Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools region and language support

Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools provides multilingual support in multiple geographic regions to enable users to communicate with Content Understanding applications in natural ways and empower global outreach. The following sections describe the available regions and supported languages/locales.

Region support

To use Azure Content Understanding, create your Foundry Tool resource in a supported region. All data at rest is stored in the selected region. For lower latency or increased capacity, you can specify the processing location where analysis occurs. Content Understanding is available in the following regions. When the processing location is set to geography or data zone, the corresponding locations are shown.

Identifier	Region	Geography	Data Zone
australiaeast	Australia East	Australia	Australia
eastus	East US	United States	US
eastus2	East US 2	United States	US
japaneast	Japan East	Japan	Asia
northeurope	North Europe	Europe	Europe
southcentralus	South Central US	United States	US
southeastasia	Southeast Asia	Asia Pacific	Asia
swedencentral	Sweden Central	Sweden	Europe
uksouth	UK South	United Kingdom	UK
westeurope	West Europe	Europe	Europe
westus	West US	United States	US
westus3	West US 3	United States	US

Note

Pro mode (preview) currently only supports data zone and global as processing location.

Language support

Azure Content Understanding enables you to process data in multiple languages simultaneously. Our language support capabilities enable users to communicate with your applications in natural ways and empower global outreach.

Content Understanding applies Azure OpenAI models which support a wide array of languages. While there's no definitive list of supported languages, users can expect robust language capabilities across most common languages. For specific language support related to OCR and speech transcription, refer to the respective sections detailing the supported languages for these modalities.

Text optical character recognition (OCR)

Important

• The following list of supported languages have locale-aware normalization for words enabled in post-processing.
• Content Understanding supports different languages so we encourage you to try it out and focus on the content and not the value itself.

Language	Language code	Language	Language code
Afrikaans	af	Kazakh (Latin)	kk, kk-latn
Albanian	sq	Khaling	klr
Angika	anp	Khasi	kha
Arabic	ar	Kirghiz	ky
Asturian	ast	Korean	ko
Awadhi	awa	Korku	kfq
Azerbaijani	az	Koryak	kpy
Bagheli	bfy	Kosraean	kos
Basque	eu	Kurdish (Arabic)	ku-arab
Belarusian (Cyrillic)	be, be-cyrl	Kurdish (Latin)	ku, ku-latn
Belarusian (Latin)	be-latn	Kurukh	kru
Bhojpuri	bho	Kölsch	ksh
Bislama	bi	Lakota	lkt
Bodo	brx	Latin	la
Bosnian	bs	Lithuanian	lt
Braj	bra	Lower Sorbian	dsb
Breton	br	Volapük	smj
Bulgarian	bg	Luxembourgish	lb
Bundeli	bns	Mahasu Pahari	bfz
Buriat	bua	Malay	ms
Camling	rab	Malto	kmj
Catalan	ca	Manx	gv
Cebuano	ceb	Maori	mi
Chamorro	ch	Marathi	mr
Chhattisgarhi	hne	Mongolian	mn
Chinese (Simplified)	zh, zh-hans	Montenegrin (Cyrillic)	cnr-cyrl
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-hant	Montenegrin (Latin)	cnr, cnr-latn
Cornish	kw	Neapolitan	nap
Corsican	co	Nepali	ne
Crimean Tatar	crh	Niuean	niu
Croatian	hr	Nogai	nog
Czech	cs	Northern Sami	sme
Danish	da	Norwegian	no
Dari	prs	Occitan	oc
Dhimal	dhi	Ossetian	os
Dogri	doi	Panjabi	pa
Dutch	nl	Persian	fa
English	en-US, en-AU, en-CA,en-GB, en-IN	Polish	pl
Erzya	myv	Portuguese	pt
Estonian	et	Pushto	ps
Faroese	fo	Romanian	ro
Fijian	fj	Romansh	rm
Filipino	fil	Russian	ru
Finnish	fi	Sadri	sck
French	fr	Samoan	sm
Friulian	fur	Sanskrit	sa
Gagauz	gag	Santali	sat
Galician	gl	Scots	sco
German	de	Scottish Gaelic	gd
Gilbertese	gil	Serbian (Latin)	sr, sr-latn
Gondi	gon	Sirmauri	srx
Gurung	gvr	Skolt Sami	sms
Haitian	ht	Slovak	sk
Halbi	hlb	Slovenian	sl
Hani	hni	Somali	so
Haryanvi	bgc	Southern Sami	sma
Hawaiian	haw	Spanish	es
Hindi	hi	Swahili	sw
Hmong Daw	mww	Swedish	sv
Ho	hoc	Tajik	tg
Hungarian	hu	Tatar	tt
Icelandic	is	Tetum	tet
Inari Sami	smn	Thangmi	thf
Indonesian	id	Thai	th
Interlingua	ia	Tonga	to
Inuktitut	iu	Turkish	tr
Irish	ga	Tuvinian	tyv
Italian	it	Uighur	ug
Japanese	ja	Upper Sorbian	hsb
Jaunsari	jns	Urdu	ur
Javanese	jv	Uzbek (Arabic)	uz-arab
K'iche'	quc	Uzbek (Cyrillic)	uz-cyrl
Kabuverdianu	kea	Uzbek (Latin)	uz, uz-latn
Kachin	kac	Volapük	vo
Kalaallisut	kl	Walser	wae
Kangri	xnr	Welsh	cy
Kara-Kalpak (Cyrillic)	kaa-cyrl	Western Frisian	fy
Kara-Kalpak (Latin)	kaa, kaa-latn	Yucateco	yua
Karachay-Balkar	krc	Zhuang	za
Kashubian	csb	Zulu	zu
Kazakh (Cyrillic)	kk-cyrl

The following table lists the supported languages/locales for handwritten text.

Language	Language code	Language	Language code
English	en	Japanese	ja
Chinese Simplified	zh-Hans	Korean	ko
French	fr	Portuguese	pt
German	de	Spanish	es
Italian	it	Russian	ru
Thai	th	Arabic	ar

Speech transcription

Content Understanding applies Azure Speech in Foundry Tools fast transcription to transcribe spoken words in the input synchronously and faster than real-time audio.

Content Understanding supports the full set of languages/locales supported by fast transcription. See the Fast transcription column here - Azure Speech Regions.

Field value normalization

Different locales have different ways to represent numbers, date, and time. Content Understanding supports normalizing these different representations into standardized ISO forms for the following locales.

Language	Language code	Language	Language code
Arabic	ar-AE, ar-EG, ar-SA	Japanese	ja-JP
Bengla	bn-IN	Korean	ko-KR
Bulgarian	bg-BG	Latvian	lv-LV
Catalan	ca-ES	Lithuanian	lt-LT
Chinese (Simplified)	zh-CN	Malay	ms-MY
Chinese (Traditional)	zh-TW	Marathi	mr-IN
Croatian	hr-HR	Nepali	ne-IN
Czech	cs-CZ	Norwegian	no-NO
Danish	da-DK	Polish	pl-PL
Dutch	nl-NL	Portuguese	pt-BR, pt-PT
English	en-AU, en-CA, en-GB, en-IL, en-IN, en-MY, en-US	Romanian	ro-RO
Estonian	et-EE	Russian	ru-RU
Finnish	fi-FI	Serbian	sr-RS
French	fr-CA, fr-FR	Slovak	sk-SK
Galician	gl-ES	Slovenian	sl-SI
German	de-DE	Spanish	es-AR, es-ES, es-MX
Greek	el-GR	Swedish	sv-SE
Hebrew	he-IL	Tamil	ta-IN
Hindi	hi-IN	Thai	th-TH
Hungarian	hu-HU	Turkish	tr-TR
Icelandic	is-IS	Ukrainian	uk-UA
Indonesian	id-ID	Vietnamese	vi-VN
Italian	it-IT

Preview API (2025-05-01-preview)

The preview API version 2025-05-01-preview includes managed capacity for generative capabilities and has limited regional availability compared to the GA version.

Region support

To use Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools with the preview API, create your Foundry Tool resource in a supported region. All data at rest is stored in the selected region. For lower latency or increased capacity, you can specify the processing location where analysis occurs. Content Understanding preview API is available in the following regions. When the processing location is set to geography or data zone, the corresponding locations are shown.

Identifier	Region	Geography	Data Zone
westus	West US	United States	United States
swedencentral	Sweden Central	Sweden	European Union
australiaeast	Australia East	Australia	N/A†

^† Australia East doesn't support data zone as a processing location.

Note

Pro mode (preview) currently only supports data zone and global as processing location.