Microsoft Lens Reviews

Microsoft Office Lens solves the day whenever a need for crystal-clear scanning of photos or documents arises. It's the go-to application when you're out and suddenly feel the need for a handy mobile scanner, realizing that it's an application in your smartphone.

The tool is easy-to-use although the walk-through tutorial upon installing it is of great help too. The buttons' functions are simple yet so powerful. I use it a lot in scanning documents and taking snapshots of words written on a whiteboard.

It's also a recommended software for taking random shots whose quality are at par with those of other top applications out in the market, or maybe better.

The scanning feature is one of the best and it's so reliable when used. If I may suggest though, the focusing task is sometimes a little annoying especially if the correct shape or outline is not easily met. But overall, it's best at what it does which is performing like an actual scanning machine.

Microsoft Lens allows you to copy text from handwritten notes and also copy text and tables from pictures.This application allows you to digitize printed or handwritten text, convert photos to PDF, Word, Powerpoint and Excel files and save them to onenote, Onedrive or your local drive.

All is good with the application so there's nothing i dislike

The biggest advantages we have in this document scanner, is that it is designed mainly for users who have the Office service, as it has direct connections to their applications, because when scanning your document with the camera on your phone, you can convert it to PDF or simply pass it to a Word document, PowerPoint or other Microsoft product, you can even digitize it or also in the case of students, scan the class blackboard and pass it as a document to save it to your OneDrive. Similarly, you can choose a document or image from your phone's camera roll and then share it or convert it to a Microsoft product.

When opening the application, I find it a bit slow, or it can even crash and restart itself. When scanning the document, it does not manage to finish scanning the document well and some parts are left on the top and bottom edges. It can also consume a lot of battery life, as the application relies purely on your phone's camera.

The scanned photographs have excellent quality. While snapping the picture, the app can display the cropping area. They don't reveal the crop area while taking the picture; they only do so subsequently. A preview of the final image can be seen by displaying the crop area while the image is being captured. The crop area can be automatically detected, which is superior to many other programs.

There is no choice to simply choose a few images and export them as a PDF. I was unhappy with the way the scanned files were managed. It is challenging to scan a large volume of pages, likely multiple pages.

Pretty handy software, allows the user to work the documents and images as necessary! When compared with some of the other solutions on the market, it stands out, not only for its functionallity for also its quality

Editing documents can something get a big slugish , but considering the dimension of the information and images that the software processes, i think its understandable.

Scanning accuracy very good and a good range of fonts and document formats to edit and save the finished product.

I am very happy with the software. Easy to use and free.

I love the software because it makes our job really lite and easy. Also convenient because it can be downloaded on mobile phone.

So far, i can't say anything about this software because all i can see is that its helping me a lot when i needed it.

I liked that great ramge of documents can be scanned whether it be cards or receipts. The conversion to pdf is also very smooth and seamless and same is true for document conversion . Text to speech and automatic language detection tools are also very helpful and handy.

I feel that the tools available are very limited compared to other scanning apps. Also the export options are very limited. Data capture and tranfer also needs to be made more efficient and effective.

Loved everything about this software. It's super helpful.

I loved everything about it, it has a great user interface too.

the interface is very minimal simple and easy to handle and use. the scan done is also of good quality. Numerous range of documents can be scanned dthrough the same. and it feels very helpful while sharing among the microsoft apps themselves

i think that the tools avaialable are very limited and the scan done cant be edited properly for sharing according to different need of users

I have been using Microsoft office lens for more than two years now. I find it is a great improvement to what I was previously using. The Best feature that I like about this app is that it auto detects and crops the subject during picture clicking and saves time, unlike other apps where auto cropping is done as a post processing part. Being a free tool, office lens offers OCR feature for exporting to text format in PDF and Word, which is often missing in the free versions of peer apps . Thirdly, It doesn't add a watermark to the output files.

The user should be allowed to tweak the parameters that control the picture quality. Some peer apps have the option of regulating the contrast, sharpness, details and brightness as soon as the pictures are clicked and cropped. Second, office lens should support more options than scanning from just documents, business cards, etc (for example, powerpoints and greeting cards offered in peer apps).

This application is an extraordinary method for getting sorted out the entirety of your stuff. It's not difficult to utilize and it incorporates well with other Office applications. It can assist you with monitoring everything from tacky notes and business cards to receipts. Since it utilizes Optical Character Recognition, it gives preferred lucidity over ordinary photograph-taking projects and cameras. It might provide you with a decent picture of terrible penmanship.

Office Lens permits you to alter straightforwardly from the picture. Assuming you feel that your substance needs clarifying or has excluded something significant, you can include the picture from your gadget and afterward save it in the most appropriate model.

The way that you can change over your picture into various document designs, like Word, PDF, and PowerPoint guarantees that the picture can be opened from any client gadget, particularly assuming you are sharing it in a gathering discussion.

Some of the time white part is left on the filtered pictures.

On occasion, the quality naturally gets compromised.

Its being over 20 yrs I a have being 20 yrs I being using this software apart from the existing features lots of new features are added over the years like autosave, now days it understands what you want to type ....Its simple to use and value for money. It can be any application I use from Word to excel or powerpoint the experience is amazing...You dont get lost if don't know anything the help button helps you...

Frankly there is nothing I really miss in the software . Almost all the features are there in the package.Only thing is it takes time to load otherwise its amazing

One of the best ways to digitize files using a smartphone. Compatible with several OS. It allows instant edits to the caputures and eliminates the need for large scanner equipment. With it you can scan files wherever you are using just a smartphone. Allows the user to choose the output format of the jpg jpg file among others.

I've never had any problems. However, it has a limitation that is the user's own, depending on the hardware of the equipment, it may be that a smartphone as a simpler camera cannot achieve an image quality.

The interface provides a great way to turn the photo of a document into a pdf document which really looks like it was scanned on a scanner. Having tried a couple of alternative mobile apps, I think this one does a better work of transforming the photo image you take (you can fine-tune the borders of the document) into scanner like output. Furthermore, it is connected with one-drive you it goes straight to your folder on the computer.

Of course, when the light conditions are not so good, it can take a couple of takes of the same document to not have the shadows on the document, but this is expected. At least, the interface is nice so you can easily discard just one page and re-do it.

OCR allows Microsoft Lens to accurately extract text from images and documents, even in cases where the text is partially obscured or has unusual formatting. This makes it an invaluable tool for digitizing physical documents and converting them into digital formats, such as PDFs and Eod documents. The accuracy and reliability of the OCR technology are what make Microsoft Lens a standout tool in my opinion.

Microsoft Lens allows users to extract and analyze data from images and documents, but the visualization options may be somewhat limited. Adding more advanced charting and graphing capabilities could make it easier for users to communicate insights and trends derived from the extracted data.

The thing that I liked the most about Microsoft Lens is that it can automatically detect the edges of a page in a photo, due to which it is extremely easy to crop out certain photos. This feature is unique and is not found in other scanner apps. Another thing that I liked is that there a many filters that can be implemented to images. Adjustments can be made easily even if photos were captured in a dark environment. Another good thing is that the files can be converted to a few forms such as jpeg and pdf in just 2 steps. Also, Microsoft Lens is compatible with other apps, due to which I can directly add the scanned files to cloud storage. Also previously scanned files can be modified easily.

I did not find any issues with this app.

I have been using MIcroosft Office Lens for a long time and I am very satisfied. It is excellent to scan papers and documents in a fast way. It is really helpful and easy to use software. You can crop and edit your documents on the go and upload it on your cloud. I use it on a daily basis for my job and in personal life.

None. I like everything about Microsoft Office Lens.

I love that i could scan stuff very easily by just taking a picture it automatically crops it for me, and it's ready to go. Easy as 1 - 2 - 3.

Theirs nothing bad to say about this application.

Best of all is the ease and technology with which this app can scan physical files, in the company we use it because it gives us the same quality as a printer scanner, with this app we scan all the documents that our clients bring us to digitize them quickly and accurately. With this we manage to order them in a better way in our computer system

I do not see any cons of this app, it works very well and without errors.

The app offers a lot of features and I didn't need most of them, but I very much like the ability to pause the scan to modify or check the pic before moving on, the algorithm that detects the page is almost flowless and gets it right every time and the ability to change the colors and modify saturation and stuff was very usefull.

A lot of the scans were over exposed to light and the app even add more saturation making them hard to read, you can always turn off the automatic enhancements in case you see it messing up.

The versatility of being able to scan all kind of documents, photos and even the handwritten notes is a plus. This can easily replaced your old fashioned Rolodex. It allows you to scan business cards and automatically drop it in your contacts (no more bulky wallets). Since Fax machines are so 2020, this allows you to create an attachment for your emails in an instant.

May take steady hands to get the corners lined up

following features really impressed me;
1. by taking picture of any written form you can easily extract the text and simply copy it to MS words and save the time of typing
2. one can scan the documents and adds pages by scaning others by using camera and then convert it to desired format either PDF, DOCX, WORD, EXCEL
3. one can extract the tables as well

only thing that i least like about MS Office Lens is, some of its features are to purchased which are bit expensive

Microsoft Office Lens is very easy to use. It is efficient for scanning documents with a smartphone or to backup paperboard for further use. It is fully integrated with OneDrive.

No great defaults for this product. OCR function sometimes needs manual correction, but this is accpetable for this kind of (free) product.

The features i think are most impactful is being able to turn your computer of smartphone into a scanner that puts in business cards, documents and receipts into OneNote.

Only missing feature is not being able to save scanned documents into the gallery.