SimpleIndex 11

SimpleIndex 11 has great new features like ICR Handprint Recognition, Email Import, and new Scanning, Cloud OCR, and Barcode recognition engines.

It also has significant performance improvements, particularly with very large documents and batches. Importing batches with thousands of pages and Exporting PDF files with over 500 pages are faster by several orders of magnitude. For example, 3,000 page PDF file that used to take 30 minutes or more to create can now be exported in about 30 seconds!

Here is the full list:

New Features

• ChatGPT Document Analysis (11.1)
• Duplicate Page Detection (11.1)
• Enable ICR Handprint Recognition with FineReader OCR engine
• New Barcode recognition engine offering the highest recognition rates available
• Custom Autofill and Export interfaces for Web Services, Rest APIs, SDKs, and other third part apps
• Parse any value from XML and JSON metadata files into Fixed fields
• Service job hotfolder makes it easy to process multiple jobs, add new jobs, and improves performance
• New Autocorrect functions to make common character replacements based on expected data type
• Enable Autocorrect replacements for Barcode, Fixed, and other fields
• Add Email Import option to download attachments from your IMAP Inbox, or converting messages to PDF
• Support for all image types with Cloud OCR engines
• Set AWS credentials from OCR Options wizard and check for credentials before processing
• Simple Template for AWS Forms fields using %AWS%|label1|label2|etc format instead of RegEx
• New Blank Page Delete option based on % of black pixels that works with all image types
• Upgraded ISIS scanning libraries to common platform for improved processing performance
• Multithreaded Process images while scanning with improved memory and disk management
• Improved image display during scanning using resizable thumbnails
• Improved default and Fast Import that are significantly faster when importing large batches (>1000 pages)
• New Fast Export that is significantly faster when exporting large documents (>100 pages)
• Improved Save All skips processing when field calculations aren't needed
• Add Recent Jobs list to main window and expand recent jobs menu
• Add Text Panel to SimpleView viewer to display extracted text and character position
• Updated Office Viewer supports embedded document editing with all versions of MS Office
• Improved interface for editing Zone OCR, OMR, and ICR regions
• Save Window Layout to job file so you show or hide thumbnails and OCR text automatically for each job
• Allow load and edit lists in Dictionary Matching settings
• Open file dialog for sample text used for Template testing
• Save list files to job file to remove external file dependencies
• Create Checkmark Groups to output a single value from multiple OMR fields with %CHECK1,2,3% Template
• Duplicate field button copies an existing field with its type, zone, etc. (very useful for Checkmark Groups)
• Automatically update Fixed and Checkmark Group field references when changing the field order
• OK button saves and closes settings wizard from any screen, making quick edits much easier
• Add text file Encoding option to Advanced Settings to set encoding for OCR text and Log Files
• Add Columns to Rows post-process function to convert numbered columns to rows for line item data exports
• Add field number to list in Indexing & File Naming
• Add Allow Edits option to make Autofill and Fixed fields editable
• Support for SharePoint app-based authentication for MFA-enabled accounts
• Set SharePoint credentials from File Output Settings
• Add Test Connection option to SharePoint options in File Output settings
• Show preview of Index Log file naming settings on Index & Batch Logging page
• Enable multiple Languages for OCR using OCR_LANGUAGE_MULTI XML job setting
• Option to remove Checksum value from Barcodes
• Add option to enable GUID batch naming in Global Settings Wizard

Fixes

• Add engine name to Test Barcodes function
• Black background in rotated watermark image
• Display PDF processing settings in wizard for all job types
• Disable legacy rotate buttons for multipage files (use the buttons in the SimpleView viewer instead)
• Show SimpleView ribbon menu expanded by default
• Default filename when no fields are checked should be datetime
• Full-page OCR leaves extra files in Temp folder
• Unable to clear Autofill settings once set
• Always enable editing of Batch Log fields
• Thumbnails not displaying GIF files
• %DATE4% Template should accept YYYY-MM-DD
• Index Out of Range error after add or remove fields during batch processing
• %LF% not matching on all line breaks
• Allow single space in replacement list
• Test Barcodes causes issue with field display in Index Grid
• Improved multiple monitor support when restoring window position at launch
• Add Legacy PDF Text Extraction option for backwards compatibility and improved formatting of extracted text with some PDF files
• Improve Title Case Autocorrect function
• Change default Scan to File file type to PDF
• Improve OCR and Auto-Rotate performance
• Enable blank page deletion with PDF files
• Imprinting font size
• Remove password from connection strings when displaying in error messages
• Resample image updated to support all image types
• Ensure all fixed field types work with Pre-Index jobs