Office Lens is being renamed to Microsoft Lens. Along with the name change, Microsoft is rolling out several new features set to come out over the coming months.
Microsoft to add new features to Office mobile apps
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San Francisco, Feb 2 : Microsoft is all set to bring voice command, video and other features to its Office mobile apps on iOS and Android platforms.
The company will be delivering some of its promised conversational AI technology in Cortana starting with iOS, new ways for users to create short videos using Microsoft Lens and other productivity updates for Teams, Outlook and other Office apps.
According to the officials, conversational AI technology with Cortana is something Microsoft highlighted back at its Build 2019 conference. At that time, the company showcased how users would be able to get Cortana to understand and respond to turn-by-turn kinds of interactions, ZDNet reported on Monday.
Microsoft has today announced that it is renaming the acclaimed document-scanning and enhancement app –
Office Lens – to Microsoft Lens. Aside from a new name, there is now a fresh logo to boot as well. But more importantly, the re-christening brings a host of new features such as intelligent camera actions for turning an image to text, converting data in tables, gleaming the contact information from a business card, and QR code scanning among others.
Microsoft Lens app lets you extract text from an image.
As the name clearly suggests, the Camera to Text tool will allow users to point their camera at a handwritten or printed text on a surface, and the Microsoft Lens app will identify and extract it.
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In a pretty lengthy blog post, Microsoft announced a lot of new features and changes that will be coming to its Office mobile apps in the next few weeks as part of the “evolution of mobile productivity”. This includes rolling out their conversational AI technology for Cortana (iOS first, Android later), renaming Office Lens to Microsoft Lens and bringing new ways to create short videos through the app, and other productivity updates for Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and other Office apps.
Probably the biggest news is that the Office Lens app has been rebranded as Microsoft Lens and now comes with a lot more features aside from its original which was mainly to scan documents. You now have features like Image to Text which lets you scan physical documents and then get it translated to text, Image to Table, and Image to Contact. You also have an Immersive Reader and a QR Code Scanner. You will also be able to scan up to 100 pages as images
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