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Created April 25, 2012 12:30
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-- stage the files so we can keep scanning
tell application "Finder"
set theFolder to folder "Lion:Users:tjs:Downloads:toProcess:"
set targetFolder to folder "Lion:Users:tjs:Downloads:processing:"
move entire contents of theFolder to targetFolder
end tell
-- Use Acrobat Pro to OCR and optimize. This saves to the folder 'processed'
tell application "System Events"
tell application process "Acrobat"
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro" to activate
click the menu item "OCR This" of menu 1 of menu item "Action Wizard" of the menu "File" of menu bar 1
repeat until exists (window "Action: OCR This")
end repeat
click button "Next" of window "Action: OCR This"
repeat until exists (window "OCR This")
end repeat
click button "Close" of window "OCR This"
end tell
end tell
-- Take all the processed scans and stuff them into ths Evernote inbox
tell application "Finder"
set myfiles to every file of folder "Lion:Users:tjs:Downloads:processed:"
repeat with eachfile in myfiles
tell application "Evernote"
create note from file eachfile as alias title name of eachfile tags "inbox" notebook "inbox"
-- attachments {eachfile as alias}
end tell
delete eachfile as alias
set targetFolder to folder "Lion:Users:tjs:Downloads:processing:"
delete entire contents of targetFolder
end repeat
end tell
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