Box Inc, a cloud-storage company, said on Thursday it has agreed to acquire Crocodoc, a small start-up that provides the technology behind document viewers found on some of the world’s most popular websites, including Facebook and Dropbox.

The acquisition would provide Box’s users with more interactive features such as the ability to annotate documents or create slide shows, said Aaron Levied, Box’s chief executive.

Levied declined to disclose the terms of the deal. Crocodoc, a seven-person start-up founded in 2007 by four engineering students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had previously raised roughly $1 million from angel investors.

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