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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

Why it matters: Upcoming change

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

Target September CY2025Cloud GCC, GCC High, DoDPlatform WebSource updated 2025-07-03

Affected: Microsoft Purview

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