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Laserfiche Cloud

View text pane in Laserfiche Cloud Web Client?

Laserfiche Cloud Web Client

Updated August 1, 2024

asked on March 20, 2017

I have a Laserfiche Cloud customer who is importing PDFs through Import Agent into Laserfiche Cloud. They have selected the option to extract text, and the PDFs have a valid text stream (can search and highlight text in adobe). When I try to open the pages or electronic file in Laserfiche Cloud Web Client, I cannot find any way to see the text stream to check if it was extracted correctly from the PDF. Is there a way to view the text pane in web access?

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replied on March 20, 2017

You need to uncheck "View PDF" first and then go back into the display options to select "Text"

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replied on March 20, 2017 • Show version history

In the document viewer, click on the "Display Options" button near the upper right corner of the window and select "Text" to show on the screen.

If you just see the "PDF Viewer" then you'll first need to uncheck "View PDF" from the display options before you can choose the view text from those same display options.

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replied on March 20, 2017 • Show version history

Alex,

On this file there is no "Text" option in the dialog box. Does that only appear if the file has pages generated?

In this case we don't want to generate pages for each PDF, just extract and use the native text stream.

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replied on March 20, 2017

You need to uncheck "View PDF" first and then go back into the display options to select "Text"

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replied on March 20, 2017

Thanks Alex!

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replied on April 4, 2017

What happens if this isn't an option? This is what I see:

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replied on April 4, 2017

You are looking a the Folder Browser. If you open up a document you'll see the text pane option.

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replied on April 4, 2017 • Show version history

So text view is no longer available in the preview pane?

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replied on April 6, 2017

Hi Robyn,

It's not currently available in the preview pane, although we are investigating the possibility of showing it in place of images if there are no images to show. Do you have a specific case where it's important to see the text directly in the preview pane? Thanks!

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replied on April 6, 2017

Hi Justin,

Thank you for the response.

For me it would be to ensure that the document has been OCR'd and has legible text. Because the OCR function has greatly improved, when I browse documents and I see that a document's text isn't of high quality, I can re-initiate the "generate searchable text" tool. But I don't want to have to open each record to see if that's the case.

Cheers.

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replied on November 3, 2020

Why don't I see Display Options anywhere to the upper right or on any bar? My version is not out of date 10.4.2.73

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replied on November 4, 2020

They've been replaced with a button. We'll update the documentation.

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replied on August 1, 2024

I can't understand the reason behind making the whole process of performing OCR to a document and seeing the resultant text in web client so cumbersome; excuse me, but it should be almost obvious to a regular user how to do it: push a button->see the result like it is in the windows client.

Generally, Customers praise the usability and intuition packed into Laserfiche products and UI; OCR in Web Client is not the case.

I´m just hoping v12 will be better in this respect; a lot better.

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replied on August 1, 2024

The text found in the pane we are using here is normally just for troubleshooting as an admin or workflow developer, it is really messy and not something I would recommend showing to users. There is a text selection tool at the top menu that allows you to highlight, present and copy the OCRed text in a user friendly way.

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