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RM160010 - Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Optical character recognition (OCR) support for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

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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 in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image-only PDF).

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Roadmap ID

160010

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Last Updated

Oct 6, 2026

Published Aug 16, 2023

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Status

In development

Release

General Availability
Preview

Platforms

Web

Service

Microsoft Purview

Tag

In development
General Availability
Preview
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 in SharePoint Online and OneDrive. This release supports key file types like JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, and PDF (image-only PDF).

GA date: April CY2027

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