![]() ![]() Click on the Crop button and select the relevant part of the image (not necessarily a square or rectangle) then click the ‘tick’ button. Microsoft demos are one thing, we thought we’d try it ourselves with a crumpled receipt taken at an odd angle. After going through the Lens cropping, you can see the whiteboard ‘front on’ which is easier for humans and OneNote to read. Microsoft’s example is a whiteboard image taken from the side. You can crop and straighten the image in ways that aren’t normally available. If that’s all Lens did, it wouldn’t be a big deal. Lens can take a photo of a document, receipt, whiteboard or anything else and lets you save it to OneNote, OneDrive and other Microsoft options. The OneNote option is important because OneNote is what provides some of the features hyped in Lens, most importantly Optical Character Recognition. Lens is a slick way to take a photo on your device and insert it into various Microsoft Office apps, especially OneNote. ![]() It’s available for Apple iPhone, iPad and Android devices. Lens has a wonderful straightening trick that turns an off-center photo into something ‘straight on’ which is easier to read and convert into text. If you want to convert photos into a Word document (as text) or PDF, the Office Lens is the way to go. Office Lens is a good app for iPhone, iPad and Android devices. ![]()
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