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Linda72
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4 years ago

Uploading photos to dropbox via a QR code. Is this possible?

I am at a conference. We want attendees to send their smartphone photos to our Conference drop box. We want to generate a QR code for the dropbox and put it up on the conference screen for them to ...
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4 years ago
Linda72 wrote:

We want to generate a QR code for the dropbox and put it up on the conference screen for them to scan

You could use a File Request. Create a file request and copy the URL, then use a QR code generator to create a QR code for the URL (Dropbox doesn't do this part). Anyone that scans the QR code will be directed to your file request.

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