The cloud storage service can extract text from photos taken with Windows Phone devices, useful for shots of business cards, train schedules, and memos. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Microsoft has confirmed it will retire its mobile document scanning app Microsoft Lens, formerly known as Office Lens.

OneNote, Microsoft’s cross-platform application for taking and organizing notes, received a useful update on the Mac adding support for OCR, or optical character recognition. OneNote version 15.7.1, ...

Microsoft's cloud storage service now has the ability to extract text from images through a process known as optical character recognition (OCR). The Bing-powered technology is the first of several ...

Microsoft has added the ability to automatically scan uploaded photos to SkyDrive via optical character recognition, in an attempt to catch up to Google. Microsoft also touted the success it has had ...