Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is part of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which means that it can be used in all apps targeting Windows 10/8.1/8/7. With OCR you can extract text and text layout information from images. It’s designed to handle various types of images, from scanned documents to photos. At the same time, it is highly optimized and runs entirely on the device without requiring an Internet connection.

1. Search a file or folder by the content or a phrase(Win 10/8.1/8/7)
1. Open Control Panel
2. Select Large Icons under view by dropdown :
3. Then select Folder options

2. 4. Select Search Ribbon 5. Select under what to search
Select always search file names and contents
**(for Win 10 disable don’t use the index option)**
6. Finally, Click Apply and OK.

3. 7. Now, select Indexing Options under control panel
8. Select Modify in Indexing options dialog box. 9. Select drives which want to search
and Click OK

4. 10. All the selected drives will appear here and now select Advanced option.
11. Select File Types Ribbon 12. select Index Properties and File Content and
Finally click OK
13. Click OK and Close

5. 14. For searching pdf files following steps to be followed :
Make sure Control Panel-> Indexing Options -> Advanced button -> File Types tab
check that "pdf" is shown on the list. If Filter Description states "Registred IFilter is not found"
you will need to install the iFilter plug-in manually.

6. When iFilter is successfully installed the Filter Description will state "PDF filter" which means
that Windows can now index PDF files. If you additionally wish to index the content of the PDF
documents (and not just the document properties) you will need to un-check the "Index
Properties Only" option and check "Index Properties and File Contents" option
15. Go back to Index Setting tab and hit the Rebuild button.