I’ve recently upgraded from DTP2 to DTP3. I’ve noticed that sometimes when I import PDF files that are fully searchable, the document kind is listed as “PDF document” instead of “PDF+Text”, even though they are fully searchable and can be copied from or converted to plain text. However, this isn’t true for all such PDF files, others are identified as “PDF+Text”. In DTP2, these documents would have been imported as “PDF+Text”. Is this a bug, and is there any way to update their kind to “PDF+Text”? Thanks!
This might be a display glitch after indexing the file in the background. Is the type correct after relaunching the app?
3.0.2 will fix this.
Christian, yes, relaunching DT3 did fix it, and thanks for the update regarding 3.0.2!
I am seeing this in DTP3.9.4
Multiple PDF Documents that are searchable. Is there a way to have DTP reindex the existing text layer?
Where are the PDFs from?
Having the same problem with Devonthink 4.1. I have multiple chess PDFs that have large word counts, and yet are kind=PDF, not PDF+text. They are readily searchable. Running OCR on them does not change the file type. Suggestions?
What is reported in Window > Log?
Nothing at all. The Activity window shows the whole process, though.
I did try running one through OCR in Devonthink 3.9 (last version), and it seemed to do it correctly.
Here’s a folder of PDFs with nonzero word counts and filetype of plain PDF:
The first PDF I checked could never be OCR’d. Look at the thumbnails…
What PDF did you try to OCR? Watson-Secrets-of-Modern-Chess-Strategy-pdf OCR’d as expected.
The PDF was indexed by using macOS‘ Vision framework (similar to live text), is searchable and has a word count. But the document on its own doesn‘t have a text layer and so the kind is not PDF+Text.
I opened the list that I sent you in Devonthink 3.9, and OCR’ed several of them. All of them appear as PDF+text in this version, but not in Devonthink 4. Any reason those results would differ?
In DEVONthink, hold the Option key and select Help > Report Bug.
Which version of DEVONthink 3 do you use? The latest one (3.9.16)?