Audience

Any company that needs a scanning and optical character recognition tool

About Microsoft Lens

Microsoft Lens (formerly Microsoft Office Lens) trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and docs readable. You can use Microsoft Lens to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and you can even save images to OneNote or OneDrive. Microsoft 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!

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Ratings/Reviews - 5 User Reviews

Overall 4.8 / 5
ease 4.8 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 4.8 / 5
support 4.8 / 5

Company Information

Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
www.microsoft.com

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Product Details

Platforms Supported
Cloud
Windows
iPhone
iPad
Android
Training
Documentation
Support
Online

Microsoft Lens Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What kinds of users and organization types does Microsoft Lens work with?
Q: What languages does Microsoft Lens support in their product?
Q: What kind of support options does Microsoft Lens offer?
Q: What other applications or services does Microsoft Lens integrate with?
Q: Does Microsoft Lens have a mobile app?
Q: What type of training does Microsoft Lens provide?

Microsoft Lens Product Features

OCR

Convert to PDF
ID Scanning
Image Pre-processing
Text Editor
Batch Processing
Indexing
Metadata Extraction
Multi-Language
Multiple Output Formats
Zone Selection Tool

Microsoft Lens Reviews

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  • Shishir D.
    Senior
    Used the software for: 6-12 Months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 20,000 or More
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Great intuitive tool"

    Posted 2021-11-29

    Pros: Automatically recognizes borders and is super fast in scanning documents. Frequent updates help keep it ahead of the curve.

    Cons: Certain functions like adding pages are not very intuitive.

    Overall: Overall, it is the best document scanning app. As it is available cross-platform, same login helps me access documents across devices as well.

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  • A Microsoft Office Lens User
    Service Engineer
    Used the software for: Less than 6 months
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 20,000 or More
    Design
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    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Scanning utility"

    Posted 2020-08-27

    Pros: Microsoft Office Lens is a pretty decent scanning utility which is available for free and provides a range of features which can be seen in many paid apps. it offer document scan of multiple types as well as provides basic editing tools to give a touch up to scanned images.

    Cons: No cons, great to see such a nice utility available for free.

    Overall: Microsoft Office Lens is a great choice if you are looking for a scanner app for you smartphone. It works as expected and scans quality images.

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  • A Microsoft Office Lens User
    Senior Software Engineer
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 5,000 - 9,999
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    Features
    Pricing
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    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Best Free Scanning Software"

    Posted 2020-08-14

    Pros: Lots of features like Scanning, Photo Editing, OCR capture
    Integrates with other Office 365 apps like OneNote.
    Great mobile app.
    Available for free.

    Cons: For a free software it is really good and holds up pretty well against premium scanning apps.

    Overall: Microsoft Office Lens is the best free scanning software. It not just scans documents but offers more features like image editing and OCR scanner as well.

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  • A Microsoft Office Lens User
    Software Developer
    Used the software for: 1-2 Years
    Frequency of Use: Daily
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
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    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Great Scanner Utility"

    Posted 2020-07-10

    Pros: Free to use
    Integrates with OneNote, OneDrive and other services to store images
    OCR functionality to recognize words in images
    Basic Photo editing features
    Save captured images as pdf , word or ppt files
    Available on smartphones as well

    Cons: It is a it slower than other scanning apps.
    Editing options are very limited.

    Overall: Microsoft Office Lens is an excellent Scanner Utility. It is a great free alternative to the more popular freemium scanning apps if you are looking for a basic scanner.

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  • Andy S.
    Technical Training Manager
    Used the software for: 6-12 Months
    Frequency of Use: Weekly
    User Role: User
    Company Size: 100 - 499
    Design
    Ease
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    Pricing
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    Probability You Would Recommend?
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    "Used briefly but had definite potential!"

    Posted 2020-04-28

    Pros: Great tools for taking photos and utilizing the content from the pictures. Neat tool for snapping a picture of a business card and sending the applicable information automatically to a list of contacts.

    Cons: Could only integrate with Microsoft Notes for sending business card data.

    Overall: Used this for a few months. Loved the idea of being able to keep a database of business cards digitally and there are lots of other apps that do this but none that I could find for the price and functionality of Office Lens. Only downside was that it only integrated with MS Notes and I really don't use that for anything else so eventually I just stopped using it.

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