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OCR mail attachment

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In your opinion, what's the best/cleanest way to OCR mail-attachments (TIF files from MFC device) that are imported through an external mail source. So, just an e-mail with a tif-file that need to be indexed.

While the External File Import source has the option to OCR the files that are being imported, the mail connector does not have such thing.

We can use a workflow action to OCR, but this seems to have an unpredictable result where OCR isn't performed as it should, it only creates a PDF, but not a searchable one.

I want to prevent that we have to create a solution where mail source imports have to be downloaded/extreacted by an event handler to a file system folder to be imported again in a regular external file import job, it's a bit cumbersome.
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  • There is no function in M-Files API to check if a PDF is already searchable. What you could do programmatically is to check if the PDF file contains strings like "FontName", that typically indicates that a PDF is searchable.


    Bit of of a thread drift but I'm sure this has been already been discussed multiple times here - it wold be a very welcome addition (ideally a built in property "is searchable").
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  • There is no function in M-Files API to check if a PDF is already searchable. What you could do programmatically is to check if the PDF file contains strings like "FontName", that typically indicates that a PDF is searchable.


    Bit of of a thread drift but I'm sure this has been already been discussed multiple times here - it wold be a very welcome addition (ideally a built in property "is searchable").
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