Microsoft OneNote gets Office Lens integration to capture document and whiteboard.

OneNote for Windows 10 picked up an interesting update today. The popular note-taking app gets support for scanning documents, photos and whiteboards. Sounds familiar? It should if you use Office Lens, Microsoft scanning app. I personally find this integration a great idea as I use Office Lens a lot to record my receipts in OneNote. With this integration, I get to do my record keeping all in OneNote. 

There's more to the update as listed in the change log below:

More organized notes

• Move/copy pages and sections to keep everything organized, just the way you like.
  
  Shape recognition.
• Automatically transform your drawings into shapes.
  
  Office Lens.
• Use Office Lens from inside OneNote to capture that document or whiteboard.
  
  Know who's here.
• See where others are working with you in a shared notebook.

Download: OneNote

By: blendrang sayur On 8:30:00 AM

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Office Lens now converts pictures to PDF with selectable text.

Office Lens picked up a useful update with the ability to convert pictures to PDF with selectable text and save them to OneDrive. I strongly recommend you give Office Lens a try especially if you have to do record keeping of, say, your expenses receipts. I use Office Lens for insurance claims. My insurance company requires originals and Office Lens come in handy to save soft copies of my receipts to OneDrive.

Office Lens is free in Windows Phone store.

By: blendrang sayur On 9:55:00 AM

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Office Lens new algorithm generates cleaner document images.

Office Lens is a Microsoft developed app that puts a scanner into your pocket. Using your device camera, it is possible to digitize a document, business cards even notes on whiteboards and blackboards. A very useful app to also keep track of receipts and save them to OneNote. Today Office Lens was updated with an improved algorithm that generates cleaner document images. This update also lets you select the OneNote location where a new page is created. Finally the usual bug fixes that makes Office Lens more stable.

Office lens is available free in Windows Phone store.

By: blendrang sayur On 6:13:00 AM

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