Select OCR language from a code page

Supported on: At least Windows 7 through Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2

Registry

HKLM SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR

Value name: SelectOCRLangs

Options

Estonian boolean

Latvian boolean

Lithuanian boolean

Albanian boolean

Croatian boolean

Czech boolean

Hungarian boolean

Polish boolean

Romanian boolean

SerbianLatin boolean

Slovak boolean

Slovenian boolean

Bulgarian boolean

Byelorussian boolean

MacedoniaFYRO boolean

Russian boolean

Serbian boolean

Ukrainian boolean

Catalan boolean

Danish boolean

Dutch boolean

English boolean

Faroese boolean

Finnish boolean

French boolean

German boolean

Icelandic boolean

Indonesian boolean

Italian boolean

Malaysian boolean

Norwegian boolean

Portuguese boolean

Spanish boolean

Swedish boolean

Greek boolean

Turkish boolean

Chinese (Simplified) boolean

Chinese (Traditional) boolean

Japanese boolean

Korean boolean

Description

This policy setting allows selecting of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) languages that belong to one of the supported code pages. If you enable this policy setting, the selected OCR languages are used in OCR processing during the indexing of TIFF files. The default system language is ignored unless it is among the selected OCR languages. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, only the default system language is used. All selected OCR languages must belong to the same code page. If you select languages from more than one code page, the entire OCR language selection is ignored and only the default system language is used. Re-indexing is not initiated when you enable this policy and selecting OCR languages. This policy setting only applies to the indexing of new files, unless re-indexing is initiated manually.