The ability to take pictures of physical text and convert them to digital information is a major convenience. Since a lot of us still take notes on paper in computer-dominated age it makes sense to have a means of copying them to a database. And the team at Dropbox is working on just that. Using OCR technology, things like whiteboards and notepads can be scanned and saved for easy access by multiple users. I think most of us have, at some point, gone through the painstaking process of copying word-for-word things we wrote in pen or pencil for school or for work and realized it is not the most fun activity in the world, so I am eager to see this app in action.
‘We all still love using analog tools, writing on white boards and using sticky notes and printed pieces of paper,’ head of product Todd Jackson said. ‘We want to take analog info, help users get it into Dropbox, and make it more searchable and accessible.’
There are plenty of use cases for something like this. A lot of design happens on real-life media and in conference rooms, for example. But all that information has to be stored somewhere, eventually, and be easily accessible.
From the app, users can create Word, PowerPoint or Excel documents. Users can also import those documents they scanned into the Office documents.
Source: Tech Crunch
