Hello! Regarding the script you use, can it be changed to use, for example, ABBYY fine reader to OCR a document? Could that be posible of doing? It sounds very interesting! Thanks for your ideas!
Daniela Rubio T iPhone: +34662328507 El 13/03/2014, a las 20:48, Keith Watson <tkwatso...@gmail.com> escribió: > Nick, > > Below I will paste a copy of the AppleScript that I use in a Hazel rule that > will open a pdf, check to see if it needs to be OCR'd, OCR it if necessary > and then move it to another folder to be sorted by other requirements. > > In PDFPen Pro you can set the preferences to OCR upon opening. I have > disabled this as I let my script handle it. > > Anyway here is the script and if you have any problems feel free to ask. > > Keith > > -- Start AppleScript -- > > set myFile to POSIX path of theFile > set theResult to do shell script "grep -i 'encoding' " & quoted form of > myFile & " &>/dev/null && echo 1 || echo 0" > if theResult is "0" then > tell application "PDFpenPro" > open theFile as alias > tell document 1 > ocr > repeat while performing ocr > delay 1 > end repeat > delay 1 > > close with saving > end tell > do shell script "afplay ~/Documents/Sounds/itisdone.wav &" > tell application "PDFpenPro" > quit > end tell > end tell > else > do shell script "afplay ~/Documents/Sounds/dontouch.wav &" > end if > -- End AppleScript --- > > On Mar 11, 2014, at 11:41 PM, Nicholas Parsons > <mr.nicholas.pars...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> HI list, >> >> I get tens if not hundreds of scanned documents at work which have not been >> OCR-ed. I've been trialling a number of OCR programs recently. I've been >> really impressed with ABBYY Fine Reader, which seems to produce much better >> results than Prizmo or even Docuscan Plus. However, manually converting each >> document takes far too much of my time. >> >> I've heard much in the mainstream media, particularly from the Mac Power >> Users podcast, about automating the OCR process. They use PDFPen, Apple >> Script and Hazel to automatically OCR things. However, I just tried to OCR a >> document with PDFPen Pro and couldn't even do it manually. The OCR Document >> button was greyed out, and forcing it with command-option keys didn't seem >> to work. >> >> So, does anyone else have any ideas for how to automate the OCR process? >> Ideally using ABBYY Fine Reader as that seems to be the most accurate engine >> I've tested. >> >> Many thanks for any ideas. >> >> Cheers, >> Nic >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
