Microsoft's Office Lens app turns your iPhone or Android handset into a powerful pocket scanner

Microsoft this week introduced Office Lens for iPhone and Android, an app that can turn your handset into a portable scanner. This is the latest in an ever-growing list of apps that Microsoft is making for both iOS, and Android.



Available for Windows Phone devices since last year, Office Lens lets you scan documents, receipts, business cards, whiteboards, menus, and so on. The app recognizes the corners of a document, thus being able to magically enhance, crop, and clean up images. Thanks to OCR (optical character recognition), Office Lens identifies printed text, allowing you to search ...