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By Dian Schaffhauser 02/11/21 Instructure, which produces the learning management system Canvas, recently announced that it is making Immersive Reader from Microsoft freely available in its application. The two companies have been beta-testing the integration for the last year. Immersive Reader is intended to improve independent reading for students with specific learning needs, such as dyslexia. Among the program's features: Reading of text and math out loud; Breaking words into syllables; A picture dictionary; and Real-time translation. "Last year Instructure became the first [LMS] provider...

The week that's just ending has brought news relating to the ZeniMax acquisition, productivity enhancements, Windows updates, and more. Be sure to catch up on all that via our handy overview.

READ MORE Besides having a new look and name, Microsoft Lens now boasts a tonne of extra camera functions. Image to Table and Image to Contact scanning as well as a QR Code tool are among the new strings in Microsoft Lens's bow. Microsoft Lens also now boasts an improved scanning experience that allows users to re-order pages or re-edit scanned PDFs. Filters can also be applied to all images in a document and Microsoft Lens can also can up to 100 pages as images or PDFs. Users can also easily switch between local and cloud locations while saving PDF. Announcing the changes in a blog post, Mic...

Microsoft has today announced that it is renaming the acclaimed document-scanning and enhancement app – Office Lens – to Microsoft Lens. Aside from a new name, there is now a fresh logo to boot as well. But more importantly, the re-christening brings a host of new features such as intelligent camera actions for turning an image to text, converting data in tables, gleaming the contact information from a business card, and QR code scanning among others. Microsoft Lens app lets you extract text from an image. As the name clearly suggests, the Camera to Text tool will allow users to point th...

Android Community February 2, 2021 In a pretty lengthy blog post, Microsoft announced a lot of new features and changes that will be coming to its Office mobile apps in the next few weeks as part of the “evolution of mobile productivity”. This includes rolling out their conversational AI technology for Cortana (iOS first, Android later), renaming Office Lens to Microsoft Lens and bringing new ways to create short videos through the app, and other productivity updates for Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, and other Office apps. Probably the biggest news is that the Office Lens app has bee...