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title: "Run OCR"
slug: "run-ocr"
tags: ["run ocr"]
updated: 2025-07-11T15:44:13Z
published: 2025-07-11T15:44:13Z
canonical: "docs.revealdata.com/run-ocr"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.revealdata.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Run OCR

> [!NOTE]
> Note
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> As of Reveal 11.7, the modal window launched by this action may be moved around the screen by moving the pointer to the top title area; when it becomes a hand, click and move the window as needed.

**OCR -** The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) function allows the user to generate text from document images. To Bulk OCR documents, choose the document or documents you want to OCR, add a job name to track the job if desired, choose your image set, and destination text set and then click **Submit**.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
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> Review OCR only supports English. You can OCR other languages in Processing. See [OCR – Supported Languages](/reveal/docs/ocr-supported-file-types). This limitation does not affect the translation of native files and native file extractions.

1. Click **OCR** on the Grid Toolbar.
2. **Act On -** Choose ***Selected documents*** (if relevant) or ***All documents in results list****.*

*![96 - 12 - OCR Settings](https://5796933.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/5796933/DOCUMENTATION/ARTICLE%20SCREENSHOTS/96%20-%2012%20-%20OCR%20Settings.png)*
3. **OCR Settings -**
  1. **Job Name** - The job name will enable monitoring of the status of the job under **Jobs Management > OCR**.
  2. **Image Set** **-** You can choose to use images from any image set, including original images.
  3. **Generate Missing Images -** If there are no images generated in the original image set, these images can be generated as part of the OCR job.
  4. **Imaging Template -** Specifies how the images have been rendered to assist in character recognition.
  5. **Text Set -** The generated text can be stored into any existing text set as selected here, or optionally you may create a new Text Set by selecting **+Create new** without having to leave this screen. For example, instead of mixing this OCR set in with ***OCR / Loaded*** you may wish to create a Text Set called ***OCR Added*** or, where the OCR might be of redacted images, ***OCR / Redacted****.*
  6. **Overwrite Existing Text -** You may choose to overwrite text that already exists in the text set, or to OCR those documents without text in the destination text set.
4. Click **Submit** to run. As of the April 2024 release, the **Submit** button will always be active, even if required fields have not been filled in; in that case, clicking **Submit** will flag any required fields that need to be addressed to run OCR (shown here in Dark Mode).

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/3e21d801-ca9f-4c51-93db-9cbd32741f3d/Images/Documentation/36%20-%2001%20-%20OCR%20Required%20Fields%20warning%20on%20Select.png)
5. Results will be displayed in the **OCR** table on the [***Jobs Management***](/reveal/docs/jobs-management) screen.
  1. Click **Jobs** on the Navigation menu at the left side of the project window.
  2. In Jobs Management navigate the list to open the **OCR**.

> [!NOTE]
> Note
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> As of Reveal 11.7, the modal window launched by this action may be moved around the screen by moving the pointer to the top title area; when it becomes a hand, click and move the window as needed.

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