Supported Languages in PaddleOCR: A Complete Guide to 100+ Multilingual Models

PaddleOCR supports over 100 languages across its model families, including 80 languages in the base multilingual model, 106 in PP-OCRv5, and 109 in PaddleOCR-VL, configurable via the lang parameter in Python or --lang flag in CLI.

The PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR repository delivers production-grade optical character recognition for diverse global scripts. Understanding the supported languages in PaddleOCR is essential for accurate text recognition, as the framework handles Latin, Cyrillic, Asian, and right-to-left languages through specific abbreviation codes defined in the source documentation and character dictionaries.

Language Coverage by Model Generation

PaddleOCR organizes language support across multiple model families, with each generation expanding the number of available scripts.

PP-OCRv3 and PP-OCRv4 (80 Languages)

The core multilingual recognition models support 80 languages as documented in docs/version2.x/ppocr/blog/multi_languages.en.md. This baseline set covers major world languages including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, and numerous European and Indic scripts.

PP-OCRv5 (106 Languages)

The latest PP-OCRv5 generation expands coverage to 106 languages, adding support for additional Latin-script languages and low-resource dialects. The complete enumeration resides in docs/version3.x/algorithm/PP-OCRv5/PP-OCRv5_multi_languages.en.md.

PaddleOCR-VL (109 Languages)

The vision-language variant, PaddleOCR-VL, provides the broadest coverage with 109 languages, integrating multilingual capabilities with visual understanding as detailed in docs/version3.x/algorithm/PaddleOCR-VL/PaddleOCR-VL.en.md.

Language Abbreviation Reference Table

The following table presents the complete mapping of language names to their corresponding abbreviation codes used in the PaddleOCR API. These abbreviations are passed to the lang parameter in Python or the --lang flag in CLI commands.

Language	Abbreviation	Language	Abbreviation
Chinese & English	ch	Arabic	ar
English	en	Hindi	hi
French	fr	Uyghur	ug
German	german	Persian	fa
Japanese	japan	Urdu	ur
Korean	korean	Serbian (latin)	rs_latin
Chinese Traditional	chinese_cht	Occitan	oc
Italian	it	Marathi	mr
Spanish	es	Nepali	ne
Portuguese	pt	Serbian (cyrillic)	rs_cyrillic
Russian	ru	Bulgarian	bg
Ukrainian	uk	Estonian	et
Belarusian	be	Irish	ga
Telugu	te	Croatian	hr
Sanskrit	sa	Hungarian	hu
Tamil	ta	Indonesian	id
Afrikaans	af	Icelandic	is
Azerbaijani	az	Kurdish	ku
Bosnian	bs	Lithuanian	lt
Czech	cs	Latvian	lv
Welsh	cy	Maori	mi
Danish	da	Malay	ms
Maltese	mt	Adyghe	ady
Dutch	nl	Kabardian	kbd
Norwegian	no	Avar	ava
Polish	pl	Dargwa	dar
Romanian	ro	Ingush	inh
Slovak	sk	Lak	lbe
Slovenian	sl	Lezghian	lez
Albanian	sq	Tabassaran	tab
Swedish	sv	Bihari	bh
Swahili	sw	Maithili	mai
Tagalog	tl	Angika	ang
Turkish	tr	Bhojpuri	bho
Uzbek	uz	Magahi	mah
Vietnamese	vi	Nagpur	sck
Mongolian	mn	Newari	new
Abaza	abq	Goan Konkani	`gom

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