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

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 323894
Launched
Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
General Availability Preview
Web
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

September 20, 2025 at 12:00 AM Updated
Status
Previous
In development
New
Launched
Modified Date
Previous
2024-09-26T23:15:19.000Z
New
2025-09-19T22:00:03.000Z

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