# Can any one knows how to enable OCR in es with Ingest mapper plugin?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-any-one-knows-how-to-enable-ocr-in-es-with-ingest-mapper-plugin/230946>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\
**Created:** [May 4, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-any-one-knows-how-to-enable-ocr-in-es-with-ingest-mapper-plugin/230946 "2020-05-04T09:44:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![vaibhav8600](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vaibhav8600/32/64132_2.png) [@vaibhav8600](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaibhav8600)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:44am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-any-one-knows-how-to-enable-ocr-in-es-with-ingest-mapper-plugin/230946/1 "2020-05-04T09:44:10Z")

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Can any one knows how to enable OCR in es with Ingest mapper plugin ?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-any-one-knows-how-to-enable-ocr-in-es-with-ingest-mapper-plugin/230946/2 "2020-05-04T10:01:49Z")

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It's not supported for security reasons. See

> <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/17221>
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> Hello,
> the ingest attachment plugin uses Tika for content extraction, Tika supports OCR by default if Tesseract OCR is installed.
> I took a...

FSCrawler can do it if you need.

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**Author:** ![vaibhav8600](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/vaibhav8600/32/64132_2.png) [@vaibhav8600](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vaibhav8600)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-any-one-knows-how-to-enable-ocr-in-es-with-ingest-mapper-plugin/230946/3 "2020-05-04T10:17:27Z")

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thanks for the reply can you suggest alternative for it ?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-any-one-knows-how-to-enable-ocr-in-es-with-ingest-mapper-plugin/230946/4 "2020-05-04T10:48:06Z")

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I did.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2020, 10:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-any-one-knows-how-to-enable-ocr-in-es-with-ingest-mapper-plugin/230946/5 "2020-06-01T10:48:07Z")

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