diff --git a/application/core/settings.py b/application/core/settings.py
index 49f7720e..1cc36b18 100644
--- a/application/core/settings.py
+++ b/application/core/settings.py
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
     UPLOAD_FOLDER: str = "inputs"
     PARSE_PDF_AS_IMAGE: bool = False
     PARSE_IMAGE_REMOTE: bool = False
-    DOCLING_OCR_ENABLED: bool = True  # Enable OCR for docling parsers (PDF, images)
+    DOCLING_OCR_ENABLED: bool = False  # Enable OCR for docling parsers (PDF, images)
     DOCLING_OCR_ATTACHMENTS_ENABLED: bool = False  # Enable OCR for docling when parsing attachments
     VECTOR_STORE: str = (
         "faiss"  #  "faiss" or "elasticsearch" or "qdrant" or "milvus" or "lancedb" or "pgvector"