Imaged Documents

Imaged documents consist of image pages and sometimes associated text. The image pages are generated by scanning physical documents or using a document conversion program such as Laserfiche Snapshot. Laserfiche uses the TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), a non-proprietary file type that can be opened in most image viewing programs. Quick Fields supports TIFF and other image file types.

You can process imaged documents by extracting information from them, such as data from a barcode, whether a feature is marked, or whether the document contains specific text. If an imaged document does not already have text associated with it, you can generate text using OmniPage OCR (Optical Character Recognition). With the appropriate add-on, you can also generate text from only a selected region, or zone, of the document by using OmniPage Zone OCR. The extracted data can be used to fill out document metadata such as document name, folder path, or fields, or to look up additional information from a database. Quick Fields offers many image enhancements designed to refine the appearance of the images and improve the results of Optical Character Recognition and other data extraction process.

You can also add information to imaged documents by using various annotation and stamp process add-ons, including Fixed Annotation, Auto-Annotation, Permanent Stamp, and Bates Numbering.