Microsoft Lens

Microsoft Lens

Price: $

Microsoft Lens is the official scanner app from Microsoft for your Android device. If you are looking to scan a document, written text, a picture, or anything at all, Microsoft Lens is one of the best options out there because it will scan the document and then make it into a PDF or any other format you desire.

A portable scanner for every user

Gone are the days when you required a physical scanner to scan documents and get them in a digital format. Now you can simply whip out your smartphone, open the Lens app, and scan anything you need. That includes posters, printed documents, business cards, photos, and any textual as well as pictorial files.

With built-in OCR (optical character recognition), Lens offers you a great way to ensure that your documents/photos with text in them will be recognized immediately. Your text will be recognized and validated when you scan it through the application. Now, all physical documents can be scanned and converted to digital files with a single click.

Many formats to choose from

Since Lens is an application by Microsoft, it only makes sense for it to be well-optimized and integrated with other applications from the Office Suite such as OneNote, OneDrive, and many more.

Lens allows you to scan documents or take pictures and store them in multiple formats for your convenience. The supported formats include multiple formats, including PDF, Word (Docx), and PowerPoint (Pptx). You can further store the saved file in OneNote, OneDrive, or on your device at your ease.

Many modes to use

Microsoft Lens has a few built-in modes you can use when you open the app. These are easily accessible as they are on the application's main screen. The available options are:

• Whiteboard
• Documents
• Business cards
• Action (multiple options)
• Photo

After capture features

After you have captured the document or the photo, there are many valuable features that you can utilize such as Rotate, Crop, Filters, and more. The Filters are particularly useful as they can put an additional layer of clarity, or black and white on your photo to make it more document-like.

Conclusion

Microsoft Lens is another viable application by the tech giant that employs all the right features and nothing more. While one could argue that it is limited in functionality compared to its competitor apps, Lens is great at what it does. A well-optimized application that will work on any Android device and a good overall package.