Office Lens Is No Longer a Windows Phone Exclusive
Office Lens, Microsoft’s useful capture app, is no longer a Windows Phone Exclusive. Microsoft made Office Lens available for Apple’s iOS and introduced a preview version for Google’s Android mobile operating system.
In the mobile app world, things usually go like this. The developer releases an app, making it available for Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. At the same time or shortly after, the developer makes the app available for Google’s Android mobile operating system. And sometime along the road, the developer makes the app available for Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile operating system.
Things went differently with Office Lens. Since it is a Microsoft product, the ones who got to use it first were Windows Phone users (the app was released to the Windows Phone Store more than a year ago). As of this month, iOS users get to use Office Lens (the app is available on Apple’s App Store as of April, 2015). Android users will get to use it in the near future because right now, they can only use a preview, and that is if they choose to become a tester.
What is Office Lens and what can it do? It is Microsoft’s capture app. It turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner.
Office Lens – Main Features
Get Office Lens for iOS from Apple’s App Store.
You can’t get Office Lens for Android from Google Play just yet. But if you visit the Office Lens Android Preview community on Google+, you can sign up to be a tester.
In the mobile app world, things usually go like this. The developer releases an app, making it available for Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. At the same time or shortly after, the developer makes the app available for Google’s Android mobile operating system. And sometime along the road, the developer makes the app available for Microsoft’s Windows Phone mobile operating system.
Things went differently with Office Lens. Since it is a Microsoft product, the ones who got to use it first were Windows Phone users (the app was released to the Windows Phone Store more than a year ago). As of this month, iOS users get to use Office Lens (the app is available on Apple’s App Store as of April, 2015). Android users will get to use it in the near future because right now, they can only use a preview, and that is if they choose to become a tester.
What is Office Lens and what can it do? It is Microsoft’s capture app. It turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner.
Office Lens – Main Features
- Capture – use Office Lens to take pictures of receipts, business cards, whiteboards, or documents.
- Edit – the app recognizes a document’s corners and automatically crops, enhances and cleans up the image.
- OCR – take a picture of a document and the app will use OCR to recognize the text. You can then edit the text and search within the text.
- Convert – images of paper documents and whiteboard notes can be converted into Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and PDF files.
- Contacts – by taking a photo of a business card you can generate and add a new contact to your phone.
- OneNote & OneDrive – save images to OneNote, OneDrive, or another cloud storage service.
Get Office Lens for iOS from Apple’s App Store.
You can’t get Office Lens for Android from Google Play just yet. But if you visit the Office Lens Android Preview community on Google+, you can sign up to be a tester.
