SharePoint: Syntex Optical Character Recognition (OCR) extends support for Microsoft Office files
SharePoint OCR feature now extends support to Microsoft Office files. Previously, OCR was limited to PDFs and images but with this update, you can seamlessly extract and utilize text from any embedded images within any Microsoft Office files like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Product SharePoint Release phase General Availability Release date January CY2025 Platform Web Cloud Instance Worldwide (Standard Multi-Tenant) Created 2025-01-17 Roadmap ID 475248 Roadmap Link https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/roadmap?featureid=475248
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