Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition in Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention

Originally posted by Microsoft May 1, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Optical character recognition (OCR) support extracts text from images and will help discover and protect sensitive data in images being shared across various services and devices. Coming soon to public preview, this release enables OCR support for images shared and stored in SharePoint Online and OneDrive, Exchange Online, Teams, and Windows endpoints.

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When this will happen:

Rollout to public preview for Exchange and Teams is underway and will be complete by the end of April. You can sign up for preview on ODB, SPO, and Windows endpoint devices here. 

How this will affect your organization:

With this update, you will be able to detect and protect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply Data Loss Prevention, Insider Risk Management, Auto labelling, and Data Lifecycle Management policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data via Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image only).    

What you need to do to prepare:

To get started, please set up OCR billing by completing the pre-requisites mentioned here.

Get started with Information Protection and Data Loss Prevention in the Microsoft Purview compliance portal. 

Learn about optical character recognition in Microsoft Purview (preview) 

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