Microsoft Office Lens

Microsoft Office Lens is a Microsoft app that uses a phone camera as a scanner. It is described as a cloud-based solution that turns pictures, documents and whiteboard content into PDF files.

What Microsoft Office Lens offers

• Document scanning: captures paper documents with a camera.
• Whiteboard capture: turns whiteboard content into a usable file.
• PDF output: saves the result as a PDF.
• OCR: recognises text in the captured images.

Who it works with

Businesses and individuals use it to digitise paperwork and meeting notes. Saved files can be kept in OneDrive and opened from any device, which helps teams share what was captured in a meeting room.

Key facts

• Maker: Microsoft
• Category: OCR software
• Delivery: Cloud-based