Chris,

I see there are two options to Generate Pages as well from PDF using Snapshot Printer the pages generated are much smaller in size compared to default setting on the client. What is the difference there in Tiff Generation ?

I need to figure out a way to delete all pages for PDF's is that feasible without SDK ?

You can generate image and text pages from the electronic files associated with electronic documents in one of two ways: PDF electronic documents can have image pages generated natively from the PDF file (this method can retain PDF annotations) or you can generate pages from any type of document (including, but not limited to, PDF files) by processing them with Snapshot.

Usually people import PDF's, convert them to Tiffs, and delete the PDFs.  But just to confirm, you wish to go find the PDF's that you have generated pages for and delete the tiff images and not the PDF?

That would be correct, need to remove the Tiff's because primarily users open the pdf in native app instead of laserfiche pages.

1 option would be to revert version and delete other versions of the document. But this I cannot automate it seems, looked in Workflow designer did not see any controls for removing versions, or even removing LF Pages from a document. I do not want to go through the 3K pages we processed over the weekend one by one by hand !

I am working on this Workflow, basically i search repository first to find the documents I want and second search will output 1 file only (this will be the dumping file where pages get added to), and using Move Pages  option will move to the second search result found.

Would that be a simple solution ? I am not sure how it impacts the Version control of the file having its pages stripped. I do not want to keep that version where it can revert to that has pages.

This is what I have come up with, too bad there is no easy workflow button that removes Versions of a document, would have made things easier.

Built a working workflow that removes the pages, stores the extracted pages (will delete manually), and deletes the original file (to get rid of its version history). I wish LF developers will add the simple feature/button inside workflow designer to remove version from a file, if it existed I would not have to build this lengthy workflow :(.

Hi Sumeet,

First of all, let's address the root cause here. You're finding that TIFF images are generated for your PDFs, but you don't want TIFF images. If that's the case, you can disable the Generate Laserfiche Pages option upon import.

Make sure that box is unchecked, and you won't automatically have TIFF pages generated. You'll still have the option to generate pages in the system after the fact, if desired.

As for removing the pages that you already have, all of you are right that Workflow is the way to go. It sounds like you've got something that works already, but here's how I would approach this. 

1. Search for PDFs in the system with pages.
2. For each:
   1. Move the original document into a holding folder
   2. Create a blank doc in that holding folder to receive the pages
   3. Move the pages out into the blank document
   4. Duplicate the document and put the new copy back into the original document's path (by having the original document and the new document in separate folders you'll avoid naming conflicts)
3. Delete everything in the holding folder once you're done processing each PDF

Finally, what's the motivation for removing the TIFF images? It sounds like you want to do this because your users primarily  work with PDFs in a native application and not within  the Laserfiche. If that's the case, it's worth noting that by default a PDF (whether it has pages or not) will open up in the Laserfiche Document Viewer. Removing the pages won't change this default behavior. However, a user can always right click on the document and select either 'Edit Electronic File' or 'View Electronic File.' This functionality is there for any electronic document. If you would like to remove the TIFF images for a different, please let us know so we can better understand your situation!

Hey Sumeet,

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