How can I check all pdfs in several directories/folders to ensure that they are not just "scanned or image-only" pdfs and if any are found, create a report (html file or a text file) with the results.
I understand how to do this with the pdf that I open in Adobe DC but no idea how to do this with actions/scripting etc.
You can do it using JavaScript by counting the number of words in the file. If it's zero, it means it hasn't been OCRed.
The easiest way to output these results is to the JS Console, which you can then open at the end of the process to see the names of the files that were detected.
You can do that by having your Action execute this code:
var totalNumWords = 0;
for (var p=0; p<this.numPages; p++) {
var numWords = this.getPageNumWords(p);
totalNumWords+=numWords;
if (totalNumWords>0) break;
}
if (totalNumWords==0) console.println(this.path);
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