Systems, methods and products for uploading scanned documents for collaboration. A user chooses, prior to uploading a document, whether the user wishes for the document to be converted to a text-searchable PDF and/or processed to recognize objects in the image. When the document is scanned, it is uploaded to the cloud based system with the user-selected options, and the PDF/image is processed. The upload may be a multipart, parallel upload to increase the speed of the upload. When the PDF/image is received at the cloud based system, it is processed according to the user-selected options to generate metadata (text or recognized objects) which is stored with the uploaded document. The PDF/image and metadata are shared with users who can then search the metadata for the PDF/image.