Office Lens by Liam

Name of App: Office Lens

Cost: Free

Device/s used: iPhone

Available on: Apple, Android and Windows Phone.

What was good about this tool?

Office Lens is a mobile scanner, you can take scans using your camera on your phone. You can choose the source you will scan from document, whiteboard, business card and photo. It allows you to import the scan into Word or PowerPoint, if your scan has text it will recognise this and convert into digital text. I can export it to a PDF, add to my Photo Library, email, Word, Powerpoint and OneNote.

What was bad about this tool?

It does link to OneDrive but not our Office365. If you have a personal OneDrive account you can link to it. 

How did you use this tool?

I use it to take photos of the whiteboard so I have a copy of the teachers notes. I also used it to have a copy of business cards, which I can then import into my contacts. I would recommend this app because it allows you to take a photo of written text and convert to digital text in Word. This app is really handy to have in my pocket as I can always do a quick scan of any important notes and discussions made.