If you don’t already have OneNote, head on over to OneNote. Office also announced today that OneNote is free everywhere. You can see Office Lens in action by watching the following video: You can search for words within those images as well as edit the text, or copy and paste it into apps like email and documents.įor a little bit of some geeky behind-the-scenes stuff, you can read up on how Microsoft Research helped with Office Lens. If something you scanned has printed text like a movie poster for example, OneNote on a PC has optical character recognition (OCR) to recognize text within the images your scan in with Office Lens. Once your image is scanned into OneNote, it’ll sync across all your devices courtesy of OneDrive. The Office Lens app is similar to your scanner and it trims, enhances and makes pictures. Office Lens is a great way to capture notes and. Microsoft has released the Office Lens app for Windows Phone 8.

To continue to enjoy all Office Lens features, we recommend downloading and using the latest version of Microsoft Lens for iOS or Microsoft Lens for Android on your mobile device. It will straighten weird angles or clean up shadows for example. Office Lens for Windows 10 is no longer available for download from the Microsoft Store as of January 1, 2021. When you scan something in using Office Lens, it will make whatever you scanned in more readable by trimming and enhancing the photo. You can use Office Lens to scan almost anything you want into OneNote.

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