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Is is possible to have workflow apply an annotation to the electronic component?

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Updated January 7, 2015

asked on January 6, 2015

I am looking to have workflow apply an annotation to the electronic component of a PDF document. The ultimate goal of this is to remove the document from Laserfiche and keep the metadata as an annotation on the PDF outside of Laserfiche. Is this even possible?

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replied on January 6, 2015

Not out of the box. But you could script it if you find a 3rd party library that can modify PDFs.

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replied on January 7, 2015

Thank you. I am trying to use Laserfiche as a tool for submission and routing of invoices. I want to stamp them with the metadata and then our accounting department wants to pull them out of Laserfiche so that they can link the documents to their accounting system.

I am not familiar with their accounting system or if integration is possible at all, I was just hoping to get this part started. At least this points me in the direction I need to look, thanks!

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replied on January 6, 2015

Workflow can do a few PDF manipulations out of the box with PDF forms such as textbox fill in and marking checkboxes. This may work for you if your PDF can have some fill-able fields.

Outside of that, you would likely need to write some custom code in the Workflow SDK.

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replied on January 7, 2015

My co-worker just came up with a brilliant solution to this problem.

Instead of grabbing the electronic documents, we can just export the images as PDF's. This is actually probably better, since we shouldn't be modifying the document or the annotation, only using it for reference.

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