Dropbox scans documents and turns them into an Office file, brings other news

Company dropbox announced this evening important news for the application dedicated to iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches worldwide, users now benefiting from the possibility of scanning documents that are saved directly in their own accounts from the company's servers.

A multitude of applications allow scanning documents and uploading them to Dropbox, but now the Dropbox application does this automatically, even more, it allows the transformation of those scans into Office-type documents that can then be shared with any kind of people we want .

The two new functions simplify the work of many users with the scanning of documents and the transformation of images into files that are recognized by many computers, their sharing being as fast as any other document existing in our terminals at that moment.

Apart from these auspicious changes, the Dropbox app now no longer automatically uploads photos to users' accounts unless they also have the PC app installed on their computers, so make sure you've met this condition, otherwise you won't benefit from this functionality .

With document scanning, you can now use the Dropbox mobile app to capture and organize scans from whiteboards, receipts, and sketches, so your ideas are right at your fingertips. Dropbox Business users can even search inside the scans... If your idea is better suited to an Office doc than a napkin, you can click the new plus button to create Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files instantly from your mobile device. They'll be saved to your Dropbox automatically…

The changes for the Dropbox application are available right now for all iDevice users worldwide, the application can be downloaded for free from this page.