Office Lens Adds One More Reason to Buy a Windows Phone

With Microsoft currently hard at work on Windows 10 for phones, Windows Phone 8.1 needs all the apps and services it can get to lure users away from rivals like the iPhone and devices running Google’s Android operating system. That’s where Office Lens comes in, a recent update has finally given it everything it needs to kill off a cumbersome staple of the home office: the scanner.

Microsoft revealed a big update to its Office Lens app for smartphones running its Windows Phone operating system just yesterday in a blog post. One of the new feature additions is the ability to turn pictures of documents directly into a PDF.

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