In general, you should chose to skip PDFs that already contain text, because there's no use in OCR'ing them (again). If you chose to save in place, the original files will be modified, otherwise the specified suffix will be appended. The action will take PDF files as input and also provide PDF files as output. Automator should open a confirmation prompt when double-clicking the PDFScanner action (dragging sometimes does not triggers this prompt). If that does not work on Mojave, you first have to enable support for third party Automator Actions. To use PDFScanner ORC in a wokflow, just drag and drop it from the left side of the Automator window to the workflow panel on the right. On macOS Mojave, you can also create a 'Quick Action' that will create a button in the finder to quickly perform the workflow. Select 'Workflow' to create a simple workflow that is started directly from the Automator application or 'Folder Action' to create a flow that is executed when a new file is added to a specified folder. Launch screen of automatorĪutomator offeres different types of workflows. When PDFScanner is installed, a 'OCR with PDFScanner' action appears in Automator automatically.

To do this, you need to create a workflow in the Automator application that comes with macOS. You can use the Automator action that is included with PDFScanner for performing batch OCR on a bunch of files or automatically have macOS perform OCR on all files in a folder. This page currently only covers automation via Automator. Hint: For OCR, PDFScanner now also supports an action in the macOS Shortcuts app.

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