Microsoft Office Lens
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Use Microsoft Lens on your smartphone or PC to take pictures of documents (e.g., handwritten assignments, homework), clean up the image to make it more readable, and send it to your your instructors.
Install Lens on your phone
Search for the Microsoft Office Lens app on Apple's App Store or Google Play and install it as you would any app.
Installing on Iphone
1.Open App Store and search for Microsoft Lens or click on this Apple's App Store link.
2.Click on GET as shown in the image below.
3.After installation is completed you can see the Office Lens icon on your home screen.
4.Click on the Office Lens icon to open it as shown in the image below.
Installing on Android
How To Use Lens To Scan Assignments
This process is same for both Iphone and Android.
1. After you open the Office Lens app you will see the following screen just for the first time of use. You can keep swiping left until you reach Step 2.
2. In next step it will prompt to "Access Camera". Click Allow Access.
- It will again ask to Allow Camera Access in next window. Click OK.
3. After allowing access to Camera you will see your Office Lens app working and ready to scan documents, assignments. If you look at the bottom of your phone screen you will see four options:
- WHITEBOARDS
- DOCUMENTS
- BUSINESS CARD
- PHOTO
Select one of these four options as per your convinience.
- Note: When you are taking picture of documents to scan, make sure the required part of documents is inside the Orange Rectangle shape as shown in picture or else it will be cropped out.
4. Once you are done taking Picture it will create a .JPG format image of the document. It will also show you preview of your document, if you don't like it the way it is you can re-capture the document. The sample of preview window is shown below: