Language support for Azure Vision in Foundry Tools

Some capabilities of Azure Vision support multiple languages; any capabilities not mentioned here only support English.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Azure 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`

Printed 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`

Image Analysis

Some features of the Analyze - Image API can return results in other languages, specified with the language query parameter. Other features return results in English regardless of what language is specified, and others throw an exception for unsupported languages. Features 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 - Image 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`	✅
Odia	`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`	✅

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