Weblink 11 - Searchable text on TIFF vs PDF

posted on August 3, 2023

I was wondering if the search behavior is different on a TIFF vs PDF or is there something I need to setup to get the same behavior.

ON Tiff that is OCR'ed I get the right behavior right away.

Search the current folder for a word and gives me each page's results. If I click say on page 5. it will load to page 5 and highlight the word, second, if I use the document search that comes with Weblink 11 to search for more words it gives me a list and shows me the page number and when I click on it it will jump to that page.

But when the document is a PDF with OCR'ed text the only feature that works is showing me the search results.

Searching for the word Balboa

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replied on August 3, 2023

Hi Ivan,

With TIFFs (Laserfiche's native format), a text stream is extracted and generated during the Generate Pages process by Laserfiche, allowing you to search for the document text. While a PDF will only be text searchable if it was OCR'd outside of Laserfiche. When the PDF is brought in, the text stream along with it is imported as well (if there is one); however, since PDF is not Laserfiche's native format, it will not bounce you to the page where the text is located. Long story short, if you want this functionality, you will have to Generate Pages and Generate Searchable Text.

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replied on August 3, 2023

I was afraid that would be the answer. Thanks for the information I will pass it along.

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