Hi Tess,

The forms process is capturing contract data as well as its uploaded supporting documents which then invokes a workflow to update a necessary structured word document with the data from forms. After updating the word document it is converted to a PDF so it cannot be modified and can be used for signing. Before that occurs the uploaded supporting documents on the form need to be merged with the converted PDF as well so it can be sent as a single document. Currently, the attachments on the form have the pages generated when saved to the repository but it cannot be merged with the converted PDF as it just exists as an electronic file.

Hope this helps with identifying what some potential viable options are for deployment in the cloud platform.

Thanks and look forward to new updates.

Thank you so much for the additional context. One follow-up question: if it were possible to merge certain pages from multiple PDFs into one larger PDF without  first converting them to TIFFs, would that be an acceptable alternate solution for your use case? 

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For our use case, being able to merge PDFs without needing pages/TIFFs generated would mostly solve the problem. The other advantage of TIFFs is that cloud content generation (OCRing) runs only on TIFFs and not PDFs. This might not be an issue though as long as the PDFs generated by workflow are already text searchable. 

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For our use case, being able to merge pages into a single PDF without converting to TIFFs first should be fine. I have the same sentiment as @████████ where with the current Cloud platform TIFFs have an advantage with OCR generation. There is also the ability in which Laserfiche handles TIFFs natively. In this use case, the document would be a final document so there's no problem. In situations where documents may need pages generated to annotate, that may become an issue. Manually generating pages could be a workaround unless an annotation needs to be applied within the process. Just something to think about during development.

Thanks again for everyone's thoughts and attention.

Hi Tessa,

I just wanted to check in if this feature was still in development or planned for release at some point? Our use case would benefit from either Word->TIFF or PDF->TIFF, enabling direct Word->TIFF would save a step, but as Word docs can be changed to PDF's PDF->TIFF would be a more encompassing solution.

Thanks!

Josh