diff --git a/mayan/apps/ocr/handlers.py b/mayan/apps/ocr/handlers.py
index dcd25df840..5d3f769eeb 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/ocr/handlers.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/ocr/handlers.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import logging
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 from .models import DocumentTypeSettings
+from .settings import setting_auto_ocr
 
 
 def post_version_upload_ocr(sender, instance, **kwargs):
@@ -16,4 +17,6 @@ def post_version_upload_ocr(sender, instance, **kwargs):
 
 def initialize_new_ocr_settings(sender, instance, **kwargs):
     if kwargs['created']:
-        DocumentTypeSettings.objects.create(document_type=instance)
+        DocumentTypeSettings.objects.create(
+            document_type=instance, auto_ocr=setting_auto_ocr.value
+        )
diff --git a/mayan/apps/ocr/settings.py b/mayan/apps/ocr/settings.py
index f0f1ccd807..340fbabe46 100644
--- a/mayan/apps/ocr/settings.py
+++ b/mayan/apps/ocr/settings.py
@@ -21,3 +21,9 @@ setting_ocr_backend = namespace.add_setting(
     global_name='OCR_BACKEND', default='ocr.backends.tesseract.Tesseract',
     help_text=_('Full path to the backend to be used to do OCR.')
 )
+setting_auto_ocr = namespace.add_setting(
+    global_name='OCR_AUTO_OCR', default=True,
+    help_text=_(
+        'Set new document types to perform OCR automatically by default.'
+    )
+)