That means users can set granular permissions for sharing documents without having to use the Dropbox web interface. The Dropbox apps for Mac and Windows now let users access detailed file sharing settings from the Mac Finder or Windows Explorer. People who want to use Dropbox to share files will have an easier time doing so with new updates released Wednesday. Dropboxĭropbox users now have more granular controls for sharing files directly from a PC or Mac. After that, they'll be sent out to one of Microsoft's mobile apps to edit the file they just created, with all the changes being saved back to Dropbox.Ĭompany representatives wouldn't say when users could expect Dropbox's Android app to get the same features, but said that the company believes in making sure that its apps have feature parity across platforms. First, users select the document type, where they want to save it, and give it a file name, all inside the Dropbox app. Using the plus button, people can also start Microsoft Office documents from the Dropbox iOS app. It builds on full-text search capabilities that Dropbox already has available for digital documents uploaded to its service. The service will use machine learning to try and recognize when documents are the subject of uploaded photos (whether through the iOS app or other means) and offer to convert and process them to scans.ĭropbox Business customers will be able to search for text inside those scanned documents, thanks to new optical character recognition functionality that the company made available for its top tier of paying customers. Users can also upload photos from their phone using a new photo upload workflow that will let them add individual images and also all of the pictures taken on a particular day into Dropbox.

The scanning feature lets users upload multipage documents, and gives them the ability to adjust the settings of each scan so that uploaded documents are at their most readable. To help with that, Dropbox is adding support for scanning documents with the iPhone camera, and saving them as PDFs. Starting Wednesday, users of Dropbox's iOS app will see a big plus button that they can tap to add content to Dropbox from their phone. The Dropbox iOS app has a new menu that lets users easily add content to the cloud storage service.

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