Microsoft is quietly winding down its Lens scanning app for iOS and Android, the company confirmed in a support document.

Microsoft is discontinuing its document scanning app "Lens" in late 2025, while urging users to switch to AI-powered Microsoft 365 Copilot ...

Smartphone users often encounter unfamiliar items. While you can search using a typed description, this approach doesn't work for every object. Here's where Google Lens comes into play. It is a Google ...

For all digital PDF scanning tasks, Microsoft Lens was always available to lend a hand. But which PDF scanner app should you use instead?

iOS users can now search what's on their screen directly within Chrome and the Google app using Lens, eliminating the need for screenshots. The new feature mimics the CtS experience on Android, albeit ...

Need help finding some information from an image? Google Lens lets you search the web from just a screenshot, and we’ll show you how it works. Image credit: Google Editorial Note: Talk Android may ...

On some Android phones, like the ones from Google, Samsung, and a few others, you can use a built-in Android feature called ...

Extract text from images on Android using 7 methods: Google Lens (real-time or from your gallery), Keep Notes (grab image text), Microsoft Lens (OCR extraction), Google Photos’ copy text, Samsung’s ...

Lens is one of the coolest things Google has going on, and it seems that very few people are paying it much attention. It's taking a branch of machine learning called "computer vision" and refining a ...

With the addition of song lookup last month, Circle to Search was visually tweaked, and has now lost its Google Lens shortcut. Up until today, the field at the bottom of Circle to Search matched the ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...