SharePoint: Syntex Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extends support for Microsoft Office files

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 475248
Launched
SharePoint
Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant)
General Availability
Web
January 2025

Description

SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to Microsoft Office files. Previously, OCR was limited to PDFs and images but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from any embedded images within any Microsoft Office files like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Change History

October 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM Updated
Status
Previous
In development
New
Launched
Modified Date
Previous
2025-01-17T00:00:53.000Z
New
2025-10-10T22:15:35.000Z

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