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OCR or Grab Text Stream and Generate one txt file for a multiple page document

Workflow Laserfiche Distributed Computing Cluster Capture

Updated May 18, 2015

asked on May 12, 2015

Is is possible to OCR or extract text from a multi page document and have the resulting txt stream be just one text file? Thanks for the help.

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replied on May 15, 2015

Yes, it is possible to extract and combine text from a multi-page document into a single text file upon export. By going into Laserfiche's options (Tools > Options > Export > Text), you can choose to include all pages into one text file:

I hope this helps!

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replied on May 16, 2015

Hi Madison,

Thank you for the reply, but I need this functionality while importing into Laserfiche or Generating text. Manually exporting a text file does not work for this scenario.

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replied on May 18, 2015

Lance - I would think you could accomplish this in a Workflow script activity but I am not sure I completely understand your desired end result.

When do you need access to the concatenated text stream? i.e. Can you use Workflow to create the text stream after import into Laserfiche?
What is the final destination for the concatenated page text? Are you wanting to do a one-time write of the concatenated text out to a file for later use or are you going to dynamically manipulate the concatenated text while it is in a memory stream?
Do you need to determine which page a portion of the concatenated text came from or can the text be one contiguous stream? i.e. Do you need some type of 'page-break' character inserted into the stream on a document page break?

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