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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

Feature details and release plans from a build snapshot of Microsoft's official roadmap feed.

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Product
Microsoft Purview compliance portal
Release status
In development
RSS publication

Feature overview

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

Expected release date

September CY2025

Source: Microsoft 365 Roadmap RSS (build snapshot) Feature ID: 497912

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