Using the menu items with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard

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#1

I’m trying to write a script using Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard to OCR all the files in a folder. I want to scan into the folder during the day, and have the script OCR the files in the folder with Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard at night. I couldn’t find any reference to character recognition in Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard’s dictionary, so I trying to use the menus. I’ve tried the following without success.

tell application "Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Standard"
	
	tell application "System Events"

		click menu item "Document" of menu bar

		click menu item "Start..." of menu bar item "Recgonize Text Using OCR" of menu item "Document" of menu bar

	end tell
end tell

Model: Macbook
AppleScript: 1.10.6
Browser: Safari 417.9.2
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)

#2

I don’t have acrobat with me, but I think maybe you don’t need system events. Acro (the pro version, at least) has “execute” and a menu item class build in. So you can call menu items from scripts using that. You can run javascripts too, if you’re more familiar with them.

#3

Thanks,

I didn’t know about “execute”. I’ll give it a try

Thanks