exporting through drag and drop

asked on February 16, 2015

Sorry for my ignorance but I am a bit confused. In the Laserfiche User Guide, it says:

Dragging and dropping documents will not create an exact duplicate of all information contained in those documents, only images, text, and electronic files. Two rules determine what type of content will be exported from a document:

Only an electronic file will be exported from electronic documents; images and text pages associated with an electronic document will not be exported.
If a document has not been associated with an electronic file, images and/or text can be exported from it. When determining which type of file will be exported from a document, images take precedence over text; if you drag and drop to export an imaged document, only the image will be exported. If another page in that document only contains text, a text file will be exported for that page.

I tried exporting to my desktop from Laserfiche Client a few pdf's and word docs with images on them and everything (images and text) were exported. So what does "images and text pages associated with an electronic document will not be exported" exactly mean?

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replied on February 16, 2015

This help page on terminology may be useful. "Image and text pages" refers to Laserfiche image pages and the associated text, which are generated from the electronic file (such as a PDF or Word document).

The content of a document can have several components:

Electronic file
Image pages
Associated text

An electronic file is a PDF, Word doc, Excel doc, etc., and if a document has an electronic file component, the icon for that document will be the icon of the electronic file type.

The image pages are TIFF images that can be generated from the electronic document using Snapshot or by generating pages from a PDF. The image pages can be annotated in Laserfiche, used for thumbnails to give a quick preview of the document, and can be useful when viewing documents in Web Access or WebLink, which do not have embedded PDF viewers. These pages are what is counted by the "Page count" column.

The associated text can be generated from the electronic file, using text extraction or image pages using OCR. Associated text allows you to search the text of a document.

To determine if a document has each of these components, you can try turning on the relevant pane in the Document Viewer. Looking at the icon in the folder browser will also tell you if you have an electronic file component for your document.

What the help files you quoted are saying is this: the electronic file component (original Word document or PDF) of your document is the only part that is exported.

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