OCR API: Six new OCR languages

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With the January 2025 OCR API update we added support for six new OCR languages to our OCR Engine 2:

  • Korean OCR
  • Japanese OCR
  • Russian OCR
  • Ukrainian OCR
  • Thai OCR
  • Vietnamese OCR

We also added vertical text recognition:

OCR vertical text recognition
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Important: To use the new OCR languages and vertical text recognition you need to use the language="auto" parameter in your API call. The reason for this is that only with language="auto" you use the updated OCR Engine 2 that contains the new languages. Remember to also select the OCR Engine 2 with the ocrengine=2 parameter.

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Nice features, thank you for continuing to improve your service. But seems these new features aren’t deployed to paid PRO endpoints, are they?

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Yes. We always deploy to the free endpoint first, and then, once all looks good and stable, update the PRO endpoints.

Having said that, things look good :slight_smile: → So we plan to update the PRO endpoints next week. I will update this forum post once it is done.

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The PRO2 endpoint has been updated. PRO1 will follow tomorrow.

pro2 ocr api
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The PRO1 endpoint has been updated, too. With this update, the rollout of this new feature is complete.