back_office_ops · workflow
Dropbox machine intelligence initiative (DBXi): OCR, personalized search, and intelligent workspace
Knowledge workers face information overload from content scattered across many cloud services, spending too much time on organization, contextualization, and prioritization rather than focused work.
How it works
Common implementation structure
How this type of workflow is generally built, generalized across documented cases — not tied to any one vendor's stack. Click any stage to read what happens there. Specific products that implement these stages appear in “Tools commonly seen” below.
Stage 1 · Connect content sources
Users connect files, Google Docs, emails, messaging apps, and calendars to Dropbox.
Tools used
OCRmachine visiondeep learningGoogle Docs · partner
Outcome
Dropbox built a custom OCR pipeline faster and more accurate than off-the-shelf solutions, rebuilt its search infrastructure for improved quality and speed, and developed a DBXi prototype that clusters and prioritizes work content in an intelligent activity feed.
Results
Volumefaster and more accurate than any off-the-shelf solutions we could find
Source
https://dropbox.tech/machine-learning/machine-intelligence-at-dropbox-an-update-from-our-dbxi-team
Grounding & classification
Source type: technical build writeup
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