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Microsoft Lens 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Microsoft Lens
Microsoft Lens
4.5
(274)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

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About Microsoft Lens

Microsoft Lens (formerly Microsoft Office Lens) is an application for iOS and Android devices that lets users capture documents, whiteboards, business cards, and other physical content with their device's camera, then converts it into PDF, Word and PowerPoint files which can be saved either on the device or in the cloud, through OneDrive integration. Handwritten and typed text is automatically recognized thanks to optical character recognition (OCR), enabling the extraction of text for later searching or editing as needed.

Microsoft Lens can be used to store and organize notes, documents and receipts, capture end-of-meeting action items, scan meeting notes to edit and share with colleagues, scan business cards directly into contacts apps, and by students to digitize their notes or classroom whiteboards.

Microsoft Lens User Interface

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Microsoft Lens Pricing and Plans

Starting price: Pricing available upon request
Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

    Microsoft Lens Features

    • Popular features found in OCR
      Data Extraction
      Data Import/Export
      Document Conversion
      Full Text Search
      Text Extraction
    • More features of Microsoft Lens
      Convert to PDF
      Data Capture and Transfer
      Document Imaging
      Document Storage
      File Sharing
      ID Scanning
      Image Pre-processing
      Multiple Output Formats
      Offline Access
      PDF Conversion
      Search/Filter
      Secure Data Storage
      Text Editing
      Third-Party Integrations

    Microsoft Lens Integrations

    OneDrive
    OneDrive
    Integration rated 4.6 from 18 reviews
    Microsoft Word
    Microsoft Word
    Integration rated 4.8 from 14 reviews
    Microsoft PowerPoint
    Microsoft PowerPoint
    Integration rated 4.6 from 10 reviews
    Microsoft OneNote
    Microsoft OneNote

    Microsoft Lens User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    61%

    4

    32%

    3

    5%

    2

    0%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    4.6

    Value for money

    4.5

    Customer support

    4.3

    Functionality

    4.5

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    Jerad C.

    Verified reviewer

    Photography

    Self-Employed

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed September 2024

    Great phone scanner

    5

    Overall I have had a pretty pleasant experience using Microsoft lense.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I like how straight forward it is to use Microsoft lens and being able to save the files I scan to my OneDrive.
    Cons:
    Unless the handwriting is super clean and clear, I wouldn't suggest using the ocr feature. Ocr work well on printed text and unless the handwritten text is clear and clean it will struggle to produce the correct words.

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    HD
    Harsh D.

    Verified reviewer

    Higher Education

    1001-5000 employees

    Used monthly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2023

    Scan Documents with Mobile

    5

    I use Microsoft lens to scan most of my documents. It is a trustable source.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Microsoft lens allows to easily scan and store the physical docuemnts into various supported formats.
    Cons:
    Microsoft Lens' OCR technology and file filter tools are not as effective as of the competitors like Camscanner.

    Reasons for switching to Microsoft Lens

    I was concerned with the security of my documents with the CanScanner application.

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    Fabian D.

    Verified reviewer

    Marketing and Advertising

    2-10 employees

    Used daily for less than 6 months

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2019

    My Microsoft Office Lens Review

    3

    It is a great addition for Microsoft Office as you can just take Photo's of business cards and receipts while saving them all to one folder. This way you have your contacts in one place and your receipts in one place during Tax Season.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    This software/app integrates easily with your mobile office and various applications such as One Note, PowerPoint, PDF etc. It was easy to install and use. On the whiteboard option it really clears up your pictures for a presentation. It easily saves your Photo or Document to multiple platforms. Great for taking Photo's of business cards and receipts and keeping them in one folder.
    Cons:
    It takes a while to save to PowerPoint and it fails at converting all documents to text in the Mobile Word Platform. Needs some work converting documents to Word text.

    Reasons for choosing Microsoft Lens

    It integrated easily into my current Microsoft applications that I use daily.

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    Sandipan C.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    10000+ employees

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2020

    I have been using this app for a long time. The auto detection feature during clicking is awesome

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I have been using Microsoft office lens for more than two years now. I find it is a great improvement to what I was previously using. The Best feature that I like about this app is that it auto detects and crops the subject during picture clicking and saves time, unlike other apps where auto cropping is done as a post processing part. Being a free tool, office lens offers OCR feature for exporting to text format in PDF and Word, which is often missing in the free versions of peer apps . Thirdly, It doesn't add a watermark to the output files.
    Cons:
    The user should be allowed to tweak the parameters that control the picture quality. Some peer apps have the option of regulating the contrast, sharpness, details and brightness as soon as the pictures are clicked and cropped. Second, office lens should support more options than scanning from just documents, business cards, etc (for example, powerpoints and greeting cards offered in peer apps).

    Reasons for switching to Microsoft Lens

    I found Office Lens was produced by Microsoft. Given the brand name, I thought it will be better app.

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    PS
    Pradeep S.

    Verified reviewer

    Paper & Forest Products

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed January 2023

    Microsoft lens is Awesome

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It's features and auto deduction method which reduces time of corp
    Cons:
    Very nice and very simple to use not found any drawback

    Reasons for switching to Microsoft Lens

    A friend recommended me for this and i think I made a good decision

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    Besim D.

    Verified reviewer

    Mechanical or Industrial Engineering

    10000+ employees

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed June 2021

    Very good pocket scanner

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It is very easy to use and very fast snapshots. It will automatically detect pages and very high quality.
    Cons:
    That sometimes it takes a few seconds to reach the exact corners of my scanned paper.

    Reasons for switching to Microsoft Lens

    Because Office lens works much better and is almost free.

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    Esad S.

    Verified reviewer

    Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad

    201-500 employees

    Used weekly for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed December 2022

    Streamline your workflow with the power of OCR in Microsoft Lens

    5

    The platform's OCR technology allows the users to accurately extract text from images and documents, and the platform's integration with other Microsoft apps, such as OneNote and Word, makes it easy to organize and share scanned documents and images. Microsoft Lens is a valuable tool for anyone looking to digitize and manage physical documents and images.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    OCR allows Microsoft Lens to accurately extract text from images and documents, even in cases where the text is partially obscured or has unusual formatting. This makes it an invaluable tool for digitizing physical documents and converting them into digital formats, such as PDFs and Eod documents. The accuracy and reliability of the OCR technology are what make Microsoft Lens a standout tool in my opinion.
    Cons:
    Microsoft Lens allows users to extract and analyze data from images and documents, but the visualization options may be somewhat limited. Adding more advanced charting and graphing capabilities could make it easier for users to communicate insights and trends derived from the extracted data.

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    Verna's profile
    Verna A.

    Verified reviewer

    Mental Health Care

    51-200 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed December 2019

    Outstanding capabilities

    5

    It's okay, it's no because with all my office software so I don't have to change a thing and even stores in Dropbox and everywhere else I need it.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Well I use office lens at home and at the office. The scanning software is amazing it does there's no smudges there's no glare when you skating any type of documents they come out at looking just like you type them up it's perfect for office use. The pros for me is as far as getting in the home photos and memories. Office lens make photo's pop. office lens has the ability to take to make older faded worn photos look like you just snapped the picture yesterday. I've never had to go in and enhance a photo with office lens or change anything I could just scan it in and make a print copy beautifully. I had a free trial and ended up switching and not going back to my old Lenox.
    Cons:
    I like you too. It's very easy software to use.

    Reasons for switching to Microsoft Lens

    The comparison of the way paperwork looked. Storing photos and memories into my computer when you scanned them in office lens they looked beautiful. You could spend a dollar bill and it looks like a dollar bill there's no does it change the quality of the photo at all it looks perfect beautiful the colors are magnificent.

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    Lily C.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    Self-Employed

    Used weekly for less than 12 months

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2023

    Very simple and straightforward software- useful for students of all levels

    5

    This is such an exceptional time saver. No more time needs to be wasted by mindlessly copying out work from paper to digital storage

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Very simple to use- just point at a sheet of paper and shoot and let the software do the rest. The software makes it easy to copy and paste the text to whatever document you like.
    Cons:
    Sometimes taking photos or uploading photos of the textbook or printed work that you want to extract text from can be difficult. Sometimes the size of the image to extract text from can be difficult

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    Jim Paul's profile
    Jim Paul B.

    Verified reviewer

    E-Learning

    10000+ employees

    Used weekly for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2020

    Scanning Made Easy with Office Lens

    5

    Microsoft Office Lens is a reliable tool that provides scanning services for free but with maximum quality. On top of all these perks, it's just a click away from your smartphone. I use it during meetings when I don't have with me my laptop, or at moments when I need to take a super clear shot on any document such as memos, announcements, or even receipts at supermarkets or hardware stores which I could use as a proof of purchase or for reimbursements. Thanks, Microsoft!

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Microsoft Office Lens solves the day whenever a need for crystal-clear scanning of photos or documents arises. It's the go-to application when you're out and suddenly feel the need for a handy mobile scanner, realizing that it's an application in your smartphone. The tool is easy-to-use although the walk-through tutorial upon installing it is of great help too. The buttons' functions are simple yet so powerful. I use it a lot in scanning documents and taking snapshots of words written on a whiteboard. It's also a recommended software for taking random shots whose quality are at par with those of other top applications out in the market, or maybe better.
    Cons:
    The scanning feature is one of the best and it's so reliable when used. If I may suggest though, the focusing task is sometimes a little annoying especially if the correct shape or outline is not easily met. But overall, it's best at what it does which is performing like an actual scanning machine.

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