The current mobile phone cameras produce JPEG images with very high resolutions. The “DPI” in the JPEG file are set to 72 x 72dpi for display on the screen. This results in a calculated page format of over one meter due to the high resolution of the cameras. If such a JPEG file is converted to PDF then the 72dpi and the 3000-4000 pixels result in a PDF page size of e.g. 140 x 100cm. If such images are e.g. sent as attachments by email and the MSG/EML email file is converted to a PDF, one gets a PDF file containing e.g. all pages A4 format, but the JPEG attachment has a much larger page format.

To prevent this and get an approximately uniform page format when converting JPEG photos, there is now a new option to automatically adjust the “DPI” during conversion. An adjustable tolerance (from 10 to a maximum of 20%) is also taken into account, whereby the automatic adjustment only takes place if the DPI setting in the JPEG exceeds the page format “A4 + tolerance”.

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Innovations – FCpro version 1.0.86:

• FCpro’s iOCR Standard OCR component is now based on the new Tesseract OCR version 4.0. This makes it now possible to recognize documents with multiple languages. Multiple languages should only be activated if required, as each additionally activated language increases processing time accordingly.
• Option to select OCR accuracy/speed – There are 3 different recognition profiles available for OCR detection – “Speed / Standard / Accuracy”. By default, the “Speed” profile is preset, which in this selection corresponds to the OCR recognition accuracy of that of the previous version. “Standard” and “Accuracy” bring improvements in OCR recognition quality to the previous versions, but take longer to process than the “Speed” profile. However, different settings can be preconfigured and easily and quickly switched using the FCpro processing profiles.

• The new version of iOCR will be installed as “vsOCR4” in version 1.1.4 via the FCpro setup. This results in a new FCpro installation requirement. iOCR now also requires the “MS Visual C ++ 2015” instead of the “MS Visual C ++ 2005” runtime. The presence is automatically checked during installation and installed if necessary.

• Configurable parameter for splitting OCR documents with multiple pages: During OCR processing, the iOCR component loads the document to be processed completely in the main memory. In this case, e.g. a 500 pages Black&White, 300dpi document needs about 1.2GB of main memory. However, FCpro can also run several processes in parallel, which can quickly run out of resources depending on the configuration and size of the documents being processed. In order to be able to better control the required resources and their distribution to several parallel processes, it is possible to specify via a parameter from which number of pages for OCR processing a document automatically splits, processes the sub-documents seperately and finally reassembles it into a complete document.

FCpro determines a default value based on the available resources using the following formula:
Number of pages for OCR Split = Number of Cores/CPU * 5 + (GByte RAM/2)*5
This results in e.g. with 2 cores/CPU and 4GB RAM = 2*5 + 2*5 = 20 as default value, which can be changed individually.

• Advanced options for conditional OCR processing: The OCR conditions can now be set individually for each file extension. In addition, the file size (in kB) and the color depth (Black&White, grayscale, color) can be used as criteria. For multi-page file formats (PDF, TIFF) the criteria are checked based on the parameters of the first page.

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OCR processing is a compute-intensive and time-consuming process. Previously OCR processing could be controlled by profiles – used or not used – but if OCR processing was enabled, all image formats supported by the OCR engine (JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF) were generally OCR processed.

With the FCpro version 1.0.84 there is now the possibility to specify criteria for the OCR processing in order to subject only certain criteria defined image files to an OCR recognition. If the criteria are fulfilled then no OCR processing takes place and the files are converted directly into an image PDF. For multi-page documents, the criteria are checked on the first page. Planned are additional criteria for the file size (in kB), the color depth (black and white, grayscale, color), as well as the option to set the criteria per file format individually.

Conditions:

• File format – TIFF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PDF – OCR – yes / no
• Number of pages – smaller / equal / larger
• Page format – width / height in mm or pixels – smaller / equal / larger
• Resolution – dpi – less / equal / greater

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The FileConverterPro (FCpro) provides a central service for converting many document formats into PDF or PDF/A via its web service interface. The FCpro Explorer Extension (FCpro EE) is a free Windows client application available for the FCpro converter. The FCpro EE integrates MS-Windows clients, via the context menu in Windows Explorer, with the FCpro PDF conversion service and enables easy and direct PDF(/A) conversion for a variety of documents and container formats.

Functions FCpro Explorer Extension (FCpro EE):

• Free MS-Windows client application available for the FCpro.
• PDF or PDF/A – conversion is provided via the file context menu in Windows Explorer.
• Documents can be converted individually or merged into a PDF total file.
• Pre-editable bookmarks are added to the individual files in the overall PDF file.
• The order of the individual files in the PDF total file can be set/changed interactively.
• The PDF’s can either be stored in a specified output folder or in the same folder as the source file.
• As an alternative to filing in the file system, the PDF’s can also be inserted directly as an attachment in a new email message.
• Settings can be managed via profiles.
• Logging the actions

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With the FCpro version 1.0.80 there is now the option to set whether the converted message should be inserted at the end after all attachments, or as usual at the beginning.

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Previously, for the HTTPS / SSL communication between the FCpro server and the clients for the REST / SOAP web service, an internal self-created SSL certificate installed via the FCpro setup was used. However, if company-specific security standards require a specific public SSL certificate, this is possible from FCpro version 1.0.76.

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