Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint Beta
Data as of 3 hours ago (9 September 2026)
Status In development
Release month October 2026
Release ring General Availability
Products Microsoft Purview
Cloud instances DoDGCCGCC High
Platforms Web
Description
Optical character recognition (OCR) support will detect sensitive content in images and subsequently apply data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent exfiltration of that sensitive data on your Windows endpoint devices. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and PDF (image only PDF).
Change history
Added to the roadmap 4 August 2023. Tracked here since 1 September 2026. Earliest target we recorded: October 2026 (since tracked — Microsoft may have moved it before we started watching).
Nothing has changed on this item since tracking began on 1 September 2026. Changes appear here as Microsoft updates the feed.