Oil and Gas Well Logs!! Is there a way to download a document from WebLink in any file format other than .PDF?

asked on February 1, 2024

I'm working with a public entity that gives the public access to Oil and Gas records. Users frequently have the need to download documents from WebLink so they can be analyzed but WebLink always forces the download to be a .PDF. Well Logs are unique in that the page length can literally be a mile long for a single page. Pdf files have a limitation on what they are able to display. If you go to https://public.occ.ok.gov/OGCDWebLink/CustomSearch.aspx?SearchName=OilandGasWellLogsSearch&dbid=0&repo=OCC and perform a search by API Number = 3501926349 you should get 5 results. Try to download the one with DocID of 96356 and you will see the problem.

Does anyone know if there is a way to control the download file type? I want to set up a separate WebLink instance specifically for this type of document but have it set so that downloads will default to the native file format, especially when its native format is .tif

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replied on February 2, 2024

In this example, I am using doc ID 11211787, which I found by doing your search and opened this link: https://public.occ.ok.gov/OGCDWebLink/DocView.aspx?id=11211787&dbid=0&repo=OCC&searchid=556cf941-4720-4b07-a8cd-2021562a8d87

I then reformulated this URL to try to download the electronic file:

https://public.occ.ok.gov/OGCDWebLink/ElectronicFile.aspx?docid=11211787&dbid=0&repo=OCC

Which shows that there is no electronic file associated with this entry. This means that the source of the file is not an electronic file. If the source is a TIFF, WebLink forces images to be downloaded as PDF format, so I do not believe this will be possible...

Unless you run an SDK script to create a copy of the existing TIFF as an electronic file, which seems like it would be a painful solution to your issue and would also require duplicate storage for each of these types of entries. Retain electronic file (TIFF) components when importing - Laserfiche Answers

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