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Office Lens: A Free Scanning App
The accessible Office Lens app is a scanning app that converts print text into an editable digital text.
In the ideal world, classroom assignments are shared in an accessible digital format with occasional print materials shared a week or more in advance. Unfortunately, there can be last minute changes and your students should be prepared to handle. Office Lens is a free scanning app that enables users to quickly convert a print document to accessible digital document. Office Lens can be used for other functional activities such as independently read your mail, accessing a print menu, scan your receipts and business cards.
Office Lens is an accessible scanning app that easily converts printed text into an editable digital Word or PowerPoint documents – allowing users to type or make changes to the digital document. Office Lens works well with VoiceOver, including the ability for a blind user to snap the picture. Office Lens has a Whiteboard setting that reduces glare so that students can also use Office Lens to capture materials on whiteboards or blackboards. Office Lens is available for iPhones, Android and Windows phones.
Note: You must open the digital document in Microsoft Word or PowerPoint.
For more information about the Office Lens app, see the AppleVis review. At the bottom of this review is a quick tutorial explaining how to use Office Lens from a blind perspective.
For more information, view the Applevis article, Office Lens.
By Diane Brauner
