In addition, the app uses optical character recognition to identify printed text and enable users to search for images in OneNote or OneDrive using key words. In addition, it can be used to capture business cards and generate contact details that can be added to users’ phones.

It then converts images of paper documents and whiteboard notes into Microsoft Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and PDF files for easy editing and reformatting. The app automatically crops these image, removes shadows and enhances them. These include whiteboard mode, which ensures all glare and shadows disappear document mode to ensure text is easy to read and photo mode to allow users to capture people and scenery. Office Lens has three modes to enable users to capture images clearly. The free app, which was introduced for the Windows Phone OS in March 2014, is now available for free download at the Apple App Store and in preview for Android.ĭesigned to turn smartphones into a ‘pocket scanner’, the Office Lens app enables users to capture, edit and store images of receipts, business cards, menus, whiteboards, paper notes, people and more. The app, which is free to download on both iOS and Android phones as of Thursday, can save an image as a Word file, PowerPoint presentation or PDF file, and uses optical character recognition to make the text searchable and ready for editing.Microsoft has released Office Lens for the iPhone and Android phone operating systems (OS). Office Lens essentially turns a phone into a scanner, using the camera to take a photo of a menu, receipt or business card, for example, and instantly cropping the image and storing it in Microsoft's OneNote note-taking app, or OneDrive cloud storage app. The app, called Office Lens, is already available on phones running Windows, but has had little exposure given Windows' minute share of the smartphone market.īringing the app to iOS and Android is the latest sign of Microsoft's new strategy of putting its best software on as many devices as possible, regardless of whether they are running Windows. Microsoft said on Thursday it is bringing one of its most popular apps, which lets people take photos of a document and turn it into a editable file, to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android.

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