Microsoft Lens
Captures and enhances documents, whiteboards, business cards, and more; extracts text with OCR; exports to PDF, Word, PowerPoint; integrates with cloud services including OneNote and OneDrive; supports archiving, multi-page scans, and email sharing.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
The Microsoft Lens app will be retired starting September 15, 2025. After November 15, Microsoft Lens will no longer be supported.
Features
- Ad-free
- Keystone correction
- Scan documents
- Scan to PDF
- Scan to JPEG
- Scan to word
- Works Offline
- Mobile Scanner
- OCR
- Export to PDF
- Deskew
- Convert images to PDF
- PDF OCR
- Particle Engine
Microsoft Lens News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
- POX updated Microsoft Lens
- OrdinaryPerson updated Microsoft Lens
HardLinker added Microsoft Lens as alternative to FairScan
POX added Microsoft Lens as alternative to CamScan- picking reviewed Microsoft Lens
Best mobile scanner app I've ever used. Easy to use, and can make the scanned pdf file smaller compared to OSS Document Scanner and Apple Preview (also Apple Files )
- picking liked Microsoft Lens
Techie2025 added Microsoft Lens as alternative to Preview- namdx1987 liked Microsoft Lens
hezhaoyun added Microsoft Lens as alternative to ClipAce
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What is Microsoft Lens?
Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens) is a great way to capture information from documents, whiteboards, business cards, receipts, menus, signs, handwritten memos, or anything else containing text that you want to import but not manually type out yourself. With Microsoft Lens, you don’t need to jot down any notes by hand, rely on blurry cell phone images, or worry about misplacing anything.
Microsoft Lens is great for capturing sketches, drawings and equations too — even images without text. When capturing images, Microsoft Lens gets rid of shadows and odd angles, so your final captures are easier to see.
You can upload your captured document and whiteboard images to Microsoft OneNote, Word, PowerPoint, or OneDrive, and you can also save them as PDF files or send them in email.
Microsoft Lens information
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Proprietary and Free product.Alternatives
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- 4.8 avg rating
Comments and Reviews
Best mobile scanner app I've ever used. Easy to use, and can make the scanned pdf file smaller compared to OSS Document Scanner and Apple Preview (also Apple Files )
It's free and does everything including OCD
Great free app. It corrects even nonlinear distortions.
Very good, since it's free, you don't have a watermark on your document.
Works well, but only sharing options with Microsoft products (no Evernote for example). Also password protection would be nice.