Automatically OCR PDF , not PDF+Text

[saschabur]

How can one create a rule that matches only for “PDF” and not for “PDF+Text” in order to OCR those docs?

“Kind” doesn’t permit to discrinminate “PDF” and “PDF+text”
Thnaks

[cgrunenberg]

Just add the condition Word Count is 0 in addition to Kind is PDF/PS

[BLUEFROG]

This kind of question has been asked many, many times on these forums. Search would have yielded relevant posts, e.g., …

Folder Action import from Dropbox

Here’s an example smart rule… [Screen Shot 2021-11-30 at 10.50.00 AM] It targets an indexed Finder folder files needing OCR would be put into. It checks for a specific tag (this is optional). It looks for images or PDFs with no words. On import, i.e., when you drop a file into the folder and DEVONthink detects it… The file is moved into the database. This is an import and removes the file from the Finder folder. No cleanup needed! Does OCR on the file. The Apply option doesn’t genetate a …

[saschabur]

thank you, i had forgotten!