June 16th, 2010· Context-sensitive help system.
· Database editor with improved database tree.
· RenameFiles, CopyFiles, MoveFiles and DeleteFiles functions added to the web interface API.
· Improved web interface users and permissions editor.
· The PDF Creator tool can now set some of the standard metadata fields.
February 24th, 2010· Scan inside 7zip archives.
· Multi-level compressed archives scan.
· A new grid save file format, .pdz.
· The beginning of the PDF Creator.
· A visual PDF creator tool, able to convert supported file formatsinto PDF's. The web interface expose now a REST API, with XML and JSON responses. OpenSearch provider.
October 3rd, 2008· Now PDF Explorer is also a CHM Explorer. The same functionalities now extended to this popular file format, with internal CHM reader, text and image extractor.
· Quick Image OCR to assist the Quick Info Edit mode. Extract metadata even if raw image only PDFs.
· Use the grid layout editor to select what file types, PDF/CHM, to show in grid.
· The web server can now execute CGI/ISAPI applications and scripts. Popular script languages as PHP, Perl, Python, and CGI, .exe or .dll, applications can now be used to extend the web server possibilities.
· Increased web server access security with HTTPS protocol. To help configuration, added a wizard to generate auto-signed SSL certificates or SSL certificates requests.
· Possibility to upload files using the web server interface.
· Web server accesses can now be logged to a file, ECLF format, with automatic log file rotation.
· The Info Edit batch tool can now access any of the info fields contents to compose the new field content, with search and replace feature too.
· Possibility to add interface to external applications/scripts from the tools menu. Selected grid files can be passed as parameters.
· The image extractor can now maintain, without reencode, the internal image file format.
· PNG and GIF image file formats added to the possibilities of the image extractor encoder.
· Drag and Drop of metadata text into the info edit tool, even from external application.
· A new quick info edit assistant, the Rename On Metadata Change. File is automatically renamed using the pre-configured rule, when metadata edited.
· Functionality to manually execute the task automation Folders task on selected files.
· The automatic updates can now use proxy servers for Internet access.
· PDF Explorer command line now accept PDF files. Submitted files are automatically indexed and show on grid at startup. Useful to use with the Shell OpenWith or SendTo functionalities. Command line can also be used to start the .csv import wizard. Same functionality when dropping these files types in the program interface itself.
· The lite running mode can now auto start the web server and launch the web browser at startup.
· As usual, includes also many more small improvements and bug fixes.
July 25th, 2007· Task Automation Folders- A sequence of user configurable tasks are executed on PDF files created on the monitored folders.
· Check for online updates with download and install features.
· File rename assistant to assist in the manual rename of files.
· Accept Drag and Drop of shell files and folders.
· The Web Interface is now Multilingual. Web interface clients can choose from the available idioms.
· Possibility to export web interface search results into csv file.
· Web interface info fields shown, selector.
· Added possibility to edit the custom fields screen name without the need to create custom screen layouts.
· Delete file to recycle bin or permanent, as in shell, functionality.
· Improved database optimize routine.
· Multiple instances possible using command line option.
· This release fixes also many bugs of previous releases.
November 3rd, 2006· Added and HTML Web Interface.
· The database editor can configure the shared folders.
· Two new PDF tools: PDF Attachments - Used to open, extract, add and delete file attachments to/from pdf files. SetOpenOptions - Used to configure the options that instruct compliant PDF Readers.
August 3rd, 2006· The text extractor now supports CID fonts and external CMAP's. The text viewer can also show and export Unicode text. Now we can see, extract and index correctly all these non ASCII documents like CJK, Eastern-Europe, etc.
· Added support to files encrypted with AES128 algorithm, the new encryption option introduced with Acrobat V7.
· 10 custom fields added to the already available standard pdf metadata fields to extend cataloguing possibilities. This is one of the most requested, finally available, feature.
· The grid layout editor can now also be used to give different names to metadata fields. This way we can give more suitable names to reflect the information we really enter in these fields.
· Added possibility to redirect disks root path to another path that can be a UNC, http, ftp,...path. This feature permits the local indexation of files, and later, remote access to these same files from remote points. Very useful for lite running mode. This is an experimental feature.
· Creation dates and modification dates can now be specified for dates beginning at Year 1. No more 1980 limit.
· A new security option added to lock all the operations that can change or erase pdf files.
· As usual, include many more bug fixes and several small enhancements.
May 27th, 2006Two new PDF tools:
· Insert/Append Pages - Used to insert pdf pages/documents into other documents specifying insertion point and using powerful merge rule expressions to specify pages to insert
· Stamp/Watermark - Used to stamp pdf documents pages with text, images and geometric shapes. Support templates and has various composition tools to create the overall stamp using the supported stamp objects.
The merge/rearrange tool has now an option to do the merge sequencing thru the documents in the list. Perform:
· Doc1Page1 Doc2Page1...DocNPage1
· Doc1Page1 Doc2Page2...DocNPage2
· ...
· Doc1PageN Doc2PageN...DocNPageN.
· The EditInfoFields batch tool can now append the new metadata to the one already existent in the document.
· Added the possibility to the rename batch tool to use all the text metadata fields as source to create the new file name.
· Important bugs discovered in the merge/rearrange tool that produced invalid files or fault pages have been fixed.
· As usual, include many more bug fixes and several small enhancements.
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