ✅ (preview)\
• Scots | sco ✅\
• Scottish Gaelic | gd ✅\
• Serbian | (Cyrillic) sr-cyrl (IN DEVELOPMENT)                                                                                                               • Serbian | (Latin) sr-latn ✅ (preview)\
• Skolt Sami | sms ✅ (preview)\
• Slovak | sk ✅ (preview)\
• Slovenian | slv ✅\
• Southern Sami | sma ✅ (preview)\
• Spanish | es ✅\
• Swahili (Latin) | sw ✅\
• Swedish | sv ✅\
• Tajik | (Cyrillic) tg ✅ (preview)\
• Tatar | (Latin) tat ✅\
• Tetum | tet ✅\
• Tongan | to ✅ (preview)\
• Turkish | tr ✅\
• Turkmen | (Latin) tk ✅ (preview)\
• Tuvan tyv | ✅ (preview)\
• Upper Sorbian | hsb ✅\
• Uzbek (Cyrillic) | uz-cyrl ✅\
• Uzbek (Latin) | uz ✅\
• Volapük | vo ✅\
• Walser | wae ✅\
• Welsh | cy ✅ (preview)\
• Western Frisian | fy ✅\
• Yucatec Maya | yua ✅\
• Zhuang | za ✅\
• Zulu | zu ✅


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