OfficeDrop Releases Free ScanDrop Lite For Mac

OfficeDrop Releases Free ScanDrop Lite For Mac

ScanDrop ChooserYes, I realize that I wrote about ScanDrop scanning to Gmai just a few weeks ago. This is a perfect example of my incredible ability to write something just before the subject I am writing about makes some big announcement.

If you’re not familiar with ScanDrop, it is a document scanning app put out by the folks at OfficeDrop. I wrote about their Mac scanning application back in April.

ScanDrop for Windows has always been free, but for the Mac it was $9.99. Now, following their trend towards going freemium, OfficeDrop has released the free ScanDrop Lite, as well as updates to the full version of ScanDrop For Mac.

ScanDrop Lite

ScanDrop Lite for Mac is free and can do most of the things that the full version can, but if you are using a cloud service like Dropbox, Evernote, Google Docs, etc., it limits you to 15 pages per month.

15 pages is not a huge amount, but at least this way you can try out ScanDrop and see if you like it before you drop the cash. Also, if you are a very casual user, 15 pages might even be enough for you.

If you are uploading documents to their OfficeDrop cloud document management service, you get unlimited uploads. Makes sense, it would be pretty wacky of them to limit uploads to their own service.

ScanDrop For Mac

The full version of ScanDrop for Mac is still $9.99. You probably will not be surprised to know that the full version offers unlimited uploads to all the cloud services, but they’ve also added a document splitting feature too.

Updates For Both

They’ve added some more functionality too (such as some document editing stuff), that you can read about on their blog.
Normally I would do a walkthrough of the new functionality, but as you may have read, I am slightly computerless at the moment. So, here are some screenshots of ScanDrop Lite that OfficeDrop have provided to help me out:

ScanDrop Crop

ScanDrop To Evernote

So, if you are a Mac user and have been wanting to try out ScanDrop but didn’t want to pay $9.99 to check it out, it may be worth picking up ScanDrop Lite and seeing how you like it.

About the Author

Brooks Duncan helps individuals and small businesses go paperless. He's been an accountant, a software developer, a manager in a very large corporation, and has run DocumentSnap since 2008. You can find Brooks on Twitter at @documentsnap or @brooksduncan. Thanks for stopping by.

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DocumentSnap Time Machine | Tips To Learn How To Go Paperless | DocumentSnap Paperless Blog - September 9, 2012 Reply

[…] OfficeDrop Releases Free ScanDrop Lite For Mac If you need to scan some documents and upload them to a cloud services, ScanDrop Lite for Mac is a free way to do it. […]

    Melissa Fox - November 18, 2016 Reply

    ScanDrop Lite For Mac has no backup – lots of “404/page can’t be opened/server connection has dropped” etc. There is no longer any company called OfficeDrop – though the Apple Store is still providing ScanDrop Lite as a download.

    I’ve not yet tried spending 9.99 for the regular ScanDrop, but if OfficeDrop can’t be found, can you suggest a scanning program by which I can configure an Epson Workforce320 [all-in-one type] to work with Mac running OS X 10.11.8?

    Thanks.

Healy Jones - September 8, 2011 Reply

Thanks for the write up Brooks! ScanDrop Lite is taking off; we were a top 100 app for a while there!

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