Microsoft Lens will replace Office Lens on Android immediately, and the iPhone update will arrive “in the coming months.” The new version of the app also includes an improved scan experience that lets you re-order pages, re-edit scanned PDFs, apply a filter to all images in the document, scan up to 100 pages as images or PDFs, and switch between local- and cloud-based PDF save locations. “Along with the new identity, we are bringing intelligent actions into the camera including Image to Text, Image to Table, Image to Contact, Immersive Reader, and QR Code Scan.” “Recommended by Wirecutter as one of the best mobile scanning apps in 2020, we’re taking the next step in our evolution by changing our name and logo from Office Lens to Microsoft Lens and adding some dynamic new features,” Microsoft’s Saumitra Agarwal writes in the announcement post.

The IT giant plans to continue working on expending the functionality of both the app's Android and iOS versions.Microsoft revealed today that it has rebranded Office Lens mobile app to Microsoft Lens and has created a restyled icon. Office Lens has already been available on Windows Phone for quite a while but, just like with its other major services, Microsoft has decided to expand beyond its own platform and find a larger clientele for its product. Furthermore, the explicit card mode is only available on Android. For example, those who use Apple's product won't be able to enjoy the app's auto-classification function and will not have the option of capturing and saving multiple images simultaneously. Unfortunately for some of you, the iOS version offers a few less features than the Android one. Once saved, the pictures can be kept as they are in OneNote or converted to Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. Furthermore, since it's also able to recognize hand writing, the tool can find images based on the words written in the items they contain.

What's really cool about Office Lens is that it integrates OCR technology, thus being able to automatically crop, clean up and enhance the images that you take using the app.

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