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Sincostan
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago
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OCR without mobile app

I have a family account and want to use OCR to create searchable PDF files. I want to use the following workflow:   1. Use Brother ADS 2800w to scan paper (German language) and send PDF file to a...
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  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    4 years ago

    Thanks for the nudge on this kls144 

     

    I got an update from the team and indeed what I previously mentioned seems to be expected behavior. Only docs scanned by Dropbox have OCR, not all documents uploaded to Dropbox. 

     

    I hope this clears things up!

Sincostan's avatar
Sincostan
Explorer | Level 4
4 years ago

Can someone from the Dropbox team look into this please?

  • kls144's avatar
    kls144
    Explorer | Level 3
    4 years ago
    Hi - also interested in an answer here. And if this varies between Plus and Professional accounts. Thank you

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