Chars copied from a pdf changes when pasting into 'Plain document'
A technical note: The words you see in the document don’t exist before OCR, except in your mind. It’s a picture of words. OCR is never 100% accurate and there is no perfect OCR engine. That being...
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Chars copied from a pdf changes when pasting into 'Plain document'
Yes - I remind myself that this is the case: no words but pictures of words. However, this happens only with some OCR-ed files. Others seem to be OK. It is not scanned texts (by me), but downloaded...
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How can I restrict and redo the duplicates smart group?
After removing everything that isn’t documents or files, etc. I now have these three databases. Quick inspection says that the duplicates have a lot of false positives, but I’ll need to clear out the...
View ArticleChars copied from a pdf changes when pasting into 'Plain document'
Can you ZIP a problematic PDF, then start a support ticket and atrach the PDF for us to inspect? Thanks!
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How can I restrict and redo the duplicates smart group?
dixonge: After removing everything that isn’t documents or files, etc Removed how? If in DEVONthink, they’d be in the databases’ Trash. The Trash needs to be emptied as that’s a location in each...
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Last document at DTTG start
Whenever I start DTTG after a pause it starts with no selected document: Is this the normal behaviour? I would prefer DTTG to start with the last document on the last page I’ve read. DTTG does this,...
View ArticleExperiences from using Excel documents from within
Thanks for the info. Perhaps, this was the problem I had … I “inherited” a number of files that was first created in the late -90s (I’m told) and I have moved them from .xls to .xlsx. It kind of make...
View ArticleMost sites not searched with code "Disallowed"
I can’t speak to GitHub or Medium, but the Wikipedia plugin still works perfectly for me. When you say sites return “Disallowed”, is that in the error column under the Log tab? (I don’t think I’ve...
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Most sites not searched with code "Disallowed"
You aren’t reporting default behavior here. Did you try creating your own plugin? Are you using a search set? If so, which one? If not a built-in one, select it in Search Sets, open the action menu...
View ArticleTag naming strategy
Thanks. Choosing Excluding from tagging for the tag groups provided what I needed. I want to group the tags to provide some visual organization for my tags.
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Show last document at start of DTTG
Oh, I missed this thread: DTTG 3.8 does not remember pdf page where I left off DEVONthink To Go Neither on iPad Pro (17.2) nor on iPhone 15 Plus (17.2) Seems to be fixed soon. Great!
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I’ll be honest, as a former IT career guy, I’m not big on manuals. Any tool that requires reading manuals to avoid losing data is not intuitive enough for me. Reading manuals reminds me of work, and I...
View Article? About possible migration to Devonthink Pro
Thanks very much! I will definitely be giving it a trial.
View ArticleDEVONTHINK + v1:Obsidian or v2:iAWriter or v3:Bear
I heavily use DT+BEAR. Here it goes: Files are indexed in DT. Sort-of PARA organization. The “second brain” (yeah right) is in BEAR. I have my 10.000+ notes there, with a lot of inter-linking wiki...
View ArticleHow can I restrict and redo the duplicates smart group?
You’re welcome. Indexing is a very useful function but it certainly needs to be understood and thoughtfully considered. Enjoy the rest of the week!
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Chars copied from a pdf changes when pasting into 'Plain document'
Try this Shortcut to “extract” text from a selected area of the screen, utilizing one of macOS’s built-in services. From my experience working with Chinese text, this shortcut always gives better...
View ArticleUse of tabs - HowTo?
I hear you @ipanini and I strongly plea for changing the tab philosophy to the way it works in the finder and in all other apps. At this very moment I am typing ⌘-D to get an exact copy of this window...
View ArticleTabs like in Finder
Hi @pete31 and @BLUEFROG. One year later and I am on the verge of quitting DevonThink because of this tab thing. And I am not the only one dissatisfied with the state of tabs in DevonThink. @BLUEFROG...
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Use of tabs - HowTo?
hansdorsch: DevonThink has so many options (too many probably), so just give us the option to get tabs like we want it. “us”? For me, DT behaves like most other apps: one tab, one document. The Finder...
View ArticleJXA error with app.move()
I’m creating a smart rule that performs a series of checks on incoming PDF files into the inbox and processes them accordingly. I’m writing a JXA script to do the processing. One of the tasks is...
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