

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. In order to get a two-way sync, you will have to then click on the Backup and Sync icon on your MacBook top panel, click on the three vertical dots, click Preferences, click on the Google Drive. 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. Drive can even recognize text in scanned documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology.

Search by keyword and filter by file type, owner and more. And regardless of platform, blind users can access Drive with a screen reader. That application is now being retired in favour of a new Drive for Desktop app. We're also working hard on a Drive app for your iOS devices. Launched in 2017, Google’s Backup and Sync app was its way of tying your desktop computer or laptop into Google Drive and Google Photos so that you could, as the name suggests, back stuff up and sync the data on your devices.
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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. 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.
