Microsoft Lens - PDF Scanner

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

Microsoft Lens (formerly Microsoft Office Lens) trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable.
You can use Microsoft Lens to convert images to PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, digitize printed or handwritten text, and save to OneNote, OneDrive, or your local device. You can even import images that are already on your device using Gallery.

PRODUCTIVITY AT WORK  
• Scan and upload all your notes, receipts, and documents
• Capture whiteboard at end of the meeting to keep those action items on track
• Scan printed text or handwritten meeting notes to edit and share later
• Keep your business networking contacts handy by scanning business cards and saving them to your contact list
• Choose to save as PDF, Image, Word or PowerPoint formats into OneNote, OneDrive, or local device as location

PRODUCTIVITY AT SCHOOL 
• Scan classroom handouts and annotate them in Word and OneNote
• Scan handwritten notes to digitize and edit later (works with English only)
• Take a picture of the whiteboard or blackboard to reference later, even if you're offline
• Keep class notes and your own research organized with the seamless integration with OneNote
 
By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions: http://aka.ms/olensandterms.

Ratings and reviews

At first, the app was working great. I was easily creating PDFs, and there were no issues. Now, the app refuses to capture a full sheet of paper in a scan even though the camera is perfectly level, the background contrasts with the paper, and the lighting is perfect, and the camera is properly distanced so that the paper is in focus. The cropping *feature* keeps cropping out important parts of the paper. This NEEDS to be fixed ASAP.

Great app, never had an issue. Always gets reinstalled after a device reset. Unfortunately, some Microsoft moron thinks that CoPilot is an adequate substitute despite not having a tenth of the capability as Lens. Don't bother installing unless you need it right now. Not only are they removing it from the play store, it won't work by the end of the year.

This is a great way to scan and save documents, receipts, and more. Scan as many pages as you need, apply filters to each image as needed to improve contrast, change to black/white or grey scale, and highlight colors. Excellent for scanning receipts and related paper docs for expenses, health care tracking. Also great for scanning physical photos.

What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.