Summary
Laserfiche 7.1 introduced the ability for basic text retrieval from electronic files without the need to Snapshot and OCR an image of the electronic document. Laserfiche 7.2 and later expands on this capability by adding support for IFilters.
More Information
An IFilter is a Windows tool that Laserfiche can take advantage of when retrieving the text and the properties associated with an electronic file. By default, Windows provides several IFilters that allow you to retrieve text from HTML documents, XML documents, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) files, and Microsoft Office files. In addition to the filters provided by Windows, IFilters for other types of files exist. If you would like to take advantage of one of these IFilters, then you should download and install it. You will also need to close and re-open any open Client instances. Once this has been done, the IFilter will be available to extract text from documents of its type.
IFilters are typically created by the software manufacturer of the application that created the desired file type. Please see the following links for information on where to download IFilters for common file types: