Search Text in Images on Windows 7

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enables PCs or laptops to capture text in images and also in photos via the integrated search function.

1. Click start icon – Click system control
2. Selection of the category “Programs” – “Activate or deactivate Windows functions”
3. Activation “Windows TIFF filter” – click “Ok”

To include these TIFF files in the search index, it must be recreated.

  1. “Start/System Control” – “Indication Options”
  2. Selection „Extended“
  3. Advanced Options dialog box – Index Settings tab
  4. “Recreate” – this process can take different lengths of time

Only images stored in TIFF format can be found written. Indexing TIFF files can minimally slow down indexing of files.