ABBYY FineReader OCR - award-winning Optical Character Recognition software
Supported Languages
ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition supports 177 recognition languages.
Click a language name to display the language information. The data on the number of native speakers are as of the year 2002.
The distinctive feature of the main languages is that FineReader provides dictionary support for them. You may use the FineReader spelling check system for checking texts written in these languages.
An indo-european language forming its own group. Official language of Armenia, spoken also in Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia. The old literary armenian - Grabar – is now used exclusively as the language of the clergy. The modern literary language has two main varieties – Eastern (Yerevan), spoken in Armenia and Western, spoken in Near East and Western Europe. A mother tongue for some 7 million people.
A romance language (ibero-romance subgroup). A mother tongue for some 8 million people in Spain (Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic islands), France (Roussillon, East Pyrenees), Andorra and Sardinia island. One of the official languages of the above-stated spanish provinces and Andorra.
A south slavic language. It was considered to be the single Serbo-Croatian language as Serbian was, the main difference being in the spelling system used - cyrillic for Serbian and latin for Croatian. Official language of Croatia. A mother tongue for some 5 million people.
A gemanic (scandinavian) language. Official language of Denmark, spoken also in Greenland and Faroe islands. A mother tongue for some 5,5 million people.
A germanic language. The main international language. A UN language. The official language of USA, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland (officially second to Irish), Australia, New Zealand, India (on a temporary status) and 15 african states: Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda etc. A mother tongue for some 508 million people.
A finno-ugrig (baltic-finnic) language. Official language of Finland, spoken also in Russia (Karelia, St.Petersburg region), Sweden. A mother tongue for some 6 million people.
A romance language. A UN language. Official language of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Monaco, Andorra, Canada, Haiti, several african states: Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Zaire, Congo, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Tchad, Burundi, Rwanda, Central African Republic, Madagascar, Cameroon, Seychelles, Comoros, Jibuti, Vanuatu (Oceania). A mother tongue for more than 100 million people.
An ugric (uralic) language. Official language of Hungary, spoken also in nearby counties such as Jugoslavia, Austria, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine. A mother tongue for some 14,5 million people.
A germanic (scandinavian) language. Official language of Norway. The literary language exists in two forms: nynorsk and bokmal (the latter is more Danish). A mother tongue for some 5 million people.
A romance language. Official language of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe. A mother tongue for some 191 million people.
An east slavic language. Official language of Russian Federation, spoken also in all CIS states and baltic states. A mother tongue for some 277 million people.
A west slavic language. Official language of Slovakia, spoken also in nearby regions of Hungary, Romania and Ukraine. A mother tongue for some 5,6 million people.
A romance language. Official language of Spain, all Latin American countries (save Brazil) and Equatorial Guinea. A UN language. A mother tongue for some 417 million people.
A turkic language. Official language of Turkey and Cyprus, spoken also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Iran and Iraq. A mother tongue for some 61 million people.
A germanic language. One of the official languages of Republic of South Africa. A mother tongue for some 6,5 million South African afrikaners (boers) – descendants of Netherlands colonists.
An indo-european language forming its own group. Official language of Albania. A mother tongue for some 5 million people in Albania, Jugoslavia (Kosovo), Italy, Greece.
A quechumaran language (one of the languages of South America indians). One of the three official languages of Bolivia. A mother tongue for some 2,2 million aymara indians living in Peru and Bolivia. Most Aymara speakers speak also Quechua and Spanish. Some scientists prefer to treat Aymara not as a single language with some 10 dialects but as of Aymara language group.
A philippinean (austronesian) language. Spoken in central Philippines. Usually considered to be a group of closely related languages (bisayan). A mother tongue for some 24 million people.
An eskimo-aleut language. Spoken in south-east Chukchee peninsula (Russia), Alaska and nearby regions (USA), arctic regions of Canada, Greenland. A mother tongue for some 100 thousand people.
A manchu-tungus language spoken in China, Russia (from Yenisey to Sakhalin), Mongolia. A mother tongue for some 30 thousand people (in Russia – some 10 thousand).
A germanic (scandinavian) language. Official language of Faroe islands (autonomous Danish possession), spoken also in some other regions of Denmark. A mother tongue for some 47 thousand people.
A germanic language spoken in Noord-Holland and Friesland (Netherlands), North Frisian islands, Helgoland island, Saterland (Germany). A mother tongue for some 730 thousand people.
A romance language. Usually considered to be a rhaeto-romanic language. Spoken in Friuli-Venezia Giulia (Italy). A mother tongue for some 700 thousand people.
A sino-tibetan (lolo-burmish) language spoken in China, north Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. Also called Akha. A mother tongue for some 1 million people.
An austronesian language called Malay (some scientists consider it to be a dialect of Malay) before 1945. Official language of Indonesia under the name Bahasa Indonesia, used also for international communication. A mother tongue for some 160 million people.
An abkhazo-adyghian (caucasian) language spoken in Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, North Ossetia (Mozdok), Adyghea and nearby regions of Krasnodar and Stavropol regions. A mother tongue for some 300 thousand people.
A turkic language (some prefer to consider this language to be made up of two separate, but closely related Karachay and Balkar languages) spoken in Russia (Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia). A mother tongue for some 200 thousand people.
A west iranian language. The second official language of Iraq. Spoken in Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria, CIS states (kurdish diaspora). A mother tongue for some 20 million people.
A common name for two closely related languages – Plain Mari and Mountain Mari. Spoken in Russia (Mari El, Tatariya). A finno-ugric (uralic) language. A mother tongue for some 600 thousand people.
A common name for two closely related languages: Moksha-Mordvin and Erzya-Mordvin. A volga-finnic (uralic) language. Spoken in Russia (Mordvinia). A mother tongue for some 1 million people.
A quechumaran language. One of the official languages of Peru and Bolivia, spoken also in Equador and north Colombia, Chile and Argentina. A mother tongue for some 7-13 million indians.
A bantu language. One of the official languages of Rwanda, spoken also in Burundi, Zaire, Uganda and Tanzania. A mother tongue for some 12 million people.
A west slavic language. Usually considered to be made up of two languages - Upper Sorbian and Lower Sorbian. Spoken in Germany (Saxony). A mother tongue for some 100 thousand people.
A bantu language. The main language of international communication (the commercial lingua franca) in central and east Africa (particularly in Tanzania and Kenya). Official language of Uganda. A mother tongue for some 10-50 million people.
A polynesian (austronesian) language. Official language of French Polynesia, spoken also in New Caledonia and Vanuatu. A mother tongue for some 117 thousand people.
A polynesian (austronesian) language. Official language of Tonga, spoken also in New Zealand, Fiji, Western Samoa. A mother tongue for some 120 thousand people.
A bantu language. Spoken in Botswana and Republic of South Africa. One of the official languages of Botswana. A mother tongue for some 4 million people.
A Niger-Congo language (west atlantic branch). Official language of Senegal, spoken also in Gambia and Mauritania. A mother tongue for some 7 million people.
The most popular artificial language introduced by L.L.Zamenhoff in 1887. Spoken in 83 countries worldwide by some 100000 people, some 30000 books had been published in Esperanto.
Introduced in 1903 by a famous mathematician Giuseppe Peano, reworked in mid XX century by a linguist A.Gode. Some scientific journals publish abstracts in Interlingua.
BASIC (for Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), a programming language developed in the mid-1960s by John G. Kemeney and Thomas E. Kurz, professors at Dartmouth college, New Hampshire, USA.
A programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis M. Ritchie, a system programmer at @ "AT&T Bell laboratories". The ?++ language was introduced by Bjarne Stroustrup of the same "AT&T Bell laboratories" in the early 1980s. The name denotes the evolution from ?.
Java is an evolution of Oak programming language, introduced in 1995 by Sun Microsystems. Jave syntax is much like C++. Java is used for writing Internet applications.
A programming language named in the honour of the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal, developed by Niklaus Wirth of the Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland, in the late 1960s.
