Folks who have Windows computers but iPhone/Android phones can now get the scanner -> computer integration of the Office Lens.
Posted on 04/06/2015 10:35:59 PM PDT by dayglored
Just over a year ago, we introduced Office Lens for Windows Phone—and over that time the app has become one of the most popular free apps on Windows Phone, with an average rating of 4.6 stars (out of 5) from more than 18,500 reviews.
Today, we’re releasing Office Lens for iPhone and Android phones.
Office Lens is a handy capture app that turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner and it works with OneNote so you’ll never lose a thing. Use it to take pictures of receipts, business cards, menus, whiteboards or sticky notes—then let Office Lens crop, enhance and save to OneNote. Just like that—all the scanned images you capture from Office Lens are accessible on all your devices.
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Tonight I saw an article about this in eWeek (http://www.eweek.com/mobile/microsoft-releases-ios-android-versions-of-its-office-lens-app.html and followed back to the Microsoft Blog post from a few days earlier, so that's what I'm posting here.
I just downloaded the app for my iPhone 5c and immediately started capturing snaps of everything I could find in my living room with text or graphics. Eventually I got back to doing this post...
I almost never post about apps -- there are a million apps, and a lot of them are wonderful. I won't bore you with all the details about what this app can do, but I encourage you to read the Blog post and/or the eWeek article and find out why this app is one of the most popular on the Windows Phone platform, and it will do similarly well on iPhones and Androids.
They say you can export the scan to OneNote -- that's true. But you can also export to Word, PowerPoint, OneDrive, PDF format doc, Email, or just store in your phone's Photo Library.
Seriously useful, and very well executed. Great stuff from Microsoft, and good on them for porting to iOS and Android.
Folks who have Windows computers but iPhone/Android phones can now get the scanner -> computer integration of the Office Lens.
Hey guys, you may want to cross-post this to your lists, since it involves iPhone/iOS and Android devices.
Been using CamScanner for years on my Android phones.
Thank you for posting this.
I’ll give it a try, but how is it better than the many scanner apps already on iOS, like ScannerPro, Documents, Genius Scan and DocScan, all of which I already have?
I haven't tried all of those so I can't say from first-hand experience, but I get the impression that Office Lens offers a higher degree of integration with the Microsoft family of Windows desktop/laptop applications -- which is why I thought it would be of interest to the Windows Ping List folks.
Maybe you can tell me: do those other iOS scanner apps integrate seamlessly with OneNote, PowerPoint, OneDrive, etc.? (I'm not saying they don't, just saying I don't know offhand.)
I'm not familiar with that app... does it integrate with Windows MS-Office applications (Word, PowerPoint), OneNote, etc.?
It saves the docs to the cloud it seems with this onenote thing.
You're welcome. I debated about posting it, since I don't want to clutter the Windows Ping List with posts about random mobile apps, but this seemed important enough to warrant the attention. Glad you liked it. :)
I’ve been using Genius Scan for two or three years with Android and iPhone.
Works great.
You basically take a picture of a document, and it saves it as a pdf file that you can upload to your cloud (dropbox, box, skydive, iCloud). Some are slightly better than others, but they are all pretty much the same. You click the share button, and then can send it wherever you want. I’ll see if Lens has any features that make it better.
Great, thanks! And by all means post back with your opinions and observations -- sounds like you're in a good position to review it.
Doesn’t sound like anything that isn’t already available. but I’ll give it a try if it is free.
Yep, it's free.
BTW, I don't see a version of it for the iPad, don't know if they plan to release a version for tablets.
Needs Android 4.1 and it is still in beta testing. I’ll pass until the bugs get worked out.
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4 am....
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My bud has the Windows Lumia phone and that is one killer app, she says. The one thing that pisses her off about the WP is that Google maps hates Windows.
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