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Search for words in your images in Office 365

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Naomi Moneypenny
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Dec 13, 2017
Unlock content inside of images easily with this new search capability in Office 365. Earlier this year, we rolled out automatic detection of images that are uploaded to SharePoint and OneDrive. Th...
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Pobblebonk
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Dec 17, 2020

We are using a third party solution (Aquaforest) for handling the OCR'ing of PDF's but it does not handle images and stores the results in PDF.

Our storage requirements are huge and growing quickly so need to look at size reduction alternatives so was wondering if searchable TIFF's will be brought to on-premise?

Also no matter what format, word, excel, notepad, pdf is there a OOTB way of converting to TIFF or would we still require a third party solution for this?