Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) - Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive

Summary

Optical character recognition (OCR) scanning enables Microsoft Purview to scan images for sensitive information. With Embedded support, OCR will scan content in DOCX, PPTX, XLSX and PDFs (scanned and hybrid containing searchable text and images). This will be in addition to support for standalone images

Status
In development
General availability target
Sep 2025
Preview target
Not published
Products
Microsoft Purview
Clouds
GCC, GCC High, DoD
Release phases
General Availability
Platforms
Web
Added to the roadmap
3 Jul 2025
Last changed
3 Jul 2025 · 15mo ago
recently changed
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