

V3.04, released in July 2015, added an additional 39 language/script combinations, bringing the total count of support languages to over 100. New languages included Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, German (Fraktur script), Greek, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak (standard and Fraktur script), Slovenian, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese. Arabic, Hebrew) languages, as well as many more scripts. Version 3 extended language support significantly to include ideographic (Chinese & Japanese) and right-to-left (e.g.

Tesseract v2 added six additional Western languages (French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch).

The initial versions of Tesseract could only recognize English-language text.
