Microsoft has announced the Office Lens app for Android and iOS users. The mobile document scanner app which works with the Microsoft OneNote was only available exclusively on Windows Phone devices. The app allows users snap photos of paper documents, menus, receipts, whiteboards, sticky notes, business cards and more.
Office Lens recognises the text on the images it captures thanks to OCR (Optical Character Recognition); it doesn’t only scan images, it also turns the paper into editable documents, texts, tables and images. The scanned image can also be converted into Ms Word (.doc) documents, Powerpoint (.ppt) presentations, JPGS and PDFs.
The Office Lens for iOS app is available for download immediately on iTunes App Store; Office Lens for Android app is still available in preview phase, users can opt-in to try the app by joining the community page on Google+. Android users are expected to get the official app in coming weeks.
Launching Office Lens for other platforms (Android and iOS) continues Microsoft’s plan to embrace other platforms to in return gain traction for its services. The company recently made the Office Suite and Outlook app available for Android and iOS users. The Redmond Giant now has a combined total of 100 Android and iOS apps in total, an still counting.
