Multi-Language OCR: Extract Text in Spanish, French, Chinese

Multi-language OCR is essential for international documents, travel photos, and multilingual PDFs. The biggest factor in accuracy is language selection.

Best practices for Spanish OCR

• Select Spanish to handle accents (á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ).
• Use high contrast to avoid losing diacritics.

Best practices for French OCR

• Enable French to recognize accents and ligatures.
• Watch for common confusions: l vs I in serif fonts.

Best practices for Chinese OCR

• Use higher resolution (small strokes require clarity).
• Avoid compression artifacts—PNG works well.
• Consider splitting dense pages into smaller sections.

Mixed-language documents

If a page contains multiple languages, choose a tool that supports multi-language recognition. Otherwise, OCR the document in passes and merge results.

With the right settings, multi-language OCR can be accurate even for complex scripts.