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MC1310681 — Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention: Optical character recognition for images in Office and PDFs on Windows

MC1310681Microsoft PurviewstayInformedUpdated: 8 June 2026

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention on Windows now supports OCR scanning of images embedded in Office documents and PDFs, closing a detection gap. Rolling out June 2026, this feature enables sensitive data detection in images, requires enabling OCR with associated Azure AI costs, and involves updating DLP policies and prerequisites.

Applies to: Microsoft Purview
Source: mc.merill.net — data via Merill Fernando's open archive (MIT).