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keyword for Identifying pdfs that aren't searchable/indexable?
Authored by: gmehl on Jun 17, '05 11:00:45AM

Hopefully this isn't too far off topic.... but does anyone know if there is a keyword or something else in metadata that indicates whether a PDF file is text searchable? I have a lot of articles that are in pdf format but are images (someone scanned them and then didn't "capture OCR" the text") so they are not searchable with spotlight excepting their filename.

I would love to know if there is a metadata tag somewhere that would aid me in identifying these files so that I could then OCR just these limited number of documents. Applescript anyone?

Thanks,

Garrett



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