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Microsoft to Retire Popular Lens App, Fold Scanning Into Copilot
GLOBAL, AUG 8 – Microsoft will retire Lens after 92.3 million downloads since 2017 and transition users to Microsoft 365 Copilot, which offers most scanning features but lacks some accessibility tools.
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Microsoft to retire popular Lens app, fold scanning into Copilot
Originally known as Office Lens, the free app quickly gained traction as a way to convert documents, notes, and whiteboard sketches into digital formats using your phone's camera. Over time, Microsoft expanded its capabilities, enabling users to create PDFs as well as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files, and to perform...Read Entire Article
Microsoft Lens, the popular document scanning app, is going to stop working from December 15th this year, and Microsoft is going to recommend the next alternative.
Microsoft Lens is the latest victim of AI
Users of Microsoft Lens – originally launched several years ago as Office Lens – have just a few short weeks left to use the tool. Microsoft has announced that the incredibly popular iOS and Android app is to be “retired” (translation: killed off). Having started life under a different name over a decade ago, the app provides a way to convert images to PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files and much more. But not for very much longer. Starting i…
Today, documents can be scanned with the smartphone in seconds and there is no need for hardware on the desk. Microsoft had the right app for Android at the start with Lens, but soon Microsoft Lens will be set up – on Android and iOS as well. However, there is at least one good alternative. Microsoft takes a logical step and throws the individual app out of the offer, instead users should switch to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app. It offers simila…
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