Microsoft’s Office Lens app is one of the more useful apps out there, particularly if your work involves a lot of scanning documents, but you don’t fancy using an actual scanner. It lets you take pictures of documents and even whiteboards and then turns them into readable files. It’s like having your own personal scanner in your pocket (or in your bag). The latest update to the app brings handwritten text OCR (but only for OneNote) and the ability to rotate your photos within the app itself.
If you scan a handwritten note using Office Lens, and then you export it to OneNote, it turns your handwriting into searchable items. You can now search for it like you would any normal text. This “new” feature is actually something not really new to OneNote as it has always had that feature before. But the scanning app may have just added the ability to connect its own OCR conversion to the OneNote app.
The update has also added a Business Card mode, but this is more for those who do business with Chinese companies. If you scan a business card that has Simplified Chinese characters, you will still be able to extract the contact information that you need. The update also now lets you rotate photos from within Office Lens itself, instead of having to open it in another photo editing app to do so.
The Office Lens update has rolled out for users so head on over to the Google Play Store to update or to download if you don’t have the app yet.
