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IMiS/OCR Server

04/2013: 8.4.1211, 8.5.1211, 8.6.1211, 8.9.1211, 8.10.1211

Processing limit preference to process only documents with the number of pages less than or equal to the limit
OCR engine unsupported gray 4bit & 8bit, palette 4bit & 8bit and color formats are now converted to TIFF LZW, not TIFF Packbits (also fix for IMiS/OCR Server 8.6.xxxx versions)
Documents recoginzed as empty document in Notes Application Job are considered a failure and no result is passed forward
Attachment records are now by default marked with non empty error message (empty message means they were successfully processed)
Fixed processing request counter that was always 1 no mather how many attachments or objects were found
Statistic were written to database only on success in Notes Mailbox job are now written also on failure with error message

11/2012: 8.4.1211, 8.5.1211, 8.6.1211, 8.9.1211, 8.10.1211

New version $20002 of the IMiSOCRServerProcessedObjs LN item value format in now used to keep record of processed objects
IMiSOCRServerProcessedObjs LN item value is now added even if Notes Application job 'Delete after OCR' option is checked
IMIS_STY LN item value is not considered any more when checking if object should be processed
FTS LN item in Notes Application job was not created in some cases if 'Create Item for FTS' option was checked fixed
Object could be processed in some cases even if not indicated by internal ShouldObjectBeProcessed method fixed
Processed objects with error message will be processed again next time a LN document is processed in Notes Application job
LN items in Notes Application job are now also updated if some objects were not successfully processed during OCR process
Old FTS items are removed (if specified) when existing IMiSOCRServerProcessedObjs LN item values are removed.
Attachment name not written to console log when converting object for OCR engine
Keyword %VERSION% can now be used in Notes Mailbox job Append or Deny message file and is replaced with IMiS/OCR Server version, if specified
PDF Server Request now attaches result PDF file only if no error occurred during conversion, and not or error or when source file is already PDF

02/2012: 8.4.1202, 8.5.1202, 8.6.1202, 8.9.1202, 8.10.1202

New output format ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object Format) (applies to 8.10.1202)
New output format EPUB (Electronic Publication Format) (applies to 8.10.1202)
New output format FB2 (FictionBook Format) (applies to 8.10.1202)
DBF output format removed (no longer supported) (applies to 8.10.1202)
Support for WDP input format (applies to 8.10.1202)
PDF & PDF/A picture format setting now for b/w, gray & color images (applies to 8.10.1202)
New UPC-A barcode type (applies to 8.10.1202)
Fixed initialization of OCR parameters setting in webservice job
Image properties are now saved after analysis

02/2011: 8.4.1102, 8.5.1102, 8.6.1102, 8.9.1102

New Microsoft Word 2007 output format (applies to 8.9.1102)
New Microsoft Excel 2007 output format (applies to 8.9.1102)
New Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 output format (applies to 8.9.1102)
Support for new output parameters (O= docx, xlsx, pptx) in IMiS OCR Server Request (applies to 8.9.1102)
Background color mode setting in RTF export parameters (applies to 8.9.1102)
Fixed page size in RTF output format enabled (applies to 8.9.1102)
Saving webservice PDFA params to database fix (PDF values were used instead of PDFA) (applies to 8.9.1102)
Write Extended Character Attributes in XML format depends on Write Character Attributes setting (applies to 8.9.1102)
Retain editable page layout & Retain exact page layout options removed from RTF Layout setting (applies to 8.5.1102)
Hide splash screen option in Preferences dialog
Inherit default OCR language option populates default language in the selected languages list
Highlight uncertain character color now defaults to current color when color dialog is opened
Up/down buttons for selected languages in Preferences and JobEditor fix
Conversion of images is now performed after OCR engine has tried to open them and failed
Reintroduced Notes ID password setting in Preferences dialog
Service description includes web service provider functionality
Server stops on Windows log off and after login it is not working fix
Server being stopped from Services console fix
Adding webservice job binding(s) after unsuccessful server start fix
Menu command Stop stays checked when failing to stop OCR processing Notes job fix
Reset OCR progress after OCR processing on Notes job is finished
Control tab order on Preference & JobEditor dialogs

11/2010: 8.4.1011, 8.5.1011, 8.6.1011, 8.9.1011

All webservice requests are logged with entry and exit messages
Processing of webservice request is logged with begin and end messages
Changed setting of HTTP Server used for webservice requests (client connection threads, KeepAlive functionality, binding sockets with NoDelay and ReuseAddress settings enabled)
Close application while OCR engine is processing fixed
Access Violation when webservice requests are handled while OCR engine is processing
Minor changes in Basic Authentication checking for Webservice job
AnalyzeDocument, RecognizeDocument and ExportDocument webservice interface methods now throw remotable exception when progress field in webservice request table is -1 (like GetAnalysisResult, GetRecognitionResult and GetExportResult methods)
Not all data was deleted from database when deleting webservice requests belonging to IMiS/OCR Server webservice job
Not all data was deleted from database when deleting expired webservice requests
Reset all interrupted webservice request on IMiS/OCR Server startup can not revert the state in database to previous state. Interrupted webservice request are currently deleted

10/2010: 8.4.1010 RC, 8.5.1010 RC, 8.6.1010 RC, 8.9.1010 RC

New PDF-A output format type (applies to 8.9.1010)
New JPEG quality setting in RTF output format (applies to 8.9.1010)
New layout options to retain exact or editable page layout in RTF output format (applies to 8.9.1010)
New Picture format setting in RTF, HTML and PDF output formats (applies to 8.9.1010)
New Picture resolution 'Preserve' setting in RTF, HTML and PDF output formats (applies to 8.9.1010)
New recognition languages: Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Korean (Hangul), Latvian Gothic, Old English, Old French, Old German, Old Italian, Old Spanish, Thai, Uighur (Cyrillic), Uighur (Latin), Vietnamese, Yiddish (applies to 8.9.1010)
New code pages: Chinese Simplified (GB2312), Chinese Simplified (Mac), Chinese Traditional (Big5), Chinese Traditional (Mac), Japanese (Mac), Japanese (Shift-JIS), Korean, Korean (Johab), Korean (Mac), Mathematical symbols, Digits, Windows Thai (874), Macintosh Thai, Vietnamese (applies to 8.9.1010)
New barcode types: UPCE, Industrial25, IATA25, Matrix25, Code93, PostNet, UCC128 (applies to 8.9.1010)
New block types: Checkmark, CheckmarkGroup (applies to 8.9.1010)
New text types: MICR CMC7, Gothic (applies to 8.9.1010)
New picture format enum types: RTFPictureFormat, HTMLPictureFormat, PDFPictureFormat, PDFAPictureFormat (applies to 8.9.1010)
IMiS/OCR Server Request output format parameter now supports PDF/A (e.g. 'O=pdfa') (applies to 8.9.1010)
Updated About dialog with Abbyy FRE9 copyright notice including Adobe copyright notice (applies to 8.9.1010)
PDF & PDF/A output formats with Creator and Producer tags (IMiS/OCR Server & FRE version) (applies to 8.9.1010)
PDF output format with Creator and Producer tags (IMiS/OCR Server & FRE version) (applies to 8.6.1010)
PDF output format with Creator tag (IMiS/OCR Server version) (applies to 8.5.1010)
New PageTips property in webservice object TRecognitionReply for requesting recognition page tips (applies to 8.6.1010, 8.9.1010)
New Tips property in webservice object TPage object (applies to 8.6.1010, 8.9.1010)
Renamed PictureQuality property in RTFParams webservice object to JpegQuality (applies to 8.5.1010, 8.6.1010, 8.9.1010)
Renamed PictureQuality property in HTMLParams and PDFParams webservice objects to JpegQuality (applies to 8.6.1010, 8.9.1010)
Report rectangle callback fixed (applies to 8.5.1010, 8.6.1010)
Export progress is now shown in progress bar (applies to 8.4.1010)
Default webservice request retention period setting
Webservice supports hostnames as well as IP addresses for HTTP server
Changed treeview of Output Format node in Job Editor dialog
Job settings are now checked if modified on job change in Job Editor dialog
Updated Notes field names for setting OCR parameters
Public webservice enum types are now scoped enums with enum value names changed to shorter PascalCase names
Delete all belonging webservice request from database when deleting IMiS/OCR Server webservice job
Delete all interrupted webservice request in database on IMiS/OCR Server startup
Delete all expired webservice request from database in IMiS/OCR Server timer thread
Checking whether or not Lotus Notes is installed on the machine to show/hide About box IBM copyright notice
Setting statistics page size and resolution fixed
Report analyze percentage now properly shows progress
Missing CoInitialize in try finally of the process thread execute method
Check interval spin edit fix
Handle all types of exceptions in CheckAndProcess function
Handle new assert error code from imisconv.dll functions, report error message and continue processing

12/2009: 6.4.912, 6.5.912, 6.6.912

Handle all types of exceptions in CheckAndProcess
Handle new assert error code from imisconv.dll functions, report error message and continue processing

10/2009: 7.4.910 RC, 7.5.910 RC, 7.6.910 RC

Basic authentication scheme for Webservice job: webservice can now be accessed with username & password that are set in the webservice job properties.
Export progress is now shown in progress bar
Export status bar message is changed
Statusbar invalidate bug fix: background is not cleared and text is drawn over existing text
Fixed analysis progress display in progress bar
Selected job name is now cleared when clicking new job
Display of Job Editor settings when changing selected job name fixed
Fixed Preferences and Usage statistics window caption
IMiS/OCR Server Request parameter tags case insensitive (e.g. allowed 'L=' & 'l=')
Fixed error when returning complex types with arrays in C# webservice client
Fixed error when using uninitialized complex types in C# webservice client
Webservice request stage and languages enumerators were not properly registered
Export progress was not updated for webservice request
Fixed updating of Progress field to 100% in webservice requests table
Recognition progress for webservice requests was updated per page and is now fixed to report progress for all pages
Fixed writing analysis reply parameter to database
Analyze stage now starts with current page 1 not 0
Fixed analysis progress reporting in OCR engine callbacks
Statusbar icon and state were not updated when webservice requests were processed

07/2009: 7.4.907 RC, 7.5.907 RC, 7.6.907 RC

Multiple recognition languages: more than one recognition language can now be set in IMiS/OCR server so that documents containing more than one language can be properly handled
Webservice job type: IMiS/OCR server can now be used as a webservice to allow custom clients to programmatically optically recognize documents over standard SOAP interface
New output format settings: RTF: size settings; HTML: use Unicode, JPEG quality; PDF: JPEG quality; TXT: append EOF symbol, text encoding (applies to 7.6.907)
New CSV output format: CSV format (a subformat of TXT format) that was not exposed in earlier versions of IMiS/OCR server is now available as the output format in the OCR settings (applies to 7.6.907)
New PDF output format type (applies to 7.4.907)
Application job type changes: format of ProcessedObjs multi-value LN item values is redefined to allow more control over associated full-text LN items
Rotated pages fix: rotated pages were not properly handled during recognition
Application redesign: old version was redesigned to look more like other IMiS products
Unicode support: ANSI-based IMiS/OCR server was upgraded to support Unicode

01/2007: 6.4.701, 6.5.701, 6.6.701

Override Target Description functionality added

06/2006: 6.4.606, 6.5.606, 6.6.606

Document Locking functionality added (when used with LN 6.x)
Document Save Test functionality added
Administration Request functionality added (LicenseInfo)
OCR Server Version Reporting added in Mail Job
Removing Source object that had StoreInfo part added to its ID fixed
Removal went ahead even is Save operation failed with resulted in data loss

04/2006: 6.5.604, 6.6.604

Bug in statistical collection fixed

01/2006: 6.4.601, 6.5.601, 6.6.601

Delete from storage functionality added
External storage target added
Added support for "text-only" export

09/2005: 5.4.509, 5.5.509, 5.6.509

Expanded input format support for latest and new image format encodings and compression types
OCR result file can now be imported into a Rich Text field when running in advanced (database) mode
OCR results can now be routed to a specific email address oppose to returning it to the sender
Support for "invalid" characters in Object Description when used in advanced (database mode) with images stored on IMiS/ARChive

12/2004: 4.4.412, 4.5.412, 4.6.412

Support of PDF as input format in both Mail and Advanced (database) mode

04/2004: 4.4.404, 4.5.404, 4.6.404

Expanded image processing functionality
Issues concerning IMiS/OCR Server running as service have been addressed and resolved
Improved communication layer to IMiS/ARChive server
Support for Microsoft Windows 2003 Server platform
Support for images stored on Lotus Notes Document Imaging Mass Storage Server (LN:DI MSS) has been dropped

04/2004: 3.5.404

Collecting statistics fixed

10/2003: 3.4.310, 3.5.310, 3.6.310

Built with FineReader engine 6
Loading imisconv.dll functions fixed

08/2003: 3.4.308, 3.5.308, 3.6.308

IMiS/OCR Server runs as a windows service when running on NT-style operating systems

09/2002: 2.9.209

support for reporting OCR statistics in Lotus Notes subform

03/2002: 2.3.1

Copyrights switched to Imaging Systems
Processing more than one doc in mail mode fixed
Deallocating language string fixed
Loading OCR preferences for the job fixed

11/2001: 2.0.1

Support for IMiS/ARC objects

11/2001: 1.95.2

OCR process can be stopped through a menu command

10/2001: 1.95.1

Multi DB support
IMiS object processing
Job Editor dialog

09/2001: 1.94.3

Cumulative statistics for recognized characters fix
Multipage image recognition fix

08/2001: 1.94.2

Statistics added to output mail

03/2001: 1.94.1

Access to MSS/FS/UNC objects
RemoveAllFromFolder bug fixed

11/2000: 1.93.4

Timelimit option for demo releases
Status indicator blinking fix

10/2000: 1.93.3

Percentage progress reporting
Progress bar added
Abbyy FR Callback function bug

10/2000: 1.93.2

Application exit fixed

09/2000: 1.93.1

OCR statistics functionality added
Send denied message to sender
Process Mails (OCR server works as a mail server)
Process Docs (OCR server works on databases, converting attachments to OCR results)
All OCR parameters are now settable through Preferences dialog
Improved / added options to Preferences dialog
Improved security
Improved UI (system tray options)
Improved Splash screen (moved from 'FormCreate' to main application code)
While setting OCR Params, the language wasn't considered
Handled exception while trying to write error to screen
When trying to change preferences, the server didn't write out the error
While processing, the server writes out a backslash before filename of the result
If allow/deny lists don't exist, if did't throw an exception

09/2000: 1.0.1

IMiS/OCR Server beta version

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