Clipping newspaper articles to DT and automatically OCR them

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An OCR action for Shortcuts isn’t available.

List of feature requests for iOS (and future macOS) Shortcut actions

Now that Apple has announced the incorporation of Shortcuts in macOS, I wouldn’t be surprised the popularity of Shortcuts will grow in the coming years. If you’re interested in the background of their development choices, episode 592 of this podcast features one of Apple’s employees who further explains Shortcuts for macOS at approximately 39 minutes into the show. (And don’t worry: Applescript will still be supported in macOS as is explained at 49 minutes). Luckily for the DTTG users, version …

@schelmenzunft

Since I have DT on my Mac, too, would it be better just to collect the snippets on the iPad and letting the Mac doing the work afterwards?

That’s certainly an option by setting up a smart rule. You could also manually OCR your clippings in DTTG by long pressing it, choose Convert… and then To Searchable PDF