Michal Marek Yesterday, Microsoft enriched the App Store with another application, and thus another useful tool from the Redmond workshop comes to the iPhone. This time it is the scanning application Office Lens, which gained its popularity on the "home" platform of Windows Phone. On iOS, the competition between apps is noticeably higher, and especially in the field of scanning tools, there is a real glut. However, Office Lens will certainly find its users. For those who are used to using the Office suite or the note-taking application OneNote, Office Lens will be an ideal addition.
There is probably no need to describe the Office Lens functions in any complicated way. In short, the application is adapted to take photos of documents, receipts, business cards, clippings and the like, while the resulting "scan" can be automatically cropped according to recognized edges and converted to PDF. But there is also the option to insert the result into OneNote or OneDrive, in addition to PDF, in DOCX, PPTX or JPG formats. A special feature of the application is also a special mode for scanning whiteboards.
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Office Lens also boasts automatic text recognition (OCR), which is a feature that certainly not every scanning application has. Thanks to OCR, the application will allow you to work with, for example, contacts from business cards or search for keywords from scanned texts in the OneNote note application or in the OneDrive cloud storage.
Office Lens is a free download on the App Store, so don't hesitate to download it for your iPhone. The application also works for Android, but so far only in a sample version for selected testers.
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It only works with a personal account from Microsoft, it cannot be used with a company account :-(
SHOCKED
THAT IS PROBABLY NOT POSSIBLE
IT WORKS GREAT
EPL NEEDS TO LEARN AGAIN
The app is great, but don't you happen to know how the business card tent works? It only gives me the option to attach a business card as an image to a contact, not to create a new contact from the business card.