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Katharina Kiock
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2 years ago

Do downloaded files maintain the OCR function?

I work with blind / visually impaired people. For them, the OCR function is important, so the device can read the content of a file to them. I found out, that DropBox uses OCR for the documents, st...
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Hannah
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2 years ago

Hey Katharina Kiock, thanks for posting your question to our Community.

 

The OCR feature should work within the Dropbox environment, so once the files are downloaded from Dropbox, it depends on the device's OS, if the files are searchable with OCR.

 

You can read more about it here.

 

I hope that makes sense, but if you have any more questions, please let us know.

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