How to stop scanning already scanned pdfs in action wizard

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hi, so i use the action wizard to perform a batch action that involves searching and redacting certain text. Unfortunately, the process takes over an hour due to the time it takes scanning these large documents (range from 7 to 380 pages). it displays a message saying "preparing for reading". i understand doing this to be able to detect the keywords the first time over, but all of these documents consist of text able to be manually highlighted and were most likely already scanned before. There should be no preparation needed to read them Is there any way to get rid of this step in the process?

try67 · Accepted Answer

If there is readable text in the files it won't run Text Recognition on them again.

If it's doing so, it means no text is detected.

You can create a separate Action that only runs Text Recognition on the files (and saves them!), to avoid having it run again when you try to redact them.

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