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

If you scan a lot of documents on your phone, this app is amazing. I hate when try to "scan" my documents and my phone casts a shadow on my pages. With this app, you can take the shot from an angle and it will automatically flatten the image out as if you scanned it normally. It even fills in parts of the page if you accidentally cut off page in your shot!

Mostly easy to use. I wish I could adjust the guidelines so it would take a bigger or smaller picture instead of having to move the camera and try again. (Like I can do when cropping pictures in other software.) I scan a lot of worksheets with a colored heading at the top it that this scanner doesn't like to acknowledge as part of the paper or sheets with a box drawn on the page that it only wants to focus on.

So far, I've only used Lens to crop documents, but it works well. What I like is how it takes the irregular shape & squares it up. It is a little tedious to manually find the 4 corners. (I didn't see an auto function - that would be great. Or, if it would zoom-in on the corner.) I also like that it gives several options for the output format.

What's new

Ability to rename scanned files
Bug fixes and performance improvements.