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DD Wire
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8 months ago
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Which plans have access to OCR search?

There seems to be a lot of confusion and contradicting info out on the web about what your platform is capable of and at what service level needs to be subscribed to in order to search files in Dropb...
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    Jay
    8 months ago

    Hi DD Wire, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

    Image search is limited to certain plans as listed here, and you can search for text in files with certain plans, here. 

    In general, all plans can search individual files, when previewing the file, and search for text within the file. 

    If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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Jay
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8 months ago

Hi DD Wire, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Image search is limited to certain plans as listed here, and you can search for text in files with certain plans, here. 

In general, all plans can search individual files, when previewing the file, and search for text within the file. 

If you have any further queries, feel free to message back.

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