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I am studying ML this semester at university. I would like to get some ideas on where does a company like DropBox use ML. Can you state some problems that the team is working to solve or use cases?

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Two examples of where we use machine learning at Dropbox is corner and edge detection in our mobile docscanner (https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-and-accurate-doc...) and computer vision for OCRing.

Does Dropbox do OCR-ing? I couldn't find how to do that in the mobile app. I love the scan upload feature.

I really hope you are employing world class security folks and not gonna have another password leak. I have found after the scan feature, I'm uploading more of my paper life.

When using the Docscanner, we do OCRing of the images for Dropbox for Business users only right now. The OCRed Docscanned PDF gets copy/pasteable text, and its search tokens go into the search index for later searching. We only offer full text search for Dropbox for Business customers as well right now, not Pro.

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