Microsoft describes the Office Lens app for Windows Phone akin to having a scanner in your pocket. Users simply need to take a photo through the application to digitalize notes on blackboards or whiteboards. It also makes it easier to easily store important documents and business cards in digital format. Today the Office Lens app has been updated with a new functionality that will allow users to create Office documents out of the pictures that they snap.
Office Lens is already quite capable of converting notes written on a blackboard or a whiteboard to a digital format. Starting today the app will be able to convert those pictures of whiteboard and blackboards directly into Word documents and PowerPoint presentations.
That’s not all. Users will be able to edit, author and then re-edit those documents and presentations as many times as they like, regardless of the fact that they got their start on a physical blackboard or whiteboard.
Taking a picture of a hardcopy document also converts it into a Word file which is automatically saved to OneDrive so that its available across all of the users’ devices.
Keep in mind that the resulting digital file won’t simply be an image import inside a Word or PowerPoint file. Office Lens will create proper Office documents with the relevant extensions so that they can be accessed and edited through any device on which Office is available.
Office Lens for Windows Phone is available as a free download from the Windows Phone Store.