Hey I have a question regarding scanning with Devonthink. I am using a Brother MFC printer/scanner.
If I scan papers with the paper feeder in Devonthink I sometimes get a lot of bleedthrough.
If I scan documents with the brother scanning software I can adjust brightness and contrast and end up with zero bleedthrough.
Can I adjust the scanner settings in Devonthink ?? I cannot find anything about contrast.
And another question let’s say I have a document already on my computer and import it into Devonthink. How can I deskew the document after importing? I can only find that option if I scan the document within Devonthink?
If I scan documents with the brother scanning software I can adjust brightness and contrast and end up with zero bleedthrough.
Can I adjust the scanner settings in Devonthink ?? I cannot find anything about contrast.
DEVONthink’s scanning interface is not going to provide access to all the image adjustments a bespoke scanning application, e.g., the Brother scanner software, has.
That being said, don’t scan to a location in a database.
Scan as an image not a PDF to a binder or the Imports section.
Then go into the Imports and double-click the scanned image to make some adjustments.
Press
Done when finished, the click the image with the
Control key held and choose
Save.
And another question let’s say I have a document already on my computer and import it into Devonthink. How can I deskew the document after importing? I can only find that option if I scan the document within Devonthink?
Outside the Settings > OCR > Auto correct: Deskew setting, you can’t deskew images or PDFs in DEVONthink.
thanks for your help
But if I scan the document as a jpeg to the import folder. I cannot seem to find to make the nesecarry changes like deskew, contrast, brightness…
also this makes the whole process very uncomfortable. I have about 1000 documents that needs to be scanned. I really want to avoid these extra steps…
So in general if I understand correctly there is no extra settings to change any scanner settings besides these few I can see in the import section???
You’re welcome.
As I said…
Outside the Settings > OCR > Auto correct: Deskew setting, you can’t deskew images or PDFs in DEVONthink.
and
Then go into the Imports and double-click the scanned image to make some adjustments.
Press Done when finished, the click the image with the Control key held and choose Save.
So in general if I understand correctly there is no extra settings to change any scanner settings besides these few I can see in the import section???
Correct.
Also, you can scan with the scanner software outside DEVONthink and add the scans later if you need to exert more control over the scans.
thanks I know that I can scan with my Brother software and import those scans into Devonthink…
In my opinion there should be more options available within devonthink and scanning to make more adjustments to the scan settings and also to be able to save different configurations as a template.
I still need to find a way to optimise this. The deskew feature of my brother software is not very good that’s why I prefer to use Devonthink for scanning. But since you can NOT adjust the brightness and contrast it is useless to me because I have very bad bleedthrough on a lot of scanned documents
Your request is noted, with no promises of course.
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BTW within Devonthink is there any metadata or field where I can see if a PDF has OCR or not? Is it the field = kind and if it says pdf+text it means it is a pdf file with OCR ?
A PDF+Text doesn’t necessarily mean it has had OCR done on it. It means there’s a detected and indexable text layer. OCR is an operation done on images or PDFs without a text layer. But there are many sources of PDF+Texts, e.g., printing to PDF from Safari, Word, TextEdit, etc. Those don’t have OCR done on them.
ok and how to find out if a pdf has OCR on it? Only if I select the document and try to search for something within the file?
Why do you need to know if it has been OCRd? The important thing is, imo, that there’s a text layer. Regardless of its origins.
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It doesn’t matter if it has OCR done on it. It only matters if there’s a text layer. As I just described, a text layer can be created from more than one source. So if the document is marked as PDF+Text, there is a text layer and does not need OCR. If it’s merely PDF Document, that’s not a guarantee it doesn’t has a text layer (for various technical reasons), however that would be a more likely candidate for OCR. In your case, a scan wouldn’t have a text layer as it’s just a PDF document containing an image, so a PDF Document you scanned would need OCR.
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