I agree completely. I enter my contact info into Outlook on my desktop PC and sync it all to my iPhone using iTunes. It's worked for years and continues to work nicely.
Alan From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 6:17 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Thanks, I think I already took Office Lens off my iPhone, but maybe I'll give it a try. Not a big priority of mine since mostly I enter contacts on my PC in Outlook and then they automatically show up on my iPhone since I am syncing with my Exchange business and exchange active sync personal outlook.com account. Sometimes it's just as fast to type the information especially on the computer, if I have to type some information anyways or correct other information it's not much of a time saver. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 2:29 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Sieghard, I'm pasting the steps from my previous post where I discussed the Office Lens business card scanning steps that I took and then I'll follow those with a change to one of them that I just did to get the information into my contacts. First the original posted steps: 1. I selected business card camera mode on the home screen. 2. I positioned my iPhone 7 until Office Lens said ready and then took the picture. 3. The image was positioned correctly so there was no need to crop and rotate as was the case the last time. 4. I double tapped the done button in the upper right corner and was taken to the Export To screen. 5. I was presented with three export to options: my gmail email address, OneNote Contact plus image, and Photo library. The explanation below the OneNote option says OneNote will recognize contact details and let you save them to your contacts. 6. I double tapped OneNote and went to a screen showing the default Office Lens title of the image with a location of Contacts. I double tapped the Save button in the upper right corner of this screen. 7. I was taken to a recent uploads screen within OneNote I believe with the business card image just exported to it at the top. When I double tapped this top item, a screen opened showing two items, OneNote page with Office Lens in the name and today's date and Contacts with today's date shown. When I double tapped the second contacts item, Voiceover said downloading and I was taken to an Office Lens screen showing the captured contact info from the scanned business card. 8. I double tapped on Done in the upper right corner and then double tapped on Close in the upper right corner of the next screen. I was then taken back to the Office Lens home screen where you take the picture. 9. I then opened Contacts and must admit that the new business card person didn't show up when I searched in Contacts or in the spotlight search on my page 2. In step 7 above, after double tapping the contacts item on the business card I just now scanned, I changed step 8 to double tap the share button in the bottom left corner of the screen which opened after double tapping contacts. One of the options presented in the share screen was import to Contacts which is what I selected. A standard Contacts screen was presented with the extracted business card info and I chose to save as a new contact. Granted, it then prompted me for a first and last name which seemed odd because I thought those were already picked up but I simply typed a company name into the first name field and saved it. When I did a spotlight search with that company name, the contact info just scanned was now in my iPhone contacts. I'm glad I finally got there but I'm with you in saying that I believe more work is needed to cut down on the number of steps needed to get business card scanned info into Contacts. I don't know if all the steps relate to Contacts on iDevices not playing well with non-Apple apps or not. I seem to recall past comments about Contacts having its own set of difficulties including the inability of Siri to find them when using company names. Finally, I'll also comment that this latest business card scan had the image pictured where it required a 90-degree rotation to be right-side up. I'm getting very inconsistent presentment of scanned business card images which I assume either relates to the card formatting or how I'm positioning my iPhone before taking the picture. I will say there's nothing like inconsistent treatment to steer me away from using an app. Anyway, I thought you might find my final steps of interest. I'm putting this one to bed now. Alan Lemly From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 11:03 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Hi Alan, Exactly, I got that far as well, but I want the contacts in Contacts not as contacts in OneNote and I saw no way to add a recognized business card to Contacts. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 12:13 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Sieghard, Here are the steps I followed just now when scanning another business card: 1. I selected business card camera mode on the home screen. 2. I positioned my iPhone 7 until Office Lens said ready and then took the picture. 3. The image was positioned correctly so there was no need to crop and rotate as was the case the last time. 4. I double tapped the done button in the upper right corner and was taken to the Export To screen. 5. I was presented with three export to options: my gmail email address, OneNote Contact plus image, and Photo library. The explanation below the OneNote option says OneNote will recognize contact details and let you save them to your contacts. 6. I double tapped OneNote and went to a screen showing the default Office Lens title of the image with a location of Contacts. I double tapped the Save button in the upper right corner of this screen. 7. I was taken to a recent uploads screen within OneNote I believe with the business card image just exported to it at the top. When I double tapped this top item, a screen opened showing two items, OneNote page with Office Lens in the name and today's date and Contacts with today's date shown. When I double tapped the second contacts item, Voiceover said downloading and I was taken to an Office Lens screen showing the captured contact info from the scanned business card. 8. I double tapped on Done in the upper right corner and then double tapped on Close in the upper right corner of the next screen. I was then taken back to the Office Lens home screen where you take the picture. 9. I then opened Contacts and must admit that the new business card person didn't show up when I searched in Contacts or in the spotlight search on my page 2. So now you know the detailed steps I followed in capturing business card info and we can both scratch our heads as to why what was captured didn't show up in my contacts when I searched for it. I will say that the two contacts I added to OneNote this way did show up as OneNote items in my spotlight search. Alan Lemly From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 2:14 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App How did you get it into Contacts after it was scanned? I saw a Share button but it only let’s you save it to OneNote or something like that? From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 6:04 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Sieghard, I used Office Lens today in business card mode to scan a business card and successfully got the results into my contacts. A couple of things to note. First of all, for some reason, the picture of the business card was upside down the first time I did it and was sideways the second time. I was holding the phone in portrait mode with the card placed correctly for reading so I have no clue why the picture isn't captured the same way. I also got a bit confused on where to export the processed information but I think that might have been due to rushing on one of my attempts. This app is certainly not as fast processing as KNFB Reader. I was eventually successful but I had to use my limited vision to know to rotate the captured image of the business card. I don't believe the app identifies if the image is rotated and that could be a real deal breaker especially if the rotation of the image seems random as has been my experience. Alan Lemly From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2017 3:09 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App OK, I actually haven't used it for scanning documents, I tried it because apparently you are supposed to be able to scan a business card and add the information to your contacts very easily. If you can scan and do OCR fairly easily, accorately and save it to Dropbox or OneDrive then of course this is a very good feature if somebody doesn't own KNFB Reader and doesn't want to buy it. I am not too concerned with the formatting, usually when I do OCR on something I want a quick and easy way to hear the information, I rarely need to save it. Regards, Sieghard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Alan Lemly Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 8:51 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App Marie, I have to agree with you. I had great success with Office Lens scanning a two-page homeowners association minutes document. Granted, the document contained print with a larger font but I liked the app's ability to scan it, convert every letter correctly, format it with a similar appearance as the original, and save it as a Word docx file to Dropbox. I did put the camera mode on document and those using the app should be aware you can pick from among business card, photo, document, and white board modes by a single finger swipe up and down on the camera mode button. Also, the app was good about indicating left and right needed movement when positioning my camera before taking the picture. I already have a Microsoft account set up in my iPhone 7 so I wasn't presented with anything having to do with that when using the app. And I was presented with a screen allowing me to save it from Word where I opened it directly to the desired folder in Dropbox. It was very slick and well done even if not as quick as KNFB Reader. You absolutely can't beat the free price and if you want to capture a document on your phone that looks like the original, this is the app for that. And I'm not worried about Microsoft getting access to my business any more than those who are Office 365 users should be. Alan Lemly From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Marie Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 4:01 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Office Lens, New App I am amazed that three of you say you did not find this app useful. I just downloaded it today and am thrilled with what it does and how easy it was to get started. Strange that our experience would be so different. Marie From: Richard Turner Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:44 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App I also tried this app and did not find it very good at all. For free, the iDentifi app set to Text works great if you don’t mind not be able to easily save the file. Richard From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sieghard Weitzel Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:08 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: Office Lens, New App I tried it and found it less than intuitive. 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