I fed DThink a 123 page file (a film script) in a pdf format. It wailed away on it for a while incrementing it’s processing until page 23. There it sat for 45 minutes. When I went to quit the program, it asked me whether I wanted to complete the processing. Sure, I thought, and let it continue. I saw a process named something like pdf2tiff working away when I looked at it in istat pro.
But eventually I quit it.
Is there a way to see what is going on, have it to the conversion, or correct my approach?
Are you able to OCR only this page or does it stall too? E.g. open the PDF, select the page in the sidebar, copy it and then create a new PDF document containing this page via Data > New from Clipboard.
Real life has kept me from testing this. But while doing other stuff this afternoon, I note the pdf2tiff is taking 84-98% of the processing (again according to istat pro). This, even when I’ve quit DThink. Did DThink launch this, as I assumed, during the conversion process?
It’s probably used by Abbyy’s OCR engine. Are you running out of real memory? E.g. have a look at the memory statistics (especially page ins/outs) in the Activity Monitor (see /Applications/Utilities).