Office Lens gets a new name — meet Microsoft Lens

Microsoft is renaming its Office Lens app. Going forward, the app will exist known as Microsoft Lens. Aslope the new name, Microsoft is rolling out several new features to the app, including an improved scanning experience, the option to add filters to images, and the ability to browse upwardly to 100 pages equally PDFs or images. The app is as well gaining new intelligent actions, including image to text, prototype to tabular array, image to contact, an immersive reader, and QR Code scanning.

These features will roll out first to Android and then come to iOS in the "coming months." Microsoft outlines the upcoming features and the app'due south name modify in a Tech Community post.

The new scanning experience for Microsoft Lens lets y'all re-order pages, re-edit scanned PDFs, and employ filters to all images in a document. Information technology also lets you scan upward to 100 pages as images or PDFs and to easily switch betwixt local and cloud locations for saving files.

Microsoft Lens powers the photographic camera inside Microsoft 365 mobile apps, including Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, and Function. As a result, the photographic camera inside these apps should see improvements also.

Microsoft recently appear other upcoming features to Microsoft Lens alongside upcoming improvements to other mobile apps.

Microsoft Lens

This app makes it like shooting fish in a barrel to browse text, images, and document to make text easier to read. With it, you tin can digitize notes from whiteboards, paper documents, and more. It also has several new features on the fashion, including an improved scanning experience.

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