We have a workflow that will be downloading PDFs from a 3rd party web service and saving them into a folder in Laserfiche like so New Hire-> LastName, FirstName - SSN4. There are around 20 PDFs that will be saved in each folder named like so Date - LastName, FirstName - Personnel. This will of course cause renaming of documents to include (1), (2), etc. at the end of the document name in Laserfiche. I have read that is recommended to use QuickFields to convert PDFs to Tiffs. With that in mind, I need to be able to have QuickFields scan the New Hire folder and it's subfolders (that parts easy). When it comes across PDFs that are named the same at the beginning of the document (without the (1), (2)), to merge those together and store them in Laserfiche. Is there any way to do this using QuickFields?
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How to Merge Only PDFs That Have the Same Beginning Name?
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Assuming you have patternmatching/validation, I would just set the output name to be the input name passed through pattern matching with something like "(.*)\(" after you remove quotes. From there, just make sure they merge all into the same document by Document Class Options > Document merging > Merge Documents Append. Since they will all now have the same name, it should just auto merge them.
Assuming your output folder isn't exactly the same as your input directory, I think it should work just fine, if you use the same folder you may need to do some testing.
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