Thats an impressive update. Thank you very much for that. And my huge AppleScript-based workflow around DTPro does work as well - even somewhat faster. Or maybe it’s just the general beta-feeling.
Does anyone know if it is possible to have DTPro 3 OCR any new PDF automatically? Just because it got so much faster than before I was wondering if I could switch from my current external OCR-and-put-the-file-in-inbox solution to DTPro only. I tried it with folder actions, which works most of the time, that is until I scan a lot of documents in a row and the previous script wasn’t finished with the last task.
Apologies for jumping in here – but cannot get this to work.
Initially, with the log message returning the “Info” as “No Text” – which is kind of the point – I tried to manually select the PDF, and OCR it.
It then prompted me to download the AbbyyFineReader engine, which I did.
Following a restart of DTP3, I am still met with the same error in the log message – manually selecting the PDF and OCR’ing it, works as expected.
Below is a screengrab of the rule. Any suggestions?
Just tried that, and yes – it triggers the OCR when dragged & dropped onto the smart rule.
Edit: By the way, I’m getting the file into DTP3 by means of a Folder Action, and the “Devonthink – Import to selected group.scpt” [figured I would just make that clear].
That’s probably the problem - scripts don’t trigger smart rules (as smart rules can execute scripts on their own and as this would make the results of scripts unpredictable). You could try to index the folder instead.
That works really great, thank you. One minor issue - the original imported file gets deleted, which is what I want, while in the database the record remains. But since the file is gone it points to nirvana (meaning: it says ‘file does not exist’ and added the endless path where it used to be)
And found a solution for that - just add a delete action into the smart rule…
@cgrunenberg
This occurs if you are explicitly choose an output format for OCR, like To Searchable PDF. If you choose Apply, the original file is deleted.