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articles/cognitive-services/Computer-vision/language-support.md

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Computer Vision can recognize text in many languages.The [OCR](https://westus.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/5adf991815e1060e6355ad44/operations/56f91f2e778daf14a499e1fc) API and the [Read](https://aka.ms/computer-vision-v3-ref) API (v3.0) support several languages, and [Recognize Text](https://westus.dev.cognitive.microsoft.com/docs/services/5adf991815e1060e6355ad44/operations/587f2c6a154055056008f200) API only support English. See [Recognize printed and handwritten text](concept-recognizing-text.md) for more information on this functionality and the advantages of each API.
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The OCR and Read APIs automatically detect the language of the input material, so there is no need to specify a language code. Additionally, the language code for the detected language is always returned in the JSON response.
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The OCR and Read APIs do not require you to specify a language code.
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|Language| Language code | OCR API | Read API |
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articles/cognitive-services/Computer-vision/whats-new.md

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# What's new in Computer Vision
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Learn what's new in the service. These items may release notes, videos, blog posts, and other types of information. Bookmark this page to keep up-to-date with the service.
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Learn what's new in the service. These items may release notes, videos, blog posts, and other types of information. Bookmark this page to keep up to date with the service.
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## May 2020
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Computer Vision API v3.0 entered General Availability, which updates [Read API](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/concept-recognizing-text#read-api) for recognizing text:
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* Support for English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Portuguese
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* Improved accuracy
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* Confidence score for each extracted word
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* New output format
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## March 2020
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### Read API 3.0 preview
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You now have the option to use version 3.0 of the Read API to extract printed or handwritten text from images. Compared to earlier versions, 3.0 provides:
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* improved accuracy
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* new output format
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* confidence score for each extracted word
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* support for both Spanish and English languages with the additional language parameter
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* Improved accuracy
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* Support for both Spanish and English languages with the additional language parameter
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Follow an [Extract text quickstart](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/computer-vision/quickstarts/csharp-hand-text?tabs=version-3) to get starting using the 3.0 API.
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