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Feature: Remote OCR (Azure AI) (#10320)

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#### [`PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL=<bool>`](#PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL) {#PAPERLESS_EMAIL_USE_SSL}
: Defaults to false.
## Remote OCR
#### [`PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_ENGINE=<str>`](#PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_ENGINE) {#PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_ENGINE}
: The remote OCR engine to use. Currently only Azure AI is supported as "azureai".
Defaults to None, which disables remote OCR.
#### [`PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_API_KEY=<str>`](#PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_API_KEY) {#PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_API_KEY}
: The API key to use for the remote OCR engine.
Defaults to None.
#### [`PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_ENDPOINT=<str>`](#PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_ENDPOINT) {#PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_ENDPOINT}
: The endpoint to use for the remote OCR engine. This is required for Azure AI.
Defaults to None.

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## Features
- **Organize and index** your scanned documents with tags, correspondents, types, and more.
- _Your_ data is stored locally on _your_ server and is never transmitted or shared in any way.
- _Your_ data is stored locally on _your_ server and is never transmitted or shared in any way, unless you explicitly choose to do so.
- Performs **OCR** on your documents, adding searchable and selectable text, even to documents scanned with only images.
- Utilizes the open-source Tesseract engine to recognize more than 100 languages.
- Utilizes the open-source Tesseract engine to recognize more than 100 languages.
- _New!_ Supports remote OCR with Azure AI (opt-in).
- Documents are saved as PDF/A format which is designed for long term storage, alongside the unaltered originals.
- Uses machine-learning to automatically add tags, correspondents and document types to your documents.
- Supports PDF documents, images, plain text files, Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LibreOffice equivalents)[^1] and more.

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## Remote OCR
!!! important
This feature is disabled by default and will always remain strictly "opt-in".
Paperless-ngx supports performing OCR on documents using remote services. At the moment, this is limited to
[Microsoft's Azure "Document Intelligence" service](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/ai-services/ai-document-intelligence).
This is of course a paid service (with a free tier) which requires an Azure account and subscription. Azure AI is not affiliated with
Paperless-ngx in any way. When enabled, Paperless-ngx will automatically send appropriate documents to Azure for OCR processing, bypassing
the local OCR engine. See the [configuration](configuration.md#PAPERLESS_REMOTE_OCR_ENGINE) options for more details.
Additionally, when using a commercial service with this feature, consider both potential costs as well as any associated file size
or page limitations (e.g. with a free tier).
## Architecture
Paperless-ngx consists of the following components: