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PDF OCR with text search
Dropbox Plus. Uploading a scanned PDF, it never gets OCRed to be full text searchable. Chatted with support for ages until they finally decided “oh, that feature requires Pro or above, not Plus becau...
I just switched from kDrive which has a very very effective scan tool which includes OCR to generate PDF searchable in any PDF viewer. It is available on both Android and iOS kDrive apps.
So I was quite disappointed to find out that a much bigger player such as Dropbox does not feature this.
Mark
Super User II
Super User IIIt does: https://www.dropbox.com/features/productivity/document-scanner/ocr
But only on certain paid accounts.
so it does not for me because I purchased a family plan ?
How mean… 😒
I am running into the same issue here. I am moving a legacy document management system file by file to dropbox and hoping it would OCR the uploaded .pdfs. It does not pick up keywords in the searchbar. I am on paid DB standard.
- Megan
Dropbox Staff
Hi BBPWM, thanks for posting here today!
Would you mind clarifying the OS you're using along with its version, and the version of the Dropbox app on this device?
If you have some example screenshots, feel free to share them with us here, in order to have a clear visual.
Keep me posted!
Windows 10 Pro OS and I'm using web version of DB. Think of any scanned to pdf that contains text. If I enter a keyword from that text, I often will not have a result returned.
