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Community ManagerWhatâs new: Scanner App
Thereâs nothing worse than forgetting an idea, or losing an important piece of paper. The one thing we never lose, and usually donât forget is our phone - so now with the Dropbox Scanner App, you can...
i have not tried the OCR features, but if it turns it to work for your situation, you can snap pictures of your image-based document (already in dropbox) by displaying it on a second screen. so open the document on a computer/tablet, zoom to the largest size, and use your phone to snap the picture into your app. youâd have to page thru the document (what a pain for a long document!), and images might lose crispness, but if it saves time overall, it might be worthwhile.
finding the right document, especially if you have lots of them in a small number of folders, is a challenging issue for me. i try to pack essential âkeywordsâ into the filename, but usually thatâs not enough. you could consider using the dropbox searchable comments/tags to store more keywords. the issue for me is remembering the keywords a year later when itâs time to search. google had a feature to index files â i donât know if they do support that â by installing the google search engine in your computer so youâre not exposing your private files to the world. dropbox should replace their search engine with googleâs engine, i think.
finding the right document, especially if you have lots of them in a small number of folders, is a challenging issue for me. i try to pack essential âkeywordsâ into the filename, but usually thatâs not enough. you could consider using the dropbox searchable comments/tags to store more keywords. the issue for me is remembering the keywords a year later when itâs time to search. google had a feature to index files â i donât know if they do support that â by installing the google search engine in your computer so youâre not exposing your private files to the world. dropbox should replace their search engine with googleâs engine, i think.
I have not been able to make comments come up in the search results. It was one of my thoughts as well to create a hack tag system of sorts. Would be greatbidea if it could work
- Iâve read that searching tags only works in the desktop app, but not thru the website. I wonder if the original author who started this was using windows comments and not dropbox tags. in any case, if the feature is not implemented everywhere, itâs somewhat useless for my usage patterns.
- When I talked to support team they told me that search bar still beta phase & search in comments & spaces not supported yet. Tried playing around but can't get it to work on any device or platform but didn't dive further after team info
I will love these ideas once search improves for sure. I am in same boat that if can't use everywhere would create friction
