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Generate pages for a PDF uploaded via a form

asked on July 1, 2016

Is there a way to automatically generate pages when a PDF is uploaded from a form into a Laserfiche folder?  I know if I change the Option settings to generate pages and discard the PDF and then drag a PDF into a LF folder the result is a TIF file.  Just what I want.  Using this logic I logged into Laserfiche as the LF-Forms user and made the same settings changes.  If I drag a PDF into a folder logged in as the form user I get the result I want but when I open a form and upload a PDF as an attachment to the form - it doesn't generate the pages when it creates the uploaded document in LF.  I take it - it's not looking at the client settings when it's importing the PDF.

I read something about using QuickFields to accomplish this - is this using QF10?

Any suggests would be greatly appreciated.

Sandy 

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replied on July 1, 2016 Show version history

Hi Sandy,

Currently page generation on saving a PDF form to a Laserfiche repository is not an implemented feature; note that settings for page generation in the Client or in Web Access are specific to documents imported through the respective application. That being said, in the Save to Repository service task you can instead save the form as a TIF image instead of a PDF file, as that seems to be your end-goal. (cf. attachment SaveAsTIFF.png)

With respect to Quick Fields, you could use Quick Fields to scan in PDF files from the repository as a batch using the Laserfiche Capture Engine scan source (which is not available in LF Scanning) but (1) this is not automated, and (2) this is a lot of overhead just for generating pages, as you would be effectively creating a brand-new entry, so you'd have to handle dealing with the old PDFs, copying over any saved metadata, etc.

Hope this helps!

UPDATE: Upon reflection, you could automate the Quick Fields method using Quick Fields Agent to monitor a location and set up sessions to direct to new save locations based on for example Forms field data. The former caveats of handling the original PDF and re-assigning any metadata saved to the PDF entry would still apply. You would not need to upgrade to Quick Fields 10 for this approach.

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replied on July 12, 2016

James - thanks for your response.  However the issue is the attachments to the form not the form itself that I need saved as TIF images so I can combine them.  I don't see that as an option, unless I missed something.  I guess I'll just have to insert a manual process and have someone snapshot everything.

 

Thanks again for your help!

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