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ScanDrop in TechCrunch

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

OfficeDrop and ScanDrop Mac were written up in TechCrunch yesterday by TechCrunch reporter Rip Empson. TechCrunch covered the new ScanDrop Mac’s ability to scan, screenshot, save to the cloud and share via social networks.

officedrop in techcrunchAs Rip explains it, ” announcing updates to its ScanDrop Mac and ScanDrop Lite apps (ScanDrop Lite is free) that let any Mac user integrate scanned paper with digital screenshots to create multi-age, searchable PDFs. But what’s really cool about this is that, with a single click, users can now share these scanned docs via social networks or store them in Evernote, Dropbox, OfficeDrop, and Google Docs.”

He also gives an example of possible workflow that users can take advantage of using the ScanDrop Mac app: “ within ScanDrop, users can merge scans, screenshots, and image files into a single, multi-page PDF to then share as they choose. If a user scans a receipt, he or she can then grab a screenshot of a corresponding spreadsheet of receipts and share that as a single PDF document through Facebook or Twitter, for example.”

Finally, the article mentions our recent, dramatic growth.

Read the article here!

After you’ve read the piece you can get ScanDrop Mac and ScanDrop Lite in the app store by clicking on the buttons below:

Getting Files into OfficeDrop

Friday, December 30th, 2011

It’s easy to get files into OfficeDrop. We offer several ways you can quickly get your important documents into the OfficeDrop cloud filing system.

Here are the different apps you can use to get files into OfficeDrop:

OfficeDrop on Android
OfficeDrop on iPad
OfficeDrop on Windows Desktop (note: download starts immediately)
OfficeDrop’s Windows ScanDrop Scanner Software
OfficeDrop’s Mac ScanDrop Scanner Software

And, of course, you can always login to OfficeDrop via the web to upload and manage your documents.

We’ve recently created a video explaining some of the ways you can get your files into the system.

Document Phrase Search

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

One of OfficeDrop’s most powerful tools is the document search engine that comes with each OfficeDrop account. You can find words, numbers and phrases within your files – fast!

OfficeDrop’s search is a little different than traditional document search that you may be familiar with, because OfficeDrop looks within your files for the search. This includes doing something other services don’t offer – optical character recognition “OCR”.

OCR and Document Search

OCR (optical character recognition) is the software we use to turn a simple scanned image of your paper into a fully text-searchable digital document. Once OCR is employed, applications can recognize individual characters and effectively “read” the document. OCR is the software that makes it possible to text-search your scanned documents.

Document Phrase Search with OfficeDrop

Many of our clients have thousands of files stored in the OfficeDrop system, so narrowing down the search quickly may seem daunting. Thankfully, with document phrase search, finding the right file quickly becomes a lot more manageable.

Here is how phrase search works. Use quotation marks around a series of words to narrow down your search to words that appear in that specific order. So, if you put “invoice number” in quotes in the search box, the OfficeDrop search would first return results with those words next to each other.

Phrase Search

Phrase Search

That’s how easy it is! And phrase search works on your mobile devices as well, so you can use it on the go.

Login now to try using phrase search.

OfficeDrop on Makeuseof and More

Friday, September 30th, 2011

 align=OfficeDrop had  great write up on Makeuseof called “How To Use Your iPad / iPhone Camera To Scan Documents To PDF [iPhone & iPad 2]” by Steve Campbell. The article is almost a great case study and goes into detail on how the OfficeDrop iPad app can be used at a conference to scan and store paper.

Here is a quote from the article:

“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.”

Read How MakeUseOf uses OfficeDrop’s iPad 2 App to Scan

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


September 16, 2011

iPad Document Scanner: OfficeDrop

This free scanner app allows to store files up to 1GB. It is very easy to scan files to PDF using OfficeDrop. Read The Review of OfficeDrop’s iPad 2 Scanner App

BNET Says: OfficeDrop is How to Move Paper to the Cloud

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

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.

Another Great OfficeDrop Review by a Customer

Friday, August 5th, 2011

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

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.”

Thanks for the great write up, William!

Looking for other customer reviews of ScanDrop or customer reviews of OfficeDrop? Check out the OfficeDrop testimonial page.

New York Times on Dumping Your Printer

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

At OfficeDrop, we are clearly focused on helping you achieve “Paperless Bliss.” But going paperless is hard, and coming up with a strategy for dealing with a business without paper can be hard.

The New York Times has a new piece on getting by without a printer called “Dump Your Printer to Escape the Madness.” It’s a good read and anyone interested in the paperless office should check out the ideas they have for getting rid of the printer and reducing your user of paper. Keep in mind – being totally paperless is hard!

One of the great ideas they have is to focus on using as many PDFs as you can. Of course, OfficeDrop loves PDFs - that’s why we turn so much paper into text searchable ones!  Learn about scanning to PDF here.

And after you read the article, don’t forget the best reason to turn your paper into PDFs with OfficeDrop – since we make all your documents text searchable, so finding your paper has never been easier.

PCWorld Says: Go Paperless with OfficeDrop

Thursday, June 23rd, 2011

OfficeDrop is very pleased that Robert Strohmeyer of PCWorld has just written a piece titled “Go Paperless with OfficeDrop.” At OfficeDrop, our favorate quote from the article is

“Like Dropbox on steroids”

That’s pretty cool!

Paperwork Explosion by Jim Henson

Monday, June 20th, 2011

In 1967 IBM had Jim Henson (of the Muppets fame!) to create a short movie about IBM’s new Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter. As far as I can tell the “MT/ST” is a very version of a word processor in the form of a typewriter and some strange little 1960′s style knobs.

Paperwork Explosion – Pretty Trippy!

I’m not an expert on the 60′s, but I feel like this video is pretty trippy, even by the standards of the sixties. The sound track is pretty intense at times, and the office workers repeating “Machines should work. People should think” over and over in strange monotone voices really freaks me out.

Paperwork Explosion reminds me of the cool slides IBM did in the 70′s about online storage

DocketPort Scanners

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

OfficeDrop is pleased to announce that ScanDrop, OfficeDrop’s scan to the cloud scanner software, now works with Document Capture Technologies, Inc’s DocketPORT family of scanners. This means that owners of DocketPort’s popular scanners will now be able to scan to their favorite cloud services like Google Docs, OfficeDrop and Evernote with the greatest of ease.

“Scan to cloud technology is a major component of the global SaaS (software as a service) sector, which is projected to grow to more than $40-$50 billion by 2014 from roughly $13 billion in 2009, is an area that we intend to gain both market share and significant revenues,” said David P. Clark, Chief Executive Officer of Document Capture. “Partnerships with the best and most innovative companies such as OfficeDrop ensure that DCT is well positioned to participate fully in one of the largest current technology opportunities. Our image capture solutions as well as our ongoing product development are tailor made for this sector.”

Configuring DocketPort Scanners with ScanDrop

Now, configuring a DocketPort Scanner to scan to the cloud is easy. OfficeDrop has now published instructions on configuring your DocketPort scanner on Windows and configuring a DocketPort scanner on the Mac in the OfficeDrop help section. So, if you are trying to use your DocketPort to scan to Google Docs, Evernote, OfficeDrop or the cloud, ScanDrop is there to help you!

List of Compatible DocketPort Scanners

ScanDrop will work with the following Document Capture Technologies products:

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We hope that this makes it easier for you to get your documents into the cloud!

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