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174 TopicsUsing AI to sort and search my photos
Hi, it's 2024 . IA is here. Please, scan all my photo and suggest something to sort them or help me find what I need. I have a Folder "Camera Uploads"with more than 30 000 photos from my phone. It is impossible to sort them or search them or even to navigate in the folder. Ex : I want to find the photo in a night market in china . It takes seconds within the Iphone. It is impossible on dropbox except if the photo is named "night market china" (spoiler : it isn't) . So Dropbox is good to save the pictures but barely usable to use/search for them . Please do something928Views3likes4CommentsLarge PDF files not being found using search (contents)
Hi, I’m currently evaluating Dropbox as a tool to store PDF files for easy access using content search (keywords etc). At the moment, I’m just using a number of test documents to assess the suitability I will mainly access on iOS devices, using the Dropbox apps. Overall, it seems good, however it refuses to find large PDF files (800 pages) despite the keywords being in the document. For ref, documents have been loaded for over 24 hours If I open the file and then search within, the key words are easily found and highlighted, so I’ve no idea why the documents can’t be found I’m not having any issues with smaller documents . If it helps, the same document loaded to OneDrive, can be easily found using search. It can also be easily located using other apps such as PDF Expert. Hope someone can help JSolved763Views0likes5CommentsCan I tag people in photos and have Dropbox recognize them for search purposes?
Is it possible to learn Dropbox what is on images in a familiar way iPhone Photos....something like 1. Provide a photo of John Doe 2. Tag John Doe in the photo 3. Search for all images who have John Doe on it.1KViews0likes5CommentsI can't find my files
Why can't I find my files anymore? I used to click the recent icon/whatever and they'd appear. Now I can't even find them anywhere not even in search. I have 2GB of storage and I've used 15K MG. I save files in vellum in Macincloud and sometimes I can find them in there, but it's a pain. Thanks!256Views0likes6CommentsDo 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, stored in DropBox. My question: My client wants to download her files to her MacBook and store them in the Finder. When she downloads pdf files, do they still have the OCR function?147Views0likes1CommentIncrease the filetypes considered in full text search
Today's Dropbox web and Desktop interfaces for full search support just certain filetypes (.doc .docx .docm .gdoc .gsheet .jpg .paper .papert .pdf .png .ppt .pptx .pptm .gif .gslide .rtf .tiff .txt .xls .xlsx .xlsm .vtt). There are, though, other files that have the same structure as some of the formally admitted filetypes and there is no technical reason to exclude them from a full text search. This is the case of the files used by the scientific text processor LaTeX (.bib, .tex, bbl...). Many of them are technically identical to the .txt files. In fact the current full text search is able to find the searched text in some of the files with these extensions although it does not find all the files having the searched text in them. Despite this rather arbitrary behaviour, the technical support team indicates that the problem is simply that the filetype is not supported for full search by the system. Would it possible to formally include every file which is .txt compatible in the full text search?Solved327Views0likes2CommentsAdvanced search based on key phrases
I seriously need advanced searching. Dropbox used to have these features (like search exact phrase) in 2015, but somehow removed them. So how can I do advanced searching in dropbox? Like: List files with age between x and y Contain the phrase "a b c" are of type *.pdf ...Solved13KViews10likes52CommentsSearching for 'Image Properties' on the Dropbox site
I am trying to search my Dropbox, on a web browser, for data in the "Keywords" field in the file properties. Dropbox's Help center says that you can search: "Image properties (such as resolution, date, keywords, copyrights, and other EXIF and IPTC fields)." Note: the field that I'm specially looking to search is labeled "Tags" when you look at it on Windows Explorer and "Keywords" when you look at the "File Info" on Dropbox. I can see the data when I look at a file's "File Info," so I know that they are there. But when I type one of the "Keywords" that I know is in multiple files into the search bar, it returns "No Results Found." Can someone explain to me what is happening or what I'm missing? (I am testing this because I currently use OneDrive for file backup, and it is a nightmare to search. I was hoping Dropbox would be more functional.)148Views0likes1Comment