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Microsoft Lens VS HP Smart

Compare Microsoft Lens VS HP Smart and see what are their differences

Microsoft Lens logo Microsoft Lens

Microsoft Lens (formerly known as Office Lens) is an all-in-one application designed for Windows, Android, and Apple devices, allowing you to capture important information from signs, PDFs, whiteboards, and more to add.

HP Smart logo HP Smart

HP Smart app comes up with features to help you in scanning all the important paperwork using your phone’s camera and connect the device to an HP printer to print the documents on paper.
  • Microsoft Lens Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-01-22
  • HP Smart Landing page
    Landing page //
    2023-08-26

Microsoft Lens videos

📱 How to use Microsoft Lens PDF Scanner

More videos:

  • Review - Microsoft Lens (Formerly Office Lens) [iOS]

HP Smart videos

HP Smart App - Free App Review

More videos:

  • Review - Hp Smart Tank Plus 551 Unboxing, Setup & Review

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Microsoft Lens and HP Smart)
Tool
52 52%
48% 48
Office & Productivity
40 40%
60% 60
Cloud Printing
0 0%
100% 100
OCR
100 100%
0% 0

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HP Smart Reviews

  1. Horrible software that is a breach of privacy

    The software itself is not well developed but the worse part is that to use any of the functionality you MUST have an account with HP! Why is it that guests to my home need to log into my account in order to use the printer. This is a completely unnecessary requirement. What it tells me is that when you buy a HP printer, you are not actually buying it given that unless you maintain an account it cannot be used.

    👍 Pros:    Print quality is good
    👎 Cons:    Requires a login to an hp account to work|The scan back to computer often does not work|The software is not stable|Slow software
  2. Simple, but idiotic

    As the software is super-simple, it insists on the user logging in to HP every now and then. This is a HUGE problem, as I can't always remember and/or search for the password, there is absolutely NO reason for that software to log into a website, a user has already PAID for the product, so they wouldn't like nor expect this kind of behavior, and when you launch an app, you expect to do something productive RIGHT NOW, not AFTER you log-in for no reason except for some egocentric at HP decided that you HAVE to.

    👍 Pros:    Simple
    👎 Cons:    Requires you to log-in|May upgrade firmware without user permision

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Microsoft Lens and HP Smart, you can also consider the following products

Google Lens - Discover information about something by taking a photo

PrinterShare Mobile Print - PrinterShare Mobile Print app allows users to print images, emails, attachments, contacts, web pages, and various other digital media.

GImageReader - gImageReader is a simple Gtk/Qt front-end to the Tesseract OCR Engine.

Mopria Print Service - Mopria Print Service is an app by Mopria Alliance that provides features that let users print the desired document through a large number of printer models available in the market.

OpenScan - FOSS Document Scanner

NokoPrint - NokoPrint app offers features through which users can take photos using their mobile phone’s camera and can print them using nearby printers to share them with other users.