![]() After you save this as an Automator workflow, there's an option in Hazel to apply an Automator workflow to files matching your criteria. ![]() Then fill in the remainder of the box with the shell script as described above. Step 2: "Run Shell Script", shell:, and Pass input. Use it to set the Content Creator to "ScanSnap Manager". ![]() ![]() However, to give my best guess, if I were to use Automator to create a workflow, it might be configured as follows: Step 1: "Set PDF Data". AppleSuperlatives Posts: 7 Joined: Fri 6:51 pmÄietrich - I'm not entirely certain how you're setting things up.and I don't know how to use Automator to work with Hazel. This is the way I discovered and it still works beautifully. (Forgive me if I didn't properly escape all of the appropriate characters in the above command.) Lastly, I guarantee that there are other ways to programmatically reduce the size of a PDF. while [ ! -e "$ Reduced.pdf" - The script-supplied path and filename to the PDF the quartzfilter will write. Code: Select all #! /bin/bash if ! grep Font "$1" then # Open the file in ABBYY's FineReader open -a 'Scan to Searchable PDF.app' "$1" # Wait around until the file is done being processed by testing to see if a file named "yourfile processed by FineReader" exists. I'm sure I have script that can automate that if you'd like. (Question: Why don't I just let the ScanSnap software run the PDF though FineReader automatically? Answer: I don't feel like waiting for it.) If it didn't, and you still want to use the version of ABBYY FineReader that came with your ScanSnap, you'll need to use PDFInfo, PDFAuxInfo, or pdftk to set the PDF's Creator to "ScanSnap Manager". Since my version of ABBYY FineReader came bundled with my ScanSnap, this code assumes your freshly-scanned PDF originated from a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner. Here's a shell script example: Code: Select all #! /bin/bash if ! grep Font "$1" then echo "This file needs to be OCRd" else echo "This file does not need to be OCRd" fi Even better, my first rule for one of my watched folders contains a shell script to automatically test a PDF to see if it needs to be OCR'd then OCRs it if necessary. I automated this capability by using the command "grep". This time, you should find words like "FontName", "BaseFont", and/or "Font". Then, run the PDF through your favorite OCR program, open in TextMate, then search again. To prove this to yourself, open a freshly scanned (non-OCR'd) PDF in TextMate, or your favorite text editor. By "text", I mean the binary-level code of the PDF, not the PDF text itself. Basically, if the text for a PDF file contains the word "Font", it's likely it's either been printed natively to a PDF or already been run through a OCR program, such as Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, or the OCR capabilities of PDFpen(Pro). (4) Activate the Paste macro to insert the screenshot and hyperlink at the location of your choiceÄownload the macros here: Dropbox Hook PDF Macros Kaplan.I recently discovered a way to determine if a PDF file contains a Optical Character Recogition (OCR'd) text layer, or even a native text layer, and thought this board might benefit. (2) Activate the Copy macro to copy your link to Hook and create a screenshot (1) Highlight a word or section within your PDFpenPro PDF document The macros are attached feel free to tweak them and share suggestions. So I created a set of Keyboard Maestro Macros for this purpose. I need an efficient workflow to let me create these links and identify them in my notetaking app so I can distinguish among multiple links to the same document. My plan is to master Tinderbox for this purpose since it is infinitely customizable to configure and search a notebook however I wish. Devonthink, Apple Notes, Osbsidian, or Notion would all work fine, among others - basically any software which has a canvas on which to paste a link. I need notetaking software to collect and further annotate or curate these deep links. For me - and I suspect for others who heavily use PDFs including expert consultants, attorneys, and academics - this is a gamechanger. Hook recently released scripts which allow deep linking to a specific paragraph or word within a PDF using PDFpenPro. LiquidText is great to excerpt specific paragraphs or sections but there is no URL Scheme to link a note back to a particular excerpt. It can link to a PDF page but cannot deep link to a particular location on the page. Devonthink is my mainstay for storing PDF files. A large part of my daily workflow involves reading and notetaking using PDF files.
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