Search within a folder

1. Go to your Zoho WorkDrive account.
   
2. Select My Folders or a Team Folder in the left pane.
   
3. Click the dropdown arrow next to My Folders at the top-left and select Search in My Folders.
   For a Team Folder, click the dropdown arrow next to the Team Folder name at the top-left and select Search in <teamfoldername>.
   
   
   
   
4. Type a keyword into the search bar.
   As you type, the top 20 matches found for the keyword will appear below. You can scroll down to see the files and folders found for the search.
   
   
5. Press Enter or click the Show All Results tab at the bottom of the search results.
   A new search screen with filters will open.
   
   
6. Add filters at the top of search results to narrow down your search further. 
7. Click on a file name to open it, or hover your mouse over the file and select GO TO FOLDER to go its location. To open a folder, click on its name.

You can also search inside a sub-folder from your My Folders or a Team Folder. To do this, go to your My Folders or a Team Folder, then open a sub folder, then right-click and select Search in {sub-folder name}.

Search for a template

You can now find a template from your gallery directly using global search. You no longer need to manually search through a long list of templates. 

Note: You can search and find only the templates that are available in  My Templates  or  Org Templates . You cannot search for  Public Templates .

1. Go to your Zoho WorkDrive account.
   
2. Click the Search  icon at the top-right corner.
3. Click the dropdown next to SEARCH ALL in the search bar and select Templates.
   
   
   
   
4. Type the template's or the author's name, or a keyword inside the content of a template.
5. As you type, the top matches found for the keyword will appear below.
6. Press Enter or click the Show All Results tab at the bottom of the search results.
   
   
   

Note: When the Templates filter is not applied, templates will not be shown in search results.

Searching text within images - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

1. Only printed texts in images can be searched in WorkDrive (hand-written texts are not supported).
   
2. Texts in images cannot be searched using the Finder option.
   
3. If a font used in a file doesn’t conform to UTF-8 standards, any text content in that font cannot be extracted. WorkDrive doesn’t support adding new font styles for text extraction.

OCR Limitations

1. For PDF files, only the first 20 images in the first 10 pages will be indexed for OCR search.
2. For docx and pptx file formats, only 20 images will be indexed for OCR search.
3. OCR search indexing might take up to 3 days to be processed and ready for search.

Searching objects in images (Object Detection)

With WorkDrive's Object Detection feature, you can search for image files based on the actual objects present in them. For example, if you use the search term "laptop", the Object Detection feature will fetch all images that have the object laptop in them.

Here's the list of supported object categories in Search. We are constantly working towards adding new items.