Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) – Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive

Originally posted by Microsoft Jul 4, 2025 Uncategorized 0 Comments

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

Product
Release phase	General Availability
Release date	September CY2025
Platform	Web
Cloud Instance	GCC, GCC High, DoD
Created	2025-07-03
Roadmap ID	497912
Roadmap Link	https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?id=497912