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I have a pdf invoice that I download from Mail to Downloads folder in Finder. When I open the invoice in PDF Expert, I can swipe and copy text, which I can paste and recognize elsewhere. However, if I paste into Hazel and run Preview on that document, it comes up red. Since I am direct copy and pasting, I don't suspect a misspelling, but I have tried reducing letters, all the way down to one, and it doesn't work.

If I OCR in FineReader PRO, Hazel recognizes all the same text.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

How about opening the file in Preview (the app, not Hazel)? Do you get the same text as PDFExpert if you copy and paste it?

Thank you for the suggestion.

In Preview, the text is NOT selectable, I cannot copy and paste it.

So its an issue with the PDF, I am guessing, and PDF Expert overcomes it somehow, but unless readable in Preview, I am guessing Hazel cannot read it either.

I think some people have had luck using a program like pdf2text in a script to convert the PDF file. Search around.