{"id":106,"date":"2016-04-07T15:30:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/?p=106"},"modified":"2020-05-01T13:10:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:10:42","slug":"office-lens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/2016\/04\/07\/office-lens\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-107\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Lens.png\" alt=\"Office Lens logo\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Lens.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Lens-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/><em>Updated May 1, 2020 with new Immersive Reader feature.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mobile scanning apps offer incredible benefits for many types of users.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trying to reduce paper clutter? Take a photo of it and recycle the original paper or return the library book.<\/li>\n<li>Trying to be better organized? File your scans in a cloud-based notebook like <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/2016\/02\/17\/microsoft-onenote\/\">OneNote<\/a> so you can easily find them when needed.<\/li>\n<li>Using text-to-speech because of dyslexia? Use your phone to snap a shot of that classroom handout and then load it into <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/2014\/11\/25\/voice-dream\/\">Voice Dream<\/a> or another text-to-speech app.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While there are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/what-s-the-best-free-1393333842329654.html\">lots of mobile scanning apps<\/a> out there, Office Lens is free, simple, powerful &#8211; and now has text-to-speech built in. Here&#8217;s how I used it with my iPad to snap and save a scan of our library&#8217;s Interlibrary Loan bookmark<\/p>\n<p>1) Open Office Lens and hold your device to allow the app to frame the shot for you.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-111 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/smaller-lens-frame-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Office Lens framing the bookmark\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/smaller-lens-frame-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/smaller-lens-frame-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/smaller-lens-frame.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m choosing to capture this as a document, as this will (1) cause Office Lens to ignore everything not in the frame and (2) will automatically run optical character recognition (OCR) on the shot to recognize the text. Choosing to capture a whiteboard would be appropriate for taking a shot of the whiteboard after a class. In either case, don&#8217;t worry if you are taking your shot at an angle&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/2905384\/first-look-office-lens-scans-documents-and-whiteboards-into-editable-office-files.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office Lens will crop and present it as if you were shooting straight on<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2) Next, what do you want to do with your scan? You can easily export it to a number of Windows apps. Go ahead&#8211;put that whiteboard scan into a PowerPoint. Use your scan of a page from a physical book to paste a quote into a Word document. Save a scan of that handout to the course notebook you are keeping in OneNote. Or just email it to a friend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Export-225x300.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Office Lens Export options\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Export-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Export-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Export.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3) If you want to use text-to-speech to listen to your newly OCRed document, create a PDF and use iOS sharing to open it in Voice Dream.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-108 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/iOS-share-225x300.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of iOS share\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/iOS-share-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/iOS-share-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/iOS-share.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-109 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Lens-to-Voice-Dream-225x300.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Voice Dream reading the bookmark\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Lens-to-Voice-Dream-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Lens-to-Voice-Dream-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Lens-to-Voice-Dream.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Or export to OneDrive and open it in <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/2016\/03\/16\/read-and-write\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read &amp; Write<\/a>&#8216;s PDF Aloud on your laptop.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/PDF-Aloud-screenshot-300x234.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of PDF Aloud reading the bookmark\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/PDF-Aloud-screenshot-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/PDF-Aloud-screenshot-768x600.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/PDF-Aloud-screenshot-1024x800.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/PDF-Aloud-screenshot.png 1218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4) If you want to hear text read aloud, use the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L1vq4Ma0lt4\">Immersive Reader feature<\/a>. Just take a photo of the document that you want read and click &#8220;Export to&#8221; then &#8220;Immersive Reader.&#8221; The app will recognize the text and it will read it aloud to you, once you press the Play Button. You can also increase and decrease font size, change word spacing, move forward and backward in the text, and alter the speaking rate.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-12.52.53-PM-178x300.png\" alt=\"Immersive Reader function. Shows application highlighting one word at a time as it reads the test aloud\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-12.52.53-PM-178x300.png 178w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-01-at-12.52.53-PM.png 449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Office Lens is available for <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/office-lens\/id975925059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officelens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated May 1, 2020 with new Immersive Reader feature. Mobile scanning apps offer incredible benefits for many types of users. Trying to reduce paper clutter? Take a photo of it and recycle the original paper or return the library book. Trying to be better organized? File your scans in a cloud-based notebook like OneNote so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/2016\/04\/07\/office-lens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Office Lens<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,8,9,10,11,13,15,20,16,21,18],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeremy-zhe-heimerman","tag-android","tag-dyslexia","tag-executive-functioning","tag-free","tag-ios","tag-organizing","tag-reading","tag-research","tag-studying","tag-visual","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/academicapps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}