Dragging and Dropping Text in the Laserfiche Client:
Brian Sabin, February 2006
You can drag and drop text in the Laserfiche Client from the Text pane to the Template pane. This is useful for quickly populating template fields without needing to retype information. For instance, if you wished to store the senders of a set of business letters in a Sender field, you could copy the sender's name from the address block of the OCR’ed letter.
In order to use this feature, you will first need to OCR or extract text from the document in question. Once the document has been OCR’ed, open the document viewer. If the document viewer is not currently displaying the text pane, you will need to open it by selecting Text from the View option on the View menu.
You can select the text you wish to copy in the Text pane and drag it into the relevant template field. This will copy the line of text exactly without moving it. (Note that the template fields can only receive one line of text at a time. If the words you wish to copy are broken onto two lines, you may need to perform the drag and drop copy twice to get all of the words.)
If you are modifying the text in the text pane, this process will actually remove the selected text from the text pane and place it in the template field, effectively acting as a cut and paste rather than copy and paste process. If you wish to simply copy rather than cut the selected text, hold down the CTRL key while dragging the text into the relevant template field.
With multiple document viewers open, you can drag the text from one document's template field into another document's fields. Please note that, in all cases, you will need the appropriate Template Field rights to populate a template.
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