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PDF vs TIFF for general documents

Version 9 Laserfiche Scanning
Updated June 23, 2014
asked on June 23, 2014

In LF 7, we standardized with TIFF documents because PDF files opened up in the context of Adobe Acrobat and did NOT allow for management of metadata like annotations, redactions, etc.  In LF 9 (RIO), PDFs seem to act much like TIFF in LF.

 

So my questions is what are the pros and cons of using PDFs vs TIFF now?

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replied on June 23, 2014

PDFs open up in the document viewer, but it doesn't have the full functionality of the Laserfiche imaged documents using TIFFs. For example, you can't open context hits directly to the specific word on PDFs and you can't do annotations unless you have a full copy of Acrobat (and then they also aren't necessarily known by the Laserfiche Server for searching). Basically, support for when PDFs have to be used has been improved, but it shouldn't be considered a substitute when you have control over the image type, especially since you can use the new native PDF to image page generation functionality in the desktop Client and Web Access to easily convert PDFs to image pages. 

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replied on June 23, 2014

Thanks.  For some reason, I thought I saw annotation capabilities when I first noticed that PDFs now open up in the LF viewer.  I must have gotten too excited.

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replied on June 23, 2014

Perhaps you saw the pages generated from the PDF - they look basically exactly like the PDF but are still fundamentally TIFFs. You can tell based on if you are in the 'image' pane or 'electronic file' pane in the document viewer.

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replied on June 23, 2014

Does that mean that for every PDF that I import into Laserfiche, a TIFF counterpart is generated, taking up extra space on our server?

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replied on June 23, 2014

Only if you choose for that to be the behavior. You can disable that, or you can enable it but choose to not keep the original PDFs. More information can be found at: http://www.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/Laserfiche/9.1/en-US/UserGuide/Laserfiche_Client.htm#AddingContent/Importing_Electronic_Files.htm

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replied on June 23, 2014

Also, you should also keep in mind that when using PDF, the whole file must be sent to the client before it can be opened.  For large documents, this can create client slowness as well as potential network bottlenecks.  With the TIFF, you are only transferring 1 page at a time rather than the whole document.

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