Microsoft Lens the new name of Office Lens brings mobile productivity changes

Microsoft's Office Lens scanning app, which allowed users to scan documents from their mobile phones, has been rebranded as Microsoft Lens and redesigned with new features. The app includes a new logo and features such as Image to Text, Image to Table, and Image to Contact. The new features will be coming to Android first.

Microsoft said that the Office Lens app is now Microsoft Lens and it gets a new logo as well. Along with the aesthetic change, there are new features added to the app such as Image to Text, Image to Table, and Image to Contact, Immersive Reader, and QR Code Scan. As the name suggests, Image to Text will allow users to scan physical document with their phone's camera and get a digital version of the text on their phones.

The app will also allow users to re-order pages, re-edit scanned PDFs, apply a filter to all images in the document, scan up to 100 pages as images or PDFs, easily switch between local and cloud locations while saving PDF, along with an easy way to identify local and cloud files.It has also announced several improvements and features for its services including Office 365, Cortana, and Outlook, apart from the Microsoft Lens app.