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Hi,

I have tried to implement a workflow in Hazel where I watch a folder and OCR the content.

I have tried to modify the AppleScript using this script from Katie Floyd:
http://katiefloyd.me/blog/automatically ... and-pdfpen

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tell application "FineReader"
   open theFile as alias
   tell document 1
      ocr
      repeat
         delay 1
      end repeat
      delay 1
      close with saving
   end tell
   tell application "FineReader"
      quit
   end tell
end tell

The Hazel rule is as following watching the download folder:
If all extensions is pdf
Color label is not blue
Then Run AppleScript
Set color label to blue

At first the script opens FineReader and starts to OCR the pdfs, but the I get AppleScript failed message.

Can anyone help?

Check the logs. Go to the "Info" pane and click "View Log" and look for the AppleScript error and post it here.

It appears the script timed out. I'm guessing it took too long to do the scan? Unfortunately, there's no way to adjust the timeout on Hazel's end. Maybe you can look up some way to hand things off to FineReader and then return immediately so Hazel isn't left waiting?

I know this is an old post. I just wanted it solved, as I faced a similar problem.

I had similar problems using AppleScript to move files that were too big and took many minutes to conclude.

There is an easy solution for this. You need to change the timeout expected for the event just like this simple code:

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with timeout of 300 seconds
 -- code that takes up to 300 seconds
end timeout

Of course you can change it for the amount of time you desire. In my case, I calculated the expected transfer time using file size... but you can use it with any arbitrary number of seconds that you think it will be enough.

Source: http://www.filemaker.com/help/12/fmp/ht ... 13.16.html