Office Lens – A Mobile Scanner in your Pocket

 

The Office Lens app has has been arround for a while but only on Windows phones where it has become an indispensable tool for many mobile users, such as students grabbing notes from a whiteboard in class, or those who want to quickly convert their notes from a meeting into a format that they can email to their colleagues.

The news is that now you can upload images without needing a OneDrive account, and it’s available for other platforms as well.

Office Lens will convert the data images you capture with it to your choice of PDF, Word and PowerPoint files plus you can store those images in OneNote or on OneDrive.

Any image captured with Office Lens is searchable using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) so that you can find the content later through document/image searches.

You can download the latest version of Office Lens free for: