The set-up is as simple as downloading the app from your app store and installing it.
How Do You Set Up Microsoft Office Lens? Google Play describes Microsoft Office Lens as a mobile scanner that enables users “to convert images to PDF, Word and PowerPoint files, and save on OneNote, OneDrive, or your local device.” Well, it turns out there is an app for all these functions called Office Lens. Have you ever been to a conference where you want to capture the information from the PowerPoint the speaker is talking about? Remember having an urge to take a picture of that whiteboard with an exceptionally impressive roadmap that you thought could be useful in the future? What about a situation where you want to take a snapshot of a business card, or a napkin deal - in a good way. Getting Started With Microsoft Office Lens This is why you need Microsoft Office Lens. Assuming you were fully attentive throughout, it’s still close to impossible to catch everything. You must have at one point felt that so much was covered in a conference that you attended, but you only managed to grab a small portion of it. If meetings are not quick and snappy - and provide instant gratification - you are most likely going to lose focus midway and miss on some critical points. That’s how short the human attention span is, averaged at about eight seconds. Even now that you have decided it’s worth your time, you are probably thinking of moving onto the next one.
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Or just ditch Windows entirely and run Office Lens or alternatives natively on Android (or iOS).Microsoft Lens: Scan Your Physical DocumentsĬhances are that you first skimmed through this article before finally settling on a full read.
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might as well run Office Lens for Android then.
It's not going very well - some of the suggested alternatives are actually Android apps used by running an Android emulator on Windows. So the search for a replacement for Office Lens on Windows continues.
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Notably in neither case (although I can't test the first one I have looked at videos of it in operation) does there appear to be functionality to capture multiple pages in one document, save as PDF or save into OneNote - so basically all the things I actually Show it has correctly got the page, obviously if you have to take the picture first you can't do that, so inevitably results will be worse or unusable. Now, usually with Office Lens I move the camera around until the white lines The document option seems toĭo something like Office Lens used to, but there is no indication/choice of where it detects the document is and it messes it up a lot more often (based on my very limited testing). Once you have taken the photo in camera app (at least on the version I have on my PC) if you go into image view, still in the camera app, there is a filters dropdown at the top which has " document" and "whiteboard" options. It also says it is "powered by Office Lens", and as we know, Office Lens is going away, so this feature may be going away The changelogįor the version of the app it apparently first appeared in says "*Available only on select devices" - no info on what those devices are. New camera modes, right hand side of the app below the camera / video selector/button - I can't say exactly what these do (or did) as they are not there on any of my devices.ĭespite some online news coverage implying the contrary, it seems these modes are only available on some devices, and I can find no list of what devices or what the requirements are - the store listing says 1080p, but I got that and no dice.
Confusingly there appear to be two different functions: