Recognition languages
To recognize text in certain languages, you must install additional recognition models:
- Cyrillic text recognition: aspose-ocr-cyrillic-v1
- Chinese text recognition: aspose-ocr-chinese-v2
- Indic (Devanagari) text recognition: aspose-ocr-hindi-v2
- Arabic text recognition: aspose-ocr-arabic-v1
- Persian (Farsi) text recognition: aspose-ocr-arabic-v1
- Uyghur text recognition: aspose-ocr-arabic-v1
- Urdu text recognition: aspose-ocr-arabic-v1
- Japanese text recognition: aspose-ocr-japanese-v1
- Korean text recognition: aspose-ocr-korean-v1
- Kannada text recognition: aspose-ocr-kannada-v1
- Tamil text recognition: aspose-ocr-tamil-v1
- Telugu text recognition: aspose-ocr-telugu-v1
- Mixed-language Cyrillic/English recognition: aaspose-ocr-cyrillic-v2
- Mongolian text recognition: aspose-ocr-cyrillic-v1
Aspose.OCR for Python via .NET can recognize a text in a large number of languages and all popular writing scripts, including texts with mixed languages.
To specify a language for recognition, provide one of the following values in language property of recognition settings:
| Value | Alphabet |
|---|---|
Language.MULTILANGUAGEAspose.OCR.Language.AUTOAspose.OCR.Language.UNIVERSAL |
Automatically detects the language. Supports multiple language families, including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese and more. |
Language.EXT_LATIN |
Auto-detect all supported Latin characters and diacritics |
Language.CYRILLIC |
Auto-detect all supported Cyrillic characters |
Language.CHINESE |
All Chinese languages. Mixed-language Chinese/English texts also supported. |
Language.DEVANAGARILanguage.INDIC |
Indic texts based on Devanagari script, including mixed Devanagari/English texts. |
Language.EUROPEAN |
Mixed-language Cyrillic/English texts (experimental). |
Language.PERSO_ARABICLanguage.ISLAMIC |
Mixed-language texts with Arabic, Persian and English. |
Language.AFR | Afrikaans
Language.ALN | Albanian
Language.ARA | Arabic, including texts in mixed Arabic/English
Language.AWA | Awadhi
Language.AZB | Azerbaijani (Azeri)
Language.BCL | Bikol
Language.BEL | Belarusan (Belorussian)
Language.BEM | Bemba (Chibemba)
Language.BEW | Betawi
Language.BGC | Haryanvi
Language.BHO | Bhojpuri
Language.BHR | Malagasy
Language.BJJ | Kanauji
Language.BOS | Bosnian
Language.BUL | Bulgarian
Language.CAT | Catalan
Language.CCX | Zhuang
Language.CDO | Min Dong
Language.CEB | Cebuano
Language.CES | Czech
Language.CHE | Chechen
Language.CMN | Mandarin (Chinese)
Language.CPX | Pu-Xian
Language.DAN | Danish
Language.DEU | German
Language.DHD | Dhundari
Language.DIQ | Dimli
Language.DOC | Dong
Language.ENG | English
Language.EST | Estonian
Language.FIN | Finnish
Language.FRA | French
Language.GAN | Gan
Language.GAX | Oromo
Language.GBM | Garhwali
Language.GLG | Galician
Language.GLK | Gilaki
Language.GUZ | Gusii
Language.HAK | Hakka
Language.HAU | Hausa
Language.HBS | Serbo-Croatian (Latin)
Language.HIL | Hiligaynon
Language.HIN | Hindi
Language.HMN | Hmong
Language.HNE | Chattisgarhi (Laria, Khaltahi)
Language.HRV | Croatian
Language.HSN | Xiang
Language.HUN | Hungarian (Magyar)
Language.ILO | Ilocano
Language.IND | Indonesian
Language.ITA | Italian
Language.JPN | Japanese (mixed texts in Japanese and English are also supported)
Language.KAN | Mixed-language Kannada/English texts.
Language.KAZ | Kazakh
Language.KBD | Kabardian
Language.KFY | Kumauni
Language.KIN | Rwanda
Language.KLN | Nandi
Language.KMR | Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Language.KNC | Kanuri
Language.KNN | Konkani
Language.KON | Kikongo
Language.KOR | Korean (mixed texts in Korean and English are also supported)
Language.LATIN | Latin
Language.LAV | Latvian
Language.LIT | Lithuanian
Language.LMN | Lamani (Lambadi)
Language.LNC | Occitan
Language.LUO | Luo
Language.MAG | Magahi
Language.MAI | Maithili
Language.MAK | Makassar (Makasar)
Language.MAR | Marathi
Language.MER | Meru
Language.MIN | Minangkabau
Language.MLY | Malay (Melayu)
Language.MNP | Min Bei
Language.MON | Mongolian
Language.MTQ | Muong
Language.MTR | Mewari
Language.MUI | Musi
Language.MUP | Malvi
Language.NAN | Min Nan
Language.NBL | Ndebele
Language.NDS | Low German
Language.NEP | Nepali
Language.NLD | Dutch
Language.NOR | Norwegian
Language.NSO | Sotho (Northern)
Language.NYA | Chichewa (Chewa, Nyanja)
Language.PAG | Pangasinan
Language.PAM | Kapampangan
Language.PCC | Bouyei (Buyi, Giáy)
Language.PES | Persian (Farsi), including texts in mixed Persian/English
Language.PLM | Palembang
Language.POL | Polish
Language.POR | Portuguese
Language.QUC | K’iche'
Language.QXA | Quechua
Language.RJB | Rajbanshi
Language.RON | Romanian
Language.RUF | Luguru
Language.RUS | Russian
Language.RWR | Marwari
Language.SAS | Sasak
Language.SLK | Slovak
Language.SLV | Slovene (Slovenian)
Language.SNA | Shona (Karanga)
Language.SOM | Somali
Language.SOT | Sotho (Southern)
Language.SPA | Spanish
Language.SRP | Serbian (Cyrillic)
Language.SRR | Serer-Sine
Language.SSW | Swati (Swazi)
Language.SUK | Sukuma
Language.SUN | Sundanese (Sunda)
Language.SWE | Swedish
Language.SWH | Swahili
Language.TAM | Mixed-language Tamil/English texts.
Language.TEL | Mixed-language Telugu/English texts.
Language.TGL | Tagalog (Pilipino)
Language.TOI | Tonga
Language.TSN | Tswana
Language.TSO | Tsonga
Language.TUK | Turkmen
Language.TUM | Tumbuka
Language.TUR | Turkish
Language.UIG | Uyghur, including texts in mixed Uyghur/English
Language.UKR | Ukrainian
Language.UMB | Umbundu
Language.URD | Urdu, including texts in mixed Urdu/English
Language.VIE | Vietnamese
Language.VMW | Makua (Makhuwa)
Language.WAL | Wolaytta
Language.WAR | Waray-Waray
Language.WBR | Wagdi
Language.WTM | Mewati
Language.WUU | Wu (Changzhou)
Language.XHO | Xhosa
Language.YAO | Yao
Language.YOR | Yoruba
Language.YUE | Cantonese
Language.ZUL | Zulu
If this parameter is omitted, the OCR engine will assume that the text is written in extended Latin.
Language.ENG, only the characters that look the same in both languages (for example, с and c) will be correctly recognized. Other characters will be replaced with similar-looking alternatives.
Example
The following code sample demonstrates how to specify the recognition language:
# Instantiate Aspose.OCR API
api = AsposeOcr()
# Add image to the recognition batch
input = OcrInput(InputType.SINGLE_IMAGE)
input.add("source.png")
# Recognize Ukrainian text
recognitionSettings = RecognitionSettings()
recognitionSettings.language = Language.UKR
# Recognize the image
result = api.recognize(input, recognitionSettings)
# Print recognition result
print(result[0].recognition_text)
input("Press Enter to continue...")