Using clipboard as token

Hello there,
I'm running an OCR script on an images folder. It copies the result to the Clipboard.
I wonder if there is way to edit the comment of the file with my clipboard result?

That's not doable unless you are using a script. It's also not a good idea to use the clipboard for this. Can you describe in more detail what you are trying to do?

I download images in a folder.
i want to OCR every image in the folder and automatically apply the OCR text to the comment section of the file like shown in the screenshot.
https://cln.sh/vcEb

You want to apply the whole text of the document to the comments? Hopefully that content is short.

You want to use match patterns in this case. Look them up in the manual. Use a custom attribute to grab all the text and use that attribute in an Add Comment action.

Hi,

I'm new to this software. I'm searching for a way to add the clipboard content to a file name. What I would like to do is :

- When a file is saved in a watched folder, it is renamed to "Clipboard content" - "Original name of the file".jpg, for example.

I'm trying to find a way to do it but not sure if one of the tokens can do this from what I saw.

Why I want to do that? Let's say I shoot multiple people and I have a list. I would like to send the files via iPad to my home computed and that the watched folder on the home computer renames it with the name of the person in the photo. Of course, I'll have to find a way to share the clipboard content remotely from iPad, but that is not my concern for now.

If I wanted to shoot with a tethered laptop, I could do it directly in Capture One as they have a clipboard content token. But I don't have laptop so trying to find a way to do it another way.

Have you tried the suggestions above?

Mr_Noodle wrote:Have you tried the suggestions above?

Thank you for the suggestion. I just did. But I'm sorry, I'm not that good. The content I want to paste at the beginning of the file name will be copied from a website and not a file. It seems like the matched patterns need it to be from a file?

I might not even be at the same location as my computer when I do, so I'll need to figure out how to use a universal clipboard from iPad to my remote Mac, too, but that is another story and I'm pretty sure I can figure it out.

Do you think I would I would need to use a script for that?

EDIT : I think I am close as I can create and automator quick action "Get clipboard content" but I'm still trying to figure out how to put it in front of the name of the file in Hazel

You need to use AppleScript to deal with the clipboard. You can export custom attributes from AppleScript back to Hazel and then use that custom attribute in patterns in Hazel.