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We also use image recognition so that if you drag and drop photos from your Grand Canyon trip into Drive, you can later search for and photos of its gorges should pop up. You can search for a word from the text of the actual article. Let’s say you upload a scanned image of an old newspaper clipping. (You may receive a warning that Google Drive is an application downloaded from the Internet. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

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Search everything. Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. Once youve installed the application to your computer, its icon will appear in the left sidebar of any Windows folder, just below Desktop and Recent Sites.

And regardless of platform, blind users can access Drive with a screen reader. We’re also working hard on a Drive app for your iOS devices. At the time of writing, Google hasn’t put up a proper landing page for the new Drive for Desktop.

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You can install Drive on your Mac or PC and can download the Drive app to your Android phone or tablet. On macOS, drag the app icon down to the Trash icon on the dock or from Applications in Finder. You can access your stuff from anywhere-on the web, in your home, at the office, while running errands and from all of your devices.

Store everything safely and access it anywhere (especially while on the go). All your stuff is just.

Once you choose to share content with others, you can add and reply to comments on anything (PDF, image, video file, etc.) and receive notifications when other people comment on shared items.

Create and collaborate. Google Docs is built right into Google Drive, so you can work with others in real time on documents, spreadsheets and presentations.

If you're curious about what Drive is all about, here's an overview: All your changes will automatically be synced across Google Drive and for everyone you've shared that document with - pretty neat. The file would have to be downloaded before it could run on Word with the local Google Drive folder pictured above, that Word file is already on your computer so you can just open it directly, edit and save. Microsoft Word can only run locally, so if you open a Word document in the Web version of Drive you're only able to see a preview of the file. Most importantly, when you want to open a local file type in Google Drive, you'll want to use the local Google Drive folder.

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