I also used Leap for quite awhile. It essential just catalogs pdf files (along with tags) and allows you to search. There's also a smart folder feature that allows you to quickly locate collections of pdfs. http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/index.html

Long ago I used Quicksilver to move files to their correct directory. Then I did some terminal commands to accomplish this. Since starting to use hazel, I've setup a series of rules that look at my inbox. As soon as I tag a file with a specific tag or set of tags then the file gets moved to where it...

I do use encrypted disk images for bank records and medical paperwork, but I haven't automated that piece yet. Do you manually sort your OCR files in to the disk images and folder structure? I am just setting up my workflow, but I found the profiles to be the easiest way to make this automatic. I ha...

Good to hear. Even with a bunch of great Spotlight comments and meta tags I still keep many of my PDF's organized by folders (much like you describe). Partly because I learned the hard way that all of those Spotlight meta tags are very tenuous. The spotlight meta data is not actually embedded in the...

I have the fix. I was using "extension is pdf" instead of "kind is pdf" . I don't understand why that changes the behavior, but it does and is reproducible if I change it back. Thanks for walking me through your workflow! As long as we are on the topic, how do you organize your P...

I am having a hard time with this. In my workflow, Hazel seems to be sending the file to Acrobat before it is finished scanning. Did you have that problem? What is your whole work flow? Thanks!! I don't seem to have that problem. I'm using a ScanSnap and scanning directly ...

I am having a hard time with this. In my workflow, Hazel seems to be sending the file to Acrobat before it is finished scanning. Did you have that problem? What is your whole work flow?

Thanks!!

... me looking into Hazel to solve this problem. It's really annoying that Adobe doesn't provide a good solution even when you shell out the money for Acrobat Pro. Any who, thanks for the heads up on Hazel. I'm a believer.

Thanks for the script. As for what to do with it after you've scanned it, here's a nice little article describing one way to file it: http://www.macsparky.com/2009/06/02/sor ... ith-hazel/

... out Hazel to see if it could handle an OCR project. I have a folder that all ScanSnap scans get dumped to. I want those to be run through an Acrobat Pro OCR, saved and then moved to an inbox. This worked perfectly. Here is the applescript I cobbled together to do this: try tell application ...

I also heard Automator can do the pdf splitting but I could not get it to function for me....PDF Pen is a scaled down version of Adobe Acrobat for the Mac. http://www.smileonmymac.com

... the logs ("View Log" in the "Info" pane) and see what the actual error is. Since subsequent calls are failing, I wonder if Acrobat threw an error for some other reason.

I have Hazel running an AppleScript on a folder that receives PDF files from a document scanner. The AppleScript launches Adobe Acrobat, runs OCR on the file, saves and closes the document. The problem I'm having with this is that on long documents (more than 8 pages), Hazel issues a Growl ...