NewMicrosoft Purview · Data Loss Prevention
Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention - Optical character recognition (OCR) support for endpoint
Optical character recognition (OCR) will be added to DLP policies on Windows endpoints, enabling detection of sensitive content within images (JPG, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, image-only PDF) and enforcement of DLP rules against those images.
Key dates
- — preview (Feature currently in development)
Microsoft's description
<div>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). </div>