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description: "Explore the extensive list of languages supported by our Android OCR library for accurate text recognition."
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# Discover supported languages for Android OCR

The Nutrient OCR component supports a wide range of languages, enabling precise text recognition based on linguistic characteristics such as ligatures, punctuation rules, and symbol variations. To ensure accurate text extraction, specify the language of the document during OCR configuration.

The following languages are supported across all platforms:

- Croatian

- Czech

- Danish

- Dutch

- English

- Finnish

- French

- German

- Indonesian

- Italian

- Malay

- Norwegian

- Polish

- Portuguese

- Serbian

- Slovak

- Slovenian

- Spanish

- Swedish

- Turkish

- Welsh

Languages aren’t region-specific. For example, English applies to both American English and British English.

If your required language isn’t listed, [contact Support](https://support.nutrient.io/hc/en-us/requests/new) for assistance.
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## Related pages

- [Integrating our OCR SDK into Android](/guides/android/ocr/getting-started.md)
- [Unlocking OCR capabilities for Android PDFs](/guides/android/ocr/overview.md)
- [How to OCR a PDF on Android](/guides/android/ocr/usage.md)