Microsoft releases Office Lens for iPad

After months of endless wait, Microsoft is finally releasing its Office Lens document scanning app for iPad. Office Lens was initially launched as a Windows Phone exclusive, and in 2015 Microsoft brought it to Android and the iPhone.

“With the bigger screen on the iPad, going from physical to accessible digital content is easier and more compelling than ever. And, as always, you can save the content into OneNote and OneDrive easily,” the OneNote team wrote in its official blog post.

The Redmond company brought its core Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps to the iPad in 2014, and now with Office Lens things will only get better and productive on the iPad and iPad Pro.

Microsoft adds that the app has Learning Tools built into it, such as Immersive Reader. This will allow users to scan documents and whiteboards and have the app read the text from them.

Recently Dropbox added document scanning functionality to its iOS app, following Box. The Google Drive app for iOS does not support document scanning, but the Android version does.

You can grab Office Lens from the App Store right here.