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Between Evernote, Office360 and Google Drive/Docs, etc. I'm of the opinion this was wasted time and money; and that it will not be a revenue or user growth driver for Dropbox. There are gaps in sharing and collaboration where paid demand exists. They include: end-to-end persistent encrypted sharing; File authentication; handwriting recognition/search; rule and ML based box culling; content-aware rules; mesh-network sharing; blockchain integration; content analysis for sourcing/data-viz; and so much more. I sense a lack of imagination at Dropbox.


Dropbox's enterprise offering includes OCR with handwriting recognition:

https://www.engadget.com/2016/06/22/dropbox-ios-app-scanning...

I believe it was previously discussed on HN but I can't find the link anymore, anyway they go into detail on the implementation here:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc...




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