Recently, Microsoft has announced a search capability to find texts from images uploaded on SharePoint or OneDrive in Office 365. By the end of December 2017, Microsoft will launch this search feature to SharePoint cloud. There are many formats which will be available to extract the texts from the image. It will identify the texts whether the image type is a whiteboard, business card, receipt, outdoors, X-ray or any other type. It not only extracts texts from the image file but can also search the texts from the word file. It can also parse the photos of texts that you snapped. You can do this directly from mobile apps like Office Lens mobile app, OneDrive mobile app or you can just upload the photo from your system.
Suppose you have lots of images which are stored in different albums, for that you don’t need to remember the location of the image. With this search capability, performed search action will detect the texts from the image, extract the text and will make it searchable. It will be possible to search texts of images stored in the cloud.
<strong>Searchable File Formats</strong>
There are around 21 file formats available that will be supported to find text from the files such as “bmp”, “png”, “jpeg”, “jpg”, “gif”, “tif”, “tiff”, “raw”, “arw”, “cr2”, “crw”, “erf”, “mef”, “mrw”, “nef”, “nrw”, “orf”, “pef”, “rw2”, “rw1”, “sr2”. Search action will extract the texts from any of the file type and will show you the result on screen.
With the first launch of new image text search functionality, it will support only to ‘English’ language to search out the text from image or file types. Later Microsoft will discover the search capability for other languages according to the language selected for the SharePoint site which will automatically translate the file type to the language set on SharePoint site.
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<li><a title=”https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Intelligent-Search-Discovery/Search-for-words-in-your-images-in-Office-365/ba-p/135703″ href=”https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Intelligent-Search-Discovery/Search-for-words-in-your-images-in-Office-365/ba-p/135703″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Intelligent-Search-Discovery/Search-for-words-in-your-images-in-Office-365/ba-p/135703</a></li>
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