# Microsoft Lens

> Publicly sourced profile assembled by Optimly, in the Optimly AI Brand Index. Last refreshed 2026-10-04.

- **Business Profile:** https://optimly.ai/brand/microsoft-lens
- **Dataset:** https://optimly.ai/brand/microsoft-lens.json
- **Markdown:** https://optimly.ai/brand/microsoft-lens/llms.txt
- **Official website:** https://microsoft.com
- **Slug:** microsoft-lens
- **Categories:** collaboration-productivity, consumer-apps

## Overview

- **Tagline:** Deepest native integration with Microsoft OneNote and Word desktop, including the ability to reconstruct document layouts in .docx format.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Description:** Microsoft Lens is a mobile productivity application used to capture information from documents, whiteboards, business cards, and receipts. It uses OCR technology to trim, enhance, and make pictures of printed or handwritten text readable, allowing users to convert images into editable files or searchable PDFs.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Offerings

- **Core capabilities:**
  - Mobile document scanning
  - OCR
  - Image-to-PDF/Word conversion.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

- **Pricing:** Free
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Audience

- **Target industry:** Students, business professionals, educators, and enterprise users within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

## Landscape

- **Competitors:**
  - Adobe Scan
  - CamScanner
  - Google Stack (or Google Drive Scanner)
  - SwiftScan
Source: Brand's website (https://microsoft.com) · 2026-10-04

Page last updated 2026-10-17.