Skipping tasks when document is PDF/A

[soenke]

Hello,

I want to perform the following tasks:

- Perform OCR
- Convert to PDF/A
- Rename document


Sometimes I have documents that already are in PDF/A format. For this kind of documents I want to skip the first and second task and only rename the document.

Is that possible?

I tried the option to leave already existing OCR information as they are and skip OCR and continue. But this always results in a permission error.

So how is it possible to OCR a non PDF/A document and skip OCR in a PDF/A document.

Always the documents should be moved to a new folder with an new filename.

Sönke

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello, soenke

i am afraid that it is not possible in a single tool to do so. What you would want to do is configure a "folder monitor" to run this tool, which has the capacity to place the input files in a "processed-output" folder of your choosing.

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This will move those files that were successfully processed, while leaving any which experienced an error in place. Effectively, the ones which failed to process, should all be either PDF/A, or otherwise had some special error case.

Then after running the monitor on the files which needed OCR, you can run a separate tool on any files that remain, which only does the rename process.

I will raise this with the Dev team to see if we can offer a method to either "skip steps that would error, but continue processing later steps" or at least add an action to "move successfully processed input files" to the standard tool actions, instead of leaving it exclusive to the folder monitor feature.

Kind regards,