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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

In development Microsoft Purview Web

General availability: 2027-04
Preview: —
Added: 16 Aug 2023
Last modified: 06 Oct 2026 22:56 UTC
First archived: 25 Aug 2026
Release rings: General Availability, Preview
Clouds: GCC, GCC High, DoD

Description

<p>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 in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image-only PDF).</p>