Language support: document analysis

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Azure AI Document Intelligence models provide multilingual document processing support. Our language support capabilities enable your users to communicate with your applications in natural ways and empower global outreach. Document analysis models enable text extraction from forms and documents and return structured business-ready content ready for your organization's action, use, or progress. The following tables list the available language and locale support by model and feature:

• Read: The read model enables extraction and analysis of printed and handwritten text. This model is the underlying OCR engine for other Document Intelligence prebuilt models like layout, general document, invoice, receipt, identity (ID) document, health insurance card, tax documents and custom models. For more information, see Read model overview

• Layout: The layout model enables extraction and analysis of text, tables, document structure, and selection marks (like radio buttons and checkboxes) from forms and documents.

• General document: The general document model enables extraction and analysis of text, document structure, and key-value pairs. For more information, see General document model overview

Note

Language code optional

• Document Intelligence's deep learning based universal models extract all multi-lingual text in your documents, including text lines with mixed languages, and don't require specifying a language code.

• Don't provide the language code as the parameter unless you are sure of the language and want to force the service to apply only the relevant model. Otherwise, the service may return incomplete and incorrect text.

• Also, It's not necessary to specify a locale. This is an optional parameter. The Document Intelligence deep-learning technology will auto-detect the text language in your image.

Read model

Model ID: prebuilt-read

Read: printed text

The following table lists read model language support for extracting and analyzing printed text.

Language	Code (optional)
Abaza	abq
Abkhazian	ab
Achinese	ace
Acoli	ach
Adangme	ada
Adyghe	ady
Afar	aa
Afrikaans	af
Akan	ak
Albanian	sq
Algonquin	alq
Angika (Devanagari)	anp
Arabic	ar
Asturian	ast
Asu (Tanzania)	asa
Avaric	av
Awadhi-Hindi (Devanagari)	awa
Aymara	ay
Azerbaijani (Latin)	az
Bafia	ksf
Bagheli	bfy
Bambara	bm
Bashkir	ba
Basque	eu
Belarusian (Cyrillic)	be, be-cyrl
Belarusian (Latin)	be, be-latn
Bemba (Zambia)	bem
Bena (Tanzania)	bez
Bhojpuri-Hindi (Devanagari)	bho
Bikol	bik
Bini	bin
Bislama	bi
Bodo (Devanagari)	brx
Bosnian (Latin)	bs
Brajbha	bra
Breton	br
Bulgarian	bg
Bundeli	bns
Buryat (Cyrillic)	bua
Catalan	ca
Cebuano	ceb
Chamling	rab
Chamorro	ch
Chechen	ce
Chhattisgarhi (Devanagari)	hne
Chiga	cgg
Chinese Simplified	zh-Hans
Chinese Traditional	zh-Hant
Choctaw	cho
Chukot	ckt
Chuvash	cv
Cornish	kw
Corsican	co
Cree	cr
Creek	mus
Crimean Tatar (Latin)	crh
Croatian	hr
Crow	cro
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dargwa	dar
Dari	prs
Dhimal (Devanagari)	dhi
Dogri (Devanagari)	doi
Duala	dua
Dungan	dng
Dutch	nl
Efik	efi
English	en
Erzya (Cyrillic)	myv
Estonian	et
Faroese	fo
Fijian	fj
Filipino	fil
Finnish	fi

Language	Code (optional)
Fon	fon
French	fr
Friulian	fur
Ga	gaa
Gagauz (Latin)	gag
Galician	gl
Ganda	lg
Gayo	gay
German	de
Gilbertese	gil
Gondi (Devanagari)	gon
Greek	el
Greenlandic	kl
Guarani	gn
Gurung (Devanagari)	gvr
Gusii	guz
Haitian Creole	ht
Halbi (Devanagari)	hlb
Hani	hni
Haryanvi	bgc
Hawaiian	haw
Hebrew	he
Herero	hz
Hiligaynon	hil
Hindi	hi
Hmong Daw (Latin)	mww
Ho(Devanagiri)	hoc
Hungarian	hu
Iban	iba
Icelandic	is
Igbo	ig
Iloko	ilo
Inari Sami	smn
Indonesian	id
Ingush	inh
Interlingua	ia
Inuktitut (Latin)	iu
Irish	ga
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Jaunsari (Devanagari)	Jns
Javanese	jv
Jola-Fonyi	dyo
Kabardian	kbd
Kabuverdianu	kea
Kachin (Latin)	kac
Kalenjin	kln
Kalmyk	xal
Kangri (Devanagari)	xnr
Kanuri	kr
Karachay-Balkar	krc
Kara-Kalpak (Cyrillic)	kaa-cyrl
Kara-Kalpak (Latin)	kaa
Kashubian	csb
Kazakh (Cyrillic)	kk-cyrl
Kazakh (Latin)	kk-latn
Khakas	kjh
Khaling	klr
Khasi	kha
K'iche'	quc
Kikuyu	ki
Kildin Sami	sjd
Kinyarwanda	rw
Komi	kv
Kongo	kg
Korean	ko
Korku	kfq
Koryak	kpy
Kosraean	kos
Kpelle	kpe
Kuanyama	kj
Kumyk (Cyrillic)	kum
Kurdish (Arabic)	ku-arab
Kurdish (Latin)	ku-latn
Kurukh (Devanagari)	kru
Kyrgyz (Cyrillic)	ky
Lak	lbe
Lakota	lkt

Language	Code (optional)
Latin	la
Latvian	lv
Lezghian	lex
Lingala	ln
Lithuanian	lt
Lower Sorbian	dsb
Lozi	loz
Lule Sami	smj
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)	luo
Luxembourgish	lb
Luyia	luy
Macedonian	mk
Machame	jmc
Madurese	mad
Mahasu Pahari (Devanagari)	bfz
Makhuwa-Meetto	mgh
Makonde	kde
Malagasy	mg
Malay (Latin)	ms
Maltese	mt
Malto (Devanagari)	kmj
Mandinka	mnk
Manx	gv
Maori	mi
Mapudungun	arn
Marathi	mr
Mari (Russia)	chm
Masai	mas
Mende (Sierra Leone)	men
Meru	mer
Meta'	mgo
Minangkabau	min
Mohawk	moh
Mongolian (Cyrillic)	mn
Mongondow	mog
Montenegrin (Cyrillic)	cnr-cyrl
Montenegrin (Latin)	cnr-latn
Morisyen	mfe
Mundang	mua
Nahuatl	nah
Navajo	nv
Ndonga	ng
Neapolitan	nap
Nepali	ne
Ngomba	jgo
Niuean	niu
Nogay	nog
North Ndebele	nd
Northern Sami (Latin)	sme
Norwegian	no
Nyanja	ny
Nyankole	nyn
Nzima	nzi
Occitan	oc
Ojibwa	oj
Oromo	om
Ossetic	os
Pampanga	pam
Pangasinan	pag
Papiamento	pap
Pashto	ps
Pedi	nso
Persian	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Punjabi (Arabic)	pa
Quechua	qu
Ripuarian	ksh
Romanian	ro
Romansh	rm
Rundi	rn
Russian	ru
Rwa	rwk
Sadri (Devanagari)	sck
Sakha	sah
Samburu	saq
Samoan (Latin)	sm
Sango	sg

Language	Code (optional)
Sangu (Gabon)	snq
Sanskrit (Devanagari)	sa
Santali(Devanagiri)	sat
Scots	sco
Scottish Gaelic	gd
Sena	seh
Serbian (Cyrillic)	sr-cyrl
Serbian (Latin)	sr, sr-latn
Shambala	ksb
Shona	sn
Siksika	bla
Sirmauri (Devanagari)	srx
Skolt Sami	sms
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Soga	xog
Somali (Arabic)	so
Somali (Latin)	so-latn
Songhai	son
South Ndebele	nr
Southern Altai	alt
Southern Sami	sma
Southern Sotho	st
Spanish	es
Sundanese	su
Swahili (Latin)	sw
Swati	ss
Swedish	sv
Tabassaran	tab
Tachelhit	shi
Tahitian	ty
Taita	dav
Tajik (Cyrillic)	tg
Tamil	ta
Tatar (Cyrillic)	tt-cyrl
Tatar (Latin)	tt
Teso	teo
Tetum	tet
Thai	th
Thangmi	thf
Tok Pisin	tpi
Tongan	to
Tsonga	ts
Tswana	tn
Turkish	tr
Turkmen (Latin)	tk
Tuvan	tyv
Udmurt	udm
Uighur (Cyrillic)	ug-cyrl
Ukrainian	uk
Upper Sorbian	hsb
Urdu	ur
Uyghur (Arabic)	ug
Uzbek (Arabic)	uz-arab
Uzbek (Cyrillic)	uz-cyrl
Uzbek (Latin)	uz
Vietnamese	vi
Volapük	vo
Vunjo	vun
Walser	wae
Welsh	cy
Western Frisian	fy
Wolof	wo
Xhosa	xh
Yucatec Maya	yua
Zapotec	zap
Zarma	dje
Zhuang	za
Zulu	zu

Read: handwritten text

The following table lists read model language support for extracting and analyzing handwritten text.

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

Read: language detection

The Read model API supports language detection for the following languages in your documents. This list can include languages not currently supported for text extraction.

Important

Language detection

• Document Intelligence read model can detect the presence of languages and return language codes for languages detected.

Detected languages vs extracted languages

• This section lists the languages we can detect from the documents using the Read model, if present.
• Please note that this list differs from list of languages we support extracting text from, which is specified in the above sections for each model.

Language	Code
Afrikaans	af
Albanian	sq
Amharic	am
Arabic	ar
Armenian	hy
Assamese	as
Azerbaijani	az
Basque	eu
Belarusian	be
Bengali	bn
Bosnian	bs
Bulgarian	bg
Burmese	my
Catalan	ca
Central Khmer	km
Chinese	zh
Chinese Simplified	zh_chs
Chinese Traditional	zh_cht
Corsican	co
Croatian	hr
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dari	prs
Divehi	dv
Dutch	nl
English	en
Esperanto	eo
Estonian	et
Fijian	fj
Finnish	fi
French	fr
Galician	gl
Georgian	ka
German	de
Greek	el
Gujarati	gu
Haitian	ht
Hausa	ha
Hebrew	he
Hindi	hi
Hmong Daw	mww
Hungarian	hu
Icelandic	is
Igbo	ig
Indonesian	id
Inuktitut	iu
Irish	ga
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Javanese	jv
Kannada	kn
Kazakh	kk
Kinyarwanda	rw
Kirghiz	ky
Korean	ko
Kurdish	ku
Lao	lo
Latin	la

Language	Code
Latvian	lv
Lithuanian	lt
Luxembourgish	lb
Macedonian	mk
Malagasy	mg
Malay	ms
Malayalam	ml
Maltese	mt
Maori	mi
Marathi	mr
Mongolian	mn
Nepali	ne
Norwegian	no
Norwegian Nynorsk	nn
Odia	or
Pasht	ps
Persian	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Punjabi	pa
Queretaro Otomi	otq
Romanian	ro
Russian	ru
Samoan	sm
Serbian	sr
Shona	sn
Sindhi	sd
Sinhala	si
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Somali	so
Spanish	es
Sundanese	su
Swahili	sw
Swedish	sv
Tagalog	tl
Tahitian	ty
Tajik	tg
Tamil	ta
Tatar	tt
Telugu	te
Thai	th
Tibetan	bo
Tigrinya	ti
Tongan	to
Turkish	tr
Turkmen	tk
Ukrainian	uk
Urdu	ur
Uzbek	uz
Vietnamese	vi
Welsh	cy
Xhosa	xh
Yiddish	yi
Yoruba	yo
Yucatec Maya	yua
Zulu	zu

Layout

Model ID: prebuilt-layout

Layout: printed text

The following table lists the supported languages for printed text:

Language	Code (optional)
Abaza	abq
Abkhazian	ab
Achinese	ace
Acoli	ach
Adangme	ada
Adyghe	ady
Afar	aa
Afrikaans	af
Akan	ak
Albanian	sq
Algonquin	alq
Angika (Devanagari)	anp
Arabic	ar
Asturian	ast
Asu (Tanzania)	asa
Avaric	av
Awadhi-Hindi (Devanagari)	awa
Aymara	ay
Azerbaijani (Latin)	az
Bafia	ksf
Bagheli	bfy
Bambara	bm
Bashkir	ba
Basque	eu
Belarusian (Cyrillic)	be, be-cyrl
Belarusian (Latin)	be, be-latn
Bemba (Zambia)	bem
Bena (Tanzania)	bez
Bhojpuri-Hindi (Devanagari)	bho
Bikol	bik
Bini	bin
Bislama	bi
Bodo (Devanagari)	brx
Bosnian (Latin)	bs
Brajbha	bra
Breton	br
Bulgarian	bg
Bundeli	bns
Buryat (Cyrillic)	bua
Catalan	ca
Cebuano	ceb
Chamling	rab
Chamorro	ch
Chechen	ce
Chhattisgarhi (Devanagari)	hne
Chiga	cgg
Chinese Simplified	zh-Hans
Chinese Traditional	zh-Hant
Choctaw	cho
Chukot	ckt
Chuvash	cv
Cornish	kw
Corsican	co
Cree	cr
Creek	mus
Crimean Tatar (Latin)	crh
Croatian	hr
Crow	cro
Czech	cs
Danish	da
Dargwa	dar
Dari	prs
Dhimal (Devanagari)	dhi
Dogri (Devanagari)	doi
Duala	dua
Dungan	dng
Dutch	nl
Efik	efi
English	en
Erzya (Cyrillic)	myv
Estonian	et
Faroese	fo
Fijian	fj
Filipino	fil
Finnish	fi

Language	Code (optional)
Fon	fon
French	fr
Friulian	fur
Ga	gaa
Gagauz (Latin)	gag
Galician	gl
Ganda	lg
Gayo	gay
German	de
Gilbertese	gil
Gondi (Devanagari)	gon
Greek	el
Greenlandic	kl
Guarani	gn
Gurung (Devanagari)	gvr
Gusii	guz
Haitian Creole	ht
Halbi (Devanagari)	hlb
Hani	hni
Haryanvi	bgc
Hawaiian	haw
Hebrew	he
Herero	hz
Hiligaynon	hil
Hindi	hi
Hmong Daw (Latin)	mww
Ho(Devanagiri)	hoc
Hungarian	hu
Iban	iba
Icelandic	is
Igbo	ig
Iloko	ilo
Inari Sami	smn
Indonesian	id
Ingush	inh
Interlingua	ia
Inuktitut (Latin)	iu
Irish	ga
Italian	it
Japanese	ja
Jaunsari (Devanagari)	Jns
Javanese	jv
Jola-Fonyi	dyo
Kabardian	kbd
Kabuverdianu	kea
Kachin (Latin)	kac
Kalenjin	kln
Kalmyk	xal
Kangri (Devanagari)	xnr
Kanuri	kr
Karachay-Balkar	krc
Kara-Kalpak (Cyrillic)	kaa-cyrl
Kara-Kalpak (Latin)	kaa
Kashubian	csb
Kazakh (Cyrillic)	kk-cyrl
Kazakh (Latin)	kk-latn
Khakas	kjh
Khaling	klr
Khasi	kha
K'iche'	quc
Kikuyu	ki
Kildin Sami	sjd
Kinyarwanda	rw
Komi	kv
Kongo	kg
Korean	ko
Korku	kfq
Koryak	kpy
Kosraean	kos
Kpelle	kpe
Kuanyama	kj
Kumyk (Cyrillic)	kum
Kurdish (Arabic)	ku-arab
Kurdish (Latin)	ku-latn

Language	Code (optional)
Kurukh (Devanagari)	kru
Kyrgyz (Cyrillic)	ky
Lak	lbe
Lakota	lkt
Latin	la
Latvian	lv
Lezghian	lex
Lingala	ln
Lithuanian	lt
Lower Sorbian	dsb
Lozi	loz
Lule Sami	smj
Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)	luo
Luxembourgish	lb
Luyia	luy
Macedonian	mk
Machame	jmc
Madurese	mad
Mahasu Pahari (Devanagari)	bfz
Makhuwa-Meetto	mgh
Makonde	kde
Malagasy	mg
Malay (Latin)	ms
Maltese	mt
Malto (Devanagari)	kmj
Mandinka	mnk
Manx	gv
Maori	mi
Mapudungun	arn
Marathi	mr
Mari (Russia)	chm
Masai	mas
Mende (Sierra Leone)	men
Meru	mer
Meta'	mgo
Minangkabau	min
Mohawk	moh
Mongolian (Cyrillic)	mn
Mongondow	mog
Montenegrin (Cyrillic)	cnr-cyrl
Montenegrin (Latin)	cnr-latn
Morisyen	mfe
Mundang	mua
Nahuatl	nah
Navajo	nv
Ndonga	ng
Neapolitan	nap
Nepali	ne
Ngomba	jgo
Niuean	niu
Nogay	nog
North Ndebele	nd
Northern Sami (Latin)	sme
Norwegian	no
Nyanja	ny
Nyankole	nyn
Nzima	nzi
Occitan	oc
Ojibwa	oj
Oromo	om
Ossetic	os
Pampanga	pam
Pangasinan	pag
Papiamento	pap
Pashto	ps
Pedi	nso
Persian	fa
Polish	pl
Portuguese	pt
Punjabi (Arabic)	pa
Quechua	qu
Ripuarian	ksh
Romanian	ro
Romansh	rm
Rundi	rn
Russian	ru

Language	Code (optional)
Rwa	rwk
Sadri (Devanagari)	sck
Sakha	sah
Samburu	saq
Samoan (Latin)	sm
Sango	sg
Sangu (Gabon)	snq
Sanskrit (Devanagari)	sa
Santali(Devanagiri)	sat
Scots	sco
Scottish Gaelic	gd
Sena	seh
Serbian (Cyrillic)	sr-cyrl
Serbian (Latin)	sr, sr-latn
Shambala	ksb
Shona	sn
Siksika	bla
Sirmauri (Devanagari)	srx
Skolt Sami	sms
Slovak	sk
Slovenian	sl
Soga	xog
Somali (Arabic)	so
Somali (Latin)	so-latn
Songhai	son
South Ndebele	nr
Southern Altai	alt
Southern Sami	sma
Southern Sotho	st
Spanish	es
Sundanese	su
Swahili (Latin)	sw
Swati	ss
Swedish	sv
Tabassaran	tab
Tachelhit	shi
Tahitian	ty
Taita	dav
Tajik (Cyrillic)	tg
Tamil	ta
Tatar (Cyrillic)	tt-cyrl
Tatar (Latin)	tt
Teso	teo
Tetum	tet
Thai	th
Thangmi	thf
Tok Pisin	tpi
Tongan	to
Tsonga	ts
Tswana	tn
Turkish	tr
Turkmen (Latin)	tk
Tuvan	tyv
Udmurt	udm
Uighur (Cyrillic)	ug-cyrl
Ukrainian	uk
Upper Sorbian	hsb
Urdu	ur
Uyghur (Arabic)	ug
Uzbek (Arabic)	uz-arab
Uzbek (Cyrillic)	uz-cyrl
Uzbek (Latin)	uz
Vietnamese	vi
Volapük	vo
Vunjo	vun
Walser	wae
Welsh	cy
Western Frisian	fy
Wolof	wo
Xhosa	xh
Yucatec Maya	yua
Zapotec	zap
Zarma	dje
Zhuang	za
Zulu	zu

Layout: handwritten text

Model ID: prebuilt-layout

The following table lists layout model language support for extracting and analyzing handwritten text.

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

General document

General document

Model ID: prebuilt-document

The following table lists general document model language support.

Model ID	Language—Locale code	Default
prebuilt-document	English (United States)—en-US	English (United States)—en-US

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