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Mobile document scanner API

Hi , I would like to know if you have a document scanner api/SDK for users who want to integrate their mobile app with this document scanning feature you launched on dropbox app?

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Greg-DB

The Dropbox API doesn't offer that functionality, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

johntunell

Hi! Any updates on this? Any beta possibilities?

Greg-DB

No, unfortunately I don't have any news on this.

G_Cougard

Hello @Greg K. ! I am super interested in what @johntunell is asking, we would like to have DropBox Scanning feature integrated with our website : our employees could directly scan with their mobile phone by clicking on a button in our app, DropBox would scan and copy document both in our system and in our back-up DropBox storage.

Would this be possible?

Greg-DB

@G_Cougard No, unfortunately I don't have any news on the request to expose access to this functionality.

johntunell

Yeah I can see so many possibilities with an API for this. We would use it as a step in our document processing pipeline, making documents more uniform in our web app and easier to analyze.

G_Cougard

@johntunell Any idea on how to sky-rocket this topic to the top of DropBox customers' requirements?

johntunell

Not sure.

I have friends at multiple startups in Sthlm that are working with processing documents that are in the same situation, looking for "of the shelf" API:s/solutions to make their documents more uniform (rotating, cropping etc). The alternative that most go for is to implement this themselves, which is costly and often not the main objective for the business. The document scanner that dropbox have is hands down the best on the market atm, so its a shame if that is not being leveraged into a service that can be used by business. Do you have any suggestions?

G_Cougard

Not really ... I do believe this is something that many company would love to be able to use, but I also know that without enough crowd, we won't get much attention from Dropbox product management team ...

Am I right @Greg K. ?

Greg-DB

We do take into account the number of external feature requests like this when deciding on what to work on, and we appreciate when developers such as yourselves take the time to share feedback like this.

G_Cougard

Helo @Greg ! We do believe it, but when do you decide that something is a priority?

Greg-DB

I don't have more specific information on how/when Dropbox product management makes decisions around features like this. Apologies I can't be more helpful in that regard!