OfficeDrop has a document scanning frequently asked questions page that goes over some pretty common questions we get about how our OCR works, the difference between bulk scanning vs. monthly scanning and more. If you are interested in using OfficeDrop as your mail in scanning service then this FAQ page may be helpful!
Despite the supposed oncoming death of the printed newspaper, there is something really thrilling about actually seeing your company’s name in print. Today we are very excited to say that our new Android Paper-To-Go App was in the App Smart section of the New York Times!
OfficeDrop Android App NYTimes
Of course, we are also in the online version – read about OfficeDrop’s Android App in the Times. To see the online version, scroll down to the end of the article.
Bettina Hein, CEO of Boston area Pixability, was just quoted on CNN in a piece on Business Myths. Pixability was OfficeDrop’s collaborator on the popular Guy Kawasaki “The Macintosh Way” book scanning video:
For the CNN piece, Bettina says:
Despite regular team meetings, Bettina Hein, CEO of Pixability, a Cambridge, Mass., company that helps customers market themselves on video, was the last to find out that an instructional video added to the company’s site had saved her team 135 hours of customer-service time, worth $8,000 to $10,000 a month. No one thought to mention it to her. “Only in a casual conversation did it emerge,” she says. She’s now rushing to create 60 more. Had she known, she would have launched the new ones sooner and saved even more money.
Check out the rest of the good advice in the CNN article here: http://money.cnn.com/2011/01/18/smallbusiness/business_myths.fortune/index.htm
OfficeDrop has been on a roll recently, being mentioned in a few great publications! Here are the highlights:
David Einstein, business and technology reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, recommends OfficeDrop as a way to digitize paper documents for record keeping:
Q: I have hundreds of paper documents that I would like to digitize. I don’t need to be able to edit the documents. I’m just interested in record-keeping. Can you recommend a scanning service?
A: You have several options. You can take your documents to Staples and let them do the scanning at a rate of 25 cents per page. That works out to $125 for 500 pages. Or, you could send the documents to a company like OfficeDrop (officedrop.com)…
Scroll down to the last question on the page!
The final part of the New York Time’s three piece case study on OfficeDrop’s security/background checking policy came out on December 8th. This piece was also briefly featured on the Time’s home page!
The case study we published last week chronicled the efforts of OfficeDrop, a start-up that scans sensitive documents for its clients and therefore must ensure that employees are trustworthy.
The article recounted how Prasad Thammineni, OfficeDrop’s chief executive, struggled at first to find the right background-check company and then faced a daunting variety of checks to choose among…
Let’s hope that the rest of December is as good for press coverage as the first couple of weeks have been!
OfficeDrop’s growth over the past few months has been tremendous. In order to keep up with demand we’ve added an additional scanner to our lineup, which should increase our monthly scanning volume by over half a million images a month (thanks to our newest scanning associates and the in-house scanning software we’ve built to juice up the speed of the scanner.)
We realize that there is a significant backlog for new customers to our bulk document scanning service, and hope that soon we will be able to get our processing times back to the speed that you expect. Please note that we continue to process our monthly mail-in scanning customers’ documents at the same speed that we’ve always delivered!
These days, there are a number of different way to go paperless. Of course, OfficeDrop is one of them, but in this video, Josh Zerkel, a Professional Organizer in San Francisco and founder of Custom Living Solutions, outlines the different options you have when going paperless.
Josh outlines the different types of scanner available, the power of OCR, online backup, text-search, different online applications and mail-in scanning services.
That’s right, OfficeDrop has recently scanned a full print book and converted it to a PDF document that can be viewed and read as an eBook on the Apple iPad. The book is Guy Kawasaki’s The Macintosh Way. Download the book as a text-searchable PDF here: http://freemacway.com/ and you can get the OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go app here.
Here’s the story:
In 1990, Guy Kawasaki published The Macintosh Way. It was a great book that highlighted and outlined the marketing values and techniques of Macintosh back when they were producing and selling the early Mac computers. Sadly, the book went out of print though it had a significant following.
Twenty years later Apple has surpassed Microsoft in value, and Kawasaki’s book is now a way to view the original strategies they employed to get there. After securing the rights to his work, Kawasaki decided to begin distributing his work to his established collection of Twitter followers. The book wasn’t in print anymore, so the only way to do this would be to scan the book and distribute it digitally.
As you might guess, this is where OfficeDrop comes in. Guy approached us with the challenge of turning his print book into an eBook, and we were psyched to attach such an original and exciting project. We scanned the book, organized it in a PDF, and uploaded it to OfficeDrop.
Now, we have our new OfficeDrop iPad app, which lets you open and navigate through scanned pages as you would an eBook on the iPad. With the scanning process complete, Guy Kawasaki was now able to distribute his work digitally, and could even read it on his iPad, the result of the very company his book praised.
The best part – video marketing company, Pixability, took footage of the scanning and conversion process to make a clever video that tells the fascinating story of Guy’s plight from initial problem to finished solution. The video was very well done and is especially entertaining with its feature of various Mac and Apple products that accurately match the chronology of the story.
We’ve got two great ways to learn about document scanning prices. The first is our document scanning price estimator, which will give you an idea of what a scanning project by OfficeDrop would cost. You can visit the estimator:
Get Document Scanning Estimate & Signup
Or you can visit our new document scanning prices page, which has information on … the prices we charge for scanning your documents! Visit the document scanning prices page.
Web how-to blog, MakeUseOf.com, recently polled their readers with the question “Are you paperless?” Obviously our ears perked up to this since the results could tell us the general reception of the concept on which our company is based.
The results came back (pictured below) and we were actually pretty excited about the outcome.
Why should I be paperless? I don’t care. 8% (23 votes)
Yes 100% paperless. I get all my bills online.23% (65 votes)
I am trying. I have gotten more than half of my bills to stop sending snail mail. 50% (138 votes)
I think I might try to go paperless in the near future. 14% (38 votes)
What do you mean by paperless? 5% (13 votes)
Total Votes: 277
As you can see, the majority answer is that people are working towards a paperless environment which, for us, is a best case scenario.
It shows that people are open to the idea of going paperless, but they are hesitant to get started. OfficeDrop helps with this by providing an easy way to start reducing paper in your office. Since we do all of the scanning for you, our mail-in submission system replaces hours spent scanning with a quick trip to the post office.
Congrats to those who have eliminated paper altogether, and as for those of you that are trying to get there, keep fighting the good fight. Going paperless yields a mountain of benefits, and isn’t nearly as hard as you might think. If you’ve hit a wall trying to get paperless, we encourage you to try our document scanning services which is sure to simplify your conversion process, and get you managing digital documents online in no time.
Have you been wishing for a great deal on document scanning and document management? If so, consider your wish granted thanks to AppSumo.
AppSumo is best known for bundling a big pile of awesome web apps, throwing a mawashi on them, and selling it all at heavily discounted prices.
Now OfficeDrop is in the ring, and for a limited time you will be able to get 6 months of document scanning goodness for just $15 dollars. For just $15 you can get six months of our document scanning and document management value plan which includes one pre-paid envelope per month (for 6 months), and unrestricted digital storage access.
Also keep in mind that this is what AppSumo calls a snowball deal, which means the more people buy, the lower the price for everyone!
The offer isn’t going to last long, so take advantage of this giant AppSumo discount and start crushing your document problems today. Also please note that this offer is only for new OfficeDrop customers.
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