If Microsoft Lens were a coin, I’d likely find it lurking between the couch cushions. It’s one of those apps that I forgot was installed on my device, but I was always glad to see it whenever I needed to scan receipts, invoices, menus, random documents, or business cards, extract their text, and convert the result into my preferred file type.
Unfortunately, we can’t have nice things. So, as it was one of Redmond’s most functional and reliable Android apps, Lens had to be merged into something else. The app’s functionality will be integrated into Copilot in the coming months, leaving those who relied on it without a dedicated scanning platform. Naturally, I turned to various forums to find an alternative before the inevitable; one name that popped up as a free option was PDFgear Scan.