Enable Optical Character Recognition
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Enable Optical Character Recognition

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Enable Optical Character Recognition

Enable optical character recognition (OCR) to scan images for sensitive information with Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (E-DLP).
Where Can I Use This?What Do I Need?
  • NGFW (Managed by Panorama or Strata Cloud Manager)
  • Prisma Access (Managed by Panorama or Strata Cloud Manager)
  • Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (E-DLP) license
    Review the Supported Platforms for details on the required license for each enforcement point.
Or any of the following licenses that include the Enterprise DLP license
  • Prisma Access CASB license
  • Next-Generation CASB for Prisma Access and NGFW (CASB-X) license
  • Data Security license
Strengthen your security posture to prevent accidental data misuse, loss, or theft by enabling optical character recognition (OCR) for Enterprise Data Loss Prevention (E-DLP). Enabling OCR allows the DLP cloud service to scan files with images containing sensitive information that match your Enterprise DLP data profiles.
Enterprise DLP supports detection of sensitive data in images containing alphanumeric English characters, including non-English languages written in alphanumeric English characters. Enterprise DLP measures images using pixels and achieves optimal performance when the image resolution is 50 x 50 - 1,800 x 1,800 pixels.
Enterprise DLP does not support OCR for Microsoft Visio XML drawing (.vdx) files that need rendering to display. For example, OCR can't inspect a .vdx file if the XML is the drawing representation.
OCR Support
Maximum Image Size
10 MB
File Inspection Limitations
Up to 15 images per inspected file
Supported Image File Types
Enterprise DLP supports the OCR inspection for all supported Image File Types.
Supported File Types
Enterprise DLP supports extraction of supported image file types from all supported File Types.
  1. Log in to Strata Cloud Manager.
  2. Select ManageConfigurationData Loss PreventionDetection MethodsOptical Character Recognition.
  3. Enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
    You can enable OCR for Prisma Access, NGFW, and Endpoint DLP.