Re: Scripting Acrobat OCR
Re: Scripting Acrobat OCR
- Subject: Re: Scripting Acrobat OCR
- From: "Chris Johnson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:12:57 -0500
Here are my two scripts:
1. Rule Action:
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages The_Messages
tell application "Mail" to repeat with this_message in
The_Messages
set attachement_file to first mail attachment
of this_message
set attachment_name to name of the first mail
attachment of this_message
save attachement_file in
"Users:cjohnson:Desktop:Scanned and
Recognized Documents:" & attachment_name
end repeat
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
2. Folder Action:
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in these_items
set this_item to item i of these_items
set the item_info to info for this_item
--OCR Commands
activate application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
open this_item
end tell
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Acrobat"
-- GUI Scripting statements:
--Statement 1
click the menu item "Start..." of menu
1 of menu item "Recognize
Text Using OCR" of the menu "Document" of menu bar 1
delay 4
--Statement 2
click radio button "All pages" of group
1 of group 2 of group 1 of
window "Recognize Text"
delay 4
--Statement 3
click button "OK" of group 1 of window
"Recognize Text"
--Save
tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Professional"
save the front document
close the front document
end tell
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end adding folder items to
Any suggestions on making more lean and mean are greatly appreciated.
On 6/15/06, Chris Johnson <email@hidden> wrote:
Hello:
I am new to this list and I'm looking for some help with applescript
and Acrobat.
My office has a copier that scans documents and then emails the
document as a pdf. I would like to create an applescript which takes
the emailed pdf attachment (via an applescript/mail.app rule), opens
Acrobat, performs OCR, and then saves the pdf to a folder on my
desktop as a searchable image pdf.
I have run across two issues.
1. Finding a way to separate the pdf attachment via applescript and mail.app.
2. Accessing the OCR function in Acrobat via applescript. I find no
reference to it anywhere. Maybe there is no way to implement this?
Perhaps another avenue would be to look at engaging the batch function
in Acrobat. I don't see any way to do this either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chris Johnson
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