Microsoft has updated Office Lens for Windows Phone that allows users to convert pictures of paper documents into PDF files. Users can also convert Word and PowerPoint files to PDF with Office Lens.
The Office Lens app is updated to version 1.4.3727.0. Users will have to click a photo of the document that needs to be scanned via their Windows Phone and then click Save followed by the PDF option. A PDF file is automatically saved to your OneDrive, so you can access it on any device,
“PDF conversion by Office Lens includes OCR (optical character recognition), so you can extract text information from pictures. You can search the content in a file with the text and you can also highlight or copy part of the page (depending on the capability your PDF reader app).”
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In addition, Office Lens has also introduced a new feature called as auto-classifier. Built using machine learning technology, it analyzes what you have captured and automatically switches to the best mode. Launched in March last year, Office Lens enables Windows Phone users to go paperless by converting images of whiteboards and documents into Word and PowerPoint files, and saves the images to OneNote. In December Office Lens received the ability to scan business cards.