Policy

Disable OCR

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.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Office
Category Microsoft OneNote 2016 / OneNote Options / Other
Policy ID 0320bbec19b2
Internal name L_DisableOCR

Registry

Copy registry mappings

HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\onenote\options\other\disableocr (enabled) = 1
HKCU\software\policies\microsoft\office\16.0\onenote\options\other\disableocr (disabled) = 0

Policy notes

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.

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