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title: "Supported languages for the iOS OCR library"
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description: "Discover the supported languages for OCR on iOS with the Nutrient iOS OCR library. Enable accurate text recognition in multiple languages for scanned PDFs and images. Check out the complete list of available languages."
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# Supported languages for the iOS OCR library

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

- [Integrate OCR capabilities into your iOS app](/guides/ios/ocr/getting-started.md)
- [How to perform OCR on a PDF in iOS](/guides/ios/ocr/usage.md)
- [iOS OCR library](/guides/ios/ocr/overview.md)