{"id":2492,"date":"2017-04-20T01:55:06","date_gmt":"2017-04-20T06:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2492"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:54:12","slug":"2492","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2492","title":{"rendered":"Office Lens: Free OCR App from Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7069\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2492-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/OfficeLens.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/OfficeLens.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/OfficeLens.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>Here is a quick overview of the new Office Lens App from Microsoft.This is a Free app that captures text and enables one to utilize the image\/text in a variety of ways. From OCR to PowerPoint this new app seems to do it all especially when exported to a word processing app such as Microsoft Word itself.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is what Microsoft says about Office lens:<br \/>\nOffice Lens trims, enhances and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. Office Lens can convert images to editable Word and PowerPoint files too. <\/p>\n<p>Office Lens is like having a scanner in your pocket. Like magic, it will digitize notes on whiteboards or blackboards. Always find important documents or business cards. Sketch your ideas and snap a picture for later. Don&#8217;t lose receipts or stray sticky notes again! <\/p>\n<p>Scenarios:<br \/>\n&#8211; Capture and crop a picture of a whiteboard or blackboard and share your meeting notes with co-workers.<br \/>\n&#8211; Make digital copies of your printed documents, business cards or posters and trim them precisely.<br \/>\n&#8211; Printed and handwritten text will be automatically recognized (using OCR), so you can search for words in images and then copy and edit them. <\/p>\n<p>Features:<br \/>\n&#8211; With Whiteboard mode, Office Lens trims and cleans up glare and shadows.<br \/>\n&#8211; With Document mode, Office Lens trims and colors images perfectly.<br \/>\n&#8211; Pictures can be saved to OneNote, OneDrive or other cloud storage.<br \/>\n&#8211; Business Card mode can extract contact information and save it into your address book and OneNote. This feature works best with the following business cards: English, German, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. Support for more languages is coming soon.<br \/>\nChoose to convert images to Word (.docx), PowerPoint (.pptx) or PDF (.pdf) files that are automatically saved to OneDrive.<br \/>\nThank you for listening.<br \/>\nYou can follow us on Twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/blindabilities\">@BlindAbilities<\/a><br \/>\nOn the web at <a href=\"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\">www.BlindAbilities.com<\/a><br \/>\nSend us an <a href=\"mailto:info@blindabilities.com\">email<\/a><br \/>\nGet the <a href=\"https:\/\/appsto.re\/us\/demUab.i\">Free Blind Abilities App<\/a> on the App Store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7071\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2492-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/OfficeLens.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/OfficeLens.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/OfficeLens.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p>http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/blindabilities\/OfficeLens.mp3Here is a quick overview of the new Office Lens App from Microsoft.This is a Free app that captures text and enables one to utilize the image\/text in a variety of ways. From OCR to PowerPoint this new app seems to do it all especially when exported to a word processing app such as Microsoft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[263,467],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Blind-Abilities-Logo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6rcRg-2492","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2553,"url":"https:\/\/blindabilities.com\/?p=2553","url_meta":{"origin":2492,"position":0},"title":"Prizmo Go: OCR App with VoiceOver Accessibility and Scene Description!","author":"Blind Abilities Team","date":"May 3, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Prizmo Go was created for everybody and with VoiceOver Accessibility, Prizmo Go is another good tool for the BVI community to put in their toolbox. 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