iOS and Android phone owners will be happy to hear that they will finally be able to use Microsoft's scanning app Office Lens.
The app, which has so far seen a great deal of success on Windows Phone, made its Android and iOS debut on Thursday when Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant introduced them into the Google Play Store and Apple App Store, respectively, according to ZDNet.
With Office Lens, users can take pictures of receipts, whiteboards, business cards, sticky notes and other documents and save them to Microsoft's free note-taking app OneNote.
Unlike Evernote, Scanbot, Scanner Pro and similar apps, Office Lens provides Office integration, converting photos into Word and PowerPoint files, as well as PDF documents, The Verge reported.
Images are converted into text with optical character recognition (OCR). The app can also automatically crop and rotate images, and PowerPoint can convert hand-drawn whiteboard images into objects that users can fully move, re-size, color and edit.
The only downside is that the iOS version of Office Lens is missing some features found in the Windows Phone and Android version, including the auto classifier, explicit business car code, and ability to take multiple photos and save them at once, ZDNet reported.
Microsoft is making Office Lens for Android and iOS available for free. A company spokesperson said Microsoft plans on releasing new features for all Office Lens versions in the future.
