Sonny Software

Is there a way to set the citekey (ideally with a pre-configured prefix or suffix) as the file name for extracted notes and annotations? If this doesn't work out-of-the-box, could it be done through AppleScript? (Just to be clear, I have little to no experience with AppleScript but would struggle th...

A long update that will only be of interest to people having problems with weird behaviour in their iCloud drive or who need advice about fighting with Apple tech support. I ended up deciding that I really did need to fix this problem, because I found it hugely disconcerting that the folder containi...

I have also not yet found a solution to this! Glad to hear I'm not alone, though.

OK, that's what I'll do. I also ran another interesting test. I OCR'd a document using ocrmypdf on my raspberry pi. Then I imported it into Bookends and highlighted it. This instantly corrupted the text layer.

Yet more testing reveals that if I confine myself to highlighting outside of Bookends, the PDF text layer stays intact. It is clear that PDFkit problems persist, but I would like to find a way of making sure that any PDFs in Bookends are not in danger of being inadvertently corrupted. It only takes ...

Bad news. FineReader does not fix anything. I even saved a PDF as JPGs. Assembling and OCRing in FineReader worked fine, but the text layer immediately got corrupted in Bookends.

I am currently doing more testing to see if I can fix this with FineReader, but the fact that I might have to do this for everything I download (since I can't know how the OCRing was performed) represents a very serious problem.

I did more testing, and it's actually worse than I thought. It is not only a problem with PDFs that I have OCRd myself. I downloaded an article that was already OCRd from a database, imported it into Bookends, and then highlighted a passage. Although the text was initially perfectly visible in the n...

I am just reporting back that this problem still persists. I just took a corrupted document, saved it as .JPGs, and OCR'd it using Acrobat Pro 2017. I then highlighted some text in Bookends. The text layer was immediately corrupted. So I have to stick to FineReader for OCR'ing.

Here is a brief update. I ended up just moving my files into the misnamed iMovie folder in the cloud, and everything is syncing fine on two computers and to my iPad. When I go to icloud.com, the folder is called Bookends and has the right icon, but on my computers, it is still called iMovie (it is a...

I have been struggling for far too long to set up iCloud sync. I have scrupulously followed the instructions in the user guide, but I cannot get the Bookends folder to appear in the iCloud Drive folder on my Mac (running Catalina), so I can't move my attachment files there. The Bookends folder is vi...

Crossing my fingers for Catalina! In the meantime, I found a temporary fix to make sure more PDFs don't lose their text layer. I do not pretend to know why this works, and I found it through random poking around. But if I take the documents that I originally OCR'd with Adobe Acrobat and re-OCR them ...

Thanks edwinc for confirming that this is happening. Now if we could only get a solution!
Annette

I'll do some testing in the next few days (perhaps a week) and report back on this thread. If I'm the only one with this problem, then I suspect it has something to do with the precise way that I'm getting from JPGs to an OCR'd PDF. I'll have to be more systematic about testing. I agree with joao th...

Then I remain baffled. If you have any suggestions for message boards I could visit that might explain this to me, I'd be grateful. My various search terms are not turning up very much.