diff --git a/packages/lib/models/settings/builtInMetadata.ts b/packages/lib/models/settings/builtInMetadata.ts
index 46e3a5ba9f..16eba8f555 100644
--- a/packages/lib/models/settings/builtInMetadata.ts
+++ b/packages/lib/models/settings/builtInMetadata.ts
@@ -594,6 +594,16 @@ const builtInMetadata = (Setting: typeof SettingType) => {
 			label: () => _('OCR: Clear cache and re-download language data files'),
 		},
 
+		'ocr.searchInExtractedContent': {
+			value: true,
+			type: SettingItemType.Bool,
+			advanced: true,
+			public: true,
+			appTypes: [AppType.Desktop],
+			storage: SettingStorage.Database,
+			label: () => _('OCR: Search in extracted content'),
+		},
+
 		theme: {
 			value: Setting.THEME_LIGHT,
 			type: SettingItemType.Int,
diff --git a/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.test.ts b/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.test.ts
index e5a587195b..e37b9419a7 100644
--- a/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.test.ts
+++ b/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
-import { setupDatabaseAndSynchronizer, db, sleep, switchClient, msleep } from '../../testing/test-utils';
+import { setupDatabaseAndSynchronizer, db, sleep, switchClient, msleep, createNoteAndResource } from '../../testing/test-utils';
 import SearchEngine from './SearchEngine';
 import Note from '../../models/Note';
 import ItemChange from '../../models/ItemChange';
 import Setting from '../../models/Setting';
+import Resource from '../../models/Resource';
+import { ResourceOcrStatus } from '../database/types';
 
 let engine: SearchEngine = null;
 
@@ -583,4 +585,32 @@ describe('services/SearchEngine', () => {
 	// 	expect(await engine.search(f1.id)).toEqual([]);
 	// }));
 
+	it.each(
+		[
+			['find',		'enabled',	true,	1],
+			['not find',	'disabled',	false, 	0],
+		],
+	)('should %s resources if searching in OCR content is %s',
+		async (_testName: string, _testName2: string, isSearchEnabled: boolean, resourcesFound: number) => {
+			const { resource } = await createNoteAndResource();
+			await Resource.save({
+				id: resource.id,
+				ocr_status: ResourceOcrStatus.Done,
+				ocr_text: 'héllô, hôw äre yoù ?',
+			});
+
+			await engine.syncTables();
+
+			const normalized = await db().selectAll('select * from items_fts');
+			expect(normalized[0].body).toBe('hello, how are you ?');
+
+			Setting.setValue('ocr.searchInExtractedContent', isSearchEnabled);
+
+			const rows = await engine.search('hello', {
+				searchType: SearchEngine.SEARCH_TYPE_FTS,
+				includeOrphanedResources: true,
+			});
+			expect(rows.length).toBe(resourcesFound);
+		});
+
 });
diff --git a/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.ts b/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.ts
index 16abf0acd8..cb4e4b7b92 100644
--- a/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.ts
+++ b/packages/lib/services/search/SearchEngine.ts
@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ export default class SearchEngine {
 					};
 				});
 
-				if (!queryHasFilters) {
+				if (!queryHasFilters && Setting.value('ocr.searchInExtractedContent')) {
 					const toSearch = parsedQuery.allTerms.map(t => t.value).join(' ');
 
 					let itemRows: ProcessResultsRow[] = [];