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M-Files Desktop: OCR JPEG to PDF conversion rotates pages

Last updated on 6 October 2025

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Overview

If you do client-side OCR PDF conversion related to JPG/JPEG files in M-Files Desktop, in some cases it rotates pages and original and converted images are not identical.

Solution

This is known issue CAT-220. You can track it through our release notes.

Workaround

There are three workarounds:

- Workflow and server-side PDF conversion: https://userguide.m-files.com/user-guide/latest/eng/State_actions.html

or

- Client-side PDF conversion: https://userguide.m-files.com/user-guide/latest/eng/making_pdfs_of_existing_objects.html

or

- Do not invoke the conversion for image-only images.
The prompt to 'make the image searchable' (which is the OCR action) is helpful only for scanned texts (documents), it will not do anything for image-only files and may lead to this issue.

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