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FoxTrot Engineering
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Quote:but on an old iMac that does not reach the spec for doing OCR
I don't think that there is any hardware requirement for macOS's OCR feature.
Quote:Will FTP convert the original scanned documents to OCR-readable documents
Yes, PDF files consisting of images are converted to PDF files consisting of images + text, then FoxTrot updates its index.
You can also convert other image formats (jpg, png…) to PDF with OCRed text.
You can choose to backup the original file as a .zip archive.
Quote:Or does it do some other metadata magic thingy?
No magic, but FoxTrot can add a tag to mark files converted to OCRed PDF.
To find PDF files that do not contain any text, and thus that are good candidates for OCR, see our FAQ
Unfortunately on macOS 14 an exception may occur when using the contextual menu (right-click) on one (or multiple) files; use the action menu from the toolbar instead, until we fix this in the next release.
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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