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How can I search for image documents over a specific size, ie more than 100 KB?

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Updated May 14, 2021

asked on July 14, 2016 • Show version history

How can I search for image documents over a specific size, ie more than 100 KB? I have tried the Customize Search for electronic documents, but these are just laserfiche image documents and therefore the search found nothing. I don't see an option similar to this but allowing a search for non-electronic files.

I should add: the reason I'm trying to do this is I need an Advanced Search configuration in order to use Quick Fields to grab the larger documents that just came in as color and change them all over to black and white.

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replied on July 14, 2016

The total document size is not exposed through the search syntax, but {LF:imagesize > 103429} will find documents where any single page has an image > 100KB.

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replied on July 15, 2016 • Show version history

Robert, I saw your search syntax above and thought maybe I could change the search syntax on my Electronic File search, but it didn't work. Then, I decided to try to eliminate everything but what you had and it did work! Thank you so much!

Tried first, but didn't work:

But this worked:

Then, I added back in the date setting, plus a Name selection to eliminate other documents that I didn't want. I got exactly what I wanted for my Quick Fields session. Thanks!

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replied on July 15, 2016

The first search is requiring that the e-doc component also be over a 100KB in addition to the document having an electronic file and image pages over 100KB. Depending on the type of electronic document, it's likely that the electronic part is less than 100KB even though the image pages are larger than 100KB. I think if you close the Electronic File section and only run the advanced search for creation date, extension and image size, you'll get what you wanted.

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replied on July 15, 2016

Miruna, my problem is I cannot see a Customize Search window (Like the Electronic File one) where I can tell it I want a certain image size. Which Customize Search option is it in?

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I think I found it. It's in "Pages", right? But, still not working.

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replied on July 15, 2016

Okay, kept trying. Deleted Search Syntax numerous times and finally one worked!

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replied on July 15, 2016

Right, it wasn't text, it was image.

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replied on July 15, 2016

By the way Connie, the reason you got the search syntax error is that you had 'Include advanced search criteria in query' checked, which meant it was parsing BOTH what you showed in the UI AND the query that was there from the prior search. Just in case you were wondering about the error.

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replied on July 14, 2016

On way i could think of doing this would be to use workflow to create shortcuts in a specified folder with numbering based on their file size. Using search repository you can look for all the files that were recently scanned in and then sort them using additional properties based on Total Document Size

This way in your specified folder whenever you run that BP, you will have shortcuts with largest file on top.

something like this could give you a good start.

Hope it helps.

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replied on July 14, 2016

This is the wrong approach. The total document size can be over 100KB when individual pages are all be black and white.

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replied on July 15, 2016

Problem: Using Roberts suggestion, I was able to search and find just the documents I wanted, but... having used the Search Syntax with a check mark in "Include search syntax in query", it won't let me go back in and add things without wiping out the change I had made. How can I get a search syntax with everything I want? It doesn't like {LF:imagesize > 103429} if I try to add it to something else.

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replied on May 14, 2021

This post and information has helped me immensely in trying to locate (what appear to be) stray documents in our old volume folder within our existing repository (as the Image Size is probably one of the only ways to uniquely identify a document within a Windows folder, since Date Created and/or Modified could have changed if the document was imported again on a future date).

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