Don’t forget, the recent version of ScanDrop Mac let you split documents, socially share & more!

What is ScanDrop Mac?

Mac ScanDrop Lite is a powerful is a powerful scanner software for the Mac available for free in the Mac App Store, but it does have certain limitations. The paid Mac version of ScanDrop has additional features and allows for unlimited scanning in the cloud. Below is more about the difference between the two apps. You should always start with ScanDrop LIte to make sure your scanner is supported; no refunds will be givin for scanner incompatability if you haven’t tested your scanner first with the free Lite version!

What the press says on ScanDrop Mac

Here are some older press mentions of ScanDrop

May 20, 2011

ScanDrop Scans Documents Directly to the Cloud

I can see a virtual team making great use of ScanDrop: whoever is in charge of physical documents and checking the actual mail box can scan and upload files in a matter of minutes. With a little planning, it might be possible to eliminate the office entirely, beyond having a post office box.Read This Review of ScanDrop Scanner Software!

March 24, 2011

Scan Documents Directly To Dropbox, Evernote, And Google Docs With ScanDrop

OfficeDrop, the great service that lets you scan or mail in your paper documents to be stored online, has updated its Mac app to include support for Dropbox, Evernote, and Google Docs. Read About ScanDrop for Mac…

Top Reason to Go Paperless

The biggest reason to go paperless, cited by over 50% of companies, is that improved search & sharing of business documents. In other words, it’s easier to find and share digital files vs. paper.

Increased productivity, faster response time to customers are also in the top 5 reasons. In fact, the only reason given in the top 5 for going paperless that had to do with cost savings was focused on saving physical storage space.

Here is a list of the reasons, and you can learn more here & access the study:

That’s a big deal!

The study also talks about how more and more companies are equipping remote workers with tablets and portable scanning devices to facilitate document scanning. This totally makes sense.

Here is an image from the study, which you can access from the link above. Basically, a large number of companies are scanning documents for archive purposes, but there are a large number of businesses that go beyond the occasional scanning and use digitization for indexing or making documents smarter or easier to find.

At OfficeDrop, we think that cloud capture can really make you more responsive to your client’s needs. In fact, we use our own online cloud storage to store important documents that we access all the time – everything from invoice to legal documents that we chat with our investors about, etc.

The three reasons that the article highlights as why we are getting closer to the paperless office are:

• Well accepted digital document standards;
• Growing use of remote working, which lends itself more to digital files vs paper; and
• The use of cloud-based services (hey, that’s us!)

Here is one of the cool infographics on the paperless office from the article:

Each plan is similar to the standard OfficeDrop monthly pricing plan – cancel at anytime, add users as your company grows or as your storage needs increase.

Below you’ll see the pricing plans; click through to sign up!

This means you can scan a big stack of paper and then split it into many documents prior to upload – take advantage of the sheet feeder in your Mac’s scanner!

To split a multi-page document

1. Select the multi-page document in the left-hand document column. In the preview window, you will see all the pages that comprise the document.
2. In the preview window, select the single page where you wish to insert the split.
3. Click on the Split & Join button.
4. Select from the following options:

• Split document from here will make the page you selected the first page of your second document
• Split document until here will make the page you selected the last page of the first document.

The example below illustrates how the document will be split if you select Split document until here:

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Here is how you can share a file on Twitter or Faceboook when using ScanDrop Mac

1. In the left-hand column, select the document you wish to upload and share.
2. Click the Upload button. You will see an upload progress bar.
3. A success dialog box will appear when your upload has completed. In this box, you can click the Sharebutton.
4. Select your share method. You can share your document via email, copy its public URL to your clipboard, or share it on various popular social networks.
   

You can also check out the ScanDrop Mac review on AllFacebook – read a review on sharing on Facebook with ScanDrop.

He draws on OfficeDrop’s experience in the crowded cloud storage space and talks about how we are managing to grow despite the competition (one of our solutions includes our OEM cloud storage program.) The key point he makes: “Responsiveness to change is the number one advantage startups have over larger incumbents.”

Check out the piece!

As 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: