Workflow gets a PDF page generation activity to schedule and automate process intensive tasks at the server rather than having the client perform it manually.
This is another feature that could be a game changer especially I think, in government. Here are my thoughts.
A PDF file in Laserfiche is great. But in order to take advantage of features like thumbnail view, splitting documents, re-ordering pages or deleting pages - you need to turn PDF files into images. Which is normally no issue, Laserfiche does this easily at the client. But this new features allows this process to be done at the server, not the client. I think this offers many beneficial scenarios for government.
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Scale. You have staff or the public submitting PDF documents at the same time from multiple locations
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24x7. You want inbound PDF files to be processed without human intervention so that you can service clients 24x7, perhaps through an automated workflow process.
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Volume. You have a lot of PDF files to process. Perhaps this was a result of a migration from another system; or you simply had a lot of PDF files archived to your file system.
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Submission from external parties. Bid submissions, engineering reports, and other documents from external parties will nearly always be received in PDF form. These are time consuming to process at the client side.
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PDF files that are not OCRd, but need to be for search and FOI purposes. PDF files received may have a text extraction layer, or not, depending how PD F was were generated. OCRing the document in Laserfiche makes them searchable in even of a FOI request or general search.
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Multifunctional copier scanning can be configured for image format, but they tend to default to PDF and sometimes that is the only option. Scanning as PDF, then converting to pages at the desktop creates a multi-step process that is less than ideal.
How will you use this new capability?
