DT 3.5 update - DTOCRHelper eat up the memory!

DEVONthink
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After initial update to DT 3.5, things work fine until the OCR job, when it activates DTOCRHelper, after which the OCR job hangs and everything’s slowing down.

When I have to force quit DTOCRHelper from the “Activity Monitor”, it already takes up over 12GB memory on its own.

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I have had trouble in 3.5 with OCR, too. The OCR hangs, and OCRHelper seems to be the culprit.

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How many documents/pages did you try to process?

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Only one pdf document about 47MB or 36 pages.

I am just repeating the same process, and it hangs at the same place. and OCRHelper quickly eating up memory, from 2.2GB to 5.4GB in half a minute.

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It happens only after updated to DT 3.5 and reinstall the ABBYY OCR module, not before.

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In my case, it was 150+ pages. I gave it a few minutes but saw no progress.

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I’m seeing the same problem. Even breaking PDFs into smaller chunks and doing them one by one is problematic.

I see this in the logs pretty often:

2020-05-21 13:10:07.487 DEVONthink 3[53221:7935719] LOG: OCR operation was unsuccessful. (Unable to create PDF export file.)
2020-05-21 13:10:08.072 DEVONthink 3[53221:7935719] Error: Error Domain=com.devontechnologies.DTOCREngine Code=-50 "OCR operation was unsuccessful." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=OCR operation was unsuccessful., NSLocalizedFailureReason=Unable to create PDF export file., NSLocalizedRecoverySuggestion=}, recovery: (null)
2020-05-21 13:10:08.072 DEVONthink 3[53221:7935719] LOG: Unable to create PDF export file.

I do 2 or 3 OCR jobs and then have to restart DEVONthink to be able to do any more. DT 3.5 with the ABBYY upgrade.

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some problem here. Very problematic

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I was seeing this issue as well before OCR stopped being possible. It was eating all my available space on my SSD as well.

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Does it work after disabling deskewing (see Preferences > OCR) and/or deleting the folder ~/Library/Application Support/ABBYY/SDK?

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Unfortunately not working in my case.

  • uncheck Deskew in Preference>OCR doesn’t help;
  • then quit Devonthink and delete SDK folder as suggested;
  • restart Devonthink and the problem remain exactly the same (same screenshot too)

The OCR>Searchable PDF always hangs at “Loading Document”

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How large is the document (number of pages)?

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the same document as previously referred, 47MB/36pages

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Does the process continue after waiting longer (at least 15 minutes)?

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Only 5 minutes will cause the iMac slowing down to freeze, so never have the chance for 15 minutes

By the way, is there a way to reinstall the ABBYY OCR add-on?

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or downgrade Devonthink to previous version (along with the previous ABBYY OCR module)

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How much RAM does your computer have? Virtual memory might be causing the slow performance and freezing of the iMac.

To downgrade you could install v3.0.4 (https://download.devontechnologies.com/download/devonthink/3.0.4/DEVONthink_3.dmg.zip), remove ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink 3/Abbyy folder and install the OCR resources again.

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The iMac has 8GB memory and working fine with previous version of Devonthink as well as the OCR add-on, before this 3.5 update.

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In this case, will the OCR resource be the previous one (come with DT v3.0.4), or the cone comes with DT 3.5?

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Now DT 3.5 works fine too, only the updated OCR causes problem.