> ## Documentation Index
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> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Supported languages

> Learn which languages Reducto's OCR systems support

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.

## OCR systems overview

Reducto offers different OCR systems that can be specified using the [`ocr_system`](https://docs.reducto.ai/api-reference/parse#body-advanced-options-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.

## Languages supported by OCR system

### 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.

### Multilingual OCR system

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

#### 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

## 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](/v/legacy/parsing/ocr-options).