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Microsoft Office Lens (for Android)

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Microsoft Office Lens scans documents, cards, and whiteboards with your Android phone, making them more readable, and in some cases editable.

Scan

The app offers three shooting modes: Document, Whiteboard, and Photo.

Align

Office Lens can straighten documents shot at an angle.

Interface

The main interface is simply a camera, with a few menu options.

Save

You can save scans to the photo gallery on the phone or, for more options, to OneNote, Word, or PowerPoint.

Import

You can work with existing images in your phone storage as well as shooting new ones.

Whiteboard

Office lens can straighten and clean up pictures of whiteboards, too.

Recent Scans

You can view recent scans from this page.