Office Lens

For quite some time there have been applications useful for scanning all kinds of documents and be able to create a digital file directly on the mobile However, not all these tools have the possibilities that Office Lens offers users. A Microsoft application that is taking its first steps and whose most outstanding characteristics are working side by side with the rest of Microsoft's services office of this same companySomething really useful not only to go from a physical document to a digital one, but to be able to edit it and store it in the cloud , if necessary.

This is an application that works like a scanner thanks to the smartphone's camera Thus, all you have to do is take a picture to capture The document. Now, its possibilities go much further. And it is capable of taking clear images of printed sheets, contact cards, black or white background blackboards, and any other document that you want to digitize. No it doesn't matter that the perspective is not completely perpendicular to the document, or the framing is the better, since Office Lens is in charge of recognizing the sheet or support and giving it the appropriate format.

Thanks to its editing tools, the user can select the contours of the document to cut the unnecessary part of the photo In addition, the content can be resized to achieve a flat document that appears to be printed on a straight sheet, even if the photograph was taken on an inclined plane. All this being able to eliminate the classic reflections when taking a photo on a document in a textbook or under fluorescent lights, in addition to tweak the contrast of the letters for maximum readability

But Office Lens surprises with its technology OCR orOptical Character Recognition That is, this application is able to detect and understand what is printed on the document Something that allows it to be fully digitized, offering the user the power to edit, correct and change the contentOf course, this part of the edition is carried out through the rest of Microsoft office applications And this is another of the key points of Office Lens, as it has full integration with tools like Word, PowerPoint or OneNote And even there is more.

In addition to being able to capture, retouch the visual aspect of the scanned document and make it fully readable, Office Lens also integrates with the cloud OneDrive With this, the user is able to store all scanned documents on the Internet and not in the memory of the smartphone Something that allows to free up space and keep a copy of these digitized documents safe

In short, a really capable and useful tool that offers editing and improvement options that, in other applications, are paid for.All of this taking into account that it takes on its true importance as it is the link between the physical document and Microsoft's office tools where you can retouch everything and create more complete content, without the need for a computer or a scanner to use. The Office Lens app is now available for iOS for free via App Store There is also a beta or trial version for users of Android, although if you don't want to run into bugs or not-quite-tuned operation, you'll still have to wait a little longer for its official arrival