| external help file | sharepointonline.xml |
|---|---|
| Module Name | Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell |
| online version | https://learn.microsoft.com/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/Start-SPOSiteOpticalCharacterRecognitionBackfill |
| applicable | SharePoint Online |
| title | Start-SPOSiteOpticalCharacterRecognitionBackfill |
| schema | 2.0.0 |
| author | FarreltinF |
| ms.author | fanyi |
| ms.reviewer |
Important
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a pay-as-you-go feature, triggering this cmdlet will incur cost for your organization
Initiates a job to trigger the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process for all files for the selected site.
Start-SPOSiteOpticalCharacterRecognitionBackfill [-Site] <string> This cmdlet starts a job to trigger the OCR process for files that have either never been OCR processed or have been modified since the last OCR process. This ensures all relevant content in the site is recognized and indexed for improved searchability and accessibility.
OCR backfill can only be run on OCR-enabled sites. If OCR is disabled for the site, please enable OCR before proceeding with OCR backfilling. Refer to this article for instructions on enabling OCR on the selected site.
Start-SPOSiteOpticalCharacterRecognitionBackfill -Site https://contosoenergy.sharepoint.com/sites/hrStarts OCR process for all content that hasn't been processed before in the selected site.
Specifies the site URL where OCR process should be enabled on.
Type: String
Parameter Sets: Default
Aliases:
Applicable: SharePoint Online
Required: True
Position: 1
Default value: None
Accept pipeline input: False
Accept wildcard characters: FalseThis cmdlet supports the common parameters: -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -InformationAction, -InformationVariable, -OutVariable, -OutBuffer, -PipelineVariable, -Verbose, -WarningAction, and -WarningVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters.
Overview of optical character recognition in SharePoint
Learn about optical character recognition in Microsoft Purview