# Reference: Languages supported with OCR captions
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Following is a list of world languages that are supported in source captions when Elemental Live uses [OCR translation](support-for-ocr.md) to convert the source captions to the output format. 

Afrikaans

 Amharic

 Arabic

 Assamese

 Azerbaijani

 Azerbaijani - Cyrillic

 Belarusian

 Bengali

 Tibetan

 Bosnian

 Bulgarian

 Catalan; Valencian

 Cebuano

 Czech

 Chinese - Simplified

 Chinese - Simplified Vertical

 Chinese - Traditional

 Chinese - Traditional Vertical

 Cherokee

 Welsh

 Danish

 German

 Dzongkha

 Greek, Modern (1453-)

 English

 English, Middle (1100-1500)

 Esperanto

 Estonian

 Basque

 Persian

 Finnish

 French

 German Fraktur

 French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)

 Irish

 Galician 

 Greek, Ancient (-1453)

 Gujarati

 Haitian; Haitian Creole

 Hebrew

 Hindi

 Croatian

 Hungarian

 Inuktitut

 Indonesian

 Icelandic

 Italian

 Italian - Old

 Javanese

 Japanese

 Japanese Vertical

 Kannada

 Georgian

 Georgian - Old

 Kazakh

 Central Khmer

 Kirghiz; Kyrgyz

 Korean

 Korean Vertical

 Lao

 Latin

 Latvian

 Lithuanian

 Malayalam

 Marathi

 Macedonian

 Maltese

 Malay

 Burmese

 Nepali

 Dutch; Flemish

 Norwegian

 Oriya

 Panjabi; Punjabi

 Polish

 Portuguese

 Pushto; Pashto

 Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan

 Russian

 Sanskrit

 Sinhala; Sinhalese

 Slovak

 Slovenian

 Spanish; Castilian

 Spanish; Castilian - Old

 Albanian

 Serbian

 Serbian - Latin

 Swahili

 Swedish

 Syriac

 Tamil

 Telugu

 Tajik

 Thai

 Tigrinya

 Turkish

 Uighur; Uyghur

 Ukrainian

 Urdu

 Uzbek

 Uzbek - Cyrillic

 Vietnamese