You might see that the Dropbox Community team have been busy working on some major updates to the Community itself! So, here is some info on what’s changed, what’s staying the same and what you can expect from the Dropbox Community overall.

Forum Discussion

sl3456's avatar
sl3456
New member | Level 1
2 days ago

We wish to scan our documents and save them directly to Dropbox. Is it possible?

Hello, we have a multifunctional printer (includes a scanner). And up until now we always scanned the document, and send it via SMB to our local storage. Now that we want to migrate to Dropbox, we ...
upload
  • sl3456's avatar
    sl3456
    2 days ago

    We are not comfortable with this workflow. The solution we are now going with, is that the printer sends the document to a selected E-Mail-Adresse and the colleagues can access the document from there and if needed copy it to the dropbox.

    Thanks for the help.

Nancy's avatar
Nancy
Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
2 days ago

Welcome aboard our Community, sl3456! 

At the moment, it’s possible to scan documents directly from the Dropbox mobile app and save them to your Dropbox account afterwards. You can check out this Help Center article for more details. 

Let me know if this could work for what you need.

About Create, upload, and share

Find help to solve issues with creating, uploading, and sharing files and folders in Dropbox. Get support and advice from the Dropbox Community.

Need more support

If you need more help you can view your support options (expected response time for an email or ticket is 24 hours), or contact us on X or Facebook.

For more info on available support options for your Dropbox plan, see this article.

If you found the answer to your question in this Community thread, please 'like' the post to say thanks and to let us know it was useful!