I heard that DEVONThink allows you to select a word after a document has been scanned and imported, as if you’re highlighting it, and that then DT automatically turns that word into a tag.
Does anyone know how to do this?
I heard that DEVONThink allows you to select a word after a document has been scanned and imported, as if you’re highlighting it, and that then DT automatically turns that word into a tag.
Does anyone know how to do this?
It’s not an automatic process, but you can select or double-click on the word and a) drag it into the tag bar or b) right-click and select ‘Add Tag <>’.
Wow, great. That sounds pretty easy. Now I just have to figure out how to get the whole OCR thing working, right?
Wow! I didn’t know that you could drag and drop a pdf from somewhere right into a DT open database, and that it would OCR it immediately! Incredible. And this highlighting words and dragging them to the bar to make them into tags works with this. Incredible.
I’ve never seen that behavior. I know DTPO converts scanned images automatically through OCR if yo check the preference, but I’ve never found the drag and drop does that. Am I missing something?
If the PDF was created by print-to-PDF or some other text-to-pdf method then its type when dragged into DTPO (or imported or indexed) is PDF+Text. Otherwise, scanned images have to go through OCR to render text.
(OT: I use print-to-PDF a lot with MS Office and iWork because it renders a more useful document for my purposes than the standard quicklook that DTPO uses by default.)