Archived roadmap update

Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Optical character recognition (OCR) support for embedded images in Exchange Online

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal
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Feature overview

This release will extend OCR support in Exchange online from standalone images (JPEG, JPG, PNG, BMP, TIFF, PDF) to images embedded inside following files: 1. Office: Images embedded inside XLSX, DOCX, PPTX files. 2. PDF: Image-only PDF files are already supported. This release will support hybrid PDF files containing images and searchable text. 3. Container files such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, BZ and more.

Archived release information

February CY2025
Preview date: January CY2025

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