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LF Web Client - Edit PDFs online like MS online - is it possible?

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asked two days ago

Hello,

Our business is planning a future move to Laserfiche Cloud, and one challenge I've encountered is the limited ability to edit PDFs online. While the Laserfiche Web Client does offer some annotation features, it lacks key capabilities found in native PDF applications (without using forms/workflows) — such as signing, splitting, merging, and advanced editing.

I haven’t done extensive research yet, but I haven’t come across much information online addressing this gap.

Is this a common limitation others have faced? Or is there a PDF solution out there that integrates with Laserfiche and offers a similar experience to what Microsoft Office Online provides for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

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replied two days ago

As far as I can tell, the native entry editing features of the web client do not allow editing PDFs at all (even though it may appear that way). You can move/copy pages between entries, but you are not actually editing the PDF. You are instead moving/copying TIFs of the pages that were generated.

That said, if you are viewing the file (not the pages), you may be able to edit the PDF using the Adobe Acrobat browser integration as mentioned here. I am using LF12 and it does not appear to work for me as shown in that post, so I'm not sure if that still works.

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replied one day ago

Thanks Kevin, I've come across a few tools since submitting the post that have the potential to integrate with the web client in regards to editing PDF's online, I suppose I'm hoping someone has already achieved this to provide some guidance or comment on their experience.

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