... to make it work in Hazel are: - Get rid of the "repeat...end repeat" - Change "aFile" to "theFile" Issues with Acrobat itself are beyond the support I can give and I suggest asking at the site where you got the script.

... the file into the appropriate directory based on the client's name (which is part of the file name.) Anyway, I would like to have Hazel have Adobe Acrobat run the "save as reduced size PDF" command before moving the file to the client's (sub)directory. I have pasted some script that I ...

... help me with a project: Ongoing task: 1) Convert Contracts in Word to PDF 2) Merge each contract with signature page Either with some version of Acrobat, or some software specific to the task. I envision a watched folder where these might be dropped, then hazel would oversee the process automatically.

... is old, but I ran into the same problem. I wanted to get hazel to look for the file-information "Encoding Software" containing "Acrobat" (which is the program I use for OCRing). I tried the search-string: "contains" "Acrobat", which ended in no rule-matching. ...

I scan a document and have Acrobat do OCR and I save it in Action folder. Then I have told Hazel to watch that folder and whatever comes to rename and move. I told Hazel to rename Year-Month date and rename based on Spotlight comment. ...

... correctly without prior decompressing the text. As a workaround you might use Applescript and tools such as "pdftotext", "Adobe Acrobat Standard/Professional", or "skim" to retrieve the text to process it further. (All the mentioned tools need to be installed on ...

... like HAZEL to run the script below on one file at a time, The script below opens any .ai Illustrator file to save as a .pdf then opens the .pdf in Acrobat Pro to "Enable Commenting & Measuring..." THEN I need HAZEL to move both finished .ai & new converted .pdf files (When script ...

... where I can see the PDF has been correctly OCR'd, the text is embedded (can copy paste it all into TextEdit), I can search it in preview and acrobat and find the exact text in my rule, and can also enter the same text in spotlight and the file appears in the list. Hazel preview shows the ...

I tried finding the file's metadata via Acrobat and only found blanks.

I'm starting to think its not possible to do what I was hoping. The best I can do it get a pdf miner type program, but then it seems impossible to rename it automatically based on what the miner found.

... original) but I'm not much of an AppleScripter. Here's my situation. At work, I sometimes need to turn files into PDFs, but since we don't have Acrobat Pro at work, I thought I could use Dropbox and Hazel (on my Mac at home) to accomplish the task. The idea is this: ⋅ At work, put ...

Awesome, Thanks for the AppleScript. This opened my eyes to the potential of this great program (Hazel).

... 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). By "text", I mean the binary-level code of the PDF, not the PDF text itself. ...

Mr_Noodle wrote:Very cool. When I get around to it, I'll update Buzz page with a link to it, if you don't mind.

Be my guest! Love Hazel.

Very cool. When I get around to it, I'll update Buzz page with a link to it, if you don't mind.

Has anyone tried to use the highlighter pen functionality in the scan snap software to attach keywords to the scanned pdfs and then have hazel automatically rename the files based on the keyword data and move it to the correct folder? If so I'd be very grateful if you could share exactly how you've...