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Syntex Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extends support for Microsoft Office files

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Feature overview

SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to Microsoft Office files. Previously, OCR was limited to PDFs and images but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from any embedded images within any Microsoft Office files like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

Archived release information

January CY2025

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