Microsoft Is Finally Retiring Its Free Scanner App (but There Are Alternatives)

Microsoft is officially retiring Microsoft Lens, the company's document scanner app. The company had previously announced it ...

Microsoft ends Office Lens for Android and iOS

Microsoft Lens is a PDF scanner on iOS and Android that allows you to save content by taking photos of whiteboards or ...

AI did it in one prompt: Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke builds his own MRI viewer

Lutke’s X post said he used Anthropic’s Claude AI to process DICOM files (the standard file format used in healthcare to ...

Microsoft is retiring the Lens scanner app for iOS, Android

Microsoft has started retiring the Microsoft Lens PDF scanner app for Android and iOS devices on Friday, January 9th, with ...
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Still using Microsoft Lens? You only have a few weeks to find an alternative

Microsoft originally planned to shut down its mobile scanner by Dec. 15, but it's now pushed that to March 9, giving you about two months to switch to another app.

Microsoft Lens is riding into the sunset, if you even remember using it

Microsoft Lens is shutting down on iOS and Android with two deadlines. It leaves app stores February 9, 2026, and stops ...