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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint

In development Microsoft Purview Web

General availability: 2027-03
Preview: —
Added: 04 Aug 2023
Last modified: 09 Oct 2026 22:04 UTC
First archived: 25 Aug 2026
Release rings: General Availability
Clouds: GCC, GCC High, DoD

Description

<div>Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF). </div>