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title: "OCR language support: Extract data in 100+ languages | Nutrient .NET SDK"
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description: "Explore the 100+ optical character recognition (OCR) languages supported by Nutrient .NET SDK. Find the language dictionaries you need for accurate text extraction in your C# applications."
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# Supported languages: 100+ OCR language dictionaries

Nutrient.NET SDK (formerly GdPicture.NET) includes the following language dictionaries for recognizing text with optical character recognition (OCR):

| Language           | Code |
| ------------------ | ---- |
| Arabic             | ara  |
| German             | deu  |
| English            | eng  |
| French             | fra  |
| Hebrew             | heb  |
| Italian            | ita  |
| Dutch, Flemish     | nld  |
| Portuguese         | por  |
| Spanish, Castilian | spa  |
| Vietnamese         | vie  |

To recognize languages not listed above, follow the steps below:

1. [Download the language files](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata) provided by the Tesseract team, which include more than 120 languages. To use previous language data files without long short-term memory (LSTM) engine use, [download a previous release](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tessdata/tree/3.04.00) provided by the Tesseract team.

2. Add the language files to the folder where your OCR dictionaries are already installed. The default language resources are located in `GdPicture.NET 14\Redist\OCR`.

3. Determine language names based on the language codes and the [Tesseract documentation](https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/).
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