Hello,

I have a customer using a 3rd party batch scanning software to create documents in Laserfiche and populate metadata. This other software is creating PDFs, but these documents are involved in workflows that move pages around, and users combine documents, so dealing with these PDFs is cumbersome.

The Laserfiche account that the scanning software uses to authenticate into the repository is configured to generate pages and discard PDFs, but it must not matter - the PDFs get created and no pages get generated automatically. I haven't had much luck getting a response back from the vendor that manages this for them to see if it can store an image file in Laserfiche instead of a PDF.

So, using Laserfiche, I can use the DCC to generate pages, and I have a script that will delete the eletronic document portion of a document (assuming DCC can't discard the PDF when it's done generating pages). Is there a safe way to combine these two things to get this done effectively? For example, I can have a workflow start when these documents get created and schedule them for page generation ASAP - the same user account creates them in the same folder every time, so my starting rule should be able to be very specific, which is good. Then, I see that I can use a starting rule that looks like "entry changes include page created," and that's promising for a workflow that will delete the PDF after pages get generated. I'd probably want to throw a delay into the workflow that deletes the electronic document, just to allow DCC enough time to get all the pages generated before Workflow deletes the PDF. 

Has anyone done something similar with success? I want to be sure this doesn't cause some inconsistent behavior with page generation. 

Thanks!