If you own a Windows Phone, stop what you’re doing and make sure you’ve installed Microsoft’s Office Lens scanning app. With Tuesday’s update, you now can scan documents as actual, editable Word and ...

With Microsoft currently hard at work on Windows 10 for phones, Windows Phone 8.1 needs all the apps and services it can get to lure users away from rivals like the iPhone and devices running Google’s ...

People who are fully locked into the Microsoft (MSFT) ecosystem are used to peering over the fence at nifty and innovative features available elsewhere. Apple (AAPL) iPhone users have apps that ...

Two and a half years ago, Microsoft launched Office Lens on Windows Phone, offering a quick and easy way to take a photo of some text, and - using optical character recognition - to be able to then ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Office Lens for Windows Phone has just been updated. The document scanning app for Windows Phone ...

Office Lens is part of Microsoft’s broader strategy to make OneNote the de facto digital note-taking tool. The only thing missing is for the company to bring the app to Android (iOS has the feature ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft is converting every app it has using the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and that ...

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Currently, Microsoft’s Office Lens is a specialized mobile application for pulling images of whiteboards and other visual information into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. But Microsoft ...

Microsoft has released Office Lens for Windows 10, enabling those with any Windows 10 device to easily capture a photo, edit it, and then share it or add it to an Office document. In addition to ...

The company is continuing its cross-platform productivity push with the release of the free app to iPhone and Android phone users. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...