Setting selection of viewer window

[Frederiko]

@sven.luetkemeier

Unfortunately, the “Data → Convert → to searchable PDF” menu command isn’t exposed to AppleScript. I am aware of the “convert image” command. However, this creates a new record while the menu command converts the PDF “in place” which I prefer (especially because it ensures the UUID of the record stays the same, so that any references I created in OO4 or otherwhere will continue to work).

As a workaround I now open a new window for each PDF that needs to be converted and use System Events to do the OCR.

You can also automate in place OCR if you use an external application such as Abby Finereader or Smile’s PDFPenPro. Here is an example using Finereader [url]ABBYY Finereader Pro v12]

It would be more reliable than relying on system events.

Frederiko