Thanks for the response. We are using the standard Xerox "email to" to merge the PDF's. If we put 10 pages into the document feeder for "1" document, it merges all of them into one PDF when sending to our email as our source.
Thx, DAvid On Sunday, September 3, 2017 at 5:18:55 AM UTC-4, Roberto Rosario wrote: > > I ran the file through the command `pdfinfo` and it reports that the pages > are rotate by 270 degrees. Mayan is adding a 90 degrees rotation > transformation to compensate. However when I view the PDF with xpdf and > evince or extract the PDF pages by hand using pdftoppm or ghoscript, they > are not rotated, they come out straight (portrait). I tried the same with > the PDF you included in issue 387 ( > https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms/issues/387) which also reports a > rotation of 270 degrees. With this document, viewed or extracted pages have > indeed a rotation of 270 degrees and show in landscape format. > > I'm uncertain if the PDF metadata reporting a 270 degrees rotation in the > latest PDF (AUGUST 30 2017 2017-01042.pdf) is incorrect or that the > extraction and viewers tools are all compensating automatically. Both PDF > seem to be produced by the same equipment: Xerox WorkCentre 7845 but the > first document (2016_Pumper_Test_Records.pdf) appears to be single pages > that were later merged using a PDF merge tool. > > More tests using different tools is required to determine which situation > is the correct one: 1) the rotation information is wrong, 2) the tools all > compensate for rotation when extracting images or viewing and it is not > necessary for Mayan to add a transformation, 3) the merge tool used to > compose the first PDF document scrambled the rotation metadata or rotated > the pages without updating the rotation metadata. > > On Friday, September 1, 2017 at 8:21:55 AM UTC-4, David Kornahrens wrote: >> >> Roberto, >> Here is one of the documents. I've noticed they are rotating coming from >> the source (we use printer to IMAP email to pick up the files). >> >> Thanks, >> David >> >> On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 12:05:32 PM UTC-4, David Kornahrens wrote: >>> >>> We are having documents self-rotate themselves 90 degrees and I'm not >>> sure why. I'm having to manually remove the transformations from each >>> document and then resubmit them for OCR. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mayan EDMS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mayan-edms+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
