OCR workflow

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I would love to get ocr working for pdf files, and ideally png and jpg files as well. I’m noticing that when I scan documents with iOS 26 iPhone Simple Scan, no action is required - all the text is searchable in Eagle Filer. All good! But for older files, I highlighted a pdf record in eagle filer and ran the OCRmyPDF script, saw a gear, but nothing seems to have changed. Search still doesn’t turn up any results for text that was in the pdf. (script I’m using OCR With OCRmyPDF - EagleFiler AppleScripts ). Let me know if I should troubleshoot that script or move to something like OwlOCR 5, especially if it can be integrated into a workflow and OCR before importing.

Really enjoying Eagle Filer!

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Have you verified that the text layer did get saved into the PDF?

Also, after modifying the file, you need to wait for EagleFiler to reindex it. This should happen automatically if you view it in EagleFiler or reopen the library or wait a few hours for the automatic scan.

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I ended up writing a script to use the OwlOCR 5 CLI and it’s working great…even handwriting. I will use folders OCR-input and OCR-output until I build more confidence then automate the movement of completed files from OCR-Output –> Eagle Filer To Import

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