Generally available: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

Computer Vision's [OCR (Read) API](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/overview-ocr) 2022 model with [164 supported languages](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/language-support) is now generally available as a cloud service and Docker container. * Support for 164 languages including Russian, Arabic, Hindi and other languages using Cyrillic, Arabic, and Devanagari scripts. * Support for 9 languages with English, Chinese Simplified, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. * Enhanced support for single characters, handwritten dates, amounts, names, other entities commonly found in receipts and invoices. * Improved processing of digital PDF documents and Input file size limit increased to 500 MB. * Performance and latency improvements. * Available as [cloud service](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/overview-ocr#read-api) and [Docker container](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/computer-vision-how-to-install-containers). To learn more, [get started](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/vision-api-how-to-topics/call-read-api#specify-the-ocr-model) with the new OCR features. * Computer Vision * Azure Cognitive Services * Features * [ Azure Cognitive Services](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/products/cognitive-services/)