Microsoft Lens - PDF Scanner

4.7
941K reviews
50M+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 3+
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About this app

Microsoft Lens (formerly Microsoft Office Lens) trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable.
You can use Microsoft Lens to convert images to PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, digitize printed or handwritten text, and save to OneNote, OneDrive, or your local device. You can even import images that are already on your device using Gallery.

PRODUCTIVITY AT WORK  
• Scan and upload all your notes, receipts, and documents
• Capture whiteboard at end of the meeting to keep those action items on track
• Scan printed text or handwritten meeting notes to edit and share later
• Keep your business networking contacts handy by scanning business cards and saving them to your contact list
• Choose to save as PDF, Image, Word or PowerPoint formats into OneNote, OneDrive, or local device as location

PRODUCTIVITY AT SCHOOL 
• Scan classroom handouts and annotate them in Word and OneNote
• Scan handwritten notes to digitize and edit later (works with English only)
• Take a picture of the whiteboard or blackboard to reference later, even if you're offline
• Keep class notes and your own research organized with the seamless integration with OneNote

By installing the app, you agree to these terms and conditions: http://aka.ms/olensandterms.
Updated on
Mar 7, 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data isn’t encrypted
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

4.7
923K reviews
Robert Aroney
January 26, 2025
This was my go-to app for scanning documents quickly and easily, for many years. Until 2025 arrived and Microsoft automatically linked the app to my work (Teams) account, and now personal files scanned through the app are being uploaded to my work, and then access to view or download or share the files is blocked (unless I wanted to share them with work colleagues who have no business seeing them). Well done for completely breaking a wonderful product and making it useless to me.
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A Google user
December 11, 2019
It's easy to use, decent quality pictures/pages. BUT it almost doesn't want to upload scanned files! It only saves pdf files (which are limited to 30 pages btw) to the cloud (which is totally fine with me bc I have an account, and it's easy to share a file if it's already there). But it doesn't do that. "Can't recognize contact information", - come on, I logged in and then retried again, Microsoft cloud app works just fine! I'd like to use the app, but it doesn't want to work with me 😡
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Nikolay S
September 19, 2020
Hello! My feedback is not about how great this app is. Not at all! This feedback is a HUGE SINCERE and IMPORTANT request not to break this incredibly convenient feature. After scanning papers via smartphone documents automatically go to special folder in OneDrive. So if it's necessary to go on working with the files one simply should open the folder on laptop and that's it! Very simple - i'd say geniusly! Don't forget to keep this feature while your next "round to square" change in this app...
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What’s new

Bug fixes and performance improvements.