Is there a way to convert a pdf to a tiff and not have it open in the pdf viewer anymore. I would rather have the icon be the same for each document.
To create the TIFF images from the PDF
Please follow steps 1-4 as suggested in Cameron Moseley's answer: https://answers.laserfiche.com/questions/106046/pdf-to-tiff#106054
To keep both the PDF and the TIFF in the same document, but prefer viewing the TIFF first when the document is opened
In the document viewer, choose View from the menu bar, then Panes, then choose Electronic File.
There is also a keyboard shortcut for it, Ctrl+6.
This is a toggle setting. When it is clicked, the setting is flipped between showing and hiding.
If you look closely, you may notice the light blue border around the icon. This light blue border indicates the current setting.
This setting will be remembered for the current user.
To delete the PDF part of a document, keeping only the TIFF part
Select one or more documents from the folder. Then, choose Tasks from the menu, and click Delete Electronic Files.
Tips
To help see which documents have both TIFF and PDF parts, you can configure the folder column display to show these columns: Page Count, Electronic File Size, and Mime Type.
Starting with Laserfiche 9.1, if recycle bin is enabled in the repository, deleting the electronic file from a document should send the electronic file to the recycle bin.
Depends on the access rights, and how the document is imported into Laserfiche. Our users are set up so that documents are automatically converted to tiff upon import (and the PDF file is not kept).
If someone is uploading PDF's though, there is an option (right click -> convert to laserfiche doc...or something like that). This will convert the PDF pages to tiff pages. You'd then have to have delete access, to then remove the PDF document.
I am an Admin user. Can you show me the steps you take because my system will not reproduce the document as a Tiff, it's stays as a PDF?
I am cleaning up and someone uploaded a ton of documents as PDF's. But I would like them all to be Tiff and have the same format.
There may be a more efficient way of doing this, but this is the way I know of changing PDF files into Laserfiche (tiff) documents. Steps 1 -4, you can probably select multiple documents and do it at once. The other part has to be done document by document.
You may want to look at changing users client settings so that when people drag PDF documents into Laserfiche it does the conversion automatically.
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1) Right click on the PDF document
2) Choose "Generate Pages..." (mid-way down the list of options)
3) Click "OK" on the "Generate Pages" pop-up (shouldn't need to change the options)
4) That creates the Laserfiche (tiff) images.
5) Then Right-Click on the document again, choose "Open..."
6) Choose "Pages"
7) Make sure you have Thumbnails viewable.
8) Select all of the thumbnail pages
9) Right-click, and choose "new document" (this should create a new document containing all of the pages you selected).
10) Now you should have 2 documents - 1 PDF, and 1 Laserfiche (tiff) document, which should contain the same pages / images
11) Delete the PDF.
Cameron you are a rockstar! 