Adding Comments to Items Selected in the Finder

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You can use KM to add a comment:

Add Comment to a File -- Desktop/Finder/PathFinder

You can set a comment on a file using the Set File Attribute action. [image] Use the Prompt for User Input action to get the comment, and see the Working with the Finder Selection topic for working with the Finder's selection.

Or use part of this macro:

OCR to File Comment Possible?

Two things: You can reference exiftool directly without changing your environment path by using /usr/local/bin/exiftool instead of exiftool in the script. Exiftool writes to the Comment tag in the Exif header of the image, not to the Finder's commend field. So Cmd-I will not show the text but using Exiftool to read the Exif header tags will. This version of Jimmy's macro writes to the File Attribute rather than the Exif header tag: OCR image and save text to comment in file.kmmacros (2…