14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has officially announced a series of major changes for Office Lens, and the most notable is a rebranding of the app.
From now on, the app will be called Microsoft Lens, something that makes sense given the company’s rebranding of other products, including Microsoft 365.
But in addition to the app getting a more straightforward name, the Redmond-based software giant has also announced a major update in terms of capabilities aimed at mobile devices.
Android users are getting lots of new features with this release, and the first of them concerns more intelligent camera capabilities, including image to text, image to table, image to contact, immersive reader, and a QR code scan.
Android users getting the new features first
Without a doubt, this is quite a major update for the new Microsoft Lens, but Microsoft says it didn’t want to stop here, so the scan experience is also getting new capabilities (not related to how the camera works in the app, but concerning the features available after you scan a document).
“We are releasing an improved scan experience allowing you to re-order pages, re-edit scanned PDFs, apply a filter to all images in the document, scan up to 100 pages as images or PDFs, easily switch between local and cloud locations while saving PDF, along with an easy way to identify local and cloud files,” the company explains in an official announcement.
And now the good news if you’re on Android or the bad news if you’re on iPhone. Microsoft says the new features will go live on Google’s mobile operating system first, with iPhones to follow later this year, though for the time being, there’s no ETA as to when Apple users could get the same capabilities, so we’ll be posting a follow-up when more information in this regard goes live.