Public preview: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision
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Computer Vision's [OCR (Read) API](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/overview-ocr) expands [supported languages](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/language-support#handwritten-languages) to 164 with its latest preview:
* OCR support for print text expands to 42 new languages including Arabic, Hindi and other languages using Arabic and Devanagari scripts.
* OCR support for handwritten text expands to Japanese and Korean in addition to English, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
* Enhancements include improved support for extracting handwritten dates, amounts, names, and single character boxes.
* General performance and AI quality improvements.
See the [OCR how-to guide](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/vision-api-how-to-topics/call-read-api#specify-the-ocr-model) to learn how to use the new preview features.
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