Choosing a File Format for Exported Images

When exporting images, be sure to choose a file format that is appropriate for the color depth of your image. Choosing to export color images using a black and white format will convert your images to black and white; exporting black and white images using a color/grayscale format may create unnecessarily large files.

The following table lists the file formats and the color depth used by that file format.

File Format	Color Depth
PDF	Color/grayscale/black & white
TIFF Group IV	Black and white
TIFF JPEG	Color/grayscale
BMP Raw	Color/grayscale
JPEG	Color/grayscale
PNG	Color/grayscale
2-color PNG	Black and white (web client only)
TIFF-LZW	Color/grayscale

In the Laserfiche Windows client, you can specify separate default file formats for color/grayscale and black and white documents. In the Laserfiche web client, there is a single default setting for all images. This default setting allows you to specify how you generally want to export , allowing you to quickly export different types of images in appropriate formats. To override the default file format and save all images, regardless of color depth, as a specific format, make a selection under the Save as type option in the Export Images dialog box.

To configure the default file format for exporting images

1. In the Laserfiche Windows client, open the Tools menu and select Options. In the Laserfiche web client, click Settings.
2. Under Export, click Images.
3. Perform one of the following:
• In the Laserfiche Windows client, use the color/grayscale image format drop-down menu to select the default file format that will be used to export color or grayscale images, and the Black & white image format drop-down menu to select the default file format that will be used to export black and white images.
• In the Laserfiche web client, use the Image format drop-down menu to select the default image format for all exported images.
4. Optional: In the Laserfiche Windows client, select the Export dragged images using the selected color format checkbox to use the default color/grayscale image format for any image pages that are exported by dragging the image from Laserfiche and dropping it on your local machine. (This option is not available for the Laserfiche web client.)
5. Optional: Under Annotations and redactions, select Include redactions on exported images to export images with redactions in place and redacted text not visible.

Note: If you do not have the right to see through redactions for this document, redactions will be included automatically.

6. Optional: Select Include all other annotations on exported images to include annotations that are not redactions on the exported images.
7. Optional: Under File format options, select the Export multiple images from a document as a multi-page TIFF file checkbox if you want pages from the same document to be exported together as one multi-page TIFF image file.
8. Optional: Select the Convert annotations in PDF annotations checkbox if you want Laserfiche annotations that have been applied to an image to be converted into the corresponding Adobe PDF annotations when the image is exported as a PDF.
9. Optional: Select When generating PDFs from pages, create as PDF/A-1b to create PDF/A-1b files instead of standard PDF files.

Note: PDF/A-1b files are intended for long-term archiving of documents, but may be larger than standard PDF documents. It does not support some annotation types, which will not be included in the exported file.

10. Optional: To specify the quality level for when exporting a JPEG or a PDF, specify a percentage in the Quality level for JPEG or lossy PDF option.
11. Optional: Select When generating PDFs from pages, use lossless compression to export PDFs without a decrease in image quality.

Note: Selecting the lossless compression option may result in very large files.

12. Click OK.