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Microsoft Lens features
Common features of OCR software
Functionality
4.5
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Price starts from
Free
Total Features
18
Unique features
ID Scanning
PDF Conversion
Third-Party Integrations
Secure Data Storage
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16
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Total Features
29
Features in Common
7
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Access Controls/Permissions
Document Generation
File Conversion
Indexing
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Sandipan C.
Education Management, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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I have been using Microsoft office lens for more than two years now. I find it is a great improvement to what I was previously using. The Best feature that I like about this app is that it auto detects and crops the subject during picture clicking and saves time, unlike other apps where auto cropping is done as a post processing part. Being a free tool, office lens offers OCR feature for exporting to text format in PDF and Word, which is often missing in the free versions of peer apps . Thirdly, It doesn't add a watermark to the output files.
The user should be allowed to tweak the parameters that control the picture quality. Some peer apps have the option of regulating the contrast, sharpness, details and brightness as soon as the pictures are clicked and cropped. Second, office lens should support more options than scanning from just documents, business cards, etc (for example, powerpoints and greeting cards offered in peer apps).
Pradeep S.
Paper & Forest Products, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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It's features and auto deduction method which reduces time of corp
Very nice and very simple to use not found any drawback
Ouattara B.
Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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I sometimes use it to digitize visual media in order to obtain a high-quality rendering. You can scan documents in high quality, convert handwritten text into digital text, and edit it in Word, PowerPoint, or Onenote. I highly recommend it
Microsoft Lens is a really great app. With Microsoft Lens, it is very easy to convert a physical, visual medium into a digital file. With a single click of your smartphone photo, you transform your visual support into an editable digital file. I like its scanning accuracy and its sharing and integration features with Microsoft Office applications. It integrates very easily with other Microsoft Office tools such as Word, Onenote, Powerpoint, etc. Or, with its scanning accuracy, you can simply keep the rendered file or share it. Also, it is possible to process a file already in its gallery to make it editable. Microsoft Office Lens is an application to try at least once
I have not had any particular problems with this product. I don't have any recommendations to make at this time
Nicholas C.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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I had used Lens early in its life when it helped to capture documents and put them in our OneDrive. It was simple and straight-forward. The feature i appreciated most at the time was its ability to crop at an angle to account for the angle at which items were being captured. It was earlier this year that i had a colleague recommend revisiting it. As we had been thoroughly impressed with the improvements...
The immersive reader. I have been using lens to capture and convert materials to use in Immersive Reader with the Read Aloud feature. The ability to extract text and convert it to the Immersive Reader is impressive. And then the functionality of Immersive Reader to assist in reading and hearing it read has improve my retention and focus .
Some of the export workflows do not seem as intuitive as I'd like. When capturing something to share with a student it is harder to choose some of the shared locations in iOS. This is relatively moot as the features for Lens are often also found in the OneNote app.
mahfujur rahman m.
Computer Software, 11-50 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I can't describe how Microsoft Lens help me in my practical life. It reduces my work pressure a lot. In a word i just love it.
It takes less time to convert images to PDF and PowerPoint with maximun accuracy which impresses me a lot.
Sometimes it is not accurate while converting image to word file if the image quality is not high.
Margaret F.
Individual & Family Services, self-employed
Used monthly for 6-12 months
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Best free to use scan app in the play store/app store
This app makes me easy to scan my documents at anytime. Interface is soo simple and easy to operate. Available filters are great. Furthermore I can save scanned images to my gallery, PDF, word and PowerPoint. That's a great feature that I love
Gets stuck when saving scanned photos, but not every time.
Fabian V.
Construction, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Simply a magical tool that gives us confidence to carry out high quality work with successful results to the satisfaction of our clients, the most interesting thing is that we can count on immediate customer service, this service is scarce or null with other SoftWare of the same guy, thus making him the Ace up the sleeve of our company.
This SoftWare is the perfect tool in our company, it's easy, its interface is very pleasant to look at, its functions allow you to perform multiple tasks at the same time, with this program the endless hours in editing processes of images to Word are over , PowerPoint and PDF, supporting all our work in case of inconvenience or breakdown of our equipment, through OneDrive or OneNote. Only this detail gives a very high bonus to this important SoftWare that has a number of features that you can explore very easily. It has brought us many benefits and endless editing solutions. I recommend this important tool, once you use it, you will not want to take it off.
To tell the truth regarding the cons of the SoftWare in question, I must state that we have not experienced any type of inconvenience to date, we have had this important program in our company for more than three years and it does not report any inconvenience.
Keoagile K.
Computer Software, self-employed
Used weekly for 2+ years
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I'm currently using Microsoft Lens with some of the learners I tutor. I started using around 2010 when I had corporate clients. Instead of them having to write out notes on their notebooks, I encouraged them to install the app on their devices and scan the notes on the whiteboard as and when they need to. That way, they wouldn't need to be taking copious notes. And, now I am using with my new group of learns how happen to be teens. The flow of discussion and learning is much better when we use Microsoft Lens.
The biggest plus for me was the fact that I could use Microsoft Lens to capture text from a whiteboard that is about 3+ meters away from me. And it comes out clear and crisp. The second plus is the ability to share to a plethora of apps, including to the printer. But, personally I feel the trophy belongs to the ability to export the captured text to the Immersive Reader. This alone was the clincher for me. Oops, forgot to mention that since it is very easy to use, the learning curve is ... none. Anyone can be up and running with it straight out of the box.
The drawbacks I experienced with Microsoft Lens were the limited intuitiveness when it comes to adding more pages. Would have been much greater if I could also export alphabets (other than the Roman alphabet) to Immersive Reader. Maybe I'm asking for too much.
Modise T.
Graphic Design, self-employed
Used daily for less than 6 months
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A sure time saver, where I have to gather and communicate a client's ideas input without affecting their time line. In general I believe to the office worker, it should be thanked for destroying permanently the office scan machine queues and bringing a communicable scan to hand. It definately saves the none collateral presence, where you can just quickly scan and submit especially for mitigation purposes without being there physically.
An instance where binary actually steals work from a machine. One piece of software that completely and in a new way replaces the physical scanner. Without much aligning instructions, as machine scanner would require: lens without much ado grabs your document in to the digital and gives you the whole right to toy and toggle it to you desired shape without without infringing the actual content. Having...
As a camera dependent software, your make of camera or phone can hamper output as it depends on your pixels and ambient light.
Marko M.
Education Management, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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It is really helpful if you get various paper documents all the time like me and can put them into the electronic archive in minutes wherever you are since your smarthphone is always near. With a couple of tweaks in settings you get the document automatically in your one drive folder.
The interface provides a great way to turn the photo of a document into a pdf document which really looks like it was scanned on a scanner. Having tried a couple of alternative mobile apps, I think this one does a better work of transforming the photo image you take (you can fine-tune the borders of the document) into scanner like output. Furthermore, it is connected with one-drive you it goes straight to your folder on the computer.
Of course, when the light conditions are not so good, it can take a couple of takes of the same document to not have the shadows on the document, but this is expected. At least, the interface is nice so you can easily discard just one page and re-do it.
Kosara K.
Furniture, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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It is simple to use.I can simply save to my photo Gallery,so there's no requirements to use any Microsoft cloud services.
I can quickly scan my paper documents,and export them as multi-page PDF files.I have been utilizing Microsoft Office Lens focal point for a long time,and I am very satisfied. It is truly useful and simple to utilize software.I use it also on my telephone. My filtering commerce cards could be a idealize fit for this kind of app.
To be honest,there isn't anything in the app that I really miss.Almost every function is included in the kit. The only drawback is that it takes a long time to load,otherwise it's fantastic.
Mark L.
Writing and Editing, self-employed
Used weekly for less than 6 months
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As a freelancer writer, the potential to allow my clients to send over images of ideas they have already come up with in a form that is of a compiled sheet greatly helps me. The ability to have images shared across my entire Microsoft workspace in an easy fashion is of great convenience and invaluable to keeping my ideas together.
Microsoft Lens will work and shine in businesses with a predominantly Microsoft work ecosystem. The main allure is the ability to capture images using the cameras of any device with the Microsoft Lens app installed and then immediately export the images to any Microsoft app. The app itself also has the ability to highlight and enhance certain types of images eg. tables or graphs in order to make them more legible for easier document processing. With Microsoft Lens the opportunity to enhance an already existing Microsoft setup is an invaluable tool.
Microsoft Lens whilst it does enhance a business with a majority usage of Microsoft product will not greatly affect the work or help a business with a small number of Microsoft product users. Furthermore, there are alternatives to the app with some offering more options such as the ability to capture images at higher resolution. The app excels in one respect and that is the integration of the app with the wider Microsoft ecosystem.
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Health, Wellness and Fitness, 1,001-5,000 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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I have been using MIcroosft Office Lens for a long time and I am very satisfied. It is excellent to scan papers and documents in a fast way. It is really helpful and easy to use software. You can crop and edit your documents on the go and upload it on your cloud. I use it on a daily basis for my job and in personal life.
None. I like everything about Microsoft Office Lens.
Chikadibia E.
E-Learning, self-employed
Used weekly for 2+ years
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I have used and fell in love with this software that I find it difficult to pinpoint a thing I least like about it. Generally, the software has been wonderful and a time saver and stress reliever. I cannot remember the last time I went to computer shops for scanning.
Office Lens is the best scanner app I have used. It is worth 5 stars. The premium android version can copy out text from sheets, read text directly from scanning and save documents in pdf and other formats too. This app is recommended for all students and office workers for best obtainable portable scanning without depending on traditional scanning machines.
It is difficult for me to find what I do not like about this software.
Gagamel M.
Online Media, self-employed
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documents scanned can be saved to cloud storage.
scanning of the hardcopy documents to softcopy image ,pdf or convert to the docx.
Microsoft lens is easy to purchase simplifies and save time in the document management
Kaitlin C.
Music, self-employed
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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I like that no matter where I am at, I can scan any document. It has been so convenient especially working virtually to get sheet music to my students online. Overall, this has been a great product and a nice change to other apps I have used.
I love that I can use my phone to scan any document any time and have an incredible, clear picture as a result. I have tried other scanner apps for sheet music and they just aren’t able to capture the detail like this app is able to do. It’s free and many other scanning apps charge. I’ve been impressed with the way I’m able to arrange each page in a different order than it was scanned before I upload it as a PDF.
Sometimes it doesn’t accurately crop the images so I have to manually do it, but it doesn’t take much time and is fairly simple to do.
Khan Md Mohaiuminul Islam S.
Civil Engineering, 201-500 employees
Used daily for 1-2 years
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As a microsoft product its very easy to use and fills my daily needs perfectly. As a civil engineer i need to take so many scan/photos of official document. Without loosing the quality i am able to take images perfectly . Editing files is good option i used continuously. Since its very user friendly , takes me less time used to it.
Very easy to use Microsoft lens, user interface is good, takes less time to master it. Taking photos of paper documents and making PDF is very quick, especially you don't have scanner nearby. Besides you can edit the pdf or documents and send the files to other teammates. It can capture whiteboard also ,it reduces my workload , after meeting just taking the photos and send to all participants. Positioning the images is key here when capturing images, text identify result is pretty accurate .
Sometimes i feel like text are not perfectly captured, need to take again steadily to resolve the issue.
Chris B.
Music, self-employed
Used weekly for 1-2 years
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Overall this is a solid product it will help you find what you're looking for. You might have to alter your searches a little bit by adding in a keyword or two but it does have the ability to help you find what you're looking for.
I find Microsoft lens to be much more useful than the Google version Google they have theirs specifically for bringing up pictures to go directly to products to buy but you can't use it for anything useful like people's faces or locations or any of that kind of stuff where Microsoft lens seems to be a little bit more robust and a little bit more flexible. I've been able to locate things with lens that I couldn't get any type of a hit or recognition from the other search engine. Microsoft did a really good job with their overall scheme of implementation and the usefulness of the product It doesn't just go to a sales thing it can look for other things as well.
Still I find that there a little bit too geared toward selling and not helping you discover something that you're looking for. Anything that is for sale comes to the top of the list and you might not even get what you're looking for which could just be an identification of what a product is or what something is because it's an antique or something like that. But still all in all it's pretty solid for the use cases that they have a designed for
Pavel R.
Marketing and Advertising, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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Microsoft Office Lens has always been able to fill the gap when I needed a scanner at the office or on the road. The application is very well managed despite some bugs that are still quite rare. I therefore recommend Microsoft Office Lens at 90% to scan all your documents in emergency or not as well as to scan business cards, flyers and other documents.
Microsoft Office Lens is a reliable tool that offers free but high quality scanning services. In addition to all these advantages, it is available on your smartphone. Microsoft Office Lens solves the problem whenever you need to scan photos or documents in a very clear and precise way. When you are on the move and suddenly feel the need for a scanner thanks to Microsoft Office Lens you can scan everything you need. The functions of the buttons are simple yet so powerful. I use it a lot to scan documents and take snapshots of words written on a whiteboard.
Despite all these advantages, Microsoft Office Lens also has some drawbacks such as a loading time that is sometimes too long. Or the difficulty to scan the entire document even if it works well most of the time.
Sven B.
Education Management, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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Ein alltagsgebräuchliches einfach zu bedienendes Werkzeug um Daten zu sichern Sehr guter Workflow wird damit ermöglicht.
Erkennes des Mediums - Rahmen automatisch. Auswahl der verschieden Dateiformaten zur Ablage oder Weiterverabeitung Einfache Bedienbarkeit
Auflösung von Texten mit OCR Funktionalität.Erzeugt viele Fehler...
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Jim Paul B.
E-Learning, 10,001+ employees
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Microsoft Office Lens is a reliable tool that provides scanning services for free but with maximum quality. On top of all these perks, it's just a click away from your smartphone. I use it during meetings when I don't have with me my laptop, or at moments when I need to take a super clear shot on any document such as memos, announcements, or even receipts at supermarkets or hardware stores which I could use as a proof of purchase or for reimbursements. Thanks, Microsoft!
Microsoft Office Lens solves the day whenever a need for crystal-clear scanning of photos or documents arises. It's the go-to application when you're out and suddenly feel the need for a handy mobile scanner, realizing that it's an application in your smartphone. The tool is easy-to-use although the walk-through tutorial upon installing it is of great help too. The buttons' functions are simple yet so powerful. I use it a lot in scanning documents and taking snapshots of words written on a whiteboard. It's also a recommended software for taking random shots whose quality are at par with those of other top applications out in the market, or maybe better.
The scanning feature is one of the best and it's so reliable when used. If I may suggest though, the focusing task is sometimes a little annoying especially if the correct shape or outline is not easily met. But overall, it's best at what it does which is performing like an actual scanning machine.
Rezwanul Haque R.
Computer Software, self-employed
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Microsoft Office Lens filters reports, cards, and whiteboards with your Android telephone, making them more decipherable, and now and again editable.
This application is an extraordinary method for getting sorted out the entirety of your stuff. It's not difficult to utilize and it incorporates well with other Office applications. It can assist you with monitoring everything from tacky notes and business cards to receipts. Since it utilizes Optical Character Recognition, it gives preferred lucidity over ordinary photograph-taking projects and cameras....
Some of the time white part is left on the filtered pictures. On occasion, the quality naturally gets compromised.
Abhik B.
Computer Networking, 1-10 employees
Used weekly for 6-12 months
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The Microsoft lens is a good tool for scanning images and documents. But managing a large number of scanned documents is difficult.
The quality of the scanned images is very good. The app can show the area to crop while taking the photo. This is a unique feature most similar apps lack. They show the crop area only after capturing the photo but not during capturing. Showing the crop area during capturing gives an idea regarding the final output image. Auto-detection of the crop area is also better than many other apps. Further, the app is advertisement free.
The app lacks any folder to organise the scanned images. Also, there is no option just to select a few images and export them as a PDF. The export PDF option is only available just after scanning. Overall, I didn't like the organisation of managing the scanned files. Scanning a large number of pages and probably multiple of them is difficult.
Turan A.
Automotive, 501-1,000 employees
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Since the day I met, I can solve almost all my needs from a single point. I no longer need all the physical equipment I need. one software and dozens of features.
An excellent app that works like a real assistant. Especially creating, editing, changing, rearranging the document record, getting the data you want from somewhere and finally getting it in the format you want according to your needs. Its mobile app is a convenience beyond perfection.* Instantly select an area and transfer it to your phone,* Cut the image, straighten it, change the resolution*...
It must be integrated into Office365. In this way, it will completely eliminate the need for third-party software.
Albertus C.
Computer Games, self-employed
Used daily for 2+ years
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Scanning images and documents is made easy with the Microsoft lens. Nevertheless, it can be challenging to manage a large number of scanned documents.
The scanned photographs have excellent quality. While snapping the picture, the app can display the cropping area. They don't reveal the crop area while taking the picture; they only do so subsequently. A preview of the final image can be seen by displaying the crop area while the image is being captured. The crop area can be automatically detected, which is superior to many other programs.
There is no choice to simply choose a few images and export them as a PDF. I was unhappy with the way the scanned files were managed. It is challenging to scan a large volume of pages, likely multiple pages.