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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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) - Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive
- General availability
- 2025-09
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- Added
- 03 Jul 2025
- Last modified
- 03 Jul 2025 23:00 UTC
- First archived
- 25 Aug 2026
- Release rings
- General Availability
- Clouds
- GCC, GCC High, DoD