# OCR languages: what’s the point of the combined-languages options, e.g. Japanese and English?

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ABBYY provided combined languages in older versions of their OCR, these were removed in ABBYY v12. DT3 will still support these by converting them to a primary and secondary language, i.e.

Selected Language: Japanese and English  
Primary: Japanese  
Secondary: English

The only time this is not the case is if you are running on macOS 10.11 where DT will use ABBYY v11.

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