New Delhi: Microsoft's Office Lens app, which lets people take photos of a document and turn it into a editable file, is now available for Android users to download from the Google Play store.
Office Lens turns a phone into a scanner, using the camera to take a photo of a menu, receipt or business card, for example. It instantly crops the image and stores it in Microsoft's OneNote note-taking app, or OneDrive cloud storage app.
"The scanner app recognises the corners of a document, whiteboard, electronic screen or any rectangular media and automatically crops, straightens, enhances and cleans up the image, then enables saving to OneNote or OneDrive for easy retrieval from any device," explains Microsoft.
It can save an image as a Word file, PowerPoint presentation or PDF file, and uses optical character recognition to make the text searchable and ready for editing.
The app, called Office Lens, is already available on phones running Windows Phone and iOS.
The company ran a public preview of the Android app from April 2 till early this week.
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