Languages Recognized by ActivePDF OCR


The standard license for ActivePDF OCR includes support for character recognition in 120 languages.


If you purchased the additional Asian Language Pack Add-On, six more languages are recognized:

  • Arabic
  • Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
  • Korean
  • Japanese
  • Thai


For instructions on how to select a language for character recognition during the OCR process, see this topic in the online OCR User Guide:


The Watch Folder Profiles Page: Character Recognition Tab


Languages included in the standard license of ActivePDF OCR



Afrikaans



Maori



Albanian



Mayan



Aymara



Miao



Basque



Minankabaw



Bemba



Mohawk



Blackfoot



Moldavian



Breton



Nahuatl



Bugotu



Norwegian



Bulgarian



Nyanja



Byelorussian



Occidental



Catalan



Ojibway



Chamorro



Papiamento



Chechen



Pidgin English



Corsican



Polish



Croatian



Portuguese



Crow



Portuguese (Brazilian)



Czech



Provencal



Danish



Quechua



Dutch



Rhaetic



English



Romanian



Esperanto



Romany



Estonian



Ruanda



Faroese



Rundi



Fijian



Russian



Finnish



Sami



French



Sami Lule



Frisian



Sami Northern



Friulian



Sami Southern



Gaelic (Irish)



Samoan



Gaelic (Scottish)



Sardinian



Galician



Serbian (Cyrillic)



Ganda/Luganda



Serbian (Latin)



German



Shona



Greek



Sioux



Guarani



Slovak



Hani



Slovenian



Hawaiian



Somali



Hungarian



Sorbian



Icelandic



Sotho



Ido



Spanish



Indonesian



Sundanese



Interlingua



Swahili



Inuit



Swazi



Italian



Swedish



Kabardian



Tagalog



Kasub



Tahitian



Kawa



Tinpo



Kikuyu



Tongan



Kongo



Tswana



Kpelle



Tun



Kurdish



Turkish



Latin



Ukrainian



Latvian



Visayan



Lithuanian



Welsh



Luba



Wolof



Luxembourgian



Xhosa



Macedonian



Zapotec



Malagasy



Zulu



Malay



 



Malinke



 



Maltese