OCR workflow not working

snam24 commented 1 month ago

It's stuck at the embedding stage. I've tried a solution to #7 but it did not help. The output file such as original_filename (ocr).pdf is corrupted and can't be opened. Please see the debug below. When I open up the progress bar with typing ocr on Alfred, the debug goes on and on.

========================================
Workflow Cache Path
========================================
/Users/myname/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/com.zeitlings.ocr
[10:29:18.371] OCR[Debug] Processing complete
[10:29:18.371] OCR[Debug] Passing output 'OCR Failure: Nothing to recognize
' to Play Sound
[10:29:23.292] OCR[Universal Action] Processing complete
[10:29:23.301] OCR[Universal Action] Passing output '/Users/myname/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox/Papers/original_filename.pdf' to Arg and Vars
[10:29:23.303] OCR[Arg and Vars] Processing complete
[10:29:23.304] OCR[Arg and Vars] Passing output '' to Run Script
[10:29:30.701] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:30.718] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:30.725] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "1",
    "prevp" : "0",
    "stop" : "1"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 0 of 24 (50%)",
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "━───────────────────"
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:30.822] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:30.908] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:30.913] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "2",
    "prevp" : "0"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 0 of 24 (50%)",
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "━━──────────────────"
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:31.011] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:31.023] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:31.027] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "0",
    "progress_step" : "3"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 0 of 24 (50%)",
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "━━━─────────────────"
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:31.128] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:31.203] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:31.209] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "━━━━────────────────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 0 of 24 (50%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "4",
    "prevp" : "0"
  }
}
[10:29:31.308] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:31.319] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:31.325] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━──────────────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 0 of 24 (50%)"
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "5",
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "0"
  }
}
[10:29:31.424] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:31.436] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:31.437] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "items" : [
    {
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 0 of 24 (50%)",
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━─────────────",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "0",
    "progress_step" : "6"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:31.541] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:31.616] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:31.622] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 0 of 24 (50%)",
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━━────────────"
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "7",
    "prevp" : "0",
    "stop" : "1"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:31.721] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:31.733] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:31.738] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "8",
    "prevp" : "1",
    "stop" : "1"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━━━───────────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:31.838] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:31.913] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:31.918] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "9",
    "prevp" : "1",
    "stop" : "1"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━━━━──────────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)"
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:32.018] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:32.029] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:32.034] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "10",
    "prevp" : "1",
    "stop" : "1"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━━━━━─────────"
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:32.135] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:32.209] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:32.215] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "11"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━━━━━━────────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:32.314] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:32.389] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:32.395] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "prevp" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "12",
    "stop" : "1"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━━━━━━━───────"
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:32.494] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:32.569] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:32.574] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "13"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "━━━━━━━━━━━━━━──────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:32.675] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:32.750] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:32.754] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "─━━━━━━━━━━━━━━─────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "14",
    "prevp" : "1"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:32.855] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:32.866] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:32.871] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "──━━━━━━━━━━━━━━────",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)"
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "15",
    "prevp" : "1"
  }
}
[10:29:32.971] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:33.046] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:33.051] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "prevp" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "16",
    "stop" : "1"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "───━━━━━━━━━━━━━━───",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:33.152] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:33.226] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:33.231] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "prevp" : "1",
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "17"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "────━━━━━━━━━━━━━━──",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:33.331] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:33.406] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:33.411] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "18",
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "1"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "─────━━━━━━━━━━━━━━─",
      "valid" : false,
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)"
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:33.511] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:33.522] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:33.527] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "──────━━━━━━━━━━━━━━",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)"
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "progress_step" : "19",
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "1"
  }
}
[10:29:33.628] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:33.703] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:33.708] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "───────━━━━━━━━━━━━━",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "prevp" : "1",
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "20"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1
}
[10:29:33.808] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:33.882] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:33.883] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "21",
    "prevp" : "1"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "subtitle" : "────────━━━━━━━━━━━━"
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:33.987] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:34.062] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:34.068] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "─────────━━━━━━━━━━━",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "prevp" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "22",
    "stop" : "1"
  }
}
[10:29:34.167] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:34.242] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:34.246] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 1 of 24 (52%)",
      "subtitle" : "──────────━━━━━━━━━━"
    }
  ],
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "prevp" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "23"
  }
}
[10:29:34.347] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:34.423] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:34.428] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "24",
    "prevp" : "2"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "valid" : false,
      "subtitle" : "───────────━━━━━━━━━",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 2 of 24 (54%)"
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:34.528] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:34.603] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:34.608] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "25",
    "prevp" : "2"
  },
  "rerun" : 0.1,
  "items" : [
    {
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 2 of 24 (54%)",
      "subtitle" : "────────────━━━━━━━━",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ]
}
[10:29:34.708] OCR[Script Filter] Queuing argument '(null)'
[10:29:34.782] OCR[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[10:29:34.788] OCR[Script Filter] {
  "variables" : {
    "stop" : "1",
    "progress_step" : "26",
    "prevp" : "2"
  },
  "items" : [
    {
      "subtitle" : "─────────────━━━━━━━",
      "title" : "Embedding OCR 2 of 24 (54%)",
      "valid" : false
    }
  ],
  "rerun" : 0.1
}

zeitlings commented 1 month ago

Hey @snam24 If clearing the cache files as described in #7 doesn't resolve the issue (/Users/myname/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Data/com.zeitlings.ocr), the problem might be related to the specific document you're trying to perform OCR on.

Is this happening with all PDFs or just specific documents?
If possible, could you share the PDF that's causing the issue? This will allow me to investigate further and potentially identify the root cause.

snam24 commented 1 month ago

Hi @zeitlings,

Thanks for getting back to me. I tried another document and it worked. I guess it's related to the specific files as you said. I'm afraid I cannot upload/share the pdfs on the public space, but you can download them below if you have access. Thanks!

https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/7.1.125 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2946648

zeitlings commented 1 month ago

Hey @snam24 Thanks for sharing that info and providing the sources! I'll definitely take a closer look when I have some time.

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