In today’s digital landscape, organizations rely on efficient document scanning to streamline workflows, enhance searchability, and ensure compliance. Laserfiche Scanning offers powerful page processing tools that automate image cleanup, improve OCR accuracy, and enhance document quality, making document management seamless.
Whether you're digitizing patient records, legal contracts, or financial documents, page processing can significantly reduce manual corrections and improve document clarity. Let’s dive into the essentials of page processing in Laserfiche Scanning and how to leverage its tools for maximum efficiency.
Page processing refers to the automated adjustments applied to scanned images to enhance readability and optimize document recognition. These adjustments include:
✅ Image cleanup – Removing unwanted noise, speckles, and borders
✅ Text enhancement – Improving OCR (Optical Character Recognition) accuracy
✅ Auto-cropping & deskewing – Ensuring pages are properly aligned
✅ Blank page detection & removal – Eliminating unnecessary pages
✅ Barcode & zonal OCR recognition – Extracting critical data for automation
By implementing page processing, organizations can reduce errors, increase productivity, and ensure that scanned documents are optimized for search and retrieval.
Purpose: Improves the readability of scanned documents by removing imperfections.
🔹 Remove speckles and noise – Cleans up dots or artifacts from older documents
🔹 Despeckle and smooth – Enhances the clarity of text-heavy documents
🔹 Invert colors – Converts background colors to improve contrast
📌 Use Case: When scanning historical records with faded ink, image enhancement ensures that text remains legible and can be processed accurately.
Purpose: Ensures scanned pages are aligned properly and cropped to the correct size.
🔹 Auto-cropping – Automatically detects the edges of the document and removes unnecessary margins
🔹 Deskewing – Straightens tilted pages for a cleaner look
🔹 Border removal – Eliminates dark edges from scans
📌 Use Case: If a batch of invoices is scanned at an angle, deskewing ensures they appear properly aligned in the repository.
Purpose: Eliminates unnecessary blank pages from document scans.
🔹 Set a threshold for blank pages – Adjusts sensitivity based on document content
🔹 Dual-sided scanning support – Automatically removes blank back pages from duplex scanning
📌 Use Case: If scanning multi-page medical records, enabling blank page detection ensures only relevant pages are stored.
Purpose: Converts scanned images into text-readable PDFs or TIFF files for easy searching.
🔹 Full-page OCR – Extracts text from entire pages
🔹 Zonal OCR – Targets specific fields (e.g., invoice numbers, patient IDs)
🔹 Multi-language OCR – Recognizes text in multiple languages
📌 Use Case: When scanning contracts, OCR allows users to search for specific clauses or terms directly in Laserfiche.
Purpose: Automates document classification and indexing by extracting key data.
🔹 Barcode recognition – Reads barcodes to separate and index documents
🔹 Zonal OCR – Captures data from specific sections of a document
🔹 Auto-indexing – Populates metadata fields automatically
📌 Use Case: A finance department scanning invoices can use barcode recognition to automatically categorize vendor invoices, reducing manual data entry.
Launch Laserfiche Scanning and load a batch of scanned documents.
Navigate to Page Processing Settings and enable the necessary enhancements (e.g., auto-crop, OCR, blank page removal).
Fine-tune settings based on document quality, scan type, and OCR accuracy needs.
Run a test scan to verify that settings are applied correctly before processing a full batch.
✅ Use a high-quality scanner – Better scan quality reduces reliance on image cleanup tools.
✅ Test OCR accuracy – Run OCR on a sample batch to ensure optimal text recognition.
✅ Enable automatic blank page detection – Saves storage space and keeps repositories organized.
✅ Leverage barcode recognition – Automate document classification for improved efficiency.
✅ Apply batch processing for large volumes – Speeds up document ingestion for high-volume scanning projects.
Page processing in Laserfiche Scanning is a powerful tool that enhances document quality, improves searchability, and automates classification. Whether you're digitizing legal, financial, or healthcare documents, applying these techniques ensures efficiency, accuracy, and compliance.
💡 Are you using page processing in your document workflows? Share your experiences in the comments below!