The Microsoft Office apps for Android and IOS are not well known, but they are already one of the best mobile apps in terms of reproducing scanners with OCR document recognition. The function is also developing little by little. You can now recognize handwriting with Microsoft Lens.
Office Lens has been rated as one of Microsoft's stable mobile apps since 2014 when it first unveiled the ability to take pictures of pages of text, scan them, extract text, and format them for PowerPoint. . Over the next six years, features such as document scanning, PDF conversion, and PDF signing were added silently, further enhancing the level of completion.
However, with the addition of handwriting recognition to the Office Lens app, the name of Office Lens has been changed to Microsoft Lens, and it has not become famous or received much attention due to unknown marketing. The handwritten OCR function will be provided first in Microsoft Lens and will be extended to mobile office apps in the future.
In the future, a function that recognizes handwriting in unstructured texts, such as whiteboards, notebooks, letters, and other computer text input methods, will be added. Microsoft promised this week that "handwritten to-do lists, letters, and other materials can be easily converted into text." In addition, the edge detection function and the filter will be improved and applied to the app.
Finally, with Microsoft Lens, you can now edit small videos that can be used for Teams chat. You can record short videos, add text or emoticons, perform basic edits, and add live filters.
When the handwriting recognition function of Microsoft Lens is added to the Office mobile app, it will have to accompany the Office Mobile-specific function. Office Mobile's unique features are needed, such as automatically sorting scanned documents, pictures, and photos into the receipt folder in the album. When scanning in an enterprise, the ability to search for content in images with a default common file name will also be useful. The new update will be first distributed to Android Office users in the US in the coming weeks, and the IOS app will be updated after that.
The most important question is whether the lens is able to recognize severe scratches, but some problems may be discovered after the launch. It is a function based on machine learning algorithms that improve performance as time passes and data accumulates, so even if the initial recognition rate drops, it is worth watching over time.
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