PDFPen Alternative

No worries! In Hazel, on the folder that I dump scanned documents into, I just have a rule called ‘OCR any PDFs’ as follows:

The first embedded script is just this:

The second script is just a sleep command that I must have put in to debug at some point. You can ignore that.

Then once the PDF has been OCRed, I run other Hazel rules on it to look for embedded text and perform actions. For example, for receipts I save when paying my credit card:

Hope this helps!
Cheers.

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