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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Object Character Recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams

Roadmap ID
323894
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Product
Microsoft Purview
Published
December 21, 2023
Status
Launched
Cloud Instance
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
Release Phase
General AvailabilityPreview
Platform
Web
Expected Release
February 2025

Description

Currently, Object Character Recognition (OCR) is available only for standalone images. This update supports OCR for images embedded in: 1. Hybrid PDF files, which are PDF files with both images and searchable text. 2. Office files with the extensions DOCX, PPTX, XLSX. 3. Container files such as zip, rar, 7z, and more.

Change History

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January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM Updated
Product
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Microsoft Purview compliance portal
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Microsoft Purview
September 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM Updated
Status
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In development
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Launched
Modified Date
Previous
2024-09-26T23:15:19.000Z
New
2025-09-19T22:00:03.000Z

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