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.
We are very pleased to announce the launch of OfficeDrop’s newest mobile app, the OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go Android App! OfficeDrop’s Android App allows Android users to simply snap a photo of a paper document and scan it directly to the cloud. Within the app, users can organize, search, share and access documents from anywhere with OfficeDrop’s cloud filing cabinet. Also available for iPad, OfficeDrop Paper-to-Go can now be downloaded through the Android Market (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.officedrop.applicationactivity&feature=search_result) and will soon be offered through the Amazon App Store.
OfficeDrop Android App
This newest app is something that our customers have been asking for, and over the past six months it has become obvious that mobile access to our digital filing cabinet is a must-have feature. We know that the busy professionals who are our customers love having access to their paper and digital files from the road via our web browser and our desktop digital cloud connector. Being able to search, organize and share from the road will make it even easier to carry your filing cabinet with you where ever your business takes you.
The OfficeDrop Android App also lets you scan right from your phone, using the phone’s camera to snap multiple page documents and convert them into text searchable PDFs. Some of our customers are already using their phones to snap photos of things like receipts while on the road – this makes it even easier to grab PDFs on the go. You can use it to organize your business receipts while travelling, share just signed contracts, get invoices back to the home office and more! Because you can pick a destination folder and add labels at the time of scanning, organizing is simple and fast. And since everything becomes text searchable, finding the piece of paper has never been easier.
Compatible with version 2.2 of Android, the app allows OfficeDrop users to send documents straight to the cloud – either by taking a picture or by uploading files already stored on the device. Other key features include:
Let us know what you think about our newest app!
We’ve upgraded our help section software and are now using a product by Zendesk. You can find the new and improved OfficeDrop help at http://support.officedrop.com/home.
We are in the process of transitioning over all of our links (like the links to help you find when logged into OfficeDrop and on our main site’s pages).
You’ll find the new help and support section easier to navigate, with topics arranged by:
OfficeDrop Digital Filing System help center – info on using OfficeDrop’s cloud based filing system, including:
ScanDrop for Windows help – information on getting ScanDrop scanner software to work and upload paper to the cloud
ScanDrop Mac help – using ScanDrop for Mac to scan to the cloud from… your Mac! 
ScanDrop Mac scanner configuration – setting up your Mac’s scanners to scan to the cloud using ScanDrop scanner software
The new help is even better because you can leave comments and questions for other users and for our support team on it!
Now Available in the Mac App Store!ScanDrop for Mac is now ready for purchase and download in the Mac App store! ScanDrop is the simplest way to connect you scanner with popular cloud storage options like Google Docs, Evernote and OfficeDrop’s own Digital Filing System!
For a limited time ScanDrop for Mac is only $1.99, but the price will go up after this introductory offer expires – so get it now!
Click here to get the ScanDrop for Mac Scanner Software in the Mac App Store.
OfficeDrop is offering a Mac version of the ScanDrop Scanner Software, for a limited time, for free to Lifehacker readers. You can read Lifehacker’s review of ScanDrop for Mac here.
ScanDrop Scanner Software for the Mac allows Mac users to connect their scanners to the cloud and upload paper to popular cloud storage solutions like Google Docs, Evernote and OfficeDrop’s own cloud filing system.
We intend to release ScanDrop for the Mac in the new Mac App Store soon as a paid app, so this is a chance to get the app for free for a limited time!
Mylee, one of OfficeDrop’s resident customer happiness rockstars, recently wrote a very helpful review on how to get the most out of OfficeDrop’s cloud document management dashboard. (This is much better than the cloud dashboard post I published last week!)
It’s finally here! We’re proud to introduce the new OfficeDrop dashboard, which gives you an at-a-glance summary of your OfficeDrop account’s contents and recent activity. Now you can view the status of your most recent scanvelope, view all your recent account activity, and see what’s new at OfficeDrop- all from the same page! OfficeDrop’s new dashboard was designed to give you all your pertinent account information at your fingertips-without having to go from tab to tab.
See below to learn all the different sections in our new dashboard and how each can help you save time and get the most out of OfficeDrop’s document management service.
OfficeDrop's Cloud Dashboard Overview
In this section, you’ll see updates about what’s new here at OfficeDrop, any new products or features we’ve released, and click through links on how to use them:
Dashboard Product Updates
View Cloud Documents
Act on your cloud documents instantly with OfficeDrop’s new Instant Action feature!
Waiting until your documents have been completely OCR’d before you can access them is a thing of the past- you can now download, share, and access your documents even before they’ve even processed completely through OfficeDrop’s cloud storage system.
This new functionality allows you to act on your documents, even if you can’t text search them yet. When documents process through OfficeDrop’s system, it can take a few minutes before they become fully text searchable PDFs. You used to have to wait for this processing to finish before you could share your documents.
But you no longer have to wait to view, share, or download these files with our cloud Instant Actions! When a document has been uploaded, it will show under your Documents tab with a small red magnifying glass symbol in the upper right hand corner. This lets you know that although the document isn’t text searchable yet, it’s ready for your use. You can immediately view the document, share it, download it, and perform all normal actions upon it (with the exception of search). Once the document has completely processed through our system, the red symbol will disappear and your document can now be text searched.
How are Instant Actions helpful?
Say you have an invoice that you need to get to a client quickly. You upload the invoice to OfficeDrop but don’t want to wait for it to be completely OCR’d before you share it. You’ll see the document under your Documents tab with the red magnifying glass symbol, indicating that while you can’t yet text-search this document, you can interact with it. Select ‘Share’ and your client can then access and download the invoice, whether it has completely processed through our system or not. This cuts down on wait time between when you upload your files and when you can manage them. When you’re in a rush, OfficeDrop’s instant actions allow you instant access. It’s your information- use it when you need it.
ScanDrop users, please take a moment to fill out our users’ survey. We’ll be emailing all of you in the coming weeks to find out how you are using the service and which new features are most highly valued.
Your help is vital as we take ScanDrop out of beta and release a free and premium version of our scan to the cloud software!
Thanks in advance for your help.
Announcing OfficeDrop’s new Desktop Cloud Connector, a downloadable Windows software to connects your desktop with OfficeDrop’s award winning online digital filing system. Now you can experience the power of cloud computing with the speed and convenience of your desktop computer.
Is the web dead?
Our clients spoke and we listened – people want to use apps to manage their cloud-based data! Since the introduction of ScanDrop, our scan to the cloud scanning software, patterns of how users submit their paper into OfficeDrop’s system has totally flipped from mainly uploading from the website in Q1 to larger than 50% email and ScanDrop submission in October.
The chart to the right shows how clients have been submitting digital files into the OfficeDrop’s digital filing system. (Note that we are excluding files submitted into the system by our document scanning service!)
Wired Magazine was onto something – the web seems to not the preferred way to get data into the cloud!
You can read about the growth in our apps in a previous blog post here. And here is a link with more info on how we believe that small businesses think the web is dead.
There are some pretty serious advantages to using OfficeDrop’s desktop software to manage the paper and digital files that you’ve stored in the cloud:
If you are already an OfficeDrop user visit https://www.officedrop.com/ze/tools/ to download the Windows desktop app today.
If you are not yet a user, visit our pricing page and pick a plan that is right for you!
One of OfficeDrop’s best features is the ability to do a full text search of your scanned paper and your digital files. Since OfficeDrop uses OCR to make everything you put into the system text searchable, finding the file you need quickly is as easy as searching for information online.
Searching files within OfficeDrop is easy, but there are a number of tricks you can use to narrow down your search results. The search box is located in the top right corner after you’ve logged into your account.
Text Search Example
There are a number of tricks you can use to narrow down your search results. Here are some of the key text-search features:
Phrase search – 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
Enter multiple words to narrow down relevancy: If you enter multiple words into the search box, OfficeDrop will search first for documents that contain all of these words.
Search within Folders and Labels: If you click into a folder and/or pick a label(s), when you search your results will be confined to the the folder/label(s) that you’ve selected. This is a way to narrow down the results. You need to 1st: use the search box, then 2nd: narrow down the results by picking the folder/labels. If you are first in the folder and then use the search box OfficeDrop will search ALL your files, not just those in the folder, so the order you use is important.
Folder Label Text Search
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