List of languages in development

[rkcosmos]

I will update/edit this issue to track development process of new language. The current list is

Group 1 (Arabic script)

• Arabic (DONE, August, 5 2020)
• Uyghur (DONE, August, 5 2020)
• Persian (DONE, August, 5 2020)
• Urdu (DONE, August, 5 2020)

Group 2 (Latin script)

• Serbian-latin (DONE, July,12 2020)
• Occitan (DONE, July,12 2020)

Group 3 (Devanagari)

• Hindi (DONE, July,24 2020)
• Marathi (DONE, July,24 2020)
• Nepali (DONE, July,24 2020)
• Rajasthani (NEED HELP)
• Awadhi, Haryanvi, Sanskrit (if possible)

Group 4 (Cyrillic script)

• Russian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Serbian-cyrillic (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Bulgarian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Ukranian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Mongolian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Belarusian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Tajik (DONE, April,20 2021)
• Kyrgyz (NEED HELP)

Group 5

• Telugu (DONE, November,17 2020)
• Kannada (DONE, November,17 2020)

Group 6 (Language that doesn't share characters with others)

• Tamil (DONE, August, 10 2020)
• Hebrew (ready to train)
• Malayalam (ready to train)
• Bengali + Assamese (DONE, August, 23 2020)
• Punjabi (ready to train)
• Abkhaz (ready to train)

Group 7 (Improvement and possible extra models)

• Japanese version 2 (DONE, March, 21 2021)+ vertical text
• Chinese version2 (DONE, March, 21 2021)+ vertical text
• Korean version 2(DONE, March, 21 2021)
• Latin version 2 (DONE, March, 21 2021)
• Math + Greek?
• Number+symbol only

Guideline for new language request

To request a new language support, I need you to send a PR with 2 following files

1. In folder easyocr/character, we need 'yourlanguagecode_char.txt' that contains list of all characters. Please see format/example from other files in that folder.
2. In folder easyocr/dict, we need 'yourlanguagecode.txt' that contains list of words in your language. On average we have ~30000 words per language with more than 50000 words for popular one. More is better in this file.

If your language has unique elements (such as 1. Arabic: characters change form when attach to each other + write from right to left 2. Thai: Some characters need to be above the line and some below), please educate me with your best ability and/or give useful links. It is important to take care of the detail to achieve a system that really works.

Lastly, please understand that my priority will have to go to popular language or set of languages that share most of characters together (also tell me if your language share a lot of characters with other). It takes me at least a week to work for new model. You may have to wait a while for new model to be released.

[madrugado]

For group 4 you could add Ukrainian, Bulgarian, and may be Mongolian, although it is not Slavic it uses Cyrillic script.

[edloginova]

Do you plan to only work with human languages? It would be amazing to add a model to recognize mathematical formulas.

[manohar-cyber]

I guess Tamil, Telugu can be added to one group because they belongs to a language group called 'Dravidian'. Meaning they relate to each other in terms of grammar, word arrangement.Two other popular( in India) language, which belong to that family can also be added to that group— Kannada and Malayalam (For further info— https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages). Moreover Telugu and kannada share some common alphabets and words. I will be adding alphabet and words of kannada language for language request.
Great project, keep it up👍

[bgmastermind]

For Group 4
Bulgarian
dict bg.txt
char bg_char.txt

[upadhyayprakash]

I'd highly recomend supporting Devanagiri Script (Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari), which is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world. Please go through the wikipedia link to understand its wide spread usage across most Ancient Languages including Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Awadhi, Haryanvi.

I see you have included "Hindi" as a target language, which of course, is the most spoken language in the Indian Subcontinent.

If you could let me know what's the current word-count you have (maybe share the "dict" & "alphabets" directory), I can continue with the research to share more details about the Language as it's my First Language.

Hindi has 47 primary alphabets (including 14 Vowels & 33 Consonants).

You can contact me @ prakash.upadhyay93@yahoo.com

[arashjafari]

Can i help for the Persian (Farsi) language ? I can supply some popular words and characters

@rkcosmos

[junaidgirkar]

Can i contribute in any way. I am fluent in Hindi alongside English. Also I may be of help in the programming section. I know Python, C and Java in languages. Am good in front-end with HTML, CSS and JavaScript (basic).

[manmeet3591]

I recommend adding Punjabi language which is the 10th most spoken language around the world.
pb_char.txt

[rkcosmos]

@edloginova After doing human language, we can explore math as well.

@upadhyayprakash Lists are here easyocr/character and easyocr/dict

@arashjafari looks like we already have both words and char. You can recheck if everything is alright.

@junaidgirkar sounds good, I'll keep in mind. May call you for help.

[rahilwazir]

@rkcosmos Can we add support for the language Urdu? It is very similar with Persian and Arabic (not much complexities of arabic though).

[fnasim]

@rkcosmos For Group 1, could you please add Urdu to that group? Urdu is very similar to Arabic and Persian and I've just submitted the PR for the character list and a dictionary. So it should be ready to go!

cc: @rahilwazir

[loayamin]

This might help for Arabic:

https://github.com/OSINTAI/Arabic_Words

[sardasumit]

i added Marathi character and dictionary data set file please train it
mr.txt

[rkcosmos]

i added Marathi character and dictionary data set file please train it
mr.txt

@sardasumit did you forget a link for mr_char.txt?

[sardasumit]

i added Marathi character and dictionary data set file please train it
mr.txt

@sardasumit did you forget a link for mr_char.txt?

@rkcosmos it is same like Hindi character
mr_char.txt

[nishad]

@rkcosmos
Malayalam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malayalam), belongs to Group 6.
#143
This PR contains character and word lists.

[imvladikon]

Hi! Thanks for your work. Some notes about Hebrew, there are some ending form of letters (it means that some letter is changing their form if they are placed at the end of words) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_form Also there are diacritical signs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqqud that used to represent vowels or distinguish between alternative pronunciations of letters (in Arabic also there are final forms(and not only) and diacritical signs) I didn't provide diacritical signs, assume it's better to train first of all without them (usual writing consists from usual letters without diacritical signs)

[imvladikon]

remembered the important thing. in Hebrew, there is cursive(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive_Hebrew) and sometimes people mixed it up together with usual writing even using printed matter, it's the same letters (chars), but let's say it's another font (e.g. https://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/fonts/display-font-charmap.php?fnt=DorianCLM-Italic ) maybe it's also better not to implement immediately, don't know

[rkcosmos]

@nishad Malayalam and Tamil are both Dravidian but do not use the same script. So I have to build 2 model.
@imvladikon ok, will try to keep this in mind when building Hebrew model.

[rkcosmos]

Question for Indian: I'm looking into Hindi char and dict, there are a lot of chars seen in word list but not in char list. Examples are
['ा', '्', 'ि', 'ी', 'ं', 'ो', 'ु', 'ँ', 'ू', 'ड़', 'ै']. What are these symbols?

[Vijayabhaskar96]

@rkcosmos Those are part of the existing alphabet when combined it creates a new alphabet, I think the technical term is grapheme? I'm not sure. I would like to know they render fine or something happens like it did with Tamil.

[rkcosmos]

@Vijayabhaskar96 So far, Devanagari doesn't have any problem. They support unicode well.

[imvladikon]

another addition about Hebrew;) and it's important. some diacritic signs are important, like geresh and gershayim. using geresh with ג ז צ we could use for the sounds - j g, ch, that are not represented in the alphabet and double geresh (gershayim) it's for widely spread short phrase, words (kitsur) most famous is the תנ"ך (Tanakh). Sometimes people could use usual quotation marks (apostrophe) instead of typing geresh or gershayim (e.g. תנ''ך)

[DaniSubodh]

Hi @rkcosmos, really impressive work with the OCR framework.
I couldn't find a code for Greek language here, but I see (Greek + math) in the development list above. Do you know if the Greek language itself will be supported anytime soon?

[PhonVanna]

Hi @rkcosmos , really impressive work.
I am not sure whether you will add khmer language to it?

[JoeDelK]

Hi @rkcosmos,

We created a dictionary and dict_char for the greek language, you can find it here

[KarmaCST]

Can you add Dzongkha? Dzongkha is the national language of Bhutan and it is similar to the Tibetan Language. Similar to Thai language, it is written continuously from left to right and does not have a whitespace between words. Following paper discusses on next syllabus prediction for Dzongkha. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2021.01.001

[weihaulee]

Hi @rkcosmos,
Is there any plan to add English （vertical text） and digits （vertical text）?

Thanks in advance.

[vneseresearcher]

Hi @rkcosmos , Can you share the Japanese dataset you used to train? Thanks a lot!

[ajeetmishra]

Hi @rkcosmos. Thank you very much for the efforts you are taking. Is there a plan to include the Indian languages - Gujarati and Oriya ?

[amirashe]

hii @rkcosmos do you know if the hebrew will be ready soon? thnak a lot!

[FtmsdtHosseini]

Hello, @rkcosmos thank you for your great job.
I ran version 1.4.1 for Persian(Farsi), but the problem that I am facing is, Persian is written and read from right to left, but the model detects words from left to right. This confuses text detection and reduces the accuracy.
is there any solution to fix this issue?

[babraham123]

Hi @rkcosmos, thanks so much for all the work you've put in. I've included a PR for the Amharic language, which is spoken by over 60 million people.
#616

One potential issue is that Amharic words contain a number of prefixes and suffixes to indicate the object, number of items, tense, gender, negation and so. Thus, a single verb may morph in a number of ways that are not all included in the dictionary.

[babraham123]

Hi @rkcosmos, I also submitted a PR for the Tigrinya language, which is similar to Amharic and spoken by over 10 million people.
#615

It has the same mutation issue as Amharic. Also, Arabic numerals are very common despite having its own numeral system.

[98-Jane]

@rkcosmos Question: Why Chinese dict is pinning rather than Chinese? In the dict folder, cannot find the Chinese dict(not pinying)?How to achieve this mapping relationship? If I want to add some words in Chinese dict, how do I add training data and dict?

[reemastha706]

@rkcosmos is Greek language updated? I saw someone contributing for greek in the comment.

[Saranga99]

does easyocr support Sinhala language?

[amits-ds]

Hey, thank you for this Repo 🙏
Is there an update on a model for Hebrew OCR?

[minamohamadii]

i want use farsi language but i see it is not fine tune on 5 farsi and fine tune on 5 arabic
5 farsi = ۵
5 arabic = ٥
and it become a problem for me because it show me 0 in persian show me ٥ can you please improve farsi language ??? it help me so much

[ashudhatma]

For Group 3 (Devanagari)
Request to add Gujarati Language
gu.txt
gu_char.txt

[nmermigas]

Hey, I saw that the issue about the support of the greek language is completed and I can see the two required .txt documents about greek. However, I cannot find the greek language code ('gre' in the repo) in the list with the supported languages that is on the website. Is greek actually supported?

[haroon423]

urdu language not supported Easyocr model ?

[AinazRafiei]

I will update/edit this issue to track development process of new language. The current list is

Group 1 (Arabic script)

• Arabic (DONE, August, 5 2020)
• Uyghur (DONE, August, 5 2020)
• Persian (DONE, August, 5 2020)
• Urdu (DONE, August, 5 2020)

Group 2 (Latin script)

• Serbian-latin (DONE, July,12 2020)
• Occitan (DONE, July,12 2020)

Group 3 (Devanagari)

• Hindi (DONE, July,24 2020)
• Marathi (DONE, July,24 2020)
• Nepali (DONE, July,24 2020)
• Rajasthani (NEED HELP)
• Awadhi, Haryanvi, Sanskrit (if possible)

Group 4 (Cyrillic script)

• Russian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Serbian-cyrillic (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Bulgarian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Ukranian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Mongolian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Belarusian (DONE, July,29 2020)
• Tajik (DONE, April,20 2021)
• Kyrgyz (NEED HELP)

Group 5

• Telugu (DONE, November,17 2020)
• Kannada (DONE, November,17 2020)

Group 6 (Language that doesn't share characters with others)

• Tamil (DONE, August, 10 2020)
• Hebrew (ready to train)
• Malayalam (ready to train)
• Bengali + Assamese (DONE, August, 23 2020)
• Punjabi (ready to train)
• Abkhaz (ready to train)

Group 7 (Improvement and possible extra models)

• Japanese version 2 (DONE, March, 21 2021)+ vertical text
• Chinese version2 (DONE, March, 21 2021)+ vertical text
• Korean version 2(DONE, March, 21 2021)
• Latin version 2 (DONE, March, 21 2021)
• Math + Greek?
• Number+symbol only

Guideline for new language request

To request a new language support, I need you to send a PR with 2 following files

1. In folder easyocr/character, we need 'yourlanguagecode_char.txt' that contains list of all characters. Please see format/example from other files in that folder.
2. In folder easyocr/dict, we need 'yourlanguagecode.txt' that contains list of words in your language. On average we have ~30000 words per language with more than 50000 words for popular one. More is better in this file.

If your language has unique elements (such as 1. Arabic: characters change form when attach to each other + write from right to left 2. Thai: Some characters need to be above the line and some below), please educate me with your best ability and/or give useful links. It is important to take care of the detail to achieve a system that really works.

Lastly, please understand that my priority will have to go to popular language or set of languages that share most of characters together (also tell me if your language share a lot of characters with other). It takes me at least a week to work for new model. You may have to wait a while for new model to be released.

There is a misstake in name of Group 1.It has to be Persian scripts.If you search you will see that Persian is the mother language of others and the rest Arabic, Urdu and Uyghur were taken from it(Persian Language).

[bereket42]

Please let me know if Amharic or Tigrinya can be added, thanks! @AinazRafiei
#91 (comment)
#91 (comment)

[DanielVegaVega]

Hey, I saw that the issue about the support of the greek language is completed and I can see the two required .txt documents about greek. However, I cannot find the greek language code ('gre' in the repo) in the list with the supported languages that is on the website. Is greek actually supported?

@nmermigas looking for Greek as well. Could you find a way to "train" EasyOCR for it? Or is it something that the developer team must train?

[IordanisSap]

I am also looking for Greek.

[snimavat]

Gujarati language please

[danhertztech]

Any update on whether EasyOCR will be adding support for Hebrew, and if so, when? Thank you.

https://www.jaided.ai/easyocr/

[alexeyev]

Hi, made a pull request for Kyrgyz language: #1344

What are the next steps to help you move forward with it? Thanks.

[alexeyev]

@rkcosmos Also, can you clarify the status of the project please? Is it still alive? : )