Office Lens for Android Graduates from Preview, Lands on Google Play
For about a couple of months now, Office Lens for Android has been in preview. During that time, it has been downloaded more than 70,000 times and it has been evaluated by more than 130,000 Google+ community previewers.
The news is that the preview phase is over. Office Lens, Microsoft’s useful capture app, is now available for all Android users on Google Play (download link at the bottom).
Back in March 2014, Microsoft rolled out the Office Lens app. Unsurprisingly, it rolled out it out only to its Windows Phone platform.
Then in early April 2015, Microsoft announced that it added two new entries to the list of supported platforms: iOS and Android. Or to put it in other words, Microsoft rolled out Office Lens for iOS and Office Lens for Android. While the iOS version was ready for the limelight, the Android version wasn’t – it was still in the preview development phase.
Still, that did not prevent fans from testing it. According to Microsoft, the Office Lens for Android Preview was downloaded more than 70,000 times and was put to the test by more than 130,000 Google+ community previewers.
Office Lens for iOS, since it was a stable and not a preview version, was even more popular than that. According to Microsoft, Office Lens for iOS was downloaded more than 1.3 million times in the first month after its launch.
What about Office Lens for Windows Phone? Well, Microsoft made sure to point out that to date, Windows Phone users have totaled 3.5 million Office Lens downloads.
But I digress. So as I was saying, Microsoft released Office Lens for Windows Phone in March 2014. Then in April 2015 it released Office for iOS and a preview version of Office for Android. It’s now the end of May 2015 and the news is that Office for Android exited the preview phase. Any Android user out there can get it from Google’s Play store.
Office Lens – Main Features
Get Office Lens for Windows Phone from Microsoft’s Windows Phone Store.
Get Office Lens for iOS from Apple’s App Store.
Get Office Lens for Android from Google Play.
The news is that the preview phase is over. Office Lens, Microsoft’s useful capture app, is now available for all Android users on Google Play (download link at the bottom).
Back in March 2014, Microsoft rolled out the Office Lens app. Unsurprisingly, it rolled out it out only to its Windows Phone platform.
Then in early April 2015, Microsoft announced that it added two new entries to the list of supported platforms: iOS and Android. Or to put it in other words, Microsoft rolled out Office Lens for iOS and Office Lens for Android. While the iOS version was ready for the limelight, the Android version wasn’t – it was still in the preview development phase.
Still, that did not prevent fans from testing it. According to Microsoft, the Office Lens for Android Preview was downloaded more than 70,000 times and was put to the test by more than 130,000 Google+ community previewers.
Office Lens for iOS, since it was a stable and not a preview version, was even more popular than that. According to Microsoft, Office Lens for iOS was downloaded more than 1.3 million times in the first month after its launch.
What about Office Lens for Windows Phone? Well, Microsoft made sure to point out that to date, Windows Phone users have totaled 3.5 million Office Lens downloads.
But I digress. So as I was saying, Microsoft released Office Lens for Windows Phone in March 2014. Then in April 2015 it released Office for iOS and a preview version of Office for Android. It’s now the end of May 2015 and the news is that Office for Android exited the preview phase. Any Android user out there can get it from Google’s Play store.
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 Windows Phone from Microsoft’s Windows Phone Store.
Get Office Lens for iOS from Apple’s App Store.
Get Office Lens for Android from Google Play.
