MacOS – How to filter out only searchable PDFs from amid a theriads PDF files

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I have a folder containing only PDF files from amid which some are searchable PDFs (OCR'ed scanned documents). There are almost 6000 PDF files in the folder and I need to filter out (copy/move to another folder) only the searchable ones.

How can I achieve this, please?

Best Answer

Can you just use the finder search, and search for 'the' (or another search term that is guaranteed to be in every searchable pdf). Then just copy those files to another folder.

Just pick a term that doesn't appear in the filenames of the other files.