EMail Archiver for FileConverterPro – Version 4.2.0

Innovations Version 4.2.0:

  • 64bit – MS-Office Support for 2010 / 2013 and 2016

the version of MS Office 2007-32 and 64 bit is not supported by the Email Archiver because the user interface of the 2007 version is different in general and not based on the Ribbon menu.

  • Metadata Export

When you archive the messages, in addition to the MSG / EML / PDF file,  can also be stored the available metadata of the eMail message. The metadata can be exported as an XML file XLS, CSV or. The records of the messages are output either in an entire file or per message in single files.

The following variables from the metadata are available:

%CONVERSION PROFILE%selected FC per conversion profile

%PATH%full path to MSG / EML / PDF respectively attachment

%FILETYPE% – File Type = file extension (PDF, MSG, EML, DOCX….)

%COUNTER%Counter is increased for each export / Conversion process

%MESSAGE DATE%Date of receipt of the message

%MESSAGE TIME%Reception time of the message

%DAY%reception day

%DAY2%Reception day as 2 digit number

%MONTH%reception month

%MONTH2%Reception month as 2 digit number

%YEAR%Reception year

%YEAR2%Reception yearas 2 digit number

%SUBJECT% – subject

%FROM% – sender

%TO ALL%all recipient addresses separated with;

%TO FIRST%only the first recipient

%OL NAME% – Name of Outlook folderss

%OL PATH%the complete path of the Outlook folder

%OL USER%the registered Outlook user

%THREAD ID%ID of all related News

%MESSAGE ID%ID of the message

%PARENT THREAD ID%ID of all related parents messages

%PARENT MESSAGE ID%ID of parents messages

%ATTACHMENT COUNT%Number of Attachments

%ATTACHMENT NAMES%Name any attachments separately with,

This metadata variables (PDF information fields, table of contents, stamps, headers and footers and cover =) can also be used in the PDF export settings. And can also be used for the folder structure, the file name and in the integration of the command line processing.

Metadaten Export - als XLS CSV XML - Gesamt bzw Einzeldateien  Metadaten Export als XML

  • Read Only the standard and the user settings

If the configuration file are the default settings – C:ProgramDataEmailArchiverConfigconfigSettings.XML – “read only” sthis is detected and the function / button “Save configuration as the defaultis disabled. Also is detected if the user configuration file is – C:ProgramDataEmailArchiverConfig<User>configSettings.XML – “read only” – In this case, all the fields and functions of the configuration settings are automatically disabled so that the user can not make changes.

Konfigurations Einstellungen - Schreibschutz

  • Display of Conversion Error

Depending on the configuration of the File Converter Pro, in case of failure either a placeholder page can be generated, or a “real” error is returned to the clientIf an error is returned, so this information is now analyzed, displayed and logged. In the background processing there is a separate “Error” tab. There, all errors are listed. Similarly, there is a separate column in the log in which the status “OK” or “Error” is logged.

Hntergrund Verarbeitung - Tab mit der Liste der Fehler

  • Log File as CSV

The log file will be created as a CSV with columns separating in order to evaluate the information with MSExcel. (import, sort, filter, etc.)

  • Log file with job number / counter

In the log file a counter is incremented for each operation / job and output as the first column. Jobs are also processed in parallel, whereby individual processing steps and therefore log entries are not created in time sequentially. About this ID, it is possible to find all the log entries that belong to a single job.

  • Log file Ok”, “Error” status column

To localize and filter possible errors faster, there is a separate status column in the log.

Log Datei mit Job Nummer und Statusinfo - Fehler - Erfolg

Download – EMail Archiver MS-Outlook Plugin für FileConverterPro >>>

For testing you can use the hosted FileConverter Pro Testserver  – this is already set after installing the Email Archiver.

eDocPrintPro – Logging – Log of all actions for problem analysis

To facilitate the analysis of problems occur, we have now integrated a logging feature in the driver from version 3.23.4. The log can be activated / deactivated via a registry key.

To enable logging so the node HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMAYComputereDocPrintPro<Drucker-Name> has to be created in the registry and below the string with the name “logpath”. As value has to be entered the full path of the log file. The folder must already exist.

eDocPrintPro Logging aktivieren  eDocPrintPro Log - Testseite drucken

eDocPrintPro – Printing from a Windows Service – what to consider?

Can you get out of an application that runs as a Windows service, print on eDocPrintPro? What is to be considered?

PBasically, that’s no problem. One has only to be aware that a Windows service runs by default under the System Account”If you install plug-ins as the AddOverlayplugin to attach a stationery, oder man konfiguriert bestimmte Einstellungen für den eDocPrintPro Treiber ( e.g. that the output is to be in a specific folder with a specific name or that after an EXE or CMD to be executed),  you have to remember that all settings and configurations are stored under the currently logged-on user. But you also can not log on as System Account” to make the configuration.

Approach:

  1. Install eDocPrintPro and the required plugins as a local administrator on the desired computer.
  2. Create an account under which the service should run and assign the appropriate authorizations. If you want to access a network share, so this account must have the appropriate rights.
  3. Sign up under this account on the computer and make all the required settings and configurations, which will then be used by the service that way. Test the functions and settings.
  4. Run the service application under this created account and NOT use the System Account”

Available eDocPrintPro version 3.23.4

Corrections Version 3.23.4:

  • Function embed all fonts Fixed bug – the function has been checked, the writings were embedded incorrect and the generated PDF was illegible.
  • Execute action selection filter has been enhanced “* .cmd So far, only the * .exe” filter was preset and cmd files had to be manually selected now * .cmdfiles can also be selected directly.
  • Execute action EXE and CMD files with specific names contents were not executed– If the name of a CMD or EXE file contained eg the letters “OS”, so this file was not startedThis problem is now fixed Any desired names may be used. If system variables are used for the call, so they must now be made between% %.
  • Improved uninstallation routine The print spooler is stopped before uninstalling, in order to avoid a query after you delete the folder C: Windows *, when the computer reboots.

Download – eDocPrintPro (PDF/A)

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GhostScript 9.18.1 Setup

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FileConverterPro (FCpro) – Version 1.0.35 available

Innovations FC pro version 1.0.35:

  • Aliases can be configured through the user interface:

So far, the configuration needs to be done on an external file. Now there is an opportunity to create or to remove existing assignments under the new options.

Aliase für Datei Erweiterungen

  • Thumbnails / Preview file format and JPEG quality configurable:

For the imagepreview and Miniature of the original file now can be set the file format (PNG / JPEG) and JPEG quality (from 0 to 100% default = 75%).

Formatauswahl und JPEG Qualität

  • PDF info field generator freely configurable:

Previously, the information was fixed preassigned for the PDF info field PDF generatorwith FileconverterPro www.fileconverterpro.at“. This information can now be freely configured. Now File Converter Pro can be transparently integrated into other solutions as an add-on or OEM product, since the PDFs generated with FCPro can be reported as created by this application.

PDF Infofeld - Erzeuger kann individuell konfiguriert werden

  • Immediate deletion of Jobs / results:

FC pro is often used as an external service that runs on a central computer. The processed data is transferred to this service, converted and then are available for downloadTo keep these files is not (too long) out of control of the leading system, these files / jobs can be deleted as quickly and reliably on the FCPro server after processing.

There is already an option when uploading the file to delete the files immediately and automatically after downloading. Only a single download the files is possible. If this parameter is not specified, the job is retained depending on FCPro configuration for x days at the server. During this period the generated files can be downloaded again. If “0 Days” is configured, the jobs are deleted an hour after you upload automatically.

byte[] GetResultByLabel(string jobID, string label, bool removeFile);
System.IO.Stream GetResultExByLabel(string jobID, string label, bool removeFile);

There are also 2 other methods GetResult” and GetResultEx” which have the same parameters.

Sofortiges Löschen der Jobs

  • Retrieval of result files by label:

It is possible to create multiple output files during conversion. These have been differed with an ID (= number). Now it is also possible to identify these files on a label and then download. The label texts are currently assigned fix, but will also be freely configured in a future release.

Index = Label
0 = pdf
1 = thumbnail
2 = preview
3 = text
4 = flash

GetResultExByLabel(jobid,label,true)

/GetResultEx?jobID={jobID}&index={index}&removeFile={removeFile}
/GetResultExByLabel?jobID={jobID}&label={label}&removeFile={removeFile}

/GetResult?jobID={jobID}&index={index}&removeFile={removeFile}
/GetResultByLabel?jobID={jobID}&label={label}&removeFile={removeFile}

  • Web-Service – Synchrone Processing:

For the conversion with the FC per service several methods are available – the asynchronous processing” The file is uploaded and returns a unique job ID immediately. About this job ID, the status can be queried again. If the status is converted” to change, so the resulting files can be downloaded.

Alternatively, there is also the synchronous processing – The file is uploaded, the calling process waits until the conversion is carried out and then gets returned the PDF or the job ID.

/UploadJobEx4?ext={ext}&settingsName={settingsName}&maxPage={maxPage}&outExts={outExts}&label={label}

This method returns only the PDF synchronously back without additional parameters. There is therefore a further synchronous method to also be able to download the other files created.

/UploadJobEx7?ext={ext}&settingsName={settingsName}&maxPage={maxPage}&outExts={outExts}&label={label}&returnPDF={returnPDF}

If “Return PDF = trueis set, the PDF will be returned as the result, otherwise the job ID is returned, with which it is possible to download the files with the traditional methods.

Synchronous processing can also be tested using the C # / .NET sample client application.

Test der synchronen Verarbeitung über den FCpro Beispiel-Client

  • Web service call back function:

 In addition to asynchronous and synchronous processing, there is also a third optionprocessing via web service call back function. Here after processing a previously passed or configured web service URL is called. On a post with a JSON Body to this URL the job ID and the status is transferred.

{
“guid”: “<job guid>”,
“status”: “<status>”
}

There are 3 different ways to define the URL for the Web service call back

Globalthis applies to all documents processed

Depending Profileit can be set for each process profile a unique URL, then this overrides the global URL

Depending documentsThe URL is passed by the upload of the document, which should be called after processing. This overrides the profile-dependent URL.

To use the documents dependent callback URL, the new document upload method must be used

Here a particular JSON encoded structure must be passed to the server. The difference is that in this method, no data file will be added at the end. The attachment is separately posted as formdata / attachment. The UploadJobEx6 method has no parameters. The structure must be passed as a “message body” to this method. In the future, so may be added further parameters for this structure without the signature of the method needs to be changed.

UploadFileEx6 - ermöglicht es eine Web-Rückruf URL zu übergeben Web-Service Rückruf - Konfiguration - Allgemein  Web-Service Rückruf - individuell am Profil einstellbar  Web-Service Rückaufruf wird auch protokolliert

To test the Webback call function, there is also an installed test application. This shows the job ID and the status after the preconfigured callback URL was called.

Web-Service - Rückruf Funktion - Test-Anwendung

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File Converter Pro – temporary files & Jobs – Paths Change / Delete automatically

File Converter Pro uses a series of temporary folders in the processing of documents. Likewise, the jobs are managed in an SQL database and the Input / Output files are stored in email folders. If a large number of documents are processed in a short period, then can accumulate large amounts of data in the temporary and in the job-folders. Especially when the FCPro server has a high throughput (eg by many CPU cores (16)), then large amounts of data can accumulate in a few days (in the gigabyte range). The disk capacity and configuring in days, how long the data is kept, should be adjusted accordingly.

That is why it is important to know

  • Where the temporary files / jobs are stored?
  • How can you change the default paths and place elsewhere?
  • How can you adjust how long to keep these data?
  • When will the temporary files and jobs deleted?

When FCPro processing following temporary folders are used:

  • Jobs: C: \ Program Data \ File Converter Pro \ WCF jobs. The path can be configured via the User Interface. In Jobs folder, a subfolder is created with the job number and stored inside the input file per job. The PDF generated target file is stored in the job folder “Out”. The Jobs folders are automatically deleted after a set number of days. The status is set in the job database to “Expired”.
  • Working folder: C: \ Program Data \ File Converter Pro \ Work. The path can be configured via the User Interface. The files in it are automatically deleted after a set number of days.
  • NET Common Folder: Temporary folder -% TEMP% / nc. The path can be configured via the User Interface, and PDFnet folder -% TEMP% / pdfnet. These two folders are only not deleted when the application is not properly (eg exits via the task manager or crashes). The folders are temporarily used to copy files, move, rename, and for PDF / A conversion. The files are first created in these folders and processed and moved to the destination folder only at the end. Normally, if the service is started and stopped in the normal way, this folder should contain no files. If still files left over, they will be automatically deleted after a set number of days.
  • Abbyy Temp folder: Temporary folder for OCR processing. % TEMP% \ ABBYY FineReader Engine 10 – The path can be adjusted using the Abbyy OCR configuration. The files are automatically deleted after a set number of days.

Konfiguration der Pfade für die temporären Dateien  Abbyy Temporärer Ordner  Konfiguration - Temp Dateien & Jobs löschen

Email Archiver – main configuration file / setup – Command Line Options

To use a customized configuration file during installation, the Email Archiver uses a template XML config file that can be customized and distributed accordingly.

When the user starts the application for the first time so this file is taken as a template and used as the User Configuration. By default, this file is configSettings.XML under: C: \ Program Data \ Email Archiver \ Config. This path can be changed on a central network share.

If the current settings are specified as standard on all newly created user, then the function “Save as default configuration” is available.

EMail Archiver - Der Start Ordner für die Konfigurationseinstellungen kann festgelegt werden

To prevent that configuration settings are changed, there is the entry ReadOnlyConfig in the configSettings.XML file. If this is set to YES, then the configuration via the user interface cannot be changed.

In the configuration settings of the email archive from version 4.0.7 there is the possibility to specify the startup folder for the configuration settings individually. So the standard and individual user settings can also be stored centrally on a network share. If the path is changed, then all existing configuration files, the login profiles and the profiles PDFExport, copied into the newly selected folder.

The information where the path for the configuration files shows is stored locally in the path:

  • C:\ProgramData\EmailArchiver\SettingsFolderInfo.xml
  • z.b. <InfoRootSettingsFolder RootFolderPath=”\\freenas\wmay\EMailArchiver_Settings\” />

The setup of this path can be preset and transferred.

For the Email Archiver Setup are available the Command Line Parameters “RootFolder =” and “/ quiet”. “RootFolder =” specifies the startup folder of configuration settings and “/ quiet” enables “silent” installation without dialogues.

  • Example: “C:\Users\testuser\Desktop\EMail Archiver Enterprise.exe” rootfolder=”\\freenas\wmay\EMailArchiver_Settings” /quiet

Download – EMail Archiver MS-Outlook Plugin for FileConverterPro >>>

For testing you can use our  FileConverter Pro TestserverThis is already set after installing the Email Archiver.

AutoOCR 1.10.17 available

Because PDFs can contain text already and therefore not all the documents / pages to be subjected to OCR processing, we have implemented the intelligent OCR processing. Previously, this feature was only for PDF output.

The Alfresco integration AutoOCR can also be configured for plain text output. Here AutoOCR generates only the text required for the Alfresco full-text search. With the AutoOCR 1.10.17 now the intelligent OCR processing is not only for the PDF, but also for plain text output. So it will be OCR processed only PDF image files. For normal PDF’s the text is extracted directly without OCR processing. This saves time and resources.

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For the Abbyy OCR Engine Version 10 Demo licenses are available for 30 days or 500 pages – these can be requested from us.

Download – Abbyy FineReader 10.x Rel 4 OCR Engine Setup (ca. 460MB) >>>

File Converter Pro (FCPro) – Which version of MS Office? – 32 or 64 bit?

There are now a number of different Microsoft operating systems and various MS Office versions. Which combinations and versions can be used for the FileConverterPro for conversion to PDF or PDF / A? What is recommended?

FC Pro is a 64bit application and can therefore only be installed on 64-bit operating systems – Thus, MS-Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10 and MS-Server2008R2 and MS Server2012 be used.

FC Pro can convert MS Office documents without MS Office (= “directly”) or with the help of installed MS Office software, to PDF or PDF / A.

Almost always FC Pro is installed as a server application, say FC Pro PC is only for the conversion and is used for no other tasks. On clients you install nowadays, for compatibility reasons, usually a 32bit version of MS Office.

Supports currently: The 32 and the 64-bit version of MS Office 2010, 2013. For the FileConverterPro we recommend in any case to install a 64bit version of Office.

Please note that on Windows Server 2012 32bit version of MS Word 2013 is not supported. Here can be used for technical reasons, only the 64-bit version of MS-Word 2013 or the “direct” conversion.

 

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FileConverterPro – Exact conversion of MS Word documents to PDF

When converting documents to PDF, it is always goal to get a possible 100% copy of the document as a PDF it should be maintained all formatting and content, and the document should correspond to the original in terms of pagination and layout. These are also the expectations when documents with the FileConverterPro to be converted to PDF (PDF / A). However, there are some things that must be observed.

Layout / pagination in PDF is no longer true with the original” match What can be the reasons?

Direct or MS Office Conversion – The File Converter Pro supports two methods of conversion on the one hand, the direct” conversion not MS Office but an alternative converter is used, which is capable of all MS Office to read formats and without an installed MS Office application to convert directly to PDF or PDF / A. The compatibility is very good, but only the original application can support 100% of all specialties and details. So you want to play it safe, you should use MS Office as a converter.

Even if MS Office is used as a converter, it may happen that the generated PDF documents have a different formatting and layout, as the origin document. There could be caused by the following:

Hyphenation not installed – If an MSWord document was created and formatted with hyphenation and that hyphenation is not installed as a MSOffice feature on the computer on which the FCPro PDF conversion will run so there is no hyphenation, and the PDF document can thus show another formatting and page breaks. You can recognize that by trying to open such a document on the FCPro computer via MS Word. Here a warning is displayed with the prompt to install the hyphenation.

Silbentrennung nicht installiert

Fonts not installed or not embedded in MSWord document – It must be ensured that the fonts used in the documents are also available on the computer on which the FCPro PDF conversion occurs. If not installed fonts are used, substitute fonts are used, which are similarThis may fit, but can also lead to changes in the layout and line and page breaks. So it must be ensured that either only standard fonts or if special fonts are used, these are available on the FCPro PC, or be embedded in the MSWord document. The font display remains however only obtained if the appropriate fonts are not copyright protected. MS Word does not provide any error message if the embedding of fonts fails due to copyright problems.

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