ABBYY Business Card Reader can capture contact data from business cards in the following languages*:
Chinese (simplified and traditional)
A Sino-Tibetan language. The official language of the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and one of the official languages of the Republic of Singapore. The mother tongue for over 1 billion people.
A West Slavic language. The official language of the Czech Republic, spoken also in Slovakia. The mother tongue for some 12 million people.
A Germanic (Scandinavian) language. The official language of Denmark, spoken also in Greenland and the Faroe Islands. The mother tongue for some 5.5 million people.
Dutch (Netherlands and Belgium)
A Germanic language. The official language of the Netherlands and Belgium. The mother tongue for some 20 million people.
A Germanic language. A major international language. A UN language. The official language of the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland (together with Irish), Australia, New Zealand, India (with temporary status) and 15 African states including the Republic of South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and some others. The mother tongue for some 508 million people. Spoken by some 1 billion people worldwide.
A Finno-Ugric (Baltic-Finnic) language. The official language of Estonia. The mother tongue for some 1.1 million people.
A Finno-Ugric (Baltic-Finnic) language. The official language of Finland, spoken also in Russia (Karelia and St. Petersburg Region) and Sweden. The mother tongue for some 6 million people.
A Romance language. A UN language. The official language of France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Monaco, Andorra, Canada, Haiti, and a number of African states: Benin, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Guinea, Zaire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Chad, Burundi, Rwanda, the Central African Republic, Madagascar, Cameroon, Seychelles, Comoros, Djibouti, Vanuatu (Oceania). The mother tongue for more than 128 million people.
A Germanic language. The official language of Germany, Austria, and Liechtenstein and one of the official languages of Switzerland, Luxemburg, and Belgium. The mother tongue for some 128 million people.
An Indo-European language forming its own group. The official language of Greece and Cyprus. The mother tongue for some 12 million people.
An Austronesian language called Malay (some scientists consider it to be a dialect of Malay) before 1945. The official language of Indonesia under the name Bahasa Indonesia, used also for international communication. The mother tongue for some 160 million people.
A Romance language. The official language of Italy. The mother tongue for some 70 million people.
The official language of Japan (130 million speakers). There also some speakers of Japanese in the USA (about 1 million speakers in Hawaii), Brazil, Peru, China, Canada, Argentine, Mexico, and some other countries. Links of Japanese with other languages have been a matter of scholarly debate. Currently most linguists link Japanese to the Altaic languages.
Presumably an Altaic language. Spoken throughout the Korean Peninsula and in China, Japan, USA, Russia and countries of Central Asia. The mother tongue for some 80 million people.
Norwegian (Nynorsk and Bokmal)
A Germanic (Scandinavian) language. The official language of Norway. The literary language exists in two forms — Nynorsk and Bokmal (the latter is closer to Danish). The mother tongue for some 5 million people.
A West Slavic language. The official language of Poland. The mother tongue for some 44 million people.
Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil)
A Romance language. The official language of Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome and Principe. The mother tongue for some 191 million people.
An East Slavic language. The official language of the Russian Federation, spoken also in all CIS and Baltic states. The mother tongue for some 277 million people.
A Romance language. The official language of Spain, all Latin American countries (save Brazil) and Equatorial Guinea. A UN language. The mother tongue for some 325 million people.
A Germanic (Scandinavian) language. The official language of Sweden and Finland. The mother tongue for some 10 million people.
A Turkic language. The official language of Turkey and Cyprus, spoken also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Iran, and Iraq. The mother tongue for some 61 million people.
An East Slavic language. The official language of Ukraine, spoken also in Russia and Byelorussia. The mother tongue for some 47 million people.
*Information about the number of speakers as of 2002.