Do DEVONthink Updates require reinstalling ABBYY FineReader?

[PeterNorman]

Hello!

I just updated my copy of DEVONthink Pro Office to 2.0.5. During the install I was asked to select the items I wished to install - ABBYY FineReader was one of the items but it was not ticked. Whenever I install such updates, is it necessary to tick the ABBYY FineReader box?

Or is the updater facility built into DEVONthink Pro Office sufficiently “intelligent” to know not to pre-tick ABBYY FineReader if it does not require updating? (and to tick the box if it is, in fact, being updated)

Even as I write this question, I have the customary creeping feeling I get when I’m asking about something so obvious to everyone else that I look like an idiot. But it happens so often I’m no longer able to tell whether or not I’m stupidly over-thinking it. Ha!

Thanks very much!
Peter

[Greg_Jones]

Nope, the ABBYY reader has not been updated. My understanding is that if it is updated, the installer will check mark that option.

[sjk]

@Greg_Jones

My understanding is that if it is updated, the installer will check mark that option.

True, according to annard’s blog comment:

When the checkbox for the FineReader OCR Resources isn’t checked upon statrup of a new version, there is no reason to download it again.

… and a similar post in the beta subforum, which is the first link in my opinion about that:

@sjk

I’ve always disliked that Install Add-ons window doesn’t clearly/explicitly indicate the current status of adds-ons, e.g. for ABBYY FineReader OCR (as Tim Lahey’s blog comment also recently questioned).