Today OfficeDrop published a press release talking about our tremendous growth recently. 2011 is on track to be a banner year for us, and we are truly grateful to our customers for making this happen!
Cambridge, MA — November 3, 2011 — This ain’t your momma’s momentum release. OfficeDrop’s been growing like gangbusters since the switch from a mail-in scanning service to a scan-your-own-way-to-the-cloud app powerhouse last year. We’re talking 50 percent month-over-month user growth for the past quarter! Not to mention being on track for 9x revenue growth in 2011 vs 2010.
“But, how’d they do it,” you ask?
Let’s kick it back to the beginning. It all started with this thing called the interwebz. And it was good. Field of Dreams style they built it and people came. Our CEO Prasad Thammineni said, “Why don’t small businesses store, search, and share their paper documents on this interwebz? In the cloud. Dig it!”
[Just kidding.] Here’s the real deal:
A Major Shift in Strategy
OfficeDrop used to be a mail-in scanning service. Mail us your paper and we’ll scan it for you. Then the definition of a small business “office” changed altogether. With smartphones and tablets, the office became omnipresent. Like “Friday, Friday” was earlier this year (shout out to our co-founder, Anand Rajaram, who loves Rebecca Black a little too much).
OfficeDrop quickly adapted to the way people were working by building scanner apps for iPad, Android phones and iPhones this year. We redefined the industry by letting people have a scanner in their pocket, everywhere they go.
Here’s how our growth stacks up for those of you “numbers people” out there:
In 2011, we’ve added 50,000 new customers to our digital filing cabinet…
Plus, 40,000 new installs of our ScanDrop desktop scanning app
Mobile apps account for 90 percent of our daily new users (wowza!)
Cracking the Small Business Market
“We found that small businesses tend to purchase from companies they trust most,” said our super-smart aforementioned CEO, Thammineni. “Not just the Staples-type stores, but also companies like Nuance, whose PaperPort offering is shipped along with millions of scanners throughout the world. So we started partnering up with these trusted companies to bring their software to the cloud, and co-branding our offerings with theirs.”
Work with awesome companies that small businesses trust, but need to move to the cloud. That’s been our strategy this year in a nutshell. [Strategy: “Help, get me out of this nutshell!” Ugh, sorry. That Austin Powers reference was pretty dated. We need to get out more.]But seriously. Our partners find that we’re able to scale really quickly to meet the scanning, search, sharing and storage demands of millions of users, and bring traditionally very “offline” types of software to the cloud. In English – we can do this stuff really fast and really well.
So, that’s our story. We’re sticking to it. Here’s to another killer year.
About OfficeDrop
OfficeDrop makes it easy for small businesses to scan paper to the cloud and access documents from anywhere, at any time, from any device. OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet lets users sort, search and share documents– giving paper new life and making documents collaborative. Headquartered in Cambridge, MA, OfficeDrop was founded in 2007. For more information, visit www.officedrop.com.
Contact:
Erica Orthmann or Kevin Leahy for OfficeDrop
(617) 945-1915
officedrop(at)launchsquad(dot)com
“Picture this. You have a really important meeting at work today, one that you’ve been up most of the night preparing for, creating documents, spreadsheets, and what not. You’ve been tasked with making digital copies of your physical notes to send to your colleagues to help prep them for this meeting, which starts in about two hours. If you were in a hurry and could only bring one thing to this meeting, what would it be?
If it was me, it would be my iPad. As for the documents I had to scan, well, that’s all been taken care of, because I used an iPad app that allowed me to take pictures of each of my documents and turn them into shiny new digital PDFs that I can organize and share with my colleagues at the click of a button. Sound convenient? Prepare to never need to keep a piece of paper ever again.”
Here is some other recent press that we’ve gotten on our iPad app:
September 20, 2011
OfficeDrop Adds iPad Scanning Support
The application also supports taking, cropping and rotating photos that can be sent directly to OfficeDrop, useful for capturing handwritten notes, receipts and business cards on the go. Read About Using OfficeDrop’s iPad App to Scan
We are really proud of a great write up we just got from Dave Johnson of the popular BNET technology blog. Dave’s piece is called “OfficeDrop: How to Move Paper to the Cloud.”
Wow! We couldn’t have said it better.
It’s great when a reporter with an important publication takes the time to use and review our app! That, plus our customer growth, makes us feel like we are headed in the right direction with the service.
Dave says, “Imagine getting a handout at a conference, which you immediately scan with your iPhone’s camera. The document is immediately stored online as a searchable PDF, and you can ditch the handout — one less thing to carry around. Once online, your documents can be organized, shared with others, and searched like a collection of files on your own computer’s hard drive.”
Please click on the link above to read the full article.
Gregory Huang, a well known reporter for Xconomy Boston, sat down with OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni recently to discuss OfficeDrop’s recent growth, partnership with Nuance and our plans for the rest of the year. He has just published a good piece on the conversation called “OfficeDrop Sees Nuance Partnership Pay Off” and you can read it here. It’s great that reporters are taking note of our recent success!
It feels great when customers write nice things about us! As the marketing person here at OfficeDrop, I work hard with my team to get reporters to notice us. But when actual paying customers take the time out to write positive reviews of OfficeDrop it really shows off the hard work the development team puts into the product!
OfficeDrop Review by William Higgins
William Higgins
William Higgins is an ECM technologist for a major financial institution in Atlanta, GA. So, he knows what he’s talking about when he discusses managing content and cloud based technologies. His post is called “Scanning Documents to the Cloud with OfficeDrop.”
William writes about OfficeDrop on his blog, augusthiggins.net. He says, “I work with Enterprise Content Management (or ECM) systems for a living and have an extensive background in Imaging or Document Capture. But yet, at home I struggle to find a good way to capture important documents and keep them intelligently organized.”
Of course, this is where OfficeDrop enters the picture!
He starts off by showing how he uses ScanDrop to scan to the cloud, “The user interface is styliezed like the newer Microsoft Office applications with the menu ribbon at the top. OfficeDrop makes good use of Folders and Labels…”
The he goes on to explain how to use OfficeDrop’s cloud filing system to organize and quickly find documents, “If foldering and labels weren’t enough, OfficeDrop also creates full-text searchable PDF files of the scanned documents you store in the cloud. This means that even if you don’t spend the time organizing your documents in folders or adding lables, you can still do a “Google”-like fuzzy search of your document contents.”
Some other great recent OfficeDrop press – we are really excited that people are getting a lot out of our newest mobile apps!
July 19, 2011
Cool Websites and Tools
OfficeDrop – Finding specific text within documents that span over many pages is not an easy task. But thanks to optical character recognition technology, the task is made much simpler. Read makeuseof’s review of the OfficeDrop Android Scanner App
July 21, 2011
OfficeDrop App Scanner for iPhone
Those who despise being lost in a bundle of paper documents may want to resort to aid in the form of the OfficeDrop app launched for iPhone. The application seeks to scan, organize and store paper files, PDFs and other documents in virtual guise. Read About OfficeDrop’s iPhone App Scanner
July 20, 2011
Fresh iPhone Apps for July 20: Google+, OfficeDrop
Yesterday saw the release of Google+… It leads today’s Fresh iPhone Apps alongside OfficeDrop, a Dropbox-like app that lets you scan documents using your iDevice’s camera and save them to the cloud… Scan documents and upload them to the cloud on the go with OfficeDrop. Read appolicioius Review of OfficeDrop’s iPhone Scanner App.
We are very happy that some great technology reporters and blogs are writing positive reviews of our new iPhone app! You can get the OfficeDrop iPhone app here.
Here are a couple of the places that have written about the app so far:
July 20, 2011
Free App Turns Your Phone into a Scanner
There are times when you desperately need to scan, search, and edit a document. And wouldn’t it be nice if you could simply use your iPhone to take care of those tasks instead of having to rush into your office? Now you can. All you need to do is grab a free app called OfficeDrop from the Apple App Store and suddenly your dear iPhone will have the capabilities of a basic scanner and its corresponding software — and then some. Read How MSNBC Uses OfficeDrop’s iPhone App for Scanning and Store Documents
July 20, 2011
OfficeDrop Now Available on iOS
OfficeDrop by Pixily has been updated as a universal application for iPhone and iPad. OfficeDrop is an app to scan, search, organize and store your paper files, PDFs and other documents… The OfficeDrop digital filing system is a simple, cost-effective way to scan your paper and manage it online in our searchable web-based document portal. Check out the Cult of iPhone Review of OfficeDrop’s iPhone App
July 20, 2011
It’s in Italian – but it sounds pretty cool
OfficeDrop, l’applicazione per la scansione e la gestione dei propri documenti
OfficeDrop è una delle migliori applicazioni per scannerizzare, organizzare e archiviare PDF, documenti cartacei e non, ricavati dalla cattura di un’immagine dalla fotocamera o da file presenti sul device o su computer. Read the Italian Review of the OfficeDrop iPhone App
OfficeDrop is very pleased to announce that we have an iPhone app! The new app brings you the power that you would have if you were using your computer’s web browser – but now you can access at any time and anywhere. Best of all, the app turns your iPhone into a multi-page PDF scanner, so you can capture paper documents and convert them into text-searchable PDFs on the go. Create PDFs, search PDFs, view and organise PDFs – all on your iPhone. We know that users of the OfficeDrop Andriod app are really into OfficeDrop on their phone – and we hope that iPhone users will be too!
Scan Paper, Text-Search, Browse, Share Documents and More from your iPhone
With the iPhone app, users can snap a photo of a paper document and scan it directly to the cloud. Once an item is scanned, users can browse the document, apply labels, search text using OfficeDrop’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, share and access documents from anywhere with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet.
OfficeDrop iPhone App Video
Using the App
When you first log in using the iPhone app, you’ll see your OfficeDrop folders. You can browse to specific files just as you would if you were looking for files on your computer’s hard drive. Simply touch the folder and navigate to the document you want.
You can also navigate by labels; simple hit the funnel icon in the top left and select the labels (or folders if you want) and only look at items with those particular labels.
The funnel also allows you to find your favorite or recent documents.
Search
Search is, of course, the best way to find your documents. At the bottom of the app’s screen you’ll see the search button. Touch that to text search within your documents. Since OfficeDrop makes the documents you upload into the system totally text searchable, you know that finding your files is only a quick keyword search away.
Scan from the iPhone
The newest iPhones have pretty decent cameras, which means they can be used as a scanner replacement when you are on the go. Using the OfficeDrop app you can scan multipage PDFs quickly and easily from anywhere.
Push the upload button at the center bottom of the app to start scanning. You can either use images already in your phone’s photo gallery or snap a new photo using the app. If you take a picture with the camera using the app you’ll have the option to crop the image, rotate it, add a second (or third, etc) page. At the time of upload you can select a destination folder and add labels. You can also store the item locally, but it will only get OCR when uploaded. If you are in an area without cell phone coverage the app will store the scan on your phone and upload it when you get back into good reception.
“We’re changing the way people collect and share information on the go,” explained OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni. “By using the iPhone as a powerful scanning device, our users can share documents with teams in seconds, and search all of their items in the cloud, regardless of their location. OfficeDrop is making remote working easier than ever.”
The OfficeDrop iPhone app is free to download, and connects with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet. The free version of OfficeDrop cloud filing system gives users 1 GB of storage, 50 pages of text-searchable scans per month and will produce the top three search results.
This app compliments our Android Scanner app; and iPad users should expect a refresh of the existing iPad app in the near future.
OfficeDrop’s downloadable applications – both ScanDrop and OfficeDrop’s mobile iPad Reader and Android Scanner apps – have been driving great growth for our company this year. We’ve learned a lot about marketing apps in the various app stores, and recently had a piece published on Mashable with 3 tips for marketing in app marketplaces.
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OfficeDrop’s Document Management and Document Scanning Service Blog
OfficeDrop, formerly Pixily, helps small businesses and home offices go paperless and manage their paper and digital documents online. OfficeDrop provides an award-winning online digital filing system & scanner software. In this blog, we’ll discuss cool ways customers are using our service to tame their paper problem and get organized. We hope to share tips and tricks we are learning as we help our clients scan, sync, search and share documents. We’ll also highlight new features in our digital filing system, let you know what the press is saying about us and keep you up to speed with the goings-on at OfficeDrop! Paper. Digital. Anywhere.
OfficeDrop had great write up on Makeuseof called “
Gregory Huang, a well known reporter for Xconomy Boston, sat down with OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni recently to discuss OfficeDrop’s recent growth, partnership with Nuance and our plans for the rest of the year. He has just published a good piece on the conversation called 
OfficeDrop’s downloadable applications – both 
