How did you get it into Contacts after it was scanned? I saw a Share button but it only let’s you save it to OneNote or something like that?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Sieghard, I used Office Lens today in business card mode to scan a business card and successfully got the results into my contacts. A couple of things to note. First of all, for some reason, the picture of the business card was upside down the first time I did it and was sideways the second time. I was holding the phone in portrait mode with the card placed correctly for reading so I have no clue why the picture isn't captured the same way. I also got a bit confused on where to export the processed information but I think that might have been due to rushing on one of my attempts. This app is certainly not as fast processing as KNFB Reader. I was eventually successful but I had to use my limited vision to know to rotate the captured image of the business card. I don't believe the app identifies if the image is rotated and that could be a real deal breaker especially if the rotation of the image seems random as has been my experience. Alan Lemly From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 3:09 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App OK, I actually haven't used it for scanning documents, I tried it because apparently you are supposed to be able to scan a business card and add the information to your contacts very easily. If you can scan and do OCR fairly easily, accorately and save it to Dropbox or OneDrive then of course this is a very good feature if somebody doesn't own KNFB Reader and doesn't want to buy it. I am not too concerned with the formatting, usually when I do OCR on something I want a quick and easy way to hear the information, I rarely need to save it. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:51 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Marie, I have to agree with you. I had great success with Office Lens scanning a two-page homeowners association minutes document. Granted, the document contained print with a larger font but I liked the app's ability to scan it, convert every letter correctly, format it with a similar appearance as the original, and save it as a Word docx file to Dropbox. I did put the camera mode on document and those using the app should be aware you can pick from among business card, photo, document, and white board modes by a single finger swipe up and down on the camera mode button. Also, the app was good about indicating left and right needed movement when positioning my camera before taking the picture. I already have a Microsoft account set up in my iPhone 7 so I wasn't presented with anything having to do with that when using the app. And I was presented with a screen allowing me to save it from Word where I opened it directly to the desired folder in Dropbox. It was very slick and well done even if not as quick as KNFB Reader. You absolutely can't beat the free price and if you want to capture a document on your phone that looks like the original, this is the app for that. And I'm not worried about Microsoft getting access to my business any more than those who are Office 365 users should be. Alan Lemly From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marie Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:01 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: Office Lens, New App I am amazed that three of you say you did not find this app useful. I just downloaded it today and am thrilled with what it does and how easy it was to get started. Strange that our experience would be so different. Marie From: Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:44 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App I also tried this app and did not find it very good at all. For free, the iDentifi app set to Text works great if you don’t mind not be able to easily save the file. Richard From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]]<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:08 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App I tried it and found it less than intuitive. I heard about it from a Cool Blind Tech Podcast after the CSUN where they mentioned how youcould scan a business card and it would recognize all the text like names, phone numbers and so on and you could easily create a contact entry from that and I could not at all figure out how to do this. 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