Comments on: Automate ScanSnap OCR process on your Mac with AppleScript (Snow Leopard Edition)

By: Adam Aronson

Adam Aronson — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:55:55 +0000

Great stuff here! Thanks for the script Tad!

Reading the comments above I see a few people looking for the ability to integrate ScanSnap with FileMaker. Our company has a solution that we’d like to have a few people test for us. If you’re interested please visit our site (http://www.fullcityconsulting.com) and fill out the contact us form. I’ll follow up with you via email. Thanks!

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:11:54 +0000

Converting to Paperless office. Bought Neatworks – software blows… I’m going to use filemaker instead. What would an OCR workflow look like with the above script and fielmaker. At what point can the file inserted into filemaker as a record.. can it be automated as an add-on to your script?

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:56:59 +0000

I should add to the previous comment that I am running ABBYY FineRead for ScanSnap 4.1 which can be downloaded from:

https://store.abbyyusa.com/cgi-bin/dlreg?t=99dZGGhhN5nFUozfAWWE&k=94273683

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:49:36 +0000

I just wanted you to know that your script works perfectly with Mac OS Lion, running on a ScanSnap S500M after downloading the Lion update for the ScanSnap manager at:

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/computing/peripherals/scanners/support/lion_download2.html

Nicely done!

By: AjEG

AjEG — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:03:14 +0000

Is there any chance this script will work with Fuji ScanSnap S1500M, ABBYY FineReader 8 (bundled with scansnap) and FileMaker Pro 11 all on OSX Lion? I’m looking for a way to automate scanning business cards, performing OCR and adding the captured data to a FileMaker database. Just wondering. Thanks.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:07:25 +0000

Is there anyway to make ABBY FineReader for ScanSamp for mac just do the first page of the PDF. When ScanSnap Manager calls FineReader it just OCRs the first page.

Thanks

By: snapscan touch

snapscan touch — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:27:21 +0000

Some time back I published an AppleScript that allows one to The new version of the Abbyy Finereader product does not play well with my original script. . do shell script “/usr/bin/touch \”" & lockFilePath & “\”" ..

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 19:53:29 +0000

I was glad to find this script but it for some reason won’t work on my system. Checking the log it always quits the script with the event “Other script running. Exiting…”. Any suggestions on what I can do to fix this?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:45:56 +0000

Carsten,
Do you know the version number of the latest FineReader for ScanSnap (for Mac)? Any idea where we can find the update that allows the scan queueing you stumbled across? And is the update available to owners of the S510M? I ask because I believe that the most current version of the ScanSnap Manager software is only available to owners of the news S1500M.

By: Carsten

Carsten — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 03:52:42 +0000

Hi Tad,

Thanks for updating the script to work under Snow Leopard with the latest ABBY and Scan Manager. It turns out that your script has been obsoleted by ABBY’s ability to queue scans in the latest version. I discovered this by accident when I dropped several PDFs generated via the ScanSnao S510M. It just works. Also, using the “Scan to PDF” feature of the ScanSnap Manager works as one would expect. One doesn’t need to wait for OCR of one document to be complete before starting the next scan. It’s a wonderful thing after all and now works as it should have from the very beginning.