The fact that all Office formats are integrated makes it the number one app. Named one of the “Best Apps of 2015” in the US and Puerto Rico by Google Play, Microsoft Office Lens is one of the most well-built and intuitive-to-use apps in this category. In the document mode, Office Lens trims and colors images perfectly. The files can then be saved to OneNote, OneDrive, or your local device. The app offers powerful automatic edit features – in the Whiteboard mode, Office Lens trims and cleans up glare and shadows. You can even just click business cards to generate contacts on a phone. PowerPoint can even convert hand-drawn whiteboard images into objects that can be moved, resized, colored, and edited fully. Users can click the picture of a whiteboard drawing and Office Lens automatically crops and rotates images. You can just take a picture of the document using your smart phone and Word will preserve the layout of the paper document and use optical character recognition (OCR) to convert the image into text.
Office Lens offers the user the option to convert images into Word, PowerPoint and PDF documents. While many apps offer the same functionalities, Microsoft Office Lens’ uniqueness is Office integration. It allows you to capture pictures of whiteboards, documents and to save and edit them digitally. The app, which is available in iOS and Android, is effectively a portable scanner. You can wirelessly scan documents to PC, network, and even cloud storage services. It has a scanning speed of up to 35 pages per minute, and has a duplex scanning feature for double-sided pages. and Office Lens will automatically crop, enhance, and clean up the image and export it to OneNote or OneDrive as a JPEG image, or Word, PowerPoint, and PDF document. The Brother ADS-2700W ( view at Amazon) is one of the best document scanners on the market. Just take pictures of whiteboards, documents, sticky notes, receipts etc. The Microsoft Office Lens app lets you do all this and more. Sounds too far-fetched? Well, not any more. Imagine a scenario where you can just take a picture of a whiteboard drawing and convert it to a PowerPoint presentation or other formats on your mobile.