The ifresco AutoOCR Transformer for Alfresco is now available in the version 1.20 and supports the recent Alfresco versions.
For the following Alfresco versions adjusted AMP installation files are available:
With the version 3.19.0 there also is a new SDK available now.
Innovations:
The SDK offers samples for the following environments as source code or VS-projects:
To use the functions of the SDK under the different operating systems and with varying printer versions there is a SDK demo. With it the printer settings can be read or set. The events from the printer for start and end of the printing process = creation of the PDF file gets evaluated and shown on the user interface.
The .NET Runtime version 3.5 is standardized installed on the Microsoft operating systems MS-Windows 7 and MS-Windows Server 2008 R2. On MS-Windows 8 / 8.1 as well as MS-Windows Server 2012 already .NET Framework 4.5 is used and delivered. The versions aren’t backward compatible so if a software is compiled for the version 3.5, the .NET Runtime 3.5 has to be installed on the PC.
Almost any of our applications requires the .NET Runtime version 3.5.
Therefor they can be instantly installed on Windows 7 while on Windows 8 / 8.1 the .NET Runtime 3.5 has to be activated and installed first. An automatic activation and installation through the setup isn’t working properly, therefor this step has to be done before the software installation.
Under Windows 8 / 8.1 the .NET Runtime 3.5 be activated as “Windows Feature” directly from the control panel.
Only the eDocPrintPro, -PDF/A, -ZUGFeRD – setups work with both .NET versions – the setup recognizes under which OS the application runs and installs the corresponding version.
We work on a new version of the ifresco Client for the Alfresco DMS/ECM OpenSource Software and there are already the first screenshots of the new version.
Some of the coming innovations:
The iPaper version 2.1.37 is now based on the recent version of our PDF printer driver eDocPrintPro version 3.19.0 and therefor also on the recent GhostScript version 9.10.
Requirements: The requirements for the installation get checked from the setup. For the installation under MS-Windows 8.0 or 8.1 the .NET runtime 3.5 is required.
Download – iPaper 32 & 64bit >>>
As installation requirement the setups checks if the GhostScript version 9.10 already exists. If not it gets automatically downloaded from our FTP server and installed. The GS setup could also be run before.
GhostScript 9.10 setup – see also >>>
Download – GhostScript 9.10 MSI Setup – 32bit (ca. 16MB) >>>
Download – GhostScript 9.10 MSI Setup – 64bit (ca.16MB) >>>
For the ifresco Profiler there is now a free Alfresco standard plug-in available.
The standard plug-in allows the upload of documents through the ifresco Profiler into any Alfresco / ifresco repository. With that only the standard fields and the standard content type for documents of Alfresco is used. So it isn’t required to install an additional content model. The standard plug-in is free available and therefor “out of the box” usable with every Alfresco server. With it the ifresco Profiler functions can be tested together with Alfresco without additional outlay.
Supported fields / functions:
Title – rules: The standard plug-in installs also the XML-file “titlerules_StandardPlugin.xml”. In this file dynamically createable fields get defined as well as rules to automatically generate the document title. The selection of the rule is done via “Type / Subtype”. A mask with fields – with the types: Text, date, version, year gets generated from it and shown at the profiling.
Type-ahead searching for Alfresco folders – Through the search field existing folders can be found fast via the input of one or more search terms. A part string search of the with AND linked terms is done and the search results offered for selection as a list. The search term for the folder has to contain at least 3 characters.
Tags: Tags are keywords to classify a document and to directly list all documents marked with it later on. Existing tags can be chosen via type ahead search and new ones can be added.
Text stamp: At the upload information can be added to the PDF in form of text stamps. The option can be activated and configured through the checkbox “Show stamp settings tab”. The position, color, size and font style of the stamp is configured here. The text can be build from fixed parts or variables.
An overview of the general functions of the ifresco Profiler basic version can be found here >>>
Download – Detail description – ifresco Profiler inkl. Standard Plugin >>>
Download – ifresco Profiler basic version >>>
Download – ifresco Profiler Alfresco standard plugin >>>
Download – ifresco Profiler standard plugin sample files >>>
With the version 1.10.9 a new function was implemented to run a subsequent action after the OCR and the creation of the destination file. This could take place at monitored folders as well as at the processing via web-services as C# or VB.NET scripts.
With the AutoOCR version 1.10.11 this possibility got further extended – Now it is also possible to use external DLL’s to run subsequent functions.
Via a checkbox it can be switched between source code (script) and DLL processing and via a selective list the DLL can be chosen.
For that there is a new interface action IAction2 which is inherited from IAction. For the DLL to be available to choose it has to be copied into the AutoOCR installation folder. All DLL’s which end with %NAME%.AutoOCRPlugin.dll get referenced. Please keep in mind that with the installation of AutoOCR as windows service no message boxes or other user interactions are possible and therefor can’t be used.
For the additional tab to show up and be configurable AutoOCR has to be started with the commandline parameter /ShowAction.
Download – sample project – DLL action – C# / .NET >>>
Download – AutoOCR – OCR Server incl. iOCR engine (ca. 150MB) >>>
For the Abbyy OCR engine version 10 there are demo licenses for 30 days or 500 pages available – these can be requested from us
Download- Abbyy FineReader 10.x Rel 4 OCR Engine Setup (ca. 460MB) >>>
Request demolicensekey for FineReader OCR engine
With the new version 1.0.27 of the FileConverter service now also MS-Office 2010 is supported for the conversion of MS-Word, MS-Excel and MS-PowerPoint files to PDF, PDF/A and TIFF. MS-Office can be configured and used parallel to the consisting, direct conversion or mixed, after folders or e-mail boxes. The conversion is, like with the direct conversion, done silent in the background via the FileConverter Windows service. Required is the installation of the 32bit version of MS-Office on the computer and that the user of the service has opened the MS-Office applications at least once.
With the usage of MS-Office as converter engine 100% quality and the support of all MS-Office features can be guaranteed, which can only can only be reached with the usage of the original application.
To take advantage of the available computer resources or to guarantee an optimal throughput the conversions get, depending on the configuration, processed parallel also. The set standard is 5 parallel processes.
Download – FileConverter – documents & e-mails to PDF, PDF/A and TIFF >>>
Beside the “silent” installation without user input it could also be necessary to uninstall eDocPrintPro – the normal version, the PDF/A version or GhostScript the same way. But you have to know the product code of the setup to execute the uninstall “silent”:
“msiexec” /qn /uninstall {<product code>}
Product code eDocPrintPro:
Product code eDocPrintPro PDF/A:
Product code GhostScript x86 and GhostScript x64:
The ZUGFeRD data format is a, based on the PDF/A level 3, format for electronic invoices in germany. Thereby the PDF document is used for archiving, print and visual representation and the data gets additionally embedded as XML. The XML contains sector-neutral information and metadata for the invoice.
For a ZUGFeRD invoice also a PDF/A-3 has to be created as well as a XML file has to be available. The XML usually gets created from the ERP. The ZUGFeRD eDoc printer driver allows with a simple print process to create such invoices out of any application.
Possible courses: the XML is available in any cases, the print process is done via the ZUGFeRD eDoc driver:
ZUGFeRD – customized – specifically interesting for software-developer:
The ZUGFeRD eDocPrintPro PDF/A-3 printer driver is specifically also for developers of software solutions because with it the creation of ZUGFeRD conform electronic invoices can be implemented fast and easily. The software only has to create the ZUGFeRD conform XML file, the rest is done by the ZUGFeRD eDoc printer driver. Software provider can implement the solution with their name and use it without any additional license costs (royalty-free).
Function range ZUGFeRD – customized:
Download – eDocPrintPro ZUGFeRD – PDF/A-3 printer driver >>>
Download – ZUGFeRD – sample invoice >>>
Download – ZUGFeRD – sample XML >>>
ZUGFeRD – information package >>>