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Microsoft used to have an app called Office Lens. It helped color correct and keystone adjust documents scanned with a phone camera. They pushed an update that

Microsoft used to have an app called Office Lens. It helped color correct and keystone adjust documents scanned with a phone camera. They pushed an update that gutted the app and said this app has been replaced by OneDrive. After installing OneDrive and dodging multiple dark pattern storage upsells, I discovered the OneDrive app doesn’t have any of the document scanning tools. I’m sure someone got a bonus for increasing OneDrive installs though.

sjs7007 6mo ago
I got caught up in that too. Install OneDrive and saw you can't use it without signing up. I bailed right that. Now admittedly my workaround ended up being uh... Google Drive.
laserlight 6mo ago
Wow. This is news to me. Office Lens had been my trusted scanning app for ten years. It was years ahead of Cam Scanner bullshit, which many people used, likely because of marketing.
Frieren 6mo ago
Unregulated capitalism descents into scams and fraud. Why better your products and services when it is possible to buy competitors, increase prices and lie? We need judges and policymakers that punish harshly this behavior and force companies to compete in quality and price instead of lies and competition elimination.
thombles 6mo ago
It doesn’t? I use the OneDrive app for scanning documents all the time. + button then “Capture”
- deckar01 6mo ago
  Oh, I have to use their app to take the pic. I can’t use my existing photos anymore.
ahartmetz 6mo ago
What the fuck. I dodged a bullet by deciding to try a FOSS scanning app at F-Droid's suggestion (whose timing may not have been accidental). The trapeze correction of FairScan is not great... but it's not going to try to pull any crap on me, and if the app changes, it's probably for the better.
timpera 6mo ago
The "OneDrive" app definitely has a nice document scanning tool.
j16sdiz 6mo ago
What do you meant? A quick search on youtube give me many short showing this function in OneDrive app. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT9EmGCpRxk https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT9EmGCpRxk
mandeepj 6mo ago
> I discovered the OneDrive app doesn’t have any of the document scanning tools. Loved office lens! The closets thing they have now is - + icon and Document.
theolivenbaum 6mo ago
It's worse than that - the feature exists in the paid OneDrive app, it lets you scan, edit, add pages etc just like the office lens. It just doesn't save the output - scanned files just disappear in the void.
a2128 6mo ago
I've since replaced Office Lens with FairScan. Usually it's the case that the big tech proprietary software is extremely streamlined while the open-source alternative is janky and confusing, but in this case it seems Microsoft's greed has flipped this completely upside down https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fairscan.app/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fairscan.app/

sjs7007 6mo ago

I got caught up in that too. Install OneDrive and saw you can't use it without signing up. I bailed right that. Now admittedly my workaround ended up being uh... Google Drive.

laserlight 6mo ago

Wow. This is news to me. Office Lens had been my trusted scanning app for ten years. It was years ahead of Cam Scanner bullshit, which many people used, likely because of marketing.

Frieren 6mo ago

Unregulated capitalism descents into scams and fraud. Why better your products and services when it is possible to buy competitors, increase prices and lie? We need judges and policymakers that punish harshly this behavior and force companies to compete in quality and price instead of lies and competition elimination.

thombles 6mo ago

It doesn’t? I use the OneDrive app for scanning documents all the time. + button then “Capture”

deckar01 6mo ago
Oh, I have to use their app to take the pic. I can’t use my existing photos anymore.

ahartmetz 6mo ago

What the fuck. I dodged a bullet by deciding to try a FOSS scanning app at F-Droid's suggestion (whose timing may not have been accidental). The trapeze correction of FairScan is not great... but it's not going to try to pull any crap on me, and if the app changes, it's probably for the better.

timpera 6mo ago

The "OneDrive" app definitely has a nice document scanning tool.

j16sdiz 6mo ago

What do you meant? A quick search on youtube give me many short showing this function in OneDrive app. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT9EmGCpRxk https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YT9EmGCpRxk

mandeepj 6mo ago

> I discovered the OneDrive app doesn’t have any of the document scanning tools. Loved office lens! The closets thing they have now is - + icon and Document.

theolivenbaum 6mo ago

It's worse than that - the feature exists in the paid OneDrive app, it lets you scan, edit, add pages etc just like the office lens. It just doesn't save the output - scanned files just disappear in the void.

a2128 6mo ago

I've since replaced Office Lens with FairScan. Usually it's the case that the big tech proprietary software is extremely streamlined while the open-source alternative is janky and confusing, but in this case it seems Microsoft's greed has flipped this completely upside down https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fairscan.app/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fairscan.app/