Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) - Support for embedded images in files including Office files in SharePoint and OneDrive Beta
Data as of 2 hours ago (26 October 2026)
Status
In development
Release month
September 2025
Overdue
Release ring
General Availability
Products
Microsoft Purview
Cloud instances
DoDGCCGCC High
Platforms
Web
Description
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
Change history
Added to the roadmap 3 July 2025. Tracked here since 1 September 2026. Earliest target we recorded: September 2025 (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.