OCR working part time only

DEVONthink Tips
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Hi,

I am running Devonthink Pro on a new iMac, just upgraded to OSX 10.7 together with a Fujitsu S1500M.

Today Devonthink wanted to upgrade, which I allowed, and then things went wrong. Devonthink was gone from the Program folder (just a file with few kB still there), so I downloaded it again from the website and installed.
Everything seemed to work fine, but when I started scanning, I noticed that most (all but one) file were put into Devonthink as “PDF” and not “PDF+Text”. I cannot access /Data/Convert, this is greyed out.

I guess something went wrong somewhere, but I am at a loss what to do. AFAIK I did not change my Snapscan profiles or other options.

Quick help would be appreciated,
thanks and cheers,
Hamish

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Did you install DEVONthink Pro or DEVONthink Pro Office? Only DTPO supports OCR.

If you’re running DTPO, then you could (re)install the OCR resources via DEVONthink Pro Office > Install Add-Ons. You might have to delete ~/Library/Application Support/DEVONthink Pro 2/Abbyy first though.

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Ooops - you are quite right. I must be getting old. When looking at the download site I only saw the “Demo restricted to…” note below DTPO and immediately clicked on DTP.

There are days when it’s better to stay in bed…

Sorry for the inconvenience :blush: - but thanks for the very quick response, we just returned from our holidays and I am drowning in useless paper.

Cheers,
Hamish