Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Information Protection - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for Exchange Online and Teams

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 165707
Cancelled
Microsoft Purview compliance portal
GCC GCC High DoD
General Availability
Web
September 2025

Description

After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).

Change History

September 5, 2025 at 12:00 AM Updated
Description
Previous
Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).
New
After further review we have decided not to proceed with this change at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).
Status
Previous
In development
New
Cancelled
Modified Date
Previous
2025-08-07T23:15:46.000Z
New
2025-09-04T23:15:49.000Z
August 8, 2025 at 2:00 AM Updated
Release Date
Previous
March CY2025
New
September CY2025
Modified Date
Previous
2024-09-04T23:30:32.000Z
New
2025-08-07T23:15:46.000Z

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