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So the things Google Drive has that Dropbox doesn't: * 2-factor authentication! * Comments on files (unclear if it's only for Google Docs or all files) * OCR
by rkudeshi 15y ago
So the things Google Drive has that Dropbox doesn't:
* 2-factor authentication!
* Comments on files (unclear if it's only for Google Docs or all files)
* OCR - like Evernote, you can search against text in images (e.g. newspaper article)
* Image recognition - if you upload a pic of the Eiffel Tower, you can find it with the search term "eiffel tower"
* Web-based file viewer - 30 file types including HD video, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc.
The OCR and image recognition are going to be killer features for "normal" people. And I imagine it's something Dropbox can't easily duplicate (unlike the other features).
Then again, as a more privacy-minded technical person, the image recognition feature scares the beejezus out of me. Tagging faces on Facebook is one thing, but being able to semantically identify all contents of my images is really stepping up the creepiness quotient.
Should be interesting to see how Dropbox responds.
- tuananh 15y agoOCR is the reason I use Evernote.
- sureshv 15y agoConsidering how bad the current google docs OCR is I don't think dropbox has anything to worry about. It seems to perform as well as the stock version of tesseract in tests that I've run.
- jrockway 15y agoTagging faces on Facebook is one thing, but being able to semantically identify all contents of my images is really stepping up the creepiness quotient. Why? I find face tagging much creepier than tagging a picture of a cat with "cat". (You can already use Google Goggles to see what Google knows how to recognize.)