There’s nothing worse than forgetting an idea, or losing an important piece of paper. The one thing we never lose, and usually don’t forget is our phone - so now with the Dropbox Scanner App, you can save, organize, and share important documents right from your phone. Dropbox Scan is a standalone app that lets you quickly transform all your physical documents into high-quality PDFs. It’s everything you love about doc scanner in the Dropbox app—but even faster and easier to use. The app is available to iOS users in English-speaking markets, and you can sign into Dropbox with your corp email or a Basic, Plus, or Professional account. Whatever the situation, whether it’s a piece of paper, a receipt or even a whiteboard of notes, you can conveniently save high quality scans to Dropbox. Receipts - Take the pain out of your next expense report, and save receipts as you go. Whiteboard drawings - Never feel rushed in a meeting or presentation again. Just use the doc scanner, and an image of the whiteboard will be uploaded as a PDF or PNG to Dropbox. Contracts, bills, and invoices - Now your filing cabinet can be digital, and take up a lot less space. And of course, you can share it with others who need access. Photos - We’ve all taken a photo of a photo, but now you can scan them and keep them safe, with the same phone - just better results. Business cards - Never lose an important connection! Easily upload business cards from meetings, conferences and trade shows—right from your mobile device. Magazine clippings - Instead of ripping out a piece of a magazine or newspaper scrap you will inevitably lose, just scan the page or excerpt into Dropbox using the document scanner. Personal cards and notes - Scan those thoughtful personal notes into Dropbox for keepsakes without the clutter. Handouts - Scan in materials from classes or seminars for easy reference— they’re a lot less likely to get crumpled or torn in a digital setting! Napkin sketches - Never lose your next big idea again. There’s a Smart crop feature, Smart folder suggestions based on where you've saved recent scans, and you can even edit the scan for clarity! You can probably tell we’re a little excited about this one! Which of these uses are you excited about?

When will an Android version be available?

When is this going to be available for Android? I have never understand why companies develop an app to only be available for ios user before it is available for Android. It's as if Android user are second class.

None of the new suggestions really appeal to me. The programme is of little use to me as the things that are important to me I am unable to find on my hard drive. They are there, i.e. my 2500 contacts and my email. The two most important things for me but where are they? Not easy to find like photos or docs. What about an easy video for those less familiar with modern tech?

Just downloaded the app tonight. Tried to use it to scan some receipts for an insurance claim.. got 2 ok scans, 1 barely acceptable and the last I just gave up after over 10 tries and no useable scan. It is something wrong in the conversion to pdf , because the initial capture looks ok. this is a great idea and I love that it connects right to Dropbox. I often have trouble saving directly to Dropbox from my iPhone or iPad. I probably won't use until it is fixed.

This forum is just users talking amongst ourselves Dropbox isn't reading or not bothering to respond. Simple question, when will Android app be available and no response. Waste of time.

DBXCommunity

Community Manager

5 years ago

What’s new: Scanner App

There’s nothing worse than forgetting an idea, or losing an important piece of paper. The one thing we never lose, and usually don’t forget is our phone - so now with the Dropbox Scanner App, you can save, organize, and share important documents right from your phone. Dropbox Scan is a standalone app that lets you quickly transform all your physical documents into high-quality PDFs. It’s everything you love about doc scanner in the Dropbox app—but even faster and easier to use. The app is available to iOS users in English-speaking markets, and you can sign into Dropbox with your corp email or a Basic, Plus, or Professional account. Whatever the situation, whether it’s a piece of paper, a receipt or even a whiteboard of notes, you can conveniently save high quality scans to Dropbox.

Receipts - Take the pain out of your next expense report, and save receipts as you go.
Whiteboard drawings - Never feel rushed in a meeting or presentation again. Just use the doc scanner, and an image of the whiteboard will be uploaded as a PDF or PNG to Dropbox.
Contracts, bills, and invoices - Now your filing cabinet can be digital, and take up a lot less space. And of course, you can share it with others who need access.
Photos - We’ve all taken a photo of a photo, but now you can scan them and keep them safe, with the same phone - just better results.
Business cards - Never lose an important connection! Easily upload business cards from meetings, conferences and trade shows—right from your mobile device.
Magazine clippings - Instead of ripping out a piece of a magazine or newspaper scrap you will inevitably lose, just scan the page or excerpt into Dropbox using the document scanner.
Personal cards and notes - Scan those thoughtful personal notes into Dropbox for keepsakes without the clutter.
Handouts - Scan in materials from classes or seminars for easy reference— they’re a lot less likely to get crumpled or torn in a digital setting!
Napkin sketches - Never lose your next big idea again.

There’s a Smart crop feature, Smart folder suggestions based on where you've saved recent scans, and you can even edit the scan for clarity!

You can probably tell we’re a little excited about this one! Which of these uses are you excited about?

T111
New member | Level 2
5 years ago
When will an Android version be available?
lenmac
New member | Level 2
5 years ago
None of the new suggestions really appeal to me. The programme is of little use to me as the things that are important to me I am unable to find on my hard drive. They are there, i.e. my 2500 contacts and my email. The two most important things for me but where are they? Not easy to find like photos or docs. What about an easy video for those less familiar with modern tech?
- jonalisa
  Helpful | Level 5
  5 years ago
  dropbox allows you to type in a name for each document as you get ready to save it, and you can create different file folders to hold each group of documents/pictures/etc. By giving each a unique name, (which can be pretty long, even). upi can simplify your life a bit. I have a folder for each cruise, and all photos/receipts/etc go in for that event. In another folder, I keep the receipts from getting my house ready to sell. Another folder for family stuff, one for each club I belong to... Think of it as a file cabinet. Dropbox is the overall cabinet. A folder is like a drawer, and inside each folder you can have even more folders (year, then month1, month2, etc); inside each of these folders, you can further subdivide into categories as necessary. So, then, you want to see a photo from your trip to Disneyland in 2018, it would be /2018/june/disneyland to find all the photos there.
  I hope this helps.
  - Badjer
    Collaborator | Level 9
    5 years ago
    This is a good idea as a starting point
    
    The friction point that I have ran into is that the "search" does not find everything in the file titles (or folder). I was trying to use some naming conventions that I could use on more than one file to help surface the files with that same naming convention. So for me if I am looking for an item sometimes I find it sometimes I don't. I have brought the issue up with the support team & they are aware of the issue. Apparently the search bar is still in the beta phase & is going to be worked on more deeply in 2021.
    
    Your idea sounds like a good approach if you need your content to exist in one area. This could be very helpful for me once the search can actually find everything in the title on a consistent basis
    
    TY 🙏
- avilip71
  New member | Level 2
  5 years ago
  How do I organize photos?
Team Harris
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago
When is this going to be available for Android?

I have never understand why companies develop an app to only be available for ios user before it is available for Android. It's as if Android user are second class.
- edc1951
  New member | Level 2
  5 years ago
  Completely agree. It gets very tiring. And it would be nice to have an answer from Dropbox about when they DO plan to have it available.
Vdg
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago
Just downloaded the app tonight. Tried to use it to scan some receipts for an insurance claim.. got 2 ok scans, 1 barely acceptable and the last I just gave up after over 10 tries and no useable scan. It is something wrong in the conversion to pdf , because the initial capture looks ok.

this is a great idea and I love that it connects right to Dropbox. I often have trouble saving directly to Dropbox from my iPhone or iPad. I probably won't use until it is fixed.
- Gregg T.
  Helpful | Level 6
  5 years ago
  try the Office Lens app, from Microsoft. Although it has a flaw when converting a image taken with a rotated camera to a PDF, it does everything that this Scan app does, but saves to OneDrive. It's a bit tedious to have to copy documents from OneDrive to dropbox, but the scan quality is generally excellent.
  - JackLv
    Helpful | Level 5
    5 years ago
    Hi Gregg T. I currently use Adobe Scan which works great but does not allow me to save to DropBox
pamee48
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago
I tried to locate tris App on my andoid phone in Playstore but couldnt find it. Where is it?
- Kamal3r
  New member | Level 2
  5 years ago
  Its not yet made for Andoid, mate.
  - Gregg T.
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 years ago
    Have you tried using the web version on your Android device?
Chewbyka
New member | Level 2
5 years ago
This forum is just users talking amongst ourselves Dropbox isn't reading or not bothering to respond. Simple question, when will Android app be available and no response. Waste of time.
Kjohns
New member | Level 2
5 years ago
Convenient, but poor quality scan. Check out CamScanner: http://cc.co/16WuWg
- Gregg T.
  Helpful | Level 6
  5 years ago
  it seems that camScanner charges to scan a multi-page PDF. true?
Amy
Community Manager
5 years ago
Hi everyone, thanks for your interest! Currently the iOS app is available to download, and we’ll let the team know of the interest in an Android version.
- Team Harris
  Helpful | Level 5
  5 years ago
  As I stated in my post, when is this going to be available for Android?
  
  I have never understand why companies develop an app to only be available for ios user before it is available for Android. It's as if Android user are second class.
- lindajbrander
  New member | Level 2
  5 years ago
  Amy - given that there are more android users than iOS, I would have thought 'the team' would be aware there
  would be interest. There are more than 2 billion android users on the planet for goodness sake!!!
- Henry Pearce
  New member | Level 2
  5 years ago
  Why would you even considder pandering to IOS when it only has a 27% of the market and Android has 71%? The only reasion I can thik of is some affilliation to this minority opperating system.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_operating_systems
  - Gregg T.
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 years ago
    Because rather than having a single set of standards to adhere to, such as in iOS, developers must understand and try to make their applications compatible with a wide variety of hardware and software configurations.
    
    So it’s not actually 72%, but 100’s of smaller markets, each of which must be individually tested for compatibility against a Dropbox app. If a developer finds a problem on the 100th device, she needs to test that fix against all of the 99 other devices. Not only is this tedious and expensive, but it is a really good way to burn out your developers.
    
    See?
pamee48
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago
Spoiler
Why is it not available on android phones, not all of us can afford an Iphone
- Andrek70
  New member | Level 2
  5 years ago
  The most phones & PC'S out there not ios why start with that?
  - Gregg T.
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 years ago
    I’ve developed software for all platforms but MacOSX, and I can tell you that Windows app’s are horrible to write since the platform is so fractured. Not only are there multiple versions of Windows (7, 8, 10), but there are 7 flavors of Win 10, and a developer never knows which .NET version is supported on each flavor. Some users can’t upgrade .NET, or it can require multiple reboots to install it. Sometimes installing a .NET version will cause other app’s to fail, and some .NET installs can not be uninstalled, so you’ve just bricked an app, angering users.
    
    The resources required to develop Windows app’s used to be simple such that a single developer could handle it; now it requires a team to write and test an app that works for 90% of deployments, and that’s never going to cover hardware you don’t have, or drivers you can’t get.
Seraphin
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago
How is this different from the scanning function already built into the Dropbox app?
- Amy
  Community Manager
  5 years ago
  Dropbox Scan is a standalone app for power scanners or those looking for a simple scanning solution on mobile. The Dropbox mobile app is a comprehensive cloud storage app that offers numerous features within it including document scanning.
  - Gregg T.
    Helpful | Level 6
    5 years ago
    dropbox Scan is not stand-alone. after starting, you eventually get to a screen with a single button: start the dropbox app. when you do that, you can then choose “scan a document” from within the dropbox app (not in the Scan app now). after you’ve scanned your first document, a NEW button appears in Scan to capture the second document, and from then on you are not forced to use the Dropbox app, even if you deleted all the documents. I’m guessing it’s done like this because Scan has no way to choose the Dropbox you’re going to put your scan into, IOW, it is NOT stand-alone FOR AUTHENTICATION. This is a design disaster; users will repeat the first sequence they learn, and so they will never learn to start the Scan app first.