# Installing OCR Languages

> The default language of an OCR engine is English. This can be changed for any of the built-in engines by accessing the **Properties** panel and adding the name of the language between quotation marks, as seen in the screenshots below:

The default language of an OCR engine is English. This can be changed for any of the built-in engines by accessing the **Properties** panel and adding the name of the language between quotation marks, as seen in the screenshots below:

![docs image](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/activities/activities-docs-image-168749-e7f5cf13.webp)

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For the Tesseract OCR engine, the **Language** field needs to contain the language file prefix, such as “ron” for Romanian, “ita” for Italian, "jpn" for Japanese, and “fra” for French.
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![docs image](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/activities/activities-docs-image-167697-55d5a014.webp)

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ABBYY FineReader Engine includes the majority of supported OCR languages by default. They can be used right after a successful installation of the engine.
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![docs image](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/activities/activities-docs-image-167429-e7d28e09.webp)

The language for the Microsoft OCR engine can also be changed in a **Screen Scraping** activity when selecting “OCR” as the Scraping Method.

![docs image](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/activities/activities-docs-image-168440-1ee72de2.webp)

This can also be done for the Tesseract OCR engine.

![docs image](https://dev-assets.cms.uipath.com/assets/images/activities/activities-docs-image-167585-adb92699.webp)

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ABBYY OCR is not available in the default **Screen Scraping** window. You can change the language of the OCR engine by modifying the **Language** property.
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