Initially choosing the menu appeared to recommend, via a popup dialog box (IIRC), that I should install the OCR software. I closed the dialog box, but nothing appears to be installed.
Further, when examining the installed add-ons, I see that ABBYY FineReader OCR appears to be excluded from installation.
Is there a restriction with the demo/trial version that prevents testing the OCR capabilities at all?
I’ve searched the forum for relevant questions and answers, and I see questions about restrictions to scanning in the demo/trial version. Fair enough. But I haven’t seen any that say that the OCR feature is completely disabled in this mode.
I have the DevonThink Pro 3 installed on a 2018 MacBook Pro, running macOS 10.15.2. The scanner I have attached is a Fujitsu ScanSnap S1500M (using VueScan - because 64bit). I have a document scanned successfully with the scanner and sitting in my Global Inbox - all good - but how to OCR?
Interesting question. Today is the first time I’ve ever downloaded the software, and installed it. I’m not sure why I would have a different style of counter from the one you had with your copy.
Perhaps DEVONtechnologies have changed their approach to trial licensing.
Yes, I saw that there is a limit in some of the other posts here on the forum. I understand that it is to stop abuse of this feature by people with no intention of buying the software - and fair enough, too.
From my reading of the other forum posts, there appears to be a daily limit set on the number of OCR conversions. I expect I’m well within the limit.
In my case, this was the first and only document I have loaded into DevonThink Pro 3. So that’s a bit weird.
I do have a trial version of the stand-alone ABBYY FineReader for Mac installed on my machine, separately. Maybe FineReader is getting tangled with the embedded ABBYY software. Who knows? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Okay … I’ve deleted all trace of the stand-alone ABBYY FineReader for Mac from my machine, emptied the trash, and rebooted.
Restarted DTP3, and selected Files > Import > Images (with OCR)… from the menu. Then I selected a previously scanned PDF document in the subsequent file dialog box.
The result is an OCR processed document in the Global Inbox. Which is great!
Not sure what the problem was previously. I did have some unusual window behaviour with the application where I couldn’t resize the DTP3 window prior to the reboot.
All seems good now.
Thanks to everybody for your ideas and assistance.