Select OCR language: registry value SelectedOcrLanguageComputerHKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR
- 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
Registry
SelectedOcrLanguage
REG_SZComputer- Enabled value
- Depends on the option value
- Element
- Choose one of the following OCR languages:
| Item | Stored value |
|---|---|
| Arabic | ar |
| Bosnian (Latin) | bs-latn-ba |
| Bulgarian | bg |
| Croatian | hr |
| Slovenian | sl |
| Czech | cs |
| Hungarian | hu |
| Polish | pl |
| Russian | ru |
| Danish | da |
| Dutch | nl |
| English | en |
| Finnish | fi |
| French | fr |
| German | de |
| Italian | it |
| Norwegian | nb |
| Portuguese | pt |
| Romanian | ro |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | sr-cyrl-rs |
| Serbian (Latin) | sr-latn-rs |
| Slovak | sk |
| Spanish | es |
| Swedish | sv |
| Greek | el |
| Turkish | tr |
| Chinese (Simplified) | zh-Hans |
| Chinese (Traditional) | zh-Hant |
| Japanese | ja |
| Korean | ko |
Apply with .reg · CMD · PowerShell
.reg
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR] ; Options (use only one) ; Arabic "SelectedOcrLanguage"="ar" ; Bosnian (Latin) "SelectedOcrLanguage"="bs-latn-ba" ; Bulgarian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="bg" ; Croatian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="hr" ; Slovenian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="sl" ; Czech "SelectedOcrLanguage"="cs" ; Hungarian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="hu" ; Polish "SelectedOcrLanguage"="pl" ; Russian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="ru" ; Danish "SelectedOcrLanguage"="da" ; Dutch "SelectedOcrLanguage"="nl" ; English "SelectedOcrLanguage"="en" ; Finnish "SelectedOcrLanguage"="fi" ; French "SelectedOcrLanguage"="fr" ; German "SelectedOcrLanguage"="de" ; Italian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="it" ; Norwegian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="nb" ; Portuguese "SelectedOcrLanguage"="pt" ; Romanian "SelectedOcrLanguage"="ro" ; Serbian (Cyrillic) "SelectedOcrLanguage"="sr-cyrl-rs" ; Serbian (Latin) "SelectedOcrLanguage"="sr-latn-rs" ; Slovak "SelectedOcrLanguage"="sk" ; Spanish "SelectedOcrLanguage"="es" ; Swedish "SelectedOcrLanguage"="sv" ; Greek "SelectedOcrLanguage"="el" ; Turkish "SelectedOcrLanguage"="tr" ; Chinese (Simplified) "SelectedOcrLanguage"="zh-Hans" ; Chinese (Traditional) "SelectedOcrLanguage"="zh-Hant" ; Japanese "SelectedOcrLanguage"="ja" ; Korean "SelectedOcrLanguage"="ko"
CMD
:: Options (use only one) :: Arabic reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "ar" /f :: Bosnian (Latin) reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "bs-latn-ba" /f :: Bulgarian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "bg" /f :: Croatian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "hr" /f :: Slovenian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "sl" /f :: Czech reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "cs" /f :: Hungarian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "hu" /f :: Polish reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "pl" /f :: Russian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "ru" /f :: Danish reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "da" /f :: Dutch reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "nl" /f :: English reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "en" /f :: Finnish reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "fi" /f :: French reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "fr" /f :: German reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "de" /f :: Italian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "it" /f :: Norwegian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "nb" /f :: Portuguese reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "pt" /f :: Romanian reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "ro" /f :: Serbian (Cyrillic) reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "sr-cyrl-rs" /f :: Serbian (Latin) reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "sr-latn-rs" /f :: Slovak reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "sk" /f :: Spanish reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "es" /f :: Swedish reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "sv" /f :: Greek reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "el" /f :: Turkish reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "tr" /f :: Chinese (Simplified) reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "zh-Hans" /f :: Chinese (Traditional) reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "zh-Hant" /f :: Japanese reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "ja" /f :: Korean reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR" /v "SelectedOcrLanguage" /t REG_SZ /d "ko" /f
PowerShell
# Common: create the key New-Item -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Force | Out-Null # Options (use only one) # Arabic New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'ar' -Force | Out-Null # Bosnian (Latin) New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'bs-latn-ba' -Force | Out-Null # Bulgarian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'bg' -Force | Out-Null # Croatian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'hr' -Force | Out-Null # Slovenian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'sl' -Force | Out-Null # Czech New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'cs' -Force | Out-Null # Hungarian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'hu' -Force | Out-Null # Polish New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'pl' -Force | Out-Null # Russian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'ru' -Force | Out-Null # Danish New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'da' -Force | Out-Null # Dutch New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'nl' -Force | Out-Null # English New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'en' -Force | Out-Null # Finnish New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'fi' -Force | Out-Null # French New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'fr' -Force | Out-Null # German New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'de' -Force | Out-Null # Italian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'it' -Force | Out-Null # Norwegian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'nb' -Force | Out-Null # Portuguese New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'pt' -Force | Out-Null # Romanian New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'ro' -Force | Out-Null # Serbian (Cyrillic) New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'sr-cyrl-rs' -Force | Out-Null # Serbian (Latin) New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'sr-latn-rs' -Force | Out-Null # Slovak New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'sk' -Force | Out-Null # Spanish New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'es' -Force | Out-Null # Swedish New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'sv' -Force | Out-Null # Greek New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'el' -Force | Out-Null # Turkish New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'tr' -Force | Out-Null # Chinese (Simplified) New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'zh-Hans' -Force | Out-Null # Chinese (Traditional) New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'zh-Hant' -Force | Out-Null # Japanese New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'ja' -Force | Out-Null # Korean New-ItemProperty -Path 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search\OCR' -Name 'SelectedOcrLanguage' -PropertyType String -Value 'ko' -Force | Out-Null