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Does the Laserfiche Image Converter app still require installation ONLY on an 8.1 Laserfiche Workstation?

Updated May 15, 2017

asked on May 15, 2017

Needing to test this for converting color TIFF scans to B&W TIFF. I've got PhotoDocs working well, but wondering if the Image Converter app will work better or improve the process.

Installed the Image Converter software on a Win7 10.2.1 Client, but getting a 80040154 error when I run it.

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replied on May 15, 2017

That tool works better than photo docs. The algorithm for B/W conversion is too aggressive and ends up taking a chunk out of our company logo and other blocks that are important on various pages.

You can also use Quick fields to convert images to B&W.

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replied on May 15, 2017

Kenny, thanks for chipping in here, as I know from your previous posts that you've spent a lot of time working with these apps. Appears I have to dig up an 8.1 Client installation file and try the Laserfiche Image Converter on that. But, your suggestion about Quick Fields is my first avenue of pursuit.

Finding that PhotoDocs works great! I've got it running with ONLY conversion to Black and White indicated. I'm seeing about 1400 pages per hour. Have a 51,000 page batch in process that's taken about 32 hours to run so far, with less than 10% remaining. Averaging @ 4 seconds per image. No image squishing or wavey results at 85% compression.

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replied on May 15, 2017

Did you see that the utility has dependencies on the LF Client 8.1.x?

See Converting Grayscale and Color Images With the Laserfiche Image Converter Utility for full details.

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replied on May 15, 2017

Bert, thanks for your response. Yep - that dependency clause is why I asked if that still was the situation where it had to be on an LF Client 8.1 - WHY hasn't it been upgraded to work with current versions?

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replied on May 15, 2017

Here is the explanation to why they have not upgraded the utility. It was cut from the old Laserfiche Forums.

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replied on May 15, 2017

Bert, thanks for the explanatory reference! At this point, I've tested Quick Fields 10.2 with some samples, and it looks incredibly fast. You have to point to a folder, and can grab sub-folders. It doesn't work on Search results, though. So the methodology has to be folder based universal capture. For example, I've got a folder with @ 800 sub-folders housing 162,000 pages in 3660 docs. I would point to the top level folder, and QF would then process EVERY sub-folder. There's no way to grab a smaller chunk. I'm going to try it overnight on a top level folder with 22,000 pages and get an estimate on throughput.

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Does the Laserfiche Image Converter app still require installation ONLY on an 8.1 Laserfiche Workstation?

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