Helix Search Documentation | 2025.1

# Configure OCR for Windows

To use Optical Character Recognition (OCR), you must install and enable Tesseract and ImageMagick on Windows.

Tesseract uses ImageMagick for OCR. When both Tesseract and ImageMagick are installed, Tesseract takes precedence for Helix Search.

Further information:

- To install Tesseract, see Tesseract installer for windows.

  Ensure that when installing Tesseract on Windows, you add the location of tesseract.exe file to the PATH environment variable.

- To install ImageMagick, see ImageMagick windows binary release.

- To enable or disable Tesseract OCR for Helix Search, see Indexer configuration.

- If you do not wish to enable Tesseract, you can use one of the following cloud OCR services:

  - AzureOcrModel

  - RekognitionOcrModel

  - GoogleOcrModel

  For more information on how to configure the cloud OCR services, see Image Optical Character Recognition (OCR) configuration.

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