Laserfiche Snapshot generates images and text pages from an electronic file by printing the file as one or more TIFF images and extracting text from the file. This creates a static image version of the electronic document, which can then be used for archival purposes or to make the document searchable. The image and text pages generated in this fashion are stored in the Laserfiche repository, and therefore can be assigned any of the annotations or metadata available to documents. They can also be viewed without needing to have or open the native application for the file.
Snapshot can process any electronic file that can be opened with a Windows application with printing capabilities. For each print job, you can configure the paper size, color format, and other properties used to generate images. You can also set the properties (e.g., location, name, field data, etc.) for the Laserfiche document to be created from the pages. Additionally, the text extracted from the electronic file will be immediately indexed, which makes documents created by Snapshot immediately retrievable by full-text search.