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

Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID: 497912

Status In development

Product Microsoft Purview compliance portal

Cloud Instances GCC GCC High DoD

Release Phase General Availability

Platforms Web

Expected Release September 2025

Description

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

Change History

Published: July 3, 2025

Last Updated: July 3, 2025

No change history available

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