office ocr

The office ocr tag covers Microsoft 365 developments that make scanned documents and image-based text easier to search and use. Its current coverage focuses on Copilot Chat’s planned ability to match search results from scanned PDFs and text inside images embedded in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. This includes workplace material such as screenshots, scanned contract pages, whiteboard photos, and image-only PDFs—content that has traditionally been difficult to find through ordinary search. Follow this tag for updates on how Microsoft is bringing OCR-style document understanding into Copilot and the potential information-management and security considerations for corporate knowledge.