PDF Converter for SharePoint 7.2 - OCR Workflow Activities, MSG Improvements

Posted at: 17:24 on 09 April 2014 by Muhimbi

The new features introduced with version 7.1 of the PDF Converter for SharePoint have proven to be popular with our customers. Today we are happy to announce version 7.2, which takes the existing features and elevates them to the next level while staying compatible with all SharePoint versions including SharePoint 2007, 2010 and 2013.

In addition to a number of bug fixes, the main new features are OCR Workflow Actions for SharePoint Designer and Nintex workflow, the ability to extract text from bitmap based content using OCR as well as further improvements to the MSG and EML based converters, specifically in the area of embedded (OLE) content and calendar entries.

For those not familiar with the product, the PDF Converter for SharePoint is a lightweight solution that allows end-users to merge, split, watermark, secure, OCR and convert common document types - including InfoPath, AutoCAD, MSG (email) MS-Office, HTML and images - to PDF as well as other formats from within SharePoint using a friendly user interface, workflows or a web service call without the need to install any client side software or Adobe Acrobat. It integrates at a deep level with SharePoint and leverages facilities such as the Audit log, Nintex Workflow, localisation, security and tracing. It runs on SharePoint 2007, 2010 & 2013 and is available in English, German, Dutch, French, Traditional Chinese and Japanese. For detailed information check out the product page.

Example of a converted Calendar entry with an (OLE) embedded Excel sheet

In addition to the changes listed above, some of the main changes and additions in the new version are as follows:

2100	Excel	New	Optionally scale Excel to page width & height
2059	HTML	Fix	System.ArgumentException: uri - string can not be empty
1996	HTML	Improvement	Reduce white space causing occasional extra empty PDF pages at end of file.
1802	Merging	Fix	Bookmark targets bottom of page
2093	Merging	Fix	"Unexpected token Unknown before 107448" while merging file
2078	Merging	Fix	Kernel Error while loading PDF
2073	Merging	Fix	System.IndexOutOfRangeException while merging
2074	Merging	Fix	System.NullReferenceException while merging
2075	Merging	Fix	System.NullReferenceException while merging
2076	Merging	Fix	Some HTML Converted files cannot be saved in Acrobat Pro after merging
2126	MSG	Fix	"System.InvalidOperationException: Stack empty" during conversion of 3rd party generated MSG files
2133	MSG	Fix	"Parameter is not valid" during conversion of 3rd party generated MSG files
2136	MSG	Fix	Content missing from converted MSG file
2106	MSG	Fix	Fixed MSG body for 3rd party generated MSG files
2116	MSG	Fix	Conversion of MSG files with an attached MSG that is signed
2124	MSG	Fix	"System.IndexOutOfRangeException" Converting German email
2125	MSG	Fix	Conversion of email never finishes
2105	MSG	Fix	"Invalid Compressed RTF header" during conversion of 3rd party generated emails
2090	MSG	Fix	Extra '}' in body text
2058	MSG	Fix	No bookmark generated for certain attachments
2056	MSG	Fix	‘Sent date' not correct on some 3rd party generated emails
2057	MSG	Fix	Unicode converter issue (also with EML)
2088	MSG	Improvement	Add support for attendees to meeting invitations
2086	MSG	Improvement	Optionally throw error if embedded content is encountered that cannot be converted
2013	MSG	Improvement	From address shows LDAP path
2046	MSG	Improvement	Web Service support for MSGConverterFullFidelity.EmailAddressDisplayMode and FromEmailAddressDisplayMode
2087	MSG	New	Convert the visual representation of embedded objects
2068	MSG	New	Add support for the conversion of Calendar Entries
2050	MSG	New	Add config value to allow MSG attachments list to be displayed, even when attachments are disabled
2113	MSG/HTML	Fix	Rendering error in very long emails / HTML pages
2066	MSG/HTML	Fix	Sometimes content is truncated on systems running IE9, IE10 or IE11
2005	MSG/HTML	Fix	Fonts look weird in some emails
1786	OCR	Fix	Handle leak during OCR
2054	OCR	Fix	Some Mixed content (MS-Word files with scanned images) does not always OCR
1999	OCR	Fix	Arabic training data causes exception
1788	OCR	Improvement	Increase OCR Performance
2089	OCR	Improvement	Update Diagnostics tool to display OCRed text
2081	OCR	Improvement	In-line images are recognised but text is not placed on it correctly
1998	OCR	Improvement	Add support for Hebrew
1975	OCR	New	SharePoint Designer OCR Workflow Activity for generating searchable PDFs
1975	OCR	New	SharePoint Designer OCR Workflow Activity for extracting text from bitmaps
1976	OCR	New	Nintex Workflow OCR Activity for generating searchable PDFs
1976	OCR	New	Nintex Workflow OCR Workflow Activity for extracting text from bitmaps
2048	OCR	New	Support for extracting text from bitmap based content using OCR
2072	Other	New	Allow timeouts to be specified on web service call
2102	Watermarking	Fix	Chinese & Japanese fonts are not displayed in watermarks
2103	Watermarking	Fix	Watermarking some documents causes problem in Adobe Reader 9
2049	Watermarking	New	Add support for USER_NAME in addition to the existing REMOTE_USER and LOGON_USER in watermarks