Azure Daily 2022 by Patrik

Public preview: OCR supports 164 languages in the Cognitive Services Computer Vision

Computer Vision's OCR (Read) API expands supported 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 to learn how to use the new preview features.