Microsoft Lens: PDF Scanner

The app works but lacks basic features that competitive apps have offered for years. Notably, the auto deskew function is missing, and you need to position documents and receipts precisely to help the app find a correct rectangle. Next, there is also no auto-crop function, which would be helpful for snapping documents quickly. Moreover, the app does not automatically remember and apply the most recent filter. For example, you must manually select the “document” filter each time you scan a new document. Finally, the app has no option to save black-and-white document images as lossless PNG images; it saves them as JPG. The app works, but the user experience is not as good as other apps.

Microsoft recently changed the way we sync pictures to OneDrive and OneNote and it’s been frustrating to deal with the changes. - why does it try to auto crop my pictures? It doesn’t work properly and I have to press an extra button to turn it off for each picture. - the share to OneDrive and onenote doesn’t work which is plainly frustrating. - it’s less intuitive in general and more high touch. Why can’t the first/default mode take a regular picture with no auto cropping, and save to my OneDrive or phone? Instead I have to choose photo (the last setting) as opposed to business card or document. It asks me to save to OneDrive then asks me again where I want to save it to…strange.

Only allows sharing as image with other Apps. To share as PDF, have to save to ‘Phone Storage’ first and then Share to other iPhone Apps.

Where in the heck is it? I select “on my phone” but the folder doesn’t show up in the file structure. I need the option to save the scan in a folder of my choice so I can find it 30 seconds later.

Someone should have done some usability testing on this. Still hard to use but with so much potential.

This app was recommended to me by a friend who suggested it would help me scan, crop and edit photos and documents.

This used to be great and I used this all the time. Now it asks to sign in, but after approving all the sign in prompts through authenticator, this app gets “stuck” and won’t ever finish the sign in or upload anything. I can no longer upload to my OneNote notebook or to onedrive. Now I have to go to those separate apps and go through a much more convoluted process to scan (photo) a document and upload them to each app separately.

I lost all my scans, the scans I took wont load so I deleted the app then reinstalled it and lost everything. The scans I took didn't sync to one drive

I’m asked to sign in all the time and it won’t save files to OneDrive. It’ll loop sign in prompts sometimes and never upload the documents I scan. Often the sign in prompt freezes. It is currently almost unable to work and connect to OneDrive but still works to save locally.

Will not upload scanned images to my Microsoft office account. Very frustrating