I couldn’t find any documentation on an automator approach. I searched around the forum for help on this but it seems that a lot of solutions use applescript. The renaming function doesn’t work, perhaps because its a finder function and the new file is inside DTP.I’ve tried controlling this by adding Automator elements that open a specific database and make a particular group active, but that doesn’t work and the pdf’s still go to the last highlighted group in DTP. The resulting pdf’s are moved to whichever DTP group is currently in focus within DTP.I end up with two pdf documents, both have a text layer.This ‘sorta’ works but with the following problems: To test this I created an Automator Service that has the following steps. I indexed a folder external to DTP with the intention of applying the OCR function to the file when seen from the Finder. ![]() Looking at the OCR DTP function in Automator I couldn’t see any way to apply it from within DTP. I should also note that I want to do this without using applescript. However, I’m stuck on a couple of issues. ![]() As the subject line suggests I want to use Automator to move a pdf into DTP, OCR the resulting import and then move the document to a new group with a new name.
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