Odyssey Manager Built-in PDF Processing
Odyssey Manager now merges cover sheets, combines PDFs, and converts TIFFs to PDF on its own, replacing the external AtlasPDF tool. The built-in version handles cases the old tool struggled with — multi-page Group 4 TIFFs, correct page sizing for scanned documents based on their DPI, and large scans (40+ pages at 300 DPI) without heavy memory use.
Cover sheets
Before delivery, the service merges a configured cover sheet in front of the document. Which cover sheet it uses comes from customization keys:
- Document Delivery deliveries use
DocDelPDFCoverSheetLocationandDocDelPDFCoverSheetFileName. - All other deliveries use
OdysseyPDFCoverSheetLocationandOdysseyPDFCoverSheetFileName.
If a configured cover-sheet pair points at a file that isn't there, the document simply delivers without a cover sheet. If neither pair is set, the service falls back to a fixed legacy path (C:\ILLiad\ElecDel\coversheet.pdf). The page count reported for the request leaves out the cover sheet.
Don't rely on the legacy hardcoded fallback path — it points at a fixed location that may not exist. Set the cover-sheet customization keys so the right cover sheet is always used; otherwise documents deliver without one.
Accessibility preservation
When a cover sheet is added, the merge keeps the source document's accessibility features rather than discarding them: its tagged-PDF structure, its primary language, and its title carry through to the merged file, and the title is set so assistive technology announces it. The service also copies over the document's other details (author, subject, keywords, and so on) as a best-effort step.
If any of it can't be applied, that step is skipped and delivery still completes normally. When there's no cover sheet, the source PDF passes through unchanged.
OCR makes a document's text searchable — it doesn't, on its own, make the document accessible. Accessibility preservation is a separate feature: it carries the source document's tags, language, and title through the cover-sheet merge. Running OCR on a document (or its cover sheet) does not add those accessibility features.