diff --git a/owocr/config.py b/owocr/config.py
index 018e05f..c99a4d6 100644
--- a/owocr/config.py
+++ b/owocr/config.py
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ parser.add_argument('-sw', '--screen_capture_only_active_windows', type=str2bool
                     help="When reading with screen capture and screen_capture_area is a window name, only target the window while it's active.")
 parser.add_argument('-sc', '--screen_capture_combo', type=str, default=argparse.SUPPRESS,
                     help='When reading with screen capture, combo to wait on for taking a screenshot instead of using the delay. As an example: "<ctrl>+<shift>+s". The list of keys can be found here: https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/keyboard.html#pynput.keyboard.Key')
+parser.add.argument('-l', '--language', type=str, default=argparse.SUPPRESS,
+                    help='Two letter language code for filtering screencapture OCR results. Ex. "ja" for Japanese, "zh" for Chinese, "ko" for Korean, "ar" for Arabic, "ru" for Russian, "el" for Greek, "he" for Hebrew, "th" for Thai. Any other value will use Latin Extended (for most European languages and English).')
 
 class Config:
     has_config = False
@@ -76,7 +78,8 @@ class Config:
         'screen_capture_delay_secs': 3,
         'screen_capture_only_active_windows': True,
         'screen_capture_combo': '',
-        'screen_capture_old_macos_api': False
+        'screen_capture_old_macos_api': False,
+        'language': 'ja'
     }
 
     def __parse(self, value):
diff --git a/owocr/run.py b/owocr/run.py
index 6e8c219..e8823bf 100644
--- a/owocr/run.py
+++ b/owocr/run.py
@@ -299,10 +299,11 @@ class RequestHandler(socketserver.BaseRequestHandler):
 class TextFiltering:
     accurate_filtering = False
 
-    def __init__(self):
+    def __init__(self, lang='ja'):
         from pysbd import Segmenter
-        self.segmenter = Segmenter(language='ja', clean=True)
-        self.kana_kanji_regex = re.compile(r'[\u3041-\u3096\u30A1-\u30FA\u4E00-\u9FFF]')
+        self.segmenter = Segmenter(language=lang, clean=True)
+        self.regex = self.get_regex(lang)
+
         try:
             from transformers import pipeline, AutoTokenizer
             import torch
@@ -325,13 +326,35 @@ class TextFiltering:
         except:
             import langid
             self.classify = langid.classify
+            
+    def get_regex(self, lang):
+        if lang == 'ja':
+            return re.compile(r'[\u3041-\u3096\u30A1-\u30FA\u4E00-\u9FFF]')
+        elif lang == 'zh':
+            return re.compile(r'[\u4E00-\u9FFF]')
+        elif lang == 'ko':
+            return re.compile(r'[\uAC00-\uD7AF]')
+        elif lang == 'ar':
+            return re.compile(r'[\u0600-\u06FF\u0750-\u077F\u08A0-\u08FF\uFB50-\uFDFF\uFE70-\uFEFF]')
+        elif lang == 'ru':
+            return re.compile(r'[\u0400-\u04FF\u0500-\u052F\u2DE0-\u2DFF\uA640-\uA69F\u1C80-\u1C8F]')
+        elif lang == 'el':
+            return re.compile(r'[\u0370-\u03FF\u1F00-\u1FFF]')
+        elif lang == 'he':
+            return re.compile(r'[\u0590-\u05FF\uFB1D-\uFB4F]')
+        elif lang == 'th':
+            return re.compile(r'[\u0E00-\u0E7F]')
+        else:
+            # Latin Extended regex for many European languages/English
+            return re.compile(
+            r'[a-zA-Z\u00C0-\u00FF\u0100-\u017F\u0180-\u024F\u0250-\u02AF\u1D00-\u1D7F\u1D80-\u1DBF\u1E00-\u1EFF\u2C60-\u2C7F\uA720-\uA7FF\uAB30-\uAB6F]')
 
     def __call__(self, text, last_result):
         orig_text = self.segmenter.segment(text)
-
         orig_text_filtered = []
         for block in orig_text:
-            block_filtered = self.kana_kanji_regex.findall(block)
+            block_filtered = self.regex.findall(block)
+
             if block_filtered:
                 orig_text_filtered.append(''.join(block_filtered))
             else:
@@ -352,12 +375,13 @@ class TextFiltering:
             detection_results = self.pipe(new_blocks, top_k=3, truncation=True)
             for idx, block in enumerate(new_blocks):
                 for result in detection_results[idx]:
-                    if result['label'] == 'ja':
+                    if result['label'] == self.language:
                         final_blocks.append(block)
                         break
         else:
             for block in new_blocks:
-                if self.classify(block)[0] in ('ja', 'zh'):
+                # This only looks at language IF language is ja or zh, otherwise it keeps all text
+                if self.language not in ["ja", "zh"] or self.classify(block)[0] in ['ja', 'zh'] or block == "\n":
                     final_blocks.append(block)
 
         text = '\n'.join(final_blocks)
diff --git a/owocr_config.ini b/owocr_config.ini
index 386ca1a..f12869b 100644
--- a/owocr_config.ini
+++ b/owocr_config.ini
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
 ;note: this specifies a combo to wait on for taking a screenshot instead of using the delay. As an example: <ctrl>+<shift>+s. The list of keys can be found here: https://pynput.readthedocs.io/en/latest/keyboard.html#pynput.keyboard.Key
 ;screen_capture_combo = <ctrl>+<shift>+s
 ;screen_capture_old_macos_api = False
+;language = ja
+;language = zh
+;note: This specifies the language to use for text filtering while using "screencapture". Valid values: ja: (Japanese) zh: (Chinese) ko: (Korean) ar: (Arabic) ru: (Russian) el: (Greek) he: (Hebrew) th: (Thai)
+;Any other value will use Latin Extended (for most European languages and English).
 ;[winrtocr]
 ;url = http://aaa.xxx.yyy.zzz:8000
 ;[oneocr]