Microsoft Lens

Microsoft Lens, formerly Office Lens, is a mobile utility that was developed by Microsoft to capture, scan, straighten, and enhance images of whiteboards or printed documents and store them in various formats such as PDF files and JPEG images.
==Modes==
*Photos - best for taking pictures of people or scenery.
*Document - enhances printed images for legibility of small text on flyers, forms, menus, posters, and receipts.
*Whiteboard - adjusts images to minimize glare or shadows on the surface of a whiteboard, blackboard, or sketch for improved legibility.
*Business Card - extracts information from a card to add to Microsoft OneNote or the device's contacts. Supported languages include English, German, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese.
*Actions (Android only) - for extracting data from the image and initiating other actions:
**Contact - to save the information to contacts, like Business Card mode.
**QR Code - to launch websites and view or share other data associated with the code.
**Read - to verbally dictate aloud the text in the image.
**Table - to organize the data in the image into a table that can be copied or shared.
**Text - to extract text from the image that can be copied or shared.
==History==
Microsoft Lens was first launched as "Office Lens" for Windows Phone on March 17, 2014 and was available for Windows 10 and later (x86 and ARM).Office Lens: A OneNote scanner for your pocket, Microsoft. 2014-03-17. It was released for Android and on April 2, 2015, where it is marketed as "Microsoft Lens: PDF Scanner".Microsoft launches document scanning Office Lens app for iPhone and Android phones by Emil Protalinski, VentureBeat. 2015-04-02.
==References==
==External links==
*Microsoft Lens (for Windows) at the Microsoft Store
**Office Lens for Windows at Microsoft Support
*Microsoft Lens: PDF Scanner (for iOS and iPadOS) at the Apple App Store
**Microsoft Lens for iOS at Microsoft Support
*Microsoft Lens - PDF Scanner (for Android) at Google Play
**Microsoft Lens for Android at Microsoft Support
*Microsoft Lens at Logopedia
*Microsoft Lens at the Microsoft Wiki
* at Wikipedia
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