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Laura, yes, the index.pdf is the PDF you want.  The pdfpage files are
extracted text for indexing;  you might want those also.
--jody

On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Laura Buchholz <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> I'm hoping someone has been through this process and can confirm my guess:
>
> We're migrating from contentDM, and have several collections with items
> that were multipage PDFs loaded with an automatic conversion to contentDM
> compound objects. What those look like in CDM are a .cpd file and several
> .pdfpage files, all of which are text files without the actual PDF content.
> I'm trying to track down what, exactly, we migrate for these items. I can't
> see the originally uploaded PDF anywhere (does it stay in CDM somewhere?),
> and we didn't create preservation copies for many of these.
>
> Does anyone know if I'm correct in thinking that the originally uploaded
> PDF file no longer exists in CDM? Would the thing displayed to users be the
> index.pdf that CDM generates for any compound objects?
>
> Thanks for any info!
> -Laura
>
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> Laura Buchholz
> Digital Projects Librarian
> Library Accessibility Liaison
> Reed College Library
> 503-517-7629
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