Select OCR language

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.

Supported on: At least Windows 10 Server or Windows 10

Choose one of the following OCR languages:


  1. Arabic
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuear
  2. Bosnian (Latin)
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuebs-latn-ba
  3. Bulgarian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuebg
  4. Croatian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuehr
  5. Slovenian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuesl
  6. Czech
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuecs
  7. Hungarian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuehu
  8. Polish
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuepl
  9. Russian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valueru
  10. Danish
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valueda
  11. Dutch
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuenl
  12. English
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valueen
  13. Finnish
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuefi
  14. French
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuefr
  15. German
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuede
  16. Italian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valueit
  17. Norwegian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuenb
  18. Portuguese
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuept
  19. Romanian
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuero
  20. Serbian (Cyrillic)
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuesr-cyrl-rs
  21. Serbian (Latin)
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuesr-latn-rs
  22. Slovak
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuesk
  23. Spanish
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuees
  24. Swedish
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuesv
  25. Greek
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valueel
  26. Turkish
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuetr
  27. Chinese (Simplified)
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuezh-Hans
  28. Chinese (Traditional)
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valuezh-Hant
  29. Japanese
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valueja
  30. Korean
    Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
    Registry PathSOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
    Value NameSelectedOcrLanguage
    Value TypeREG_SZ
    Valueko


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