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Gisberto Letter

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:27:54 PM8/3/24

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Hi Donald.

Thanks for the scripts...however must be doing something wrong cause the "new pdf file" with the same name doesn't change the "Creator" :-(

I did run some tests to understand what I was doing wrong and the conclusion is: when asked to replace the file for one with the same name, the creator doesn't change...if I choose a different name, then the script works perfectly!

Do you change the name of the new pdf files?

Hi everyone,

Has anyone got this to work with newer software and/or ix500? Changing the creator doesn't seem to be sufficient to open the file anymore. Opening a pdf file with notepad I see there is also a creatortool field as well with some scansnap value in it but that is not supported in pdftk.

Not a big deal to me for a few documents since I can always print a pdf and rescan it, just hate to waste the paper and time. Any ideas would be appreciated. I am new to scansnap so I had not tried this older software.

Given the wide use of ix500 and Scansnap software, it is an aggravation, especially as even downloaded PDFs can't be modified due to this limitation, certainly tied to ABBYY licensing etc.
Having hundreds of PDFs scanned w/ old Neatscan, which I only used to scan direct to PDF and never wasted time w/ their management app, it is hard to believe in this day companies still screw us with proprietary constraints.
Acrobat option under ScanSnap search will work if any PDF was OCR'ed but you also can't tag/use keywords, nor find keywords added under Acrobat with SnapScan Organizer. Jeez.

Hi Jason,

Thanks for your comment.

I'm testing this BeCyPDFMetaEdit.exe, and admittedly, it is nicer as it has a nice GUI.

I successfully get my ScanSnap to accept it using the GUI, but for some reason, if I use the command line / batch mode, it doesn't quite do it. I have to re-open the resulting file with a GUI, and simply "Save" it again (as I note that the creator changes is made properly by the batch file), and then miraculously ScanSnap Organizer accept it.

I need a few more passes at this to see what's the difference.

Donald

Confirmed that editing the "Content Creator" metadata to "PFU ScanSnap Organizer" allows ex-post-facto OCRing by the Searchable PDF Converter app that comes with a SnapScan. This is on a Mac; I used Automator to create a system service that does this with a single click. Easy and straightforward.

Another simple method which works is to scan in a single dummy page using the SnapScan. Open the created pdf file and use 'add pages' to append pages of the actual pdf file of interest to the end. Save the result, which can now be opened and converted into searchable PDF. Essentially, you are providing a first page which really did come from your scanner.

Sad to say, but I tried a few free pdf merging programs, and the ones I tried did not work. Neither does the internal ScanSnap viewer. But, for sure Adobe Acrobat Pro works fine using the 'pages from file' insert tool. Provided you open the true scan file first (one dummy page from your scanner), and then insert the other pages, you can then even immediately delete the 'dummy' page, and save the result. That file can then be converted to searchable pdf via ABBYY through ScanSnap Organizer.

just wanted to say thank you for broaching this subject! been struggling since we have to use a particular scanner at work to attach files to a program yet I like to batch them all and separate them through scan snap organizer(saves me lots of paper handling and time). I was having to use another program called PaperPort but it would auto-save and I would lose a lot of scans as I was separating the batches... this is all I needed.... now to show my less tech savvy coworkers who seem to cringe at change:/