Office Lens trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive. Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitize notes from whiteboards or blackboards.
Oddly it came to iOS and Android before finally finding a home in the Mac version of the Office suite of products. With its launch on Apple desktops, OneNote is also going completely gratis.
Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later. Don't lose receipts or stray sticky notes again! By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions: Scenarios: - Capture and crop a picture of a whiteboard or blackboard and share your meeting notes with co-workers. Make digital copies of your printed documents, business cards, or posters and trim them precisely. Printed and handwritten text will be automatically recognized (using OCR), so you can search for words in images and then copy and edit them. Office Lens trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable.
You can use Office Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive. Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitize notes from whiteboards or blackboards. Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later. Don't lose receipts or stray sticky notes again! By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions: Scenarios: - Capture and crop a picture of a whiteboard or blackboard and share your meeting notes with co-workers.
Make digital copies of your printed documents, business cards, or posters and trim them precisely. Printed and handwritten text will be automatically recognized (using OCR), so you can search for words in images and then copy and edit them. Features. With Whiteboard mode, Office Lens trims and cleans up glare and shadows. With Document mode, Office Lens trims and colors images perfectly. The scanned picture can be saved to your choice of OneNote, OneDrive, or locally on the device.
Business Card mode can extract contact information and save it into your address book and OneNote. This feature works best with the following business cards: English, German, Spanish and Chinese.
Choose to convert images to Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx), or PDF (.pdf) files that are automatically saved to OneDrive. I am always sending school work to my friends from school, and they were always complaining 'your pictures are so blurry!
Take better pictures!' So I got this app. Any math work or English is easily made a PDF, Microsoft word, or PowerPoint. It's also easy to put into one note. Taking a picture of the bookwork or whiteboard may take a little longer than just taking a picture, but the quality is far superior.
Pros: Better quality Easy data transfer Highly used formats supported Cons: Takes a little longer to take a picture Only used for documenting; doesn't take Regular pictures. Submitted on 3/27/2018 Review title of EJust what I have been waiting for Now that I have figured out how the app works, I do like it very much. Little documentation is available online, so I might put up a YouTube video on how to use it. Of course, the best part is that it is free!
Using a Surface Book and Office 2016, I am scanning a ton of business cards to create a contact list in OneNote 2016. This database will be shared across different Windows 10 laptops and Android devices (specifically, a Galaxy S7 phone). The OCR accuracy is very good with most fonts. If unusual fonts are scanned, the little typos can be easily edited and corrected.Good job, developers. Thank you and all the best!
Office Lens for iPad Office Lens for iPhone Office Lens is a great way to capture notes and info from whiteboards, menus, signs, handwritten memos, or anything with a lot of text. You don’t need to jot down notes, rely on blurry images or worry about misplacing anything.
It’s great for capturing sketches, drawings and equations too, and even images without text. Office Lens gets rid of shadows and odd angles so images are easier to read. You can upload document and whiteboard images to Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive, and you can save them as PDFs or send them in mail. You can download the latest version of Office Lens for free from. Choose a mode As soon as you open Office Lens, you can choose your mode — Business Card, Photo, Document, or Whiteboard — so Office Lens can make the image look its best.
If you are using an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus, you can choose the mode by pressing and holding the Office Lens icon on the home screen. Note: This article uses screenshots taken from iPhone, although they also apply to iPad. Business Card This mode will help you extract contact information and save it into your iPhone or iPad's contacts and into OneNote. This feature currently works best with business cards in English, German, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese.
Photo This is a good mode to use if you’re capturing images of scenery or people. Document This mode will help you get the most out of small words and details on a page. It’s great for things like posters, fliers, or restaurant menus. Whiteboard Use this mode to capture notes. Office Lens will adjust images so the background isn’t too bright and the words are easier to read. It’s an ideal setting for blackboards and sketches, too. Take a picture Choose whether or not to use a flash, and then make sure the frame lines up with the item you want to capture.
Use the Camera button to take a picture. If you prefer, you can import an existing image from the Photo Library on your device. If you want to retake the photo, tap the Trash button icon to delete and then retake the displayed image. If you want to take more photos, tap the Take More button. Use VoiceOver to get real-time voice guidance—like “move right,” “move up,” and more—to take the right picture when you can’t see, have low vision, or blindness.
Review and edit You can edit your image before you save it so it’s exactly the way you want it to be. Tap the Crop and Rotate icons to edit the picture. Use the Crop feature to trim away any parts of the image that you don’t need. You can also add a caption to the image.
This caption will be used as the alt text in OneNote and the file title on OneDrive. After you edit an image, tap Done. If you take more than two images, Office Lens will show all the images you took in the gallery.
Save. For captures taken in Photo, Document, or Whiteboard modes, you can save images to OneNote, OneDrive, as a Word or PowerPoint file, or as a PDF. You can also send scanned images through Outlook or local mailer, or save them in your iPhone or iPad’s Photo Library. If you would like to read the text immediately, select Immersive Reader to read the text aloud. You can save your captures to Gallery or as a PDF without an internet connection and don't need to sign in to the app. In order to upload your captures to OneNote, OneDrive, Word, or PPT, you will need an internet connection and be prompted to sign-in. If you would like Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to be run on your captures, use the Word document format.
Office Lens will create a Word file in your OneDrive, which will automatically extract all of the text that is in your captures. Note: When you save an image to OneNote, OneDrive, as a Word or PowerPoint file, or as a PDF, you’ll be prompted to sign in with your Microsoft Account or your Work or School account.
For captures taken in Business Card mode, tap OneNote (Contact + Image) to save the image to your iPhone or iPad's contacts as a vCard (.vcf file), or save the image to your iPhone or iPad's Photo Library. By default, images saved to OneNote will be in your main notebook, but you can change the location to keep your notes organized in a way that suits you. Note: If you’re new to OneNote, you’ll find images in the Quick Notes section of Notebook. If you’ve been using OneNote for a while, your notebook will have a different name, like Personal, Personal (web), or My Notebook, and your captured content will be in the Unfiled Notes section.
Additional information Images saved as Word files, PowerPoint files, or PDFs will be in your Documents folder in OneDrive so you can access them from any of your devices. PDF files can also be saved locally on your phone, and you can edit the save location for your PDF by tapping on the Save button. Office Lens doesn’t just import an image into a Word or PowerPoint file. The final Word and PowerPoint documents are real Office documents. For Word, Office Lens recognizes the text, handwritten or printed, and the document layout.
All of the text, formatting, and the layout in the Word document it creates is fully editable — just like you authored it at your desk. For PowerPoint, all of the handwritten lines and strokes are transformed into PowerPoint drawing objects that can be recolored, resized, moved around, and edited. You can remove the background of drawings as well, which makes it easier to reuse the drawings in other presentations.
For PDFs, Office Lens extracts the text information. You can search the content in a file with the text and you can highlight or copy part of the page with your PDF reader app. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and supported languages: Save Destination Target Text/Input Languages Word, PDF, OneDrive, OneNote, Immersive Reader Printed Text English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish OneNote Handwriting Text English Business Card mode (OneNote) Business Card English, Simplified Chinese, German, Spanish Still have questions?
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