curl --request GET \
--url https://api.copyleaks.com/v3/miscellaneous/ocr-languages-list
from copyleaks.copyleaks import Copyleaks
# Public endpoint no authentication required.
languages = Copyleaks.ocr_supported_langauges()
print(languages)
["af", "sq", "az", "...", "zu"]
Miscellaneous
OCR Supported Languages
Get the list of languages the Copyleaks OCR engine supports for extracting text from images and scanned documents.
GET
/
v3
/
miscellaneous
/
ocr-languages-list
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.copyleaks.com/v3/miscellaneous/ocr-languages-list
from copyleaks.copyleaks import Copyleaks
# Public endpoint no authentication required.
languages = Copyleaks.ocr_supported_langauges()
print(languages)
["af", "sq", "az", "...", "zu"]
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.copyleaks.com/v3/miscellaneous/ocr-languages-list
from copyleaks.copyleaks import Copyleaks
# Public endpoint no authentication required.
languages = Copyleaks.ocr_supported_langauges()
print(languages)
["af", "sq", "az", "...", "zu"]
Response
OCR Supported Languages
These are the language codes supported by our OCR scan inISO-639-1 standard:
| Code | Language | Code | Language |
|---|---|---|---|
| af | Afrikaans | am | Amharic |
| ar | Arabic | az | Azerbaijani |
| be | Belarusian | bg | Bulgarian |
| bn | Bengali | bs | Bosnian |
| ca | Catalan | ceb | Cebuano |
| co | Corsican | cs | Czech |
| cy | Welsh | da | Danish |
| de | German | el | Greek |
| en | English | eo | Esperanto |
| es | Spanish | et | Estonian |
| eu | Basque | fa | Persian |
| fi | Finnish | fr | French |
| fy | Frisian | ga | Irish |
| gd | Scottish Gaelic | gl | Galician |
| gu | Gujarati | ha | Hausa |
| haw | Hawaiian | hi | Hindi |
| hmn | Hmong | hr | Croatian |
| ht | Haitian Creole | hu | Hungarian |
| hy | Armenian | id | Indonesian |
| ig | Igbo | is | Icelandic |
| it | Italian | iw | Hebrew |
| ja | Japanese | jw | Javanese |
| ka | Georgian | kk | Kazakh |
| km | Khmer | kn | Kannada |
| ko | Korean | ku | Kurdish |
| ky | Kyrgyz | la | Latin |
| lb | Luxembourgish | lo | Lao |
| lt | Lithuanian | lv | Latvian |
| ma | Marathi | mg | Malagasy |
| mi | Maori | mk | Macedonian |
| ml | Malayalam | mn | Mongolian |
| mr | Marathi | ms | Malay |
| mt | Maltese | my | Burmese |
| ne | Nepali | nl | Dutch |
| no | Norwegian | ny | Chichewa |
| pl | Polish | ps | Pashto |
| pt | Portuguese | ro | Romanian |
| ru | Russian | sd | Sindhi |
| si | Sinhala | sk | Slovak |
| sl | Slovenian | sm | Samoan |
| sn | Shona | so | Somali |
| sq | Albanian | sr | Serbian |
| st | Sesotho | su | Sundanese |
| sv | Swedish | sw | Swahili |
| ta | Tamil | te | Telugu |
| tg | Tajik | th | Thai |
| tl | Tagalog | tr | Turkish |
| uk | Ukrainian | ur | Urdu |
| uz | Uzbek | vi | Vietnamese |
| xh | Xhosa | yi | Yiddish |
| yo | Yoruba | zh-CN | Chinese (Simplified) |
| zh-TW | Chinese (Traditional) | zu | Zulu |
Frequently asked questions
What are OCR supported languages used for?
They apply only to OCR scans, where Copyleaks extracts text from images and scanned documents. This is not the general language list for plagiarism or AI detection.How do I get the current list of OCR languages?
CallGET https://api.copyleaks.com/v3/miscellaneous/ocr-languages-list. It is a public endpoint that needs no authentication. Copyleaks keeps adding languages, so load the list at runtime instead of hardcoding it.
What language code format does OCR use?
ISO-639-1 codes (for exampleen, fr, ar), with zh-CN for Simplified Chinese and zh-TW for Traditional Chinese.
Does OCR support non-Latin scripts like Arabic, Chinese, and Hindi?
Yes. The OCR engine supports 100+ languages, including Arabic (ar), Chinese (zh-CN, zh-TW), Hindi (hi), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), and many more.