Language support for Azure AI Vision

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

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

The Azure AI 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.

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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

Print 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	✅