Dropbox finally brings automatic OCR support for PDFs and photos

If you're an enterprise Dropbox user, you'll appreciate this update. The cloud storage service finally brings optical character recognition for images and PDFs. This means you will be able to search for a specific file or photo that you need without having to aimlessly go through all of your stuff. This text recognition features is coming to Dropbox Pro, Business Advanced, and Enterprise accounts.

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Dropbox offers free extra 1TB for its Pro and Business Standard tiers

Dropbox is giving some extra value for its Pro and Business Standard tiers. Both get an extra 1TB of storage for free. The Pro plan now has 2TB of storage, while the Business Standard gets 3TB of storage. New users get the upgrade instantly, while existing account holders will get it in the coming weeks. The company says, “As you collaborate on large files—like ultra hi-def video and interactive presentations—with co-workers and clients, your need for storage only increases.” Unfortunately, the other tiers will not be given the free extra storage.

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Dropbox drops support for Windows 8.1 official apps

If you’re still clinging to your Windows 8.1-powered PC or tablet, you’re going to have add the official Dropbox app to the list of apps you can’t use with your device. The app can no longer be installed from the Store and it’s no longer running if you try and open it. What is still working is the desktop program. You can still download that and sync your files there. Microsoft has already dropped its support for Windows 8.1 six months ago, so it doesn’t come as a surprise that companies are moving on from it as well.

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Dropbox adds new features to facilitate collaboration on mobile app

It's not quite groundbreaking but the newest features on Dropbox mobile is the biggest one in recent memory. These new items help users better communicate with other users while on the move. One of the new features is file activity, which shows you who has viewed, edited, or shared files from your Dropbox. This is available in the web version of the app but according to Dropbox, users have been asking to bring this feature to mobile as well. This feature is available on iOS and should be coming to Android soon. Sharing files should be much clearer in this update but the new interface hasn't launched yet.

iOS users get access to a new commenting system. Instead of taking you to a new window when you want to comment on a file, you'll see a text box at the bottom of the screen in file preview. iOS users are also getting a new gallery view for videos and photos to make it easier to see these files at a glance.

Source: Engadget