DT4: Imported PDF files type in global inbox are automatically converted to PDF+Text

DEVONthink
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What version of DEVONthink are you running?

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It’s DT4 beta 3

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My version of DT4b3 does not perform OCR by itself.

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Could you share the used document? In addition, do you use any smart rules that perform OCR?

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I conducted tests using a brand new set of DT4, with all smart rules disabled, utilizing a document from here:

https://archive.org/details/wonderfulwizardo00baumiala/page/n9/mode/2up

Here’s my screen recording:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o3fw8ILZb6yKa2r7VQbJJIuBctPAB0Z5?usp=drive_link

It seems that nothing is appearing in the log window, and I’m not sure why that is.

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Thank you for the files! It’s indeed a PDF document with a text layer (at least on some pages), therefore the kind PDF+Text is correct. Version 4 tries to transcribe & index all the other pages using macOS’ Vision framework too. But the next release will include an option to disable this.