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rtf to pdf converstion

asked on January 17, 2016

Hi,

 

I have 2000 .rtf extension scanned files I want to convert all in pdf format with searchable text.

and kindly please advise how we can do through laser fiche.

 

Regards

Kirtan

 

 

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replied on January 18, 2016

Hi Kirtan,

Have you already imported the .rtf files into Laserfiche or are they still in a network folder?

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replied on January 18, 2016

Yes i have already imported 50% in laser fiche.

 

Please advise how we can do easy and  fast with laser fiche

 

Regards

kirtan

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replied on January 18, 2016

Hello Kirtan,


You can definitely convert your .rtf files into .pdf formatted files.  Before you can convert your documents into .pdfs you first need to image the document in Laserfiche.  In order to image the document, you can use the generate pages option in the Laserfiche Client, through the “task” option in your menu bar or by using the Laserfiche Snapshot driver.  The documents will be imaged into a .tif format which is the image format Laserfiche normally defaults to since .tifs are non-proprietary and lightweight on the system.  Once the document is in a .tif format you can convert the file into a .pdf by exporting it out of Laserfiche individually or you can apply a custom SDK script to automatically have .tifs converted into .pdfs in the repository.  Here is a link to a discussion describing how you can create a custom SDK script to automate the conversion.

 

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replied on January 18, 2016 Show version history

While what Wesley describes above will work, you will be better off to use Adobe Acrobat to convert the files to PDF if you have a copy of it. This is separate software and does not ship as part of Laserfiche. If you only had a few files to convert, then opening the RTF using MS Word (2007 or later) and then saving as PDF is the best way to convert to PDF, but this is not suitable for a batch conversion.

Wesley's approach using Snapshot works but does not produce the smallest PDFs, and it is not very fast due to the need to perform rasterization of the pages and to pass the data through the multiple layers of the Windows printing subsystem.

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replied on January 18, 2016

Ok all friends thanks for reply.

I will do manually tif to pdf conversion and combine.

 

Regards

Kirtan 

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