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Reducto’s OCR systems support a wide variety of languages across different writing systems. The language support varies depending on which OCR system you choose.

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OCR systems overview

Reducto offers different OCR systems that can be specified using the ocr_system parameter in the advanced options:
  • highres: Optimized for documents with English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, and German text.
  • multilingual: Supports a comprehensive set of languages from around the world.
  • combined: Uses a combination of OCR systems for improved results for multilingual documents at a small latency cost.

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Languages supported by OCR system

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Highres OCR system

The highres OCR system is optimized for the following languages:
  • English
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • French
  • German
This system provides high-quality OCR results for documents primarily in these languages.

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Multilingual OCR system

The multilingual OCR system supports a much wider range of languages, categorized by their level of support:

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Fully supported languages

The following languages are prioritized and regularly evaluated for quality: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Belarusian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Yiddish

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Choosing the right OCR system

  • Use highres for documents primarily in English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, or German.
  • Use multilingual for documents containing languages beyond those supported by highres.
For more information on OCR options, see the OCR Options documentation.