{"id":15931,"date":"2014-03-17T07:19:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=15931"},"modified":"2024-08-09T16:57:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T23:57:56","slug":"office-lens-a-onenote-scanner-for-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2014\/03\/17\/office-lens-a-onenote-scanner-for-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Lens: A OneNote scanner for your pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today we announced three major OneNote developments, including Office Lens, a neat new app in the Windows Phone Store. The same functionality is built into the Windows 8 and iOS OneNote apps and can be accessed through the camera button in each app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Office Lens is an app that\u2019s like having a scanner in your pocket. You can use it to take pictures of things like business cards, restaurant menus, notes on whiteboards or blackboards — anything you want to keep on hand. But unlike loose sticky notes, business cards or sketches on lunch napkins, you won\u2019t lose track of your ideas when you capture them with Office Lens. Even things like children\u2019s artwork is fair game. Snap a picture of that one-of-a-kind card your child made and it\u2019ll be at your fingertips whenever you\u2019d like to see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures readable. Weird angles are straightened, shadows are cleaned up and the images are automatically synced to OneNote, so you can get to them on all your devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When your picture includes printed text, such as a poster or business card, OneNote on a PC can recognize the text with optical character recognition (OCR) so you can search for words in the image — and you can edit the text, or copy and paste it into apps like email and documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Office Lens has three modes, or settings, that help make your captures look their best:<\/p>\n\n\n\n