Policy

Select OCR language

Microsoft Windows

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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Windows Components > Search > OCR
Supported on
At least Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10

Supported OS tags: Windows10, WindowsServer2016

This policy setting allows selection of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) language. If you enable this policy setting, the selected OCR language is used in OCR processing during the indexing of TIFF files. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the default system language is used. Re-indexing is not initiated when you enable this policy and select the OCR language. This policy setting only applies to indexing of new files, unless re-indexing is initiated manually.

Internal name
SelectOCRLangs
Policy ID
51f60666f230
Elements
1

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

No explicit registry values are set for enabled or disabled states.

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

ScopeElementTypeRegistry mappingConstraints & behaviorCopy
Computer
Choose one of the following OCR languages:
ID SelectOcrLanguage
enum
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
Value name
SelectedOcrLanguage
Type
REG_SZ
Options: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (Latin) (bs-latn-ba), Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Slovenian (sl), Czech (cs), Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl) … +22 more
Choose one of the following OCR languages:
Computer · Type enum
Registry mapping
Path
SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
Value name
SelectedOcrLanguage
Type
REG_SZ
Details
Options: Arabic (ar), Bosnian (Latin) (bs-latn-ba), Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Slovenian (sl), Czech (cs), Hungarian (hu), Polish (pl) … +22 more