PSIcapture Documentation: OCR: Language Recognition

Question:

Does OCR pick up characters like Chinese, Japanese, etc. when it searches? Or just languages that use the English alphabet?

Answer:

The RecoStar engine is built to extract latin based languages. Chinese and Japanese characters will not be recognized. If they are written with a latin type font they will be recognized.

The OmniPage OCR engine has different and more complex recognition capabilities, which include some Asian languages as well as many more.

For a full list of languages supported by OmniPage, see:

https://docshield.tungstenautomation.com/KTA/en_US/7.8.0-dpm5ap0jk8/help/TD/ProjectBuilder/150_ProjectBuilder/LanguageandCountrySettings/c_FineReaderOmniPageandRecoStarSupportedLanguages.html