I don’t even have to sync anything, I use Office 365 which has Exchange
and for my personal email I use Outlook.com which uses the exchange
active sync protocol. Both if set up correctly sync all devices from the
server, if I add a contact on my PC it’s magically in my contacts on the
iPhone a few seconds later.
Regards,
Sieghard
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *Alan Lemly
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 26, 2017 10:26 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* RE: Office Lens, New App
I agree completely. I enter my contact info into Outlook on my desktop
PC and sync it all to my iPhone using iTunes. It's worked for years and
continues to work nicely.
Alan
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 26, 2017 6:17 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Office Lens, New App
Thanks, I think I already took Office Lens off my iPhone, but maybe I'll
give it a try. Not a big priority of mine since mostly I enter contacts
on my PC in Outlook and then they automatically show up on my iPhone
since I am syncing with my Exchange business and exchange active sync
personal outlook.com account. Sometimes it's just as fast to type the
information especially on the computer, if I have to type some
information anyways or correct other information it's not much of a time
saver.
Regards,
Sieghard
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]]
<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> *On Behalf Of *Alan Lemly
*Sent:* Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:29 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Office Lens, New App
Sieghard,
I'm pasting the steps from my previous post where I discussed the Office
Lens business card scanning steps that I took and then I'll follow those
with a change to one of them that I just did to get the information into
my contacts. First the original posted steps:
1. I selected business card camera mode on the home screen.
2. I positioned my iPhone 7 until Office Lens said ready and then took
the picture.
3. The image was positioned correctly so there was no need to crop and
rotate as was the case the last time.
4. I double tapped the done button in the upper right corner and was
taken to the Export To screen.
5. I was presented with three export to options: my gmail email
address, OneNote Contact plus image, and Photo library. The
explanation below the OneNote option says OneNote will recognize
contact details and let you save them to your contacts.
6. I double tapped OneNote and went to a screen showing the default
Office Lens title of the image with a location of Contacts. I double
tapped the Save button in the upper right corner of this screen.
7. I was taken to a recent uploads screen within OneNote I believe with
the business card image just exported to it at the top. When I
double tapped this top item, a screen opened showing two items,
OneNote page with Office Lens in the name and today's date and
Contacts with today's date shown. When I double tapped the second
contacts item, Voiceover said downloading and I was taken to an
Office Lens screen showing the captured contact info from the
scanned business card.
8. I double tapped on Done in the upper right corner and then double
tapped on Close in the upper right corner of the next screen. I was
then taken back to the Office Lens home screen where you take the
picture.
9. I then opened Contacts and must admit that the new business card
person didn't show up when I searched in Contacts or in the
spotlight search on my page 2.
In step 7 above, after double tapping the contacts item on the business
card I just now scanned, I changed step 8 to double tap the share button
in the bottom left corner of the screen which opened after double
tapping contacts. One of the options presented in the share screen was
import to Contacts which is what I selected. A standard Contacts screen
was presented with the extracted business card info and I chose to save
as a new contact. Granted, it then prompted me for a first and last name
which seemed odd because I thought those were already picked up but I
simply typed a company name into the first name field and saved it. When
I did a spotlight search with that company name, the contact info just
scanned was now in my iPhone contacts.
I'm glad I finally got there but I'm with you in saying that I believe
more work is needed to cut down on the number of steps needed to get
business card scanned info into Contacts. I don't know if all the steps
relate to Contacts on iDevices not playing well with non-Apple apps or
not. I seem to recall past comments about Contacts having its own set of
difficulties including the inability of Siri to find them when using
company names. Finally, I'll also comment that this latest business card
scan had the image pictured where it required a 90-degree rotation to be
right-side up. I'm getting very inconsistent presentment of scanned
business card images which I assume either relates to the card
formatting or how I'm positioning my iPhone before taking the picture. I
will say there's nothing like inconsistent treatment to steer me away
from using an app.
Anyway, I thought you might find my final steps of interest. I'm putting
this one to bed now.
Alan Lemly
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2017 11:03 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Office Lens, New App
Hi Alan,
Exactly, I got that far as well, but I want the contacts in Contacts not
as contacts in OneNote and I saw no way to add a recognized business
card to Contacts.
Regards,
Sieghard
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]]
<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> *On Behalf Of *Alan Lemly
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 25, 2017 12:13 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Office Lens, New App
Sieghard,
Here are the steps I followed just now when scanning another business card:
1. I selected business card camera mode on the home screen.
2. I positioned my iPhone 7 until Office Lens said ready and then took
the picture.
3. The image was positioned correctly so there was no need to crop and
rotate as was the case the last time.
4. I double tapped the done button in the upper right corner and was
taken to the Export To screen.
5. I was presented with three export to options: my gmail email
address, OneNote Contact plus image, and Photo library. The
explanation below the OneNote option says OneNote will recognize
contact details and let you save them to your contacts.
6. I double tapped OneNote and went to a screen showing the default
Office Lens title of the image with a location of Contacts. I double
tapped the Save button in the upper right corner of this screen.
7. I was taken to a recent uploads screen within OneNote I believe with
the business card image just exported to it at the top. When I
double tapped this top item, a screen opened showing two items,
OneNote page with Office Lens in the name and today's date and
Contacts with today's date shown. When I double tapped the second
contacts item, Voiceover said downloading and I was taken to an
Office Lens screen showing the captured contact info from the
scanned business card.
8. I double tapped on Done in the upper right corner and then double
tapped on Close in the upper right corner of the next screen. I was
then taken back to the Office Lens home screen where you take the
picture.
9. I then opened Contacts and must admit that the new business card
person didn't show up when I searched in Contacts or in the
spotlight search on my page 2.
So now you know the detailed steps I followed in capturing business card
info and we can both scratch our heads as to why what was captured
didn't show up in my contacts when I searched for it. I will say that
the two contacts I added to OneNote this way did show up as OneNote
items in my spotlight search.
Alan Lemly
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Sieghard Weitzel
*Sent:* Monday, April 24, 2017 2:14 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:* RE: Office Lens, New App
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]>
[mailto:[email protected]]
<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> *On Behalf Of *Alan Lemly
*Sent:* Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:04 PM
*To:* [email protected] <mailto:[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.
*From:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
[mailto:[email protected]]
<mailto:[mailto:[email protected]]> *On Behalf Of *Mike B.
*Sent:* Thursday, April 20, 2017 12:30 PM
*To:* VIPhone <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject:* Office Lens, New App
Hi All,
Got this from Top Tech Tidbits.
5. Microsoft Office Lens is a free alternative to the KNFB Reader on the
iPhone for reading print:
http://www.rsbc.org.uk/blogs/microsoft-office-lens-review-an-accessible-way-to-read-printed-documents/
Take care.
Mike
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