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Auto converting a PDF to a TIF document

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Updated February 25, 2014

asked on April 29, 2013 • Show version history

I have a customer that currently scanning from their MFP's to generate PDF files to import into Laserfiche. Is there any automated activities in Workflow that could be utilized to remove the electronic document, and just leave the generated tif files?

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replied on April 30, 2013 • Show version history

There are a variety of ways you can do this. The simplest way would be to use the Move Pages activity to move the pages generated from the PDF import to a new entry, and then delete the original PDF file. In Workflow, this would look like:

In this Workflow, I start by retrieving the PDF entry that has the TIFF images that I want to move. Then, I create a new document entry for those images. After that, I moves the pages from the PDF entry to the newly created entry. Below are the properties for the Move Pages activity.

Last thing we need to do is delete the original PDF.

Simple as that. You could also configure this to look through all the PDFs in a specific folder. To do that you would need to use the For Each Entry activity as well.

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replied on February 25, 2014

Hi, does this work on the presumption that the PDF was imported through the client and has the page images already ?

What if the PDF was imported through IA, I presume you would want to run Quickfields against it first to generate the page images ?

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replied on February 25, 2014

That's correct. Move Pages only works with image pages.

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