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UWP OcrEngine does not support Ukrainian language

123244 185 Reputation points
2025-08-15T12:52:16.26+00:00

Hello. I am working with OcrEngine from the "Windows.Media.Ocr" namespace in UWP.

It seems that this engine has a limited number of languages it supports. My app includes Ukrainian in the list of available languages, which apparently is not supported at all.

Maybe you know what options I have to enable the support of Ukrainian?

From the AI review, it seems that the language is indeed not on the list and it may be worth using an alternative. If you are also familiar with possible alternatives, I would be glad to check out other options.

Thank you.

Developer technologies | Universal Windows Platform (UWP)
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  1. Harry Vo (WICLOUD CORPORATION) 1,315 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2025-08-20T03:21:11.81+00:00

    Hi @123244 thank you for reaching out on Microsoft Q&A!

    I'm sorry Ukrainian is not a support language.

    The Windows OCR engine supports 25 languages, including Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin), Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, and Turki - and unfortunately, Ukrainian is not included.

    You can also retrieve the list of language that supported by run this command in PowerShell as Administrator: 

    Get-WindowsCapability -Online | Where-Object { $_.Name -Like 'Language.OCR*' }

    However, you can use Azure AI Vision, a cloud-based OCR, as an alternative. This document provide the list of language that supports, including Ukrainian. You can learn more here.

    I hope this helps you get things back on track quickly! If my suggestions can solve your issue, feel free to interact with the system accordingly!

    Thank you!

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