Preview
Description
Microsoft Lens (formerly Office Lens) trims, enhances, and makes pictures of whiteboards and documents readable. You can use Microsoft Lens to convert images to PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, digitize printed or handwritten text, and save to OneNote, OneDrive, or your local device. You can even import images that are already on your device using Gallery. PRODUCTIVITY AT WORK • Scan and upload all your notes, receipts, and documents • Capture whiteboard at end of the meeting to keep those action items on track • Scan printed text or handwritten meeting notes to edit and share later • Keep your business networking contacts handy by scanning business cards and saving them to your contact list • Choose to save as PDF, Image, Word or PowerPoint formats into OneNote, OneDrive, or local device as location PRODUCTIVITY AT SCHOOL • Scan classroom handouts and annotate them in Word and OneNote • Scan handwritten notes to digitize and edit later (works with English only) • Take a picture of the whiteboard or blackboard to reference later, even if you're offline • Keep class notes and your own research organized with the seamless integration with OneNote Join the beta program at this link to get an early preview of the next version of Microsoft Lens and help make it better by providing us feedback: https://testflight.apple.com/join/aRahHf00
What's New
Version 2.106.1 2026-01-09
Annoucing Retirement of Microsoft Lens Version 2.96.1 2025-04-10
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.94.1 2025-03-07
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.77.1 2023-09-25
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.77 2023-09-20
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.72 2023-04-12
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.70 2023-02-22
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.69 2023-01-30
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.66.4 2022-10-20
Bug fixes and performance improvements Version 2.59.4 2022-03-25
Bug fixes and performance improvements App Store User Reviews
BrianKann16 2021-10-31
Invaluable, Priceless Camera App that EVERYONE Needs
This App is the camera App we have ALL always needed but couldn’t have known we did. We’ve probably all taken photos of important documents or photographs, art...This App is the camera App we have ALL always needed but couldn’t have known we did. We’ve probably all taken photos of important documents or photographs, articles, even the paused TV screen, and then cropped and cropped and tried to perfect (or correct) the images of. What a time waster! What frustration! Well, with a steady hand (which I struggle to have) you can make PERFECT photo images (like scans, but right from your phone, even from weird angles). You may sometimes need to get the area lighting correct, make sure you aren’t in the light, creating a shadow on your photo, etc. But you will LOVE LOVE this App! I have found, for some unknown (to me) reason, that MOST photos come out best by far of you always use the ‘Business Card’ setting. From no matter how far away. The TV, everything I’ve mentioned above all seem to like the ‘Business Card’ setting the best. Then, using your iPhone’s Photos App you can edit the lighting, after effects, coloring, contrast, sharpness, and whatever. I use this App, Microsoft Lens ALL THE TIME!
Mts0987654 2023-12-30
Great app, but not so great with recipes [edited for new version]
This app is fantastic, but it has problems capturing recipes. A killer use case for this is taking pictures of recipes from books or magazines and dropping the ...This app is fantastic, but it has problems capturing recipes. A killer use case for this is taking pictures of recipes from books or magazines and dropping the captured text into OneNote. The version of Lens that I first used would frequently misread numbers. For example, if the recipe calls for “1/8 teaspoon salt” it might get read as “1/2 teaspoon salt” which, you can imagine, will ruin the recipe. I’ve learned to inspect all numbers in the ingredients and directions to make sure they are correctly captured. The latest update seems to have made progress at reducing these errors, but there’s another issue that hasn’t been fixed yet. The app will sometimes (but not always) read ingredient lists as two columns when they should be read as one column with tabs. For example, if the recipe says: “1 cup <tab> Flour <new line> 1/2 cup <tab> Sugar <new line> 2 cups <tab> Water” Lens will often read that as “1 cup 1/2 cup 2 cups Flour Sugar Water”. (Sorry, it looks like the app store review won’t let me use tabs or returns here.) It would be very nice if there was a way to tell Lens that the text should be read as one column, not two. Or maybe Lens should have some sort of AI to realize that the text is gibberish if read as two columns but makes more sense if read as one.
DonnaFlorida5 2018-09-16
I’ll keep using my old scanner app
I received a great promo for Lens because I have an office subscription. It made me want to love Lens. But Lens is lacking features that I use all the time when...I received a great promo for Lens because I have an office subscription. It made me want to love Lens. But Lens is lacking features that I use all the time when scanning documents. The biggest problem is that it lacks important editing features, such as the ability to change a color document to B/W, and the ability to lighten or darken a document. Second, when I input images from my device (camera roll) into Lens, I must do it one page at a time. I am used to being able to select a number of images at once. (I use that scanner feature frequently to combine PDFs. (I convert the PDFs to images, and then bring the images (PDF pages) into my scanner app and make a new PDF.) Lastly, my old app will capture a page as soon as it detects the edges, without my having to touch the shutter button, but Lens doesn’t. That feature makes it easier to hold the device while scanning and it allows me to scan multiple pages quickly. Lens might offer new functionality for people who want to scan whiteboards. I don’t know and I don’t need that ability. For those of us who deal heavily with documents, Lens needs to step up its game. I can already easily send scans to one note (as an image or a pdf) so switching to Lens would not help me. I will hold off using Lens for now.
Apprat0r 2020-06-06
Great scanning app
For documents/pictures/whiteboards. I’ve been using office lens for several years now and have been very happy with the flexibility and the accuracy. I’ve tried...For documents/pictures/whiteboards. I’ve been using office lens for several years now and have been very happy with the flexibility and the accuracy. I’ve tried many scanning apps and stuck with office lens. I have given 5 stars, until the last update. The one thing that took a turn for the worse is the fact that I can’t adjust the borders with a zoomed in view. Previously I was able to pinch-zoom in while adjusting the borders so that I can see exactly where I’m making the border without losing text. With the latest update I’ve lost the ability and need to guess and hope I don’t lose any text. The auto recognition of borders has gotten better, but still is not accurate always. That’s when I want to use the zoom in. Hope the ability gets added back.
mdapa323 2021-03-28
I love this app, but...
I really like this app. I've been using it for two years now. First on an Samsung phone, now on a iPhone. I use it everyday to submit assignments for school. Th...I really like this app. I've been using it for two years now. First on an Samsung phone, now on a iPhone. I use it everyday to submit assignments for school. There is one thing that I find extremely annoying. When I first got the app on my Samsung new files would just be automatically named what ever the date and time was. This was nice because it meant I never had to name the files and it was easy to figure out when a file was made. When I switched to iOS it worked like this for a little bit, maybe a month or so. But then it broke. Now if I take a scan, the go to the screen where you choose where to save the file to, the will be title is not updated. It shows the title being the date and time of the last time it was updated. The only way I've found to make it update is delete the automaticly set title and leave it blank, it then will title the page correctly. I know that it's just a little bug, but it used to work. I don't remember exactly when this started happening but it was about 8 months ago. Please fix this. It's the only issue with this app that I've encountered.
Easywater 2017-10-17
Almost perfect
Everything works well enough for daily uses. I use it to scan and store most paper notes, receipts, documents, magazine clips... Most of the times the app dete...Everything works well enough for daily uses. I use it to scan and store most paper notes, receipts, documents, magazine clips... Most of the times the app detects the boundaries of the document and automatically crops the scanned image to remove unwanted background. However, sometimes when the contrast between the background and the document is not high enough and/or the light level is low, the app cannot tell where the boundaries are and keeps switching around and snaps on to the wrong boundary lines. I try to move & adjust the phone to different angles & positions to get the app to snap on the correct boundaries but before I can hit the button it switches away to the wrong ones again. If it cannot determine where the correct boundaries are then it should just pick one and allow the user to cycle through the options until he/she finds the correct one. Miscrosoft should add the annotate option after the picture is taken to hi-lite, circle, underline or add a quick note to the scanned image.
Vespuria 2024-01-29
Great but stopped working!!
I have been using Microsoft Lens for years and it’s one of the greatest assets I have for getting through books for school. The immersive reader in this app is ...I have been using Microsoft Lens for years and it’s one of the greatest assets I have for getting through books for school. The immersive reader in this app is way more reliable than the in browser one on Microsoft Edge which never seems to work. Just recently however the immersive reader in this app has STOPPED WORKING! Every time I try to open the immersive reader it displays an error message that says “ There was a problem, and we didn't get all the data. Please try again.” This is so frustrating! I tried reinstalling the app several times which would make the immersive reader load but then it WOULDNT READ and just stayed frozen. Then I switched to a different account and when I opened up the immersive reader it asked me to sign in and after I signed in it just asked me to sign in again and again and never actually signs me in, it just keeps giving me a sign in page again. I’m running on iOS 17.4 on an iPhone 14 Pro. Please fix this issue!
Chappighetti 2020-10-08
Good but issues
-do a better job of detecting orientation. Sometimes insists on rotating page to landscape. Can’t figure out what’s doing that. So then I have to rotate it post...-do a better job of detecting orientation. Sometimes insists on rotating page to landscape. Can’t figure out what’s doing that. So then I have to rotate it post. Which brings me to...... - the touch up icons need to ALL be visible. I’m constantly having to rotate page back to proper orient. But that takes 3!!! Finger taps (not including how many times you rotate.). Once to tap “more” because rotate isn’t visible. Again to tap rotate and AGAINon the view screen so you can get the menu back to where you can select done. Talk about annoying. I’m looking at it right now and you could easily fit all icons AND the done button at same time. It would be so much faster. - also... for the filters, it needs to remember what filter I last selected. I’m scanning 20 pages, they all need the “none” filter because they were light pencil and subject to clipping. So I have to select the filter EVERY TIME?! Why? And again, that means tap filters, tap none, tap again to get out of the menu so you can hit done.... ugh.
hotshot365 2021-01-22
So close to be ideal
I love the app on the whole. It does great with documents and it’s edge detection and document filter are great for making it look nice and not scanned. However...I love the app on the whole. It does great with documents and it’s edge detection and document filter are great for making it look nice and not scanned. However, I have two annoyances with the app which usually happen with handwritten notes. 1) the app automatically tries to rotate the paper so the first line is flat. This can make handwritten documents look bad because then whole paper is rotated at a weird angle and makes the left margin at an angle. 2) even in document mode where it makes the paper pure white, if the size isn’t a perfect rectangle it will extrapolate the missing parts in an ugly black and white stripped pattern which looks bad and makes no sense. This problem is further exacerbated by issue one because the extra rotation means there is lots of missing parts in the corners and it looks super bad. Update: I tried to email the address you replied with but it says it only accepts mail from inside your organization. Is there an email address I can actually use??? Thanks!
Mekaneck84 2020-04-12
Pictures get stuck transferring them.
I’m updating my review but staying with one star. There was an issue where the option to create a text box was disappearing but it has been resolved. The issue ...I’m updating my review but staying with one star. There was an issue where the option to create a text box was disappearing but it has been resolved. The issue I still have, which is more concerning, is that some pictures get stuck in the “transferring” state when trying to save them to OneDrive. You’d expect this to be the most flawless option, since I’m keeping the image in the Microsoft ecosystem. But no, after taking a bunch of inspection photos and uploading them to my OneDrive, I go back to the office to find a few of the thumbnails still showing the “transferring” symbol. In this state you can’t view the picture or re-try. Force close the app, reboot the phone, nothing happens. I left them alone in the state for days, and nothing happened. The only option available was to delete the image. Do I call the customer back and ask them to tear apart their machine again so I can grab the pictures I need? I’m sure if I tell them the Microsoft software I was using is buggy, they’ll happily stop production and take their machine down again for me...
Technical Analysis
Package Overview Package analysis available
Bundle ID
com.microsoft.officelens Current Version 2.106.1
Minimum iOS 18.0
Package Size App Store Size
Package Metadata 4 / 96 version records
IntuneMAMSwift
com.microsoft.IntuneMAMSwift v19.7.12iOS 15.0+6.49 MB
IntuneMAMSwiftStub
com.microsoft.IntuneMAMSwiftStub v19.7.12iOS 15.0+103.48 KB
Related Apps
More by Microsoft Corporation
Developer Information
Known Version Records
4 version records with stored package metadata • 96 known version records
Stored metadata does not guarantee a package is currently available to download.
| Details | Version / IDs | Version date | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
 54.15 MB | v2.106.1 App Store ID: 881216454Build: 2.106.26010423 | 2026-01-05 09:52:06 | Get Version |
 53.15 MB | v2.96.1 App Store ID: 873748968Build: 2.96.25040141 | 2025-04-03 11:16:16 | Get Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 873698498 | Unknown | Request Version |
 57.26 MB | v2.94.1 App Store ID: 862698170Build: 2.94.25030411 | 2025-03-04 17:00:04 | Get Version |
 37.67 MB | v2.77.1 App Store ID: 860112520Build: 2.77.23092102 | 2023-09-21 13:18:18 | Get Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 860056056 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 856296931 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 855115278 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 854312605 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 852853727 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 847902124 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 847696655 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 846956984 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 846265148 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 845766312 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 845276537 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 844804924 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 844647998 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 844428884 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 844193548 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 843944509 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 843471902 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 842971791 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 842516887 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 842073392 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 841285900 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 841043845 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 840720906 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 840462110 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 840194557 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 840125701 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 839861474 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 839750823 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 839467996 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 839369463 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 838951753 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 837869208 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 837671399 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 837523613 | Unknown | Request Version |
| Not archived | App Store ID: 837413431 | Unknown | Request Version |