Disable OCR

Supported on: At least Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7

Registry

HKCU software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\onenote\options\other

Value name: disableocr

Enabled: disableocr = 1

Disabled: disableocr = 0

Description

This policy turns off the OneNote image optical character recognition (OCR) feature. The OCR feature allows OneNote to automatically scan through images to find text that will appear in search results.