Generate Pages from Electronic Documents

You can generate image and text pages from the electronic files associated with electronic documents in one of two ways: PDF electronic documents can have image pages generated natively from the PDF file (this method can retain PDF annotations) or you can generate pages from any type of document (including, but not limited to, PDF files) by processing them with ClosedLaserfiche Snapshot.

Laserfiche Snapshot is a utility that generates an image and a text file for each page in an electronic file. These images and text files are then stored as pages in a Laserfiche document. Generating images and text files with Snapshot enables users to search and view the contents of electronic documents, even if they do not have the Windows applications needed to open the electronic files.

Important: Using Snapshot on documents already in Laserfiche is only supported with the Laserfiche Windows client. Snapshot cannot be used in this way with the Laserfiche web client. However, using Snapshot as a printer outside of the repository can be used on any computer on which Snapshot is installed, regardless of whether the Client is also installed. In addition, pages generated by Snapshot can be viewed using the Laserfiche web client.

To create an image and text pages from an electronic file

  1. From the folder browser, select one or more electronic documents for which you want to create image and text.
  2. From the Tasks drop-down menu, select Generate Pages.
  3. In the Generate Pages dialog box, you can configure options for page generation and indexing.

    4. Note: This dialog box will not appear (and pages will be immediately generated) if the Don't show this dialog again option was selected from this dialog box. You can change your settings so this dialog box appears from the Reset: Prompts node of the Options dialog box.

    • Under Page Generation, click Options to open the Generate Pages node of the Options dialog box. From here, you can configure settings for generating pages for PDFs and other electronic documents.
    • Under Indexing, select the checkbox to index the text Laserfiche Snapshot generates. You can only run text searches on indexed text.

      • Note: This checkbox is only enabled if automatic text indexing has been turned off. If automatic text indexing is turned on, the text generated by Laserfiche Snapshot is always indexed.

  4. After configuring your desired settings, click OK to generate image and text pages.

To create an image and text pages from an electronic file

  1. From the folder browser, select one or more electronic documents for which you want to create image and text.
  2. From the Tasks menu, select Generate Pages.
  3. The Generating Pages dialog box will open, displaying the status of the page generation.

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