Whether you are a student,
an employee or a business person, you would have come across the need of
scanning documents or certificates at least once or numerous times as most of
the official purposes are now dealt digitally and not manually like earlier days.
With the existence of
digital mobile apps for scanning, you don't have to go find an outlet that has
a scanning machine but can do it on your own with less effort.
Office Lens Smartphone app,
the brainchild of the legendary Microsoft Corporation has been becoming the most
preferable scanning app for it's efficiency and reliability. Created basically
for Windows Phone, Microsoft has brought Office Lens to iOS and Android devices
as well.
Office Lens is truly a powerful mobile app that turns your phone into
a portable scanner which enables clicking pictures of whiteboards, documents,
receipts and even sticky notes that can be saved and edited digitally. Hence
scanning and saving of paper documents in digital devices has become much
simpler.
Despite the presence of
scanner apps like Scanner Pro and Scanbot , Microsoft's Office integration is
what makes Office Lens to stand out among all other apps and it works wonder .
Office Lens Smartphone app has the great ability of converting images into
Work, PowerPoint files and PDF format.
Getting started with Office
Lens Smartphone app doesn't require any sign in or account setup and that’s
really appreciable. You can straightaway access the features of the app once
you download Office Lens from the Google Play Store. When you first open the
app, you can see an introductory animated panel that tells you what Office Lens
can do for you. After that you will be directed to the camera view. The camera
mode will have buttons for shooting, flashlight, scanner and a menu that grants
access to options like Settings, Import, Recent History and Resolution.
When Office Lens' camera
mode is pointed towards a document, it will recognize the text area and draws a
box around it. Then you will have to choose a shot type like document, photo or
whiteboard using the scanner icon. Once you are done choosing a shot type, you
will have to tap the shutter button to get your documents scanned. And then you
can choose to save, delete or crop. Office Lens enables you to crop, resize and
rotate the image that has been shot. While saving, you can rename it and can
put it in destination of your choice.
As Office Lens Smartphone
app is a product of Microsoft, it facilitates saving the scanned shot to One
Note, One Drive, Word, and PowerPoint or as a PDF. If not you can simply save
it to your photo gallery. When it gets saved to One Note, you can have the
benefit of conversion of image into editable text via OCR (Optical Character
Recognition). You can even have business cards scanned and saved to your
contact list in no time.
Thus Office Lens is one
among the highly productive releases of Microsoft. Except for the rare drawback
of OCR feature not working with the business cards, Office Lens is a
worthy-to-try app especially for Android users.
