Download Office Lens for Windows Phone 8
Microsoft has released the Office Lens app for Windows Phone 8. The Office Lens app is similar to your scanner and it trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable, and saves them to OneNote. You can scan blackboards, sticky notes, price tags, business cards, documents and more and then save it easily into OneNote with all the formatting intact.
When your picture includes printed text, such as a poster or business card, OneNote on a PC can recognize the text with optical character recognition (OCR) so you can search for words in the image — and you can edit the text, or copy and paste it into apps like email and documents.
Office Lens has three modes, or settings, that help make your captures look their best:
- With Whiteboard mode, glare and shadows disappear.
- With Document mode, text is clear and easy to read.
- With Photo mode, you can take pictures of people and scenery.
Some use cases of Office Lens:
- Capture pictures of whiteboards and share your meeting notes with co-workers.
- Make digital copies of your printed documents, business cards or posters. The text will be automatically recognized (using OCR) so you can search and edit it.
- Take pictures of menus, shopping lists, or children’s sketches so you never have to worry about forgetting or misplacing them.
In order to use Office Lens, you need to have a Microsoft account and it should be the same account you use on Windows Phone.
