Ruby Script Translated PDF Metadata Not Recognized

You are trying to convert a PDF that does not have OCR into a searchable PDF with ScanSnapiX500 software, but it is not recognized as a conversion target.

For reference to the article, Ruby's script converted the metadata "createortool" to "PFU ScanSnap Organizer 4.1.41#S1500", but "State: Not Applicable" as shown in the image below.How can I convert it?

Metadata Conversion Script

require 'rubygems'
require 'mini_exiftool'

# Rewrite the following two lines to fit your environment.
createortool="PFU ScanSnap Organizer 4.1.41#S1500"
path_to_pdf="/Users/kenkiti/Dropbox/Scan Document/**/*.pdf" 

Dir.glob(path_to_pdf)do|f|
  target=MiniExiftool.new(f)
  if target ['CreatorTool']!=creatorTool 
    target ['CreatorTool'] = createortool
    target.save
    puts"#{f}=>#{target['CreatorTool']}" 
  end
end

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2022-09-30 11:27

1 Answers

I don't have ScanSnap at hand, so I can't check it myself, but if you check the items in the file scanned by ScanSnap, you will know the item name to be set to createortool.
Check the item name below.

require 'mini_exiftool'

# Set the path of the scanned file in ScanSnap
path_to_pdf="/Users/**/*.pdf" 

Dir.glob(path_to_pdf)do|f|
  target=MiniExiftool.new(f)
  put target ['CreatorTool']
end

Set the item name to createortool in the original script.

If this doesn't work, the pdf file conditions that can be converted into a searchable PDF are different from those of the original article.Explore the conditions yourself.

2022-09-30 11:27

Ruby Script Translated PDF Metadata Not Recognized

1 Answers

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