Microsoft intends to give new life to the Office Lens utility, and this requires a new brand and new features.
There
are a plethora of applications for scanning documents using your
smartphone. Among these we count CamScanner, Adobe Scan or even
ClearScanner or ScanBot. At Microsoft, Office Lens becomes Microsoft
Lens and sports a new logo.
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Microsoft Lens, soon to be more efficient
Since its inception,
Office Lens has offered to capture a document and then improve its
readability. This can then be stored online on OneDrive's servers. The
algorithms of the Azure platform were able to perform character
recognition and therefore extract the content so that it could be
indexed later.
Now with Microsoft Lens, the OCR technique is
greatly simplified. After capturing a document, the text will be
automatically extracted. An option offering to copy this transcription
or to share it with another application will make Microsoft Lens much
more useful in everyday life.
In a blog post, Microsoft adds that the application is enriched with other new features, including:
- the possibility of ordering the pages of a document;
- re-edit a document transformed into PDF;
- apply a filter to all the images in a document;
- scan up to 100 pages for a single document;
- to more easily choose to save a document online or locally.
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Microsoft cancels the Office brand
Ironically, as the utility
turns into a real productivity tool, the Office brand, historically
associated with its office software suite, is replaced by that of
Microsoft.
Almost a year ago, Microsoft had already renamed its
Office 365 subscriptions to Microsoft 365. Would the Office brand then
be doomed to disappear in favor of a name that is undoubtedly a little
simpler? The publisher has in any case not given an explanation for this
rebranding.
The Redmond company adds that the new features of
Microsoft Lens will first be deployed on Android and then on iOS over
the coming months. Microsoft recalls that Lens technology is natively
integrated into its other mobile applications, including Office,
Microsoft Teams, Outlook, as well as OneDrive.
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