Systems and methods for scanning documents to a collaborative cloud system

A computer program product for uploading scanned documents to a cloud based collaboration service comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions executable by one or more processors to perform:

• selecting one or more processing options for a document to be uploaded and processed by a cloud based collaboration service;
• in response to the selecting the one or more processing options, obtaining a digital file comprising a scanned image of the document;
• in response to the selecting the one or more processing options and obtaining the digital file, initiating an upload of the digital file to a remotely located repository of the cloud based collaboration service, separating the digital file into multiple parts, and uploading the multiple parts to the remotely located repository in accordance with a URL list;
• conveying indications of the one or more processing options to the remotely located repository of the cloud based collaboration service;
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• in response to completing the upload of the digital file to the remotely located repository of the cloud based collaboration service, automatically processing by the cloud based collaboration service the digital file according to the one or more processing options, wherein processing the digital file according to the one or more processing options produces metadata corresponding to the digital file, the metadata comprising at least one of recognized text and identifiers of recognized image objects, and wherein the metadata is stored with the digital file in the remotely located repository of the cloud based collaboration service.

A system for automated upload and processing of scanned images, the system comprising:

• a client device configured to:
• provide an upload interface of an upload application;
• receive user input selecting one or more processing options for a digital file to be uploaded, the digital file corresponding to a scanned document, wherein the processing options include one or more of:
• performing optical character recognition (OCR) on one or more images contained in the digital file;
• and performing image object recognition on the one or more images contained in the digital file;
• in response to receiving the user input selecting the one or more processing options, obtain the digital file of the scanned document;
• in response to receiving the user input selecting the one or more processing options and obtaining the digital file, make an API call to an API of a cloud based repository of a cloud based collaborative recognition service, the API call initiating an upload of the digital file to a cloud based repository of the cloud based collaborative recognition service, wherein the upload comprises separating the digital file into multiple chunks, initiating parallel uploads of at least a portion of the multiple chunks in accordance with a URI list provided by the API, reconstructing the digital file from the multiple chunks, and storing the digital file in the cloud based repository of the cloud based collaborative recognition service;
• transmit the one or more processing options to the cloud based collaborative recognition service, for performing processing on the digital file in the cloud based repository, the processing including:
• at least one of the optical character recognition and the object recognition;
• and storing metadata corresponding to the digital file, the metadata resulting from the processing in the cloud based repository, with the digital file;
• and
• accessing, by a user, the processed digital file from a website of the cloud based collaborative recognition service.