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RM160008 - Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint

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Summary

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).

Roadmap ID

160008

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Last Updated

Jul 13, 2026

Published Aug 4, 2023

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Status

In development

Release

General Availability

Platforms

Web

Service

Microsoft Purview

Tag

In development
General Availability
GCC
GCC High
DoD

Cloud

DoD
GCC
GCC High

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).

GA date: October CY2026

Version history

2 versions tracked

Updated 1 time since Feb 5, 2026. Microsoft Message Center only ever shows the current version; this archive preserves the history.

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  1. Jul 13, 2026 · 11:07 PMLatest · v2

    Changed: Body

  2. Feb 5, 2026 · 12:15 AMOriginal · v1

    Changed: Initial version

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