diff --git a/Configuration/ApacheSolr/configsets/dlf/conf/solrconfig.xml b/Configuration/ApacheSolr/configsets/dlf/conf/solrconfig.xml
index b3b551cadb..f6b09bbb90 100644
--- a/Configuration/ApacheSolr/configsets/dlf/conf/solrconfig.xml
+++ b/Configuration/ApacheSolr/configsets/dlf/conf/solrconfig.xml
@@ -873,6 +873,9 @@
 
      -->
 
+    <!-- Add a new named search component that takes care of highlighting OCR field values. -->
+    <searchComponent class="de.digitalcollections.solrocr.solr.OcrHighlightComponent" name="ocrHighlight" />
+
     <!-- Autocomplete Component -->
     <searchComponent name="suggest" class="solr.SpellCheckComponent">
         <lst name="spellchecker">