Select OCR language

Policy ID: SelectOCRLangs
Scope: Computer Configuration
Supported on: At least Windows Server 2016 or Windows 10
Source: Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
Category: Windows Components › Search › OCR

Description

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.

Options

Choose one of the following OCR languages:
- Arabic
- Bosnian (Latin)
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Slovenian
- Czech
- Hungarian
- Polish
- Russian
- Danish
- Dutch
- English
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Italian
- Norwegian
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Serbian (Cyrillic)
- Serbian (Latin)
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Greek
- Turkish
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Japanese
- Korean

Registry

ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR View registry values

SelectedOcrLanguageREG_SZ

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