UV OCR Search Booster documentation
Overview
OCR search booster for scanned documents. Requires a background job and an OCR provider. Browser OCR is not supported.
For: Tenants with scanned PDFs and images.
Features
Scanned content
Find text inside images and scanned PDFs after a job completes.
Job-based
Never run tenant OCR in the browser.
Requirements
- SharePoint Online (Microsoft 365)
- Tenant app catalog
- SPFx 1.18+
- Node 18 LTS / 22 LTS for custom builds
- License key from Account → License keys
Installation
- After purchase or trial, download the signed uv-search-pro.sppkg package from Account → Files / UV Apps catalog.
- Upload the package to the tenant app catalog (SharePoint admin → More features → Apps).
- Enable the app for the whole tenant or selected site collections.
- If Entra asks for consent, approve only the permissions listed on the product page.
- Open a site and add the web part (or open the full-page app). The app checks for a purchased license or an active trial for this tenant.
- Backend required for production OCR.
How to use
- Open the page signed in with a work account from this Microsoft 365 tenant.
- The app asks the license server whether this tenant has a purchase or an active trial — no key is required.
- If nothing is found, paid features stay locked. Clock, Banner, Quick Links and Profile Card still run in Free mode.
- A product key from Account → License keys is only a fallback when silent activation fails.
- Enable OCR entitlement.
- Run a scoped job from Admin. Then search as usual.
Configuration
- Libraries in scope
- Retention of OCR text
Troubleshooting
- No OCR hits: job not run, or the file is still pending.
Licensing
The app checks this tenant for a purchased license or an active trial and unlocks automatically. Sign in with a work mailbox on a verified domain of the Microsoft 365 tenant. See the licensing guide.
Microsoft Graph
- Sites.Read.All (Delegated) — Read files in the OCR job scope.