I have tried to configure ScanSnap Home to scan to DEVONthink Pro Office as outlined on your website but unfortunately it doesn’t work. After pressing the add profile button, in the window with the list of option on the left hand side, I don’t see the “Application” group at the bottom of the list where I can select the DEVONthink application that I added in the Preferences. What could be wrong? I’m using a new ScanSnap IX1500 scanner on a iMac running OS X Mojave.
Select one of the pre-defined profiles on the left hand side such as “Auto Scan”. Change the profile name to “DEVONthink Profile”. Change the Document detection to “All sheets will be scanned as documents”. Change the save to destination to a folder such as ~/Pictures. In the “Send to Option” you should see the DEVONthink entry that you set up in the Preferences section. Press the Add button and ensure that this profile is selected.
Just moved my ScanSnap onto a new Mac & installed ScanSnap Home. I was able to get it to send scans to DTPO (using the blog instructions), but there are two “annoying” behaviors of the new setup I’m hoping someone knows how to address:
Each scan completes with a dialog box asking me to confirm metadata, etc. which I need to acknowledge each time. I don’t know if this is a ScanSnap Home or DTPO dialog. I seem to recall this existing with my old SS Manager setup, but I don’t remember how to set it to just automatically process the scan.
SS Home appears to be storing copies of every scan in its own file – is there a way to stop this so I’m not storing duplicates of every document?
The first can be disabled with Pro Office’s Preferences > OCR > Enter metadata after text recognition.
The second is a question for Fujitsu. We can’t control what ScanSnap Home does (or doesn’t do).
I’ve added the profile as described which is working fine! But there is one thing I stumbled upon.
When DPO is not started - OCR seems to be not working - even though I’ve activated to do OCR on incoming documents. Once it is started it is working as expected.
I’m having the same issue and public beta 3 didn’t seem to fix this. New scans from ScanSnap Manager don’t seem to follow the DT OCR settings. The scanned file is not deleted even though the preference is selected and it is not automatically OCR’d to searchable text even though this is selected.
By default, ScanSnap wants to send the scan of the document to my pictures folder. With DTPO, setting the OCR check to “move original to trash” moves the original document to the trash after it is OCR’d and the files don’t pile up in my pictures directory. In DT3, the scans are never OCR’d and they stay in my pictures folder.
To be clear, a PDF of the document does import to DT3, it’s just not OCR’d and the original scan remains in my Pictures directory.
I have done that as well. I’m wondering if I should uninstall and do a clean install. Do I need to uninstall DTPO? If I do manual OCR > to searchable PDF, it will OCR a document already in DT3. It just won’t OCR automatically on import.
It seems to be working now. Unfortunately I did several things at once, so I don’t know which might have fixed the issue. I opened the DT3 preferences > OCR and toggled each of the settings off and then on. I also opened DTPO at the same time and had it running.
I scanned a document and it imported into DT3, OCR’d and moved the original doc to the trash as expected. I quit DTPO and DT3 continued to work as expected. I also quit and restarted DT3 and it continued to work as expected. Seems to be working now…