Microsoft Releases Office Lens App For Android Devices
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Office Lens is a handy capture app that turns your smartphone into a pocket scanner. It crops, straightens, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Pictures of documents are automatically saved to OneDrive and can be edited on any device.It is now available for Android devices as well.
It offers the following capabilities and features across all three phone platforms:
- Converts images of paper documents, electronic screens and whiteboard notes into Word documents, PowerPoint presentations and searchable PDF files for easy storage, editing and reformatting.
- Enables images to be sent via email, making it easy to share whiteboard notes with work colleagues, submit scanned business expense receipts or ensure family and friends have copies of important paper documents.
- Captures business cards and generates contacts, which can be sent to OneNote and added to your phone.
- Recognizes the corners of a document and automatically crops, enhances and cleans up the image.
- Identifies printed text with optical character recognition (OCR) so that you can search by keyword for the image in OneNote or OneDrive.
- Inserts images to OneNote or as DOCX, PPTX or PDF files in OneDrive, providing options to save, export and share the image.
Download Office Lens Android from the Office Lens Android today.
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