Image upload

Use the image upload feature to upload a single image for a document record directly in the viewer, without creating a load file or using the Relativity Desktop Client (RDC).

With this feature, you're able to upload the following file types:

GroupIV TIFF
JPEG
PDF

Required security permissions

To use the image upload feature, you must have the following permissions enabled in the Object Security console:

Upload Image
Add Image
Delete Image

An image highlighting the Upload Image, Add Image and Delete Image permissions

Uploading an image

You can upload a single image for a document record directly in the viewer.

To upload an image:

In the viewer, click the file name.
Select Upload images for this document.
In the menu, select the imaging profile you want to use. For more information, see Imaging profiles
In the upload window, select click to select a file to browse for the image, or drag a file from your local machine and drop it into the upload window.

Relativity automatically begins to upload the file after you select it. When the upload is complete, the image appears in the viewer.

Replacing an image

If an image already exists for a document, you can replace it.

To replace an existing image:

In the viewer, click the document name.
Select Replace images for this document.
In the menu, select the imaging profile you want to use.
In the upload window, select click to select a file to browse for the image, or drag a file from your local machine and drop it into the upload window.

Replacing an image replaces the entire document's images, not a single page. For example, uploading a JPG or TIFF file results in one image regardless of how many pages the original document had. Uploading a 5-page PDF file results in 5 images.

Relativity automatically begins to upload the file after you select it. When the upload is complete, the image appears in the viewer.

Warnings and error messages

If you have redacted or added highlights to an image in the viewer and then attempt to upload a new image, a message appears informing you that replacing the image will remove those redactions or highlights.

Replacing an image that has redactions updates the Has Redactions field to No and removes all existing redactions and markup.

An image of the Replace Image window

If you attempt to upload an unsupported file type, you'll receive an error message.

An image of an error message appearing in the Replace Image window

From here, you can click Upload New Image to select a new image to upload.

Audits for image upload

The following audit events are recorded when a user performs image upload actions in the viewer.

Images - Created — The user uploaded an image for a document in the viewer.
Images - Deleted — The user deleted an image from the viewer.