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10.4: A Finder plug-in to access file metadata
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?
10.4: A Finder plug-in to access file metadata
I don't know if there is, but given your situation it seems pretty irrelevant. If the PDF files are just images, they aren't going to be text-searchable because they have no text.
10.4: A Finder plug-in to access file metadata
I have a feeling there are many academics and students in this situation .... but maybe not yet.
10.4: A Finder plug-in to access file metadata
I have a feeling there are many academics and students in this situation .... but maybe not yet.I'm sorry - I wasn't trying to suggest that your situation is irrelevant. I thought that your goal was to be able to content-search these files, so a flag as to whether they were text-searchable or not seemed irrelevant. Some additional information as to my situation....acrobat has "capture page" which is effectively an OCR of the image... which then becomes searchable text. Also Omnipage will do this.... but given that I have 2000x pdf files (journal articles) that are text searchable, and another 1000 that are just images in pdf format... wondering if there is an underlying metadata tag that indicates whether the documents first 100 words have been indexed by spotlight... if there is that would be great.... I thought it might reside as a metadata tag.... but maybe not.I've tried to figure out a way to search for PDF files that have any searchable text content, but
I've created a bit of a kludge that might get you what you want, but it'll take a while.
10.4: A Finder plug-in to access file metadata
I'm impressed and very thankful. I'll give it a try right now and report back as to whether this works.... quite a workaround! and I really appreciate your effort and creative spirit. I really wish I had any programming background.
10.4: A Finder plug-in to access file metadata
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