‘Dropbox’ Document Scanner For Mobile Released

In an effort to court more businesses to make use of their services, “Dropbox” has released several new features, including one for scanning documents to help users copy physical paper contracts and such, and then upload it directly to the storage site. “Dropbox” is hoping that this slew of new productivity enhancements will make users view the service as more than just a convenient way to tuck their files away. Unfortunately, the service is only available to “iOS” users.

According to Tech Crunch, the idea behind the document scanning feature is because even in this digital world, a lot of business transactions still involve physical copies of those documents. At least, this is what Todd Jackson, head of product for “Dropbox” said.

“We all still love using analog tools, writing on white boards and using sticky notes and printed pieces of paper,” Jackson said. “We want to take analog info, help users get it into Dropbox, and make it more searchable and accessible.”

Instead of scanning them on a bulky hardware later on, which humans are liable to forget to do, users can just scan the documents right there and then using their phones. Once done, users can then upload the scanned images to “Dropbox” and put it out of their minds.

It should be noted that the scanned documents are not just a picture of the document that will act like any other image once uploaded. A special code actually recognizes the texts being scanned, which then makes the document searchable once uploaded.

As PC World noted, however, the new features are only available to “iOS” devices at the moment and there has been no mention of when the document scanner, as well as other productivity enhancements, will be released for “Android.” Representatives have said that there are plans in the worlds to make the features available across all platforms, so it’s only a matter of when.