Release Notes

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Version 7

v7.2026.7.1

  • Added "Exclude Table Data from Settings Backup" toggle flag to Transformations tables (where they don't have an external source. Doesn't import table data to a client's machine.

v7.2026.06.15

  • Fixed file not found during settings update.

v7.2026.04.30

  • Fixed adding unused doclass fields missing from contextual menu.

v7.2026.04.21

  • Fixed save messes up ADR zones after zone remove.
  • Upgraded ExcelDataReader.dll + ExcelDataReader.DataSet.dll to 3.8.0.

v7.2026.04.17

  • Changed USAddressParser to parse Spanish style addresses
  • Issue with Origami code displaying Unknown function or variable warning in Origami script editor

v7.2026.4.14

  • New collection method: CheckedOptionBox Retrieves label values from the zone for positively checked boxes (using InnerRow = "?" as delimiter).
  • EmbeddedGraphicBox Retrieves zone text embedding every checkbox values as string (using [true] or [false] placeholders).
  • Added a new wizard in DI asking either for a license badge or a settings badge.
  • Possibility to edit license badge in deployment tab for future deployment. It will replace the one found in license files in deployment folder, it will not replace anything installed.
  • Fixed issue opening some files in DataZoneForm.

v7.2026.3.24

  • Deployment feature is available for OiCMachine. User can now define files that will be copied to client machine destination path on import.
  • Backup and publish feature available for users with SettingsManager installed in C:ProgramFilesO Imaging Corporation.
  • Issue with combo box selection in single field value in DI.

v7.2026.3.3

  • Table start and end anchors can now be multi-valued using "|" pipe character as delimiter.

v7.2026.3.2

  • Upgrade to Origami 1.6.6
  • OCR is now available.
  • OCR activation not working with true in PDFDataNetService.xml file.
  • OCR working correctly in DI.
  • Escape row delimiter are now available in PDN configurator for JSON export, true by default.
  • Error in empty row computation.

v7.2026.1.30

  • Application Tab: Only one groupbox available.
  • Auto update badge text box available.
  • Set culture will change it in settings and make the application restart.
  • Without a badge set, creating a backup will change the current settings name to the backup name.
  • Fixed bug where if installing from scratch it doesn't allow you to start-up Document Indexing.

v7.2026.01.23

  • Fixed issue with backup feature not exporting doc classes correctly.
  • Issue with new version settings not working on older version due to missing field prompt.
    Settings Backup will automatically default any empty Prompt value to FieldName value.
  • To prevent an empty detected column from appearing in older versions when using new settings, one must explicitly save every template —even unmodified ones— prior to Backup. If one skips this step, then in turns using the newly generated settings in an older version of the Configurator will result in an empty detected column being shown in the DataZone tab. This is a UI only issue: Runtime behaviour isn’t affected by this.

v7.2025.02.13

  • Bug fix: JSON Exports will now export " instead of ".
  • Bug fix: JSON Exports will now export line breaks as n by default (instead of a diamond or broken arrow symbol). Still allows the option to add a .Replace in data exporter to convert a diamond or broken arrow symbol to a space for line breaks (or to set this at template level by selecting Join Rows and Insert Space).

v7.2025.02.04

  • New Data Exporter File Encoding option added: "UTF8 (No Byte Order Mark)".
  • Bug fix: Data Zones “Use Full Page" option wasn't working for "Next Page" and "Last Page".

v7.2025.01.17

  • Culture defaults to using the same Region as the user's Windows machine. The service requires you to set a culture in here such as “en-US” for United States users: ”C:ProgramDataOICPDFDataNetPDFDataNetService.xml".

v7.2025.01.06

  • Can now process older XLS files (Microsoft Excel 97-2004 Workbook .xls).
  • Defaults to "" (empty string) when said result evaluates to a date object equal to DateTime.MinValue (01/01/0001)".
  • Bug fix: displays only one table at a time (Data Zones tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).
  • Bug fix: added a case insensitive filter (Document Class & Data Zones tabs in PDFDataNet Configurator).

v7.2024.12.13

  • Remove "Export Field Name" column (Document Class tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).
    Change "Create Default" to use the Variable Name instead of Export Field Name (Data Exporter tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).
  • Hide what's in the "Notes" column when the value is the same as the "Field Name" and "Variable Name" columns (Document Class tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).
  • Bug fix: resolved the issue where the Advanced > Create Program Backup button stopped working.
  • Split up all log files when they reach 10MB in file size. There will be 10 logs max, per program (Document Indexing, PDFDataNet Configurator, Universal Service Monitor).
  • Added a "Refresh" > "Open logs folder in File Explorer" drop-down option to Universal Service Monitor.
  • Added a highlighter icon, to Universal Service Monitor, when clicked highlights all syntax in the current log file displayed. By default this is switched off, to prevent memory leakage issues (when USM is left open for a long duration).

v7.2024.12.05

  • Bug fix: assigning and removing of table fields/columns (Data Zones tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).
  • Hide what's in the "Prompt" column when the value is the same as the "Field Name" column (Document Class tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).
  • Hide what's in the "Export Field Name" column when the value is the same as the "Variable Name" column (Document Class tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).

v7.2024.09.23

  • Bug fix: error opening "RowRepeater" and "Advanced", for structures templates (Data Zones tab in PDFDataNet Configurator).

v7.2024.09.12

  • Bug fix: regarding Document Indexing locking files.
  • Reconfiguration of the Configurator program.
  • Ignore font size (useFontSize=false) when extracting text from PDF zone.

v7.2024.04.30

  • Bug fix: regarding Document Indexing locking files.
  • Bug fix: unecessary Origami compilation warnings on unknown PDFDataNet functions.
  • Bug fix: issue with in-situ TextBox column editing not supporting Ctrl + A for all text selection.
  • Bug fix: primary key column greater than the number of columns in the table.
  • Document Indexing "Advanced Settings" menu changes (simplification and removal of Advanced settings toogle in Options).
  • Bug fix: PDF Markup program errors.

v7.2024.04.03

  • Added Excel autofiller.

v7.2024.03.25

  • Bug fix: Origami "Value & 0" not returning a value.

v7.2024.03.20

  • Bug fix: RemoveChars function returning null result.

v7.2024.03.15

  • Bug fix: ColumnTotal function returning null result.

v7.2024.02.09

  • No longer exports blank rows by default (checkbox option to enable blank lines in exports).

v7.2024.02.06

  • Bug fix: Validation rule error (box not highlighting red when an error occurs).
  • O2S.Components.PDFView4NET.dll added to the install.
  • Filter in Data Zones is identical to filter in Document Class, with field ordinal number retained.
  • Removed divider in the top section of Data Zones.
  • Adding the 'Cast' box to the Advanced section for Integers/Decimals/Date fields.

v7.2024.01.23

  • Bug fix: Minor issues.
  • Collect and remove new Data Files & OrigamiScripts/TemplatePDFFilesConverted folders.

v7.2024.01.04

  • Bug fix: TrueType font mapping for missing AdobeSongStd-Light font.

v7.2023.12.19

  • Bug fix: for OCR documents not extracting data when processed via the service.
  • Bug fix: for clicking the Raw Data field (to view text) in Configurator & Data Zones.

v7.2023.12.18

  • Added filters to Document Class and Data Zones tabs, to be able to search through fields easier.
  • Improvements made to the document conversion OCR plugin.
  • US Address parser DLL configured.
  • Option to use global functions for templates.
  • Bug fix: Anchor text option.

v7.2023.10.04

  • Bug fix: regarding anchor to and from text (it now won't extract any data if neither are present in the PDF).
  • Added updated modifcations to the Document Conversion feature, to be able to change the OCR threshold.

v7.2023.08.02

  • Added "Use Full Page" and "End of Page" table anchor functionality to First Page, Next Page and Last Page.
  • Bug fix: to search settings not remembering data the same as older program versions.
  • Bug fix: to RowCount() and ParseDate functionality.

v7.2023.07.11

  • We have fixed a bug regarding Document Indexing & Options & "Create Export file when errors exist" not working.

v7.2023.07.04

  • Bug fix: regarding '&' and '<' functions and also fixed a ColumnEntry function bug.

v7.2023.06.29

  • We have changed some functionality regarding retaining sub-folders/Origami functions. This program version also resolves the issue of the program OCRing (incorrectly) PDF's without text layers.

v7.2023.05.22

  • We have fixed a bug regarding the Consolidated PDF Splitter plugin not working. New Checkbox plugin added. This program version now uses Origami.

v7.2023.02.14

  • We have made some big improvements to our program in version 7 of PDFDataNet. This includes some of the following: fixes to releasing of license user slots, removal of use of OLEDB, OCR functionality, post-processing, double quotes in export fix, re-working of file paths and log files.

Version 6

v6.2022.04.26

  • Ability to call a program after the save of the data file. This can be used for example to instigate the upload of the data into the target ERP system.

v6.2022.03.29

  • Automatic document recognition enhancement added, where you can now choose a negative value (text/keyword) for the PDF - so that if said value appears on PDF it doesn't use the template.

v6.2022.03.16

  • Major program release (please take a program backup before updating) - various bug fixes. Option to clear the log file in Universal Service Monitor.

v6.2022.01.21

  • Major release of program.
  • Support for processing of XML, Excel, CSV - as input files.
  • Bug fix: issue with saving templates and function for replicating data from row's above it in table.

Version 5

v5.2022.01.12

  • Changed documentation link in Document Indexing.
  • Bug fix: PDFDataNet Configurator Templates bug where it was unable to save any changes/deleted XML's.
  • Bug fix: Universal Service Monitor bug so that you can now stop a service when the program cannot access a filepath for a server.
  • Bug fix: "Add PDF" feature in Document Indexing.

v5.2021.11.25

  • The ability to explicitly set the program culture independently based on the machine's culture.

v5.2021.11.10

  • Changes to how it extracts text from PDFs.
  • Bug fix: Minor issues.

v5.2021.11.08

  • Addition of some more functions including the ability to insert spaces between text blocks and to also provide pdf page numbers.

v5.2021.09.24

  • Major changes to the program structure.
  • Auto-detection now available for words within a specific zone.

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Version 3

v3.2021.3.29

  • Automatic detection and refresh of external lookup tables such as excel files.

v3.2021.3.3

  • Option to add PDFs to a PDF that is open in Document Indexing. This facility is used for processing sales orders that refer to a quote that has been previously prepared and the customer order only references the quotation number. By merging in the quotation document we can import the product codes and quantities into the customer’s quotation acceptance order.

Version 2

v2.2020.5.11

  • Support for a table to allow entry of analysis data such as the nominal code and vat rate split of a supplier invoice.

v2.2020.5.10

  • Funtion ?(“table name”,col1, col2) as an ‘Suggested’ option to allow a search of a table in a Transformation table.

v2.2020.5.9

  • Added import of csv file into a transform.

v2.2020.5.8

  • Added new function: ExtractBar(Value,fromRow, toRow, OnErrorRow)- returns a string concatenated from the extracted rows. Separator – space. Value (mandatory) – the multiline string. fromRow (mandatory) – the first extracted row. Number or “lastrow”. toRow (optional) -the last extracted row. Number or “lastrow”. Equals fromRow if absent. OnErrorRow – the number of the extracted row, if the Value has fewer rows than fromRow.

v2.2020.5.5

  • Bug fix: access denied problem where Documebnt Indexing cannot open a PDF and resolved the problem of having invalid characters in the file paths and file names.

Version 1

v1.2020.5.7

  • Implementation of TransformMonth function to convert dates extracted from a PDF where the month is in a sting format dd MMM yy in any languauge and cast the value as a date format.

v1.2020.5.4

  • Change of name from Data Gatherer Configurator to PDFDataNet Configurator.

v1.2020.5.2

  • Support for use of & character in an XML file.

v1.2020.5.2

  • Support for converting PDFs to excel XLXS format files.

v1.2020.4.2

  • Added data transformation tables into the core product including conversion of international month formats into standard date formats.

v1.2020.3.1

  • New (extended) Ternary syntax. New (extended) Ternary syntax: Ternary(condition1, value1, [condition2], [value2], …, [elseValue]) – each condition is tested sequentially.

Your PDFDataNet Program Version

To find out what version of the program you’re using simply open Document Indexing and in the menu go to Edit > Options (or click the Settings cog – top right of the program). This will open a dialogue box where in the top-right you will see Program Version followed by the version number.

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