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

Roadmap ID
497912
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Product
Microsoft Purview
Published
July 3, 2025
Status
In development
Cloud Instances
GCCGCC HighDoD
Release Phase
General Availability
Platform
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

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Published: July 3, 2025
Last Updated: July 3, 2025
January 21, 2026 at 6:00 PM Updated
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