MICROSOFT OFFICE LENS
With Immersive Reader
Immersive Reader Adaptability for the iPhone and Android Phone
Using Office Lens, Immersive reader can even work with pictures scanned from books, not just text typed directly into OneNote. The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) built into Office Lens can actually decipher text within a picture, and then make that available in the Immersive Reader section of Office Lens or online in Word, Outlook, or OneNote. Office Lens also allows you to share pictures with Microsoft Apps and Immersive Reader.
How To Use Immersive Reader on a Smart Phone
- Open the Office Lens App on the phone and select Document from the sliding selector at the bottom of the screen
- Hover over a document, getting as close to the document as possible without cropping out the selection
- Hold still... and take the picture by tapping the white button on the screen
On the next screen, the picture that was just taken is auto-cropped
- The image can be edited and re-cropped by tapping the tools at the bottom and moving the crop lines
- Once satisfied with the image, select Done at the bottom
The next screen will open to the Export To option screen
- Choose Immersive Reader to open it directly on the phone
- Choose another Save To option to open the text in Word, OneNote, etc...
Immersive Reader
If you selected Immersive Reader, the text will convert to the Immersive Reader format and allow you to play the read-aloud text by selecting the play button (1). You can also select a male or a female voice and the voice speed (2) or choose other options (3).
Click on #3 (other options) as pictured in the above image. The Text Preferences menu will open. Here you can:
- Choose the text size
- Increase the text spacing
- Choose the text font
- Choose a color overlay theme
On the Grammar Options menu, you can:
- Toggle Syllables on or off
- Activate color identifiers for Parts of Speech
- Show the Parts of Speech labels within the passage
The Reading Preferences menu allows you to:
- Set Line Focus from all- to one- to two or three lines in focus at a time
- Toggle on or off the Picture Dictionary
- Activate the Translation Language Library of 68 different languages-
- -by the word
- -by the whole document
Once all selections have been set, you are ready to return to the Immersive Reader text screen to begin. Click the Play button at the bottom of the screen. The text will be read aloud and guided reading will begin based on all the options that were set on the previous screen. Once finished, Office Lens can be closed. When you return to Office Lens, the program will remember all the previous presets.
Click Here to See and Hear Immersive Reader in Action
Immersive Reader on an iPhone with Spanish selected as the read aloud language. Text was originally scanned in English using Microsoft Office Lens on an iPhone, then opened in Immersive Reader and translated to Spanish. (17 sec)