OfficeDrop recently released an update to our Mac File Sync Client. If you are currently running the sync tool on your Mac it should have prompted you to update the software. This update fixes several small bugs and improves the overall speed and stability of the tool. Please update it if you haven’t already!
If you don’t yet have OfficeDrop’s Mac Sync Tool you should get it now!
Using OfficeDrop’s Mac File Sync
Here’s how to sync any folder on your Mac with OfficeDrop. Simply download and install OfficeDrop’s Mac sync client for free, install it and select any folder on your desktop. “Right click” on the folder and select the “Sync with OfficeDrop sync” option from the menu. Then, simply search and share your files using your OfficeDrop account online. This video shows you how easy it is to upload any file’s contents into OfficeDrop’s cloud storage:
Special thanks to all of the OfficeDrop users who were alpha and beta testers for the new OfficeDrop Mac File Sync client! You can now download the sync client and connect ANY folder on your Mac to OfficeDrop’s cloud storage. Get the Mac Sync app now by clicking the button below!
Using OfficeDrop’s Mac File Sync
Here’s how to sync any folder on your Mac with OfficeDrop. Simply download and install OfficeDrop’s Mac sync client for free, install it and select any folder on your desktop. “Right click” on the folder and select the “Sync with OfficeDrop sync” option from the menu. Then, simply search and share your files using your OfficeDrop account online. This video shows you how easy it is to upload any file’s contents into OfficeDrop’s cloud storage:
OfficeDrop Introduces Sync for Mac and a Super-Slick New UI
Sync any desktop folder instantly to the cloud; save and search cloud files
faster and easier than ever before
CAMBRIDGE, MA — October 30, 2012 – Online cloud storage platform OfficeDrop today introduced a brand new user interface for our searchable storage accounts, and a Mac file sync client that will rock your Mac-loving world! OfficeDrop Mac users can now instantly sync any file or folder on their computer to the cloud. Paired with an intuitive new web interface that shows icons of all of your folders and thumbnail views of docs (so you can find exactly what you’re looking for), this OfficeDrop update makes it much easier to sync and navigate your files.
“OfficeDrop has seen tremendous traction since the introduction of our Windows Sync client earlier this year,” said Prasad Thammineni, CEO of OfficeDrop. “Our value proposition has always been to make it super simple for small businesses to back up and share their files in the cloud. OfficeDrop Sync takes this philosophy a step further by making it ultra-intuitive to back up files and access them from anywhere.”
OfficeDrop is in the process of updating our web application’s interface. Expect some great things soon!
Why Improve the Web App?
We needed to modernize the web application’s look and feel, as the previous version was build several years ago. We wanted to pull important and highly used features, such as sharing, closer to your clicks. We also wanted to use modern web technologies, mainly HTML5, and prepare the app for use both on tablets and also with touch screen devices.
Not all functionality will be available in the new web app, but you will be able to go back to the older app to do these actions. You can see a list of these items here, and rest assured that we are working hard to get all the features you know and love into this version of OfficeDrop’s web client. Help is available here.
We are really excited to announce major improvements to our iOS apps. These updates take advantage of several huge improvements to the new iOS 6 recently released by Apple, including social sharing and the improved camera on the newest iPhones. An even bigger update includes Voice Search! That’s right, you can now do file search with just your voice!!!
“The OfficeDrop iOS 6 updates are some of our most innovative yet,” said OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni. “We wanted to take some of the existing features iPhone and iPad owners are excited about and tie them into the app in a functional way. Both voice search and social sharing fit with OfficeDrop’s mission to create a dead-simple way for small businesses to go paperless and find what they need in an instant.
Voice Search on the iPhone and iPad
Here is a quick video that shows the power of OfficeDrop’s iOS voice search. With this voice search you can find words, phrases and numbers in your files and file names right from your iPhone or iPad.
Social Sharing with iOS 6
iOS 6 is built for sharing on social networks, and the updated OfficeDrop iOS apps take advantage of these sharing features. Apple included Twitter and Facebook sharing, which our app can now tap into. We added our own, business focused, sharing connection into LinkedIN. Now, if you want to tweet out a scan or file, or post an entire folder to LinkedIN you can do so right from your device. Here is how it works:
Better Scanning with the iPhone and iPad
Our smartphone scanner apps just got a lot better with Image Enhancement, perspective correction and auto-edge detection for your iOS device. This brings the iOS devices scanning capabilities up to par with our Android scanner apps’ recent update.
Read the full update below in our press release:
OfficeDrop Updates iPhone and iPad Scanner Apps
Includes New Voice Search, Social Sharing and Other Major iOS 6 Updates
October 1, 2012 — Cambridge, MA — Today, OfficeDrop is announcing a brand new version of its popular iPhone and iPad scanner apps for iOS 6. Using the same technology that powers Siri voice recognition search, users can now find documents within OfficeDrop’s online cloud storage system with voice commands. The new update also includes social sharing, so users can instantly send document access links and updates from their OfficeDrop account to Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
The OfficeDrop iOS 6 updates are some of our most innovative yet,” said OfficeDrop CEO Prasad Thammineni. “We wanted to take some of the existing features iPhone and iPad owners are excited about and tie them into the app in a functional way. Both voice search and social sharing fit with OfficeDrop’s mission to create a dead-simple way for small businesses to go paperless and find what they need in an instant.
Siri Search, Social Sharing and a Lot More!
Finding documents just got a step easier using Siri-like voice recognition technology paired with optical character recognition (OCR) search technology. OCR means that when a user scans a document, OfficeDrop can ‘read’ the PDF image and retrieve it in seconds. Now, users can speak a voice command of a word or phrase, such as “Marriott invoice from Charlotte, North Carolina,” and instantly pull up any document scanned into their account containing those words. Watch a demo of the new voice search feature here.
Android Central, an authority in the Android app space, just reviewed the most recent update of the OfficeDrop Android app – and we are really happy that they liked it!
From the review: “The premise is simple but has plenty of potential. Whenever you have a document or something important that you’d like to keep electronic record of, you can open the OfficeDrop app and scan in the document, which is then uploaded to your account. With the latest version, document scanning has improved, with proper trimming and improved image quality.”
If you don’t have the updated app yet, you should get it! This app includes major image enhancement improvements + auto-cropping of mobile scans. we’ve just released a major improvement to our Android scanner app. This update actually improves the quality of the photo you take for you scans! So your mobile smartphone scanning just got better, easier and faster, and is part of our commitment to giving you the ability to get the best cloud scanning software possible. And it’s all designed to make using our file search better than ever – from the web or from your mobile device.
Get the OfficeDrop Android App in Google’s Play marketplace by clicking the button below on your Android device.
Today we’ve just released a major improvement to our Android scanner app. This update actually improves the quality of the photo you take for you scans! So your mobile smartphone scanning just got better, easier and faster, and is part of our commitment to giving you the ability to get the best cloud scanning software possible. Here is how this scanning update works for the Android family of devices:
Image Enhancement and Auto Edge Detection on Android
Initial Scan, Auto Edge Detection, Image Enhancement
Now, when you use your Android device to scan a piece of paper, the OfficeDrop app will detect the edges AND then adjust the perspective of the scan, so it looks like you took a nice shot of the scan right from directly overhead of the paper. Then, if you want, you can select the enhance option which will improve the quality of the image (and turn it into a black and white image) and thus will make the scan clean and crisp and ready for high quality OCR by the OfficeDrop file search engine.
Get the updated app now
You can get the OfficeDrop Android App in Google’s Play store by clicking the button below on your Android device.
More information on the Android Scanner App with Image Enhancement
Finally, if you’d like to learn more about the updated app please read the press release below:
OfficeDrop Announces Major Image Quality
Update for Android
September 7, 2012 — Cambridge, MA — Today, OfficeDrop is announcing a brand new version of its Android scanner app that makes scanning documents to the cloud much simpler. It’s always been easy to snap a photo of a document and upload it to OfficeDrop’s online cloud storage system, but now the Android app’s scanning function is even more powerful.
The updated Android phone and tablet app includes a major image quality upgrade to make documents more searchable, plus automatic cropping to save time and keep documents nice and neat within OfficeDrop cloud storage accounts. In addition, users can save documents into their “Favorites” folder and they will be backed up to the cloud plus saved locally on all of their devices for offline access.
There is a new user interface coming soon for the OfficeDrop web app. Your input can help us improve this new look! Click on the link below to be included in our user testing experience, as we learn from you what works and what doesn’t work with the new user interface.
Here are some screen shots of what the new user interface will look like:
We got some great press this past Friday on the ExpenseMagic/OfficeDrop integration! Both TechCrunch and Fast Company wrote about about how we make it fast and simple to create expense reports right from your mobile phones or PC’s desktop.
TechCrunch on OfficeDrop and ExpenseMagic
TechCrunch writer Alex Williams covered the integration OfficeDrop/ExpenseMagic combination, writing that “today I had a briefing with OfficeDrop which now has a service that works with ExpenseMagic for scanning and creating expense documents from an iOS, Android device or your desktop. It seems good enough to offer the potential for eliminating much of the manual work I do in preparing expense reports during my precious weekends.”
When Alex interviewed me for the piece, he also asked a lot of questions about the history of OfficeDrop. We discussed how the company was originally a mail in scanning service, and he immediately understood how we used that background as a basis for entering the cloud storage world:
“OfficeDrop has scanning and optics in its DNA. The company started as a service you could use to send your mail for scanning. The model did not work. People wanted to do the scanning themselves. So they pivoted, built a strong search engine to go with the scanning and now offer a combined storage and collaboration service. They see themselves fitting between Box and Dropbox, offering a service for small business people for easily scanning receipts, ideally from a mobile device. Google Drive is also seen as a competitor.”
FastCompany “Free You From Expense Report Hell”
Fast Company’s Christina Chaey’s piece on the integration has an awesome title: “OfficeDrop And ExpenseMagic Want To Free You From Expense Report Hell.” Of course, we do think that’s what the integration will help you do, since getting automated expense reports is potentially a huge time saver!
Christina says, “Through the new partnership, mobile and desktop users will be able to combine OfficeDrop’s smart text recognition technology, which makes the text in your scans searchable, with ExpenseMagic’s data extraction to generate expense reports from any receipts you scan using OfficeDrop. Receipts will go into an ExpenseMagic “uploads” folder, from which ExpenseMagic’s India-based bookkeepers will generate reports that they’ll then drop into a “results” folder overnight.”
We are pretty happy with the way we’ve evolved into a searchable cloud storage system, with the smartphone scanner applications that help small businesses digitize paper, plus the file search engine that helps you find the exact document that you are looking for in an instant. It’s really great to be recognized by a major technology publications like TechCrunch and Fast Company!
Automatically Generate Expense Reports in your OfficeDrop Account!
The team at ExpenseMagic has just created a brand new integration with OfficeDrop that magically creates expense reports, right in your OfficeDrop account! All you need to do is drag your receipts into a magic folder and ExpenseMagic will extract the data on the receipts and put a completed expense report right into your OfficeDrop account!
Doing expense reports has never been this easy before.
There are two easy ways to manage your expenses and receipts with ExpenseMagic and OfficeDrop.
OfficeDrop >> ExpenseMagic
Receipts stored or scanned using OfficeDrop can used by ExpenseMagic to create expense reports that are placed right into your OfficeDrop account! ExpenseMagic will magically take the data on the scanned receipts and give you an expense report that you can use to get your receipts reimbursed or for tax purposes.
After you’ve linked your ExpenseMagic and OfficeDrop account you can convert receipts that are:
Scanned and stored on your PC using the OfficeDrop Windows Sync Client – Just drag and drop the receipts into the ExpensMagic folder and let the magic happen!
Scanned using the OfficeDrop iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet apps – Simply scan and upload to the ExpenseMagic folder
Stored (or uploaded) in your OfficeDrop online storage account that you access via the web browser – Select and move the scans right into the ExpenseMagic folder
Any receipt that you scan or are storing in your OfficeDrop account is game to become an expense report with this integration!
ExpenseMagic >> OfficeDrop
When you use Expense Magic’s iPhone or web client you can have the receipts and expense reports automatically stored into your OfficeDrop account. Use your iPhone to scan receipts with ExpenseMagic’s iPhone app – then push automatically push the scans into OfficeDrop for storage & access on your Window’s desktop if you have the OfficeDrop Windows File Sync app.
Here is the press release announcing this integration, and we’ll have some help content up asap that will explain how to link these accounts and more.
OfficeDrop and ExpenseMagic Team Up to Make Expense Reports Bliss
Scan Receipts to the Cloud and Automatically Generate Expense Reports
August 17, 2012 — Cambridge, MA –Let’s face it. Expense reports aren’t fun for anyone.
There’s got to be a better way! Enter ExpenseMagic. OfficeDrop’s searchable online cloud storage and ExpenseMagic’s ultra simple, automated expense reporting service make a perfect pair. Here’s why:
If you actually want to get the apps, you can get them for free by clicking on either of the following buttons from your mobile device:
In terms of what you’ll get with the updated apps, here are the release notes (as of the July 5, 2012 releases):
Updates to the OfficeDrop Android App
ANDROID TABLET READY: App now supports 7″ and 10 ” Android tablets from SamSung, Motorola, Acer etc
BETTER SCANNING
—Number of steps to scan a single or multi-page document is dramatically reduced
BETTER SHARING
— Now you can Scan and Share in a single workflow
— Share folders as easily as files
— Sharing is simplified with the option to copy public link to clipboard
Other
– When uploading default filenames are generated
– Multiple usability and stylistic improvements
– Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements
Updates to the OfficeDrop iOS Apps (iPhone and iPad)
– BETTER SCANNING: Scan multiple pages in 1/3 the time
– SCAN & SHARE, BETTER SHARING:
—Scan and Share files effortlessly
— Public sharing is simplified
— Share folders just like you could share files
Other
– Stylistic and usability improvements
– Number of performance improvements
– Numerous bug fixes
We hope you like these improvements, and we are already working hard on the next releases!!
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