Windows 7 search can now OCR TIFF images on its own

Ed Valio | October 26th, 2009 - 11:28 am

From ARS Technica:

”The indexing service that powers Windows search can now perform OCR of TIFF images. Though not enabled by default (due to resource usage constraints), installing it gives full-text searching of TIFFs. Scanned documents and faxes are the main target for this capability.”

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See the Microsoft TechNet page for installation info.

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One Response to “Windows 7 search can now OCR TIFF images on its own”

  1. Paper prototypes and the felt-tip business analyst « No More Hacks says:
    November 25, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    [...] I have a feeling that the ability to draw and the use of OneNote’s OCR stuff (did you know windows 7 has OCR on TIFF images for free? So you can index images by search if there is text in the [...]

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