In the example below I have decided to save to Gallery (where you can share to Google Drive), OneNote & Word. Step 2: Save the photo to your preferred program. This is a great help when the light is above you and you are trying to take a photo without shadows! Notice in the screenshot below that Office Lens will pick up your paper even if you aren’t square to the paper. Step 1: Open Office Lens and take a photo of your document You can try this with a hand written worksheet, but the results aren’t 100% accurate (see example at the end of this blog post). With Office Lens, you can take a photo of your worksheet, import it into OneNote, Google Docs or Word and then simply extract the text right off the page. Quite often teachers will pick up a paper copy of a worksheet from another teacher and then have to retype that worksheet into their computer to get a digital copy. In this Office Lens example, you will see how you can take a printed worksheet and turn it into an editable worksheet in under a minute.

The Office Lens App, available on all mobile platforms, is an amazing tool.Īt a basic level, you can capture your paper or whiteboard notes and so on, but its integration with both Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive allow you to take this tool to another level.

Onenote in google drive