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Embedding URL's in Weblinks documents

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Updated August 11, 2015

asked on August 7, 2015

I have a government user that embeds URL's in PDF documents. They do this for meeting documents so that they do not have to copy huge reference documents to the meeting packet.

When I import those documents into Laserfiche, I make those documents accessible to Weblinks and convert them to TIFF files. And at that point, the URL link does not work.

Is there a way to do this or a next Laserfiche version fix for this?

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replied on August 7, 2015 • Show version history

TIFF is strictly an image format, so it doesn't support links or any other kind of rich document functionality. You could try to mimic them by e.g. extracting the links' urls and saving them as sticky notes, but it would be quite a bit of integration work and the user experience would not be great. Is there a reason you're not making the original PDFs available?

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replied on August 7, 2015

If we use the original PDF's, would we have search capabilities of the PDF text? What I mean is that if I had the word "Mayor" in the PDF files and I searched across all of my Laserfiche folders, would it be able to find the word "Mayor" in the PDF files or just the TIFF files?

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replied on August 11, 2015

Hi Ray,

Yes. When you import PDF files, Laserfiche will automatically index and capture the text stream to make it text-searchable. TIFF images can also be text-searchable after it's OCR'd. For your scenario, , we would recommend using the original PDF so you can keep the URL functionality and perform a full-text search.

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Embedding URL's in Weblinks documents

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