DocYard Version(s) 3.x
Version 3.13.0 [Date: 1 November 2023]
Version 3.12.0 [Date: 15 December 2022]
Version 3.11.0 [Date: 13 October 2022]
Version 3.10.0 [Date: 31 August 2022]
Version 3.9.0 [Date: 16 May 2022]
Version 3.8.0 [Date: 17 January 2022]
Version 3.7.0 [Date: 6 October 2021]
Version 3.6.0 [Date: 31 August 2021]
Version 3.5.0 [Date: 2 August 2021]
Version 3.4.0 [Date: 1 November 2020]
Version 3.3.0 [Date: 1 April 2020]
Version 3.2.5 [Date: 1 July 2019]
Version 3.2.4 [Date: 8 March 2019]
Version 3.2.3 [Date: 5 December 2018]
Version 3.2.2 [Date: 9 November 2018]
Version 3.2.1 [Date: 26 September 2018]
Version 3.2.0 [Date: 1 Augustus 2018]
Version 3.1.5 [Date: 29 March 2018]
Version 3.1.4 [Date: 23 March 2018]
Version 3.1.2 [Date: 22 Februari 2018]
Version 3.1.1 [Date: 15 Januari 2018]
Version 3.1.0.783 [Date: 12 September 2017]
Version 3.1.0 [Date: 30 June 2017]
Version 3.130
[Date: 1 November 2023]
[Date: 1 November 2023]
Development
A new affordable OCR module using the opensource Tesseract>
A new Image conversion module which converts images to PDF
A new PDF conversion module which converts PDFs to other PDF formats
A new PDF Extract Text module
- The PDF Extract Text module extracts text from a searchable PDF containing a selectable text layer. The module can output the extracted text as a plain text file via the plain text output channel. The module can also write the extracted text to a metadata field. This way, the text can be easily accessed from macros in downstream modules.
Support for certificate authentication for the Send API request module
- Add a Certificate path property to the Send API Request module that configures the path to a certificate file that is presented by the module (client) to the server
Fixes
MRC Compression
- Fix MRC Compression module not updating the extension to .pdf in the DocYard.FileInfo.FileName metadata field
Form Designer app
- Fix incorrect resolution of imported PDFs in the Form Designer app, Imported PDFs are now rasterized to a bitmap at a resolution of 300 dpi
Cockpit
- Fix incorrect selected job in client and jobs panel after closing a job properties window that was opened with a double-click on the job
Third-Party component maintenance
Third-Party component
- Update Pdfium.Net.SDK to 4.85.2704
Version 3.12.0
[Date: 15 December 2022]
[Date: 15 December 2022]
Development
Enhancements batch creation mode
- Add a simple batch creation mode that creates batches from scratch (i.e. not dependent on folders, CSV, etc.). Great for creating batches starting with an Email Import module
Enhancements Email Import module
- Add a login attempts property to the Email Import module that configures the maximum number of attempts to re-login after a failed attempt before an error is reported. Useful if you don't want to get an immediate error on a short and temporary network or email server interruption
Enhancements DocYard Cockpit
- Add shortcut-keys for some common Cockpit actions:
Layout workflow: Ctrl+R (reformat)
Clear status view: Ctrl+W (wipe)
Normal zoom: Ctrl+0
Zoom to fit: Ctrl+1
Zoom in: Ctrl+=
Zoom out: Ctrl+-
Copy master log messages to clipboard: Ctrl+Shift+C
Enhancements reboot procedure
- Add the recommended reboot procedure to the documentation
- Add two sample Windows PowerShell modules that provide some high-level cmdlets that facilitate scripting the reboot procedure
Fixes
Data Warehouse
- Fix missing pre- and post processing data in data warehouse
DocYard Cockpit
- Fix scrolling of large workflows without having to zoom to fit first
Version 3.11.0
[Date: 13 October 2022]
[Date: 13 October 2022]
Development
Enhancements Email Import module
- Make the Email Import module compatible with Microsoft Outlook (365) accounts for which multi-factor authentication is enabled and/or for which basic authentication is disabled by using IMAP and OAuth2 (client credential flow)
Fixes
Email Import module
- Fix crash of Module Manager when manually ending a batch that uses the Email Import module with permanent monitoring enabled
Barcode Recognition modules
- Fix "Barcode recognition failed" error when barcode contains an invalid XML character
Version 3.10.0
[Date: 31 August 2022]
[Date: 31 August 2022]
Breaking changes
- We move the recognition of Codablock F barcodes from the 2D to the 1D Barcode Recognition module. If you use Codablock F barcodes you must replace the 2D Barcode Recognition module with the 1D Barcode Recognition module
- To simplify the use of the barcode recognition modules, we replace a number of advanced configuration options with a new recognition mode property. With this property you can choose a recognition mode that controls the balance between accuracy and speed. The default settings should work for regular quality barcodes, but you must test all workflows that use barcode recognition modules to determine if these settings still work for your specific situation
- If you are using the 2D Barcode Recognition module, you must request a new license (for which there is no additional charge).
Development
Enhancements Email Import module
- Add option to stop the 'permanent' monitoring mechanism of the Email Import module by defining a cron schedule
Enhancements Send API Request module
- Add option to disable automatic redirects in the Send API Request module (3xx status code)
- Add option to disable certificate validation in the Send API Request module
Enhancements DocYard platform
- Replace the barcode recognition engine with Aspose.BarCode
- Refresh DocYard module icons
Fixes
Send API Request module
- Fix "Processing data objects failed" error when the Send API Request module receives no content from the API (204 status code)
Data Warehouse
- Fix "The specified @job_name ('Extract and Transform for Data Warehouse') does not exist" error which could occur when using the DocYard data warehouse feature in conjunction with Microsoft SQL Server
- Fix the log rotation of data warehouse logs
Version 3.9.0
[Date: 16 May 2022]
[Date: 16 May 2022]
Development
Enhancements Send API Request module
- Add option to send bodies in form data format with the Send API Request module
- Add option to send files as form data with the Send API Request module
- Add option to send bodies in form URL-encoded format with the Send API Request module
- Add PATCH, HEAD, and OPTIONS HTTP methods to the Send API Request module
- Add a received data output channel to the Send API Request module that can be used to import the response from an API into the workflow
Third-Party component maintenance
Born Digital
- Upgrade to Callas pdfEngine SDK v13.1.586
PDF rendering tool
- Update Pdfium.Net.SDK to 4.67.2704
Fixes
- Fix processing of XPS file
- Fix resuming a suspended tasks with modules that have permanent monitoring enabled
Version 3.8.0
[Date: 17 January 2022]
[Date: 17 January 2022]
Development
Changed Read Image module
- The Read Image module now only reads bitmap images. We've disabled the ability to read PDF files with this module. Using the Rasterize PDF module to convert PDF files to bitmap images was already the recommended way. So there is a good chance that you will use the Rasterize PDF module in existing workflows for this, but this should be checked to make sure that your workflow still works properly after upgrade
Changed Rasterize PDF module
- The Rasterize PDF module now always renders PDF files to bitmap images using the configured rendering resolution. The module will no longer try to determine the resolution itself. You must make sure you've set the rendering resolution to the desired dpi
New PDF rendering tool
- Replaced the PDF rendering tool with Pdfium.Net.SDK v4.65.2704
Third-Party component maintenance
Born Digital
- Upgrade to Callas pdfEngine SDK v13.0.578
Fixes
Send API Request module
- Fixed an issue where the Send API Request module produced an error when using $object in a macro at batch start. Customers using the following workaround do not need it anymore and may safely remove it:
if(!$object){
return ""
}
Processing empty email subjects
- Fixed an issue where an empty email subject resulted in an error in the Email Import module
Read Image module
- Fixed an issue where the Read Image module produced an error because DocYard was dependent on the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Redistributable Package while it wasn't included
Version 3.7.0
[Date: 6 October2021]
[Date: 6 October2021]
Development
Tutorials are added to the documentation site
- Named entity recognition tutorial
- Data warehouse tutorial
Fixes
Windows Server 2012 R2 compatibility
- Fixed incompatibility of DocYard AI with Windows Server 2012 R2 (introduced in DocYard 3.5.0)
PostgreSQL collation compatibility
- Fixed incompatibility of the DocYard installer, feature 'Data warehouse', with PostgreSQL collation other than Dutch language
Version 3.6.0
[Date: 31 August 2021]
[Date: 31 August 2021]
Development
New: documentation site
- The separate PDF manuals are merged into a single documentation site that can be viewed in your browser
- A shortcut to the new documentation site can be found in the Start menu
- Added a new Hello world tutorial
- Added new Update instructions
Third-Party component maintenance
Imaging libraries
- Updated Zstd to version 1.5.0
Version 3.5.0
[Date: 2 August 2021]
[Date: 2 August 2021]
Development
New: Named Entity Recognition module
- This new module uses a trained machine
learning model to recognize various types
of named entities in a text document
- Language models can be downloaded
and installed by using the new DocYard
AI application
New: Data warehouse
- Finished batches and all associated information
relevant for business intelligence tooling can
now be automatically copied to the
DocYard data warehouse
- The DocYard data warehouse makes it easy
to use a business intelligence tool like
Microsoft Power BI on DocYard data
- Transferring finished batches from the production
database to the data warehouse database
improves DocYard production performance
Retention policy for batches
- Option to automatically delete finished batches
- Option to copy finished batches to the new
DocYard data warehouse
Form design
- Option to add multiple values to a form design
during runtime in the form of a dictionary
DocYard AI
- Improved communication between the DocYard
Module Manager and the DocYard AI Engine
service by utilizing a new API
Third-Party component maintenance
Imaging libraries
- Upgrade libtiff to version 4.3.0
- Upgrade zstd to version 1.4.9
Fixes
Rasterize PDF module
- Fixed a rare situation where the Rasterize PDF
module gave an "Unsupported data or corrupted
file" error
Train Model module
- Fixed the issue where the Train Model module
kept on training while the batch was already
aborted or reset
Cockpit
- Fixed the issue with the drag and drop job import
where DocYard incorrectly requested a workflow
instead of a job
Version 3.4.0
[Date: 1 November 2020]
[Date: 1 November 2020]
Development
Interactive Clients
- The Quality Assurance Client is now
a 64 bit application
- The PDF Quality Assurance Client is now
a 64 bit application
* A new license is required.
Without it the client will be
"Waiting for data..." forever
after connecting to a work package
* The new license is a technical
issue, no extra costs are charged
Cockpit
- Import, export, copy, paste, drag,
drop or delete multiple jobs
Third-Party component maintenance
Barcode
- Upgrade to QS Barcode SDK version 5.0.1.245
Born Digital
- Upgrade to Callas PdfEngineSdk 11.1.544
Imaging libraries
- Upgrade Ghostscript to version 9.52
- Upgrade giflib to version 5.2.1
- Upgrade jpeglib to version 9d
- Upgrade libpng to version 1.6.37
- Upgrade libtiff to version 4.1.10
- Upgrade zlib to version 1.2.11
External dependencies
- DocYard is not dependent on any
legacy Microsoft Visual C++
Redistributables anymore
Fixes
Born Digital Conversion module
- Configuration property 'Timeout till
abort (seconds)' stops the processing
of a file when this timeout is exceeded
- A timeout or error in the processing
of a file stops all affected applications
- Configuration file setting memoryOptimization
false can prevent lengthy processing
of the first document in the batch
Born Digital Conversion module
- Barcode recognition in large images,
such as blueprints
Born Digital Conversion module
- Processing e-mails with group email addresses
no longer gives an error
- A problem with corrupt attachments in
exported MSG files has been solved
Version 3.3.0
[Date: 1 April 2020]
[Date: 1 April 2020]
Development
Send API Request
- New configuration property Body Type
- Upload documents to an external Web API
Form Designer, Form Validator
- Zoom in at the mouse location:
[Ctrl]+[MouseWheel]
- Pan the form: [Ctrl]+[Drag]
- Move redaction fields by dragging
- New Form Validator configuration
property: Display Dimension Maximum
- Seperate Form Designer and Form
Validator installation features
DocYard Cockpit
- Job properties dialog shows the Start
Batches option - also after the job is aborted
Third-Party component maintenance
Born Digital
- Upgrade to Callas PdfEngineSdk 10.2.509
Email Import, Rasterize Email
- MailKit and MsgKit replace ComponentPro
- Server type POP3 available again in the
Email import module
- Problems with special characters in email
subject and body solved
PostgreSQL
- Upgrade to PostgreSQL 12.0 (x64)
- Upgrade to psqlODBC 12.0
- See section Upgrade to PostgreSQL 12
on page 18 of the user manual
OCR, Freeform Recognition
- Upgrade to ABBYY FineReader Engine 11.1.19.102
Fixes
Scheduling
- Resume after Pause does not freeze
workflows with interactive clients anymore
Version 3.2.5
[Date: 1 July 2019]
[Date: 1 July 2019]
Development
Batch Scheduling
- Permanent monitoring with a Cron schedule
Cockpit & Clients installation
- Auto update for the following clients
after a DocYard server upgrade
- Cockpit
- Form Validator
- Goods Received Client
- PDF Quality Assurance Client
- Quality Assurance Client
- Rescan Client
- Track & Trace Client
From Validator
- Optional client side logging
Track & Trace Client
- Barcodes can always be printed as long as
the item identification textbox is not empty
Text Classification
- "Train Model For Text Classification" sample
workflow simplified
Fixes
Cockpit
- Maximum number of batches to show in the
Batch Tree View may be unlimited and is no longer
restricted to 640 batches per job
Read Image
- When "Single Page Output" FALSE and "Immediate
Output" TRUE the single page output objects
get FileName metadata suffixed with _p###
like normal single page objects in order to prevent
IO errors or data loss
Rasterize Email
- Prevent invalid operation exception "Invoke
or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control
until the window handle has been created"
Version 3.2.4
[Date: 8 March 2019]
[Date: 8 March 2019]
Development
Text Classification Module
- Built in Item Assignment
- Built in Synchronization
- Post Prediction hook
- Certainty Treshold property
- IsCertain metadata field
- Uncertain Classifications output channel
Cockpit
- The Task Activity tab now prefixes the name of
each task with that of its job
- Status options drop down menu with Task Activity
Filter that restricts the Task Activity
view to specific tasks
Track & Trace
- Barcodes can be printed for both automatically
generated and manually set item identifications
Fixes
- Invalid Operation exception in the
Rasterize Email module
- Reverted POP3 support for the Email Import
Module to prevent IMAP bugs
General
- Windows Server 2019 supported
Version 3.2.3
[Date: 5 December 2018]
[Date: 5 December 2018]
Development
New: Text Classification with
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology
- DocYard AI Engine Service
- Train Model module. Train a model from training
data using machine learning. This trained model is
needed by the Text Classification module
- Text Classification module. Predict the category of
text documents using machine learning
- Sample text classification dataset and
workflow templates
- A separate DocYard Text Classification Manual
Other
- Improvement of the GUI of
Form Fields in the Form Designer
- POP3 support for the Email Import Module
Fixes
- Fix for the Job Reports Generator
- Various small bug fixes
- Decreasing the loading time of the Form Validator
Version 3.2.2
[Date: 9 November 2018]
[Date: 9 November 2018]
Development
- Improvements in the Anonymizer Module
- Quality Assurance Client saves personal window settings
- Improvement of the loading time of the
Quality Assurance Client
- Various other small improvements
Quality Assurance Client
- Modification of the Module List in the Cockpit
- FormValidator Rectangular Zoom Feature
- Ability to zoom in at A0 drawings in the FormValidator
- Various other improvements FormValidator
Fixes
- Fix for Microsoft SQL Server
- Bug fix of the Email Rasterizer
- The total item type counters for job reports
use the start- and end date filters
- Workflow templates updated
- Fix in the 2D (QR) Barcode module
- FormDesigner small fixes
Version 3.2.1
[Date: 26 September 2018]
[Date: 26 September 2018]
Development
- A new FormDesigner content constraint 'IndexValue'
provides a reference to a regular expression hook
in the FreeForm Recognition module
- The new FormDesigner constraint option 'Many Search'
allows for finding all occurrences of a search
expression on a page
- The Cockpit & Clients installer now includes the
Form Validator
Fixes
- The index fields are shown in the Goods Received -
and Track and Trace Clients again
- The documentation concerning the 2D
(QR) Barcode Module is extended
- Jobs and workflows with euro signs (€) and
umlauts of 3.0 workflows can be imported
correctly
Version 3.2.0
[Date: 1 August 2018]
[Date: 1 August 2018]
General
- New module Anonymizer. This module can remove OCR text
from selected areas
- Microsoft SQL Server fix
- Updated the QS-Barcode Library to latest version 5.0.0.231
- The used ABBYY FineReader format is version 10
- DocYard comes with a new set of European ABBYY languages
- Barcode Printing in the Goods Received- and the Track and Trace client
- Automatic extension recognition in the File System Export module
for EML and MSG files
- DocYard is built by the Visual Studio 2017 compiler
- The target framework of DocYard is .NET Framework 4.7.1
DocYard Web Service
- A RetrieveFile requests without an OutputDirectory metadata key
attribute now reports a D0012 error before the
batch starts
- A RetrieveFile request without metadata attribute now reports a
D0012 error before the batch starts
- Removed the obsolete ExternalWeb Client section in
DocYardWebService.exe.config
- A RetrieveFile request without metadata attribute now reports a
D0012 error before the batch starts
Version 3.1.5
[Date: 29 March 2018]
[Date: 29 March 2018]
Development
- Email Importer Module bug fix for MSG Outlook Item creation
- The Installer as well as DocYard Cockpit show an error if the
version of PowerShell is not high enough
- Various small bug fixes
Version 3.1.4
[Date: 23 March 2018]
[Date: 23 March 2018]
DocYard Web Service adaptations
- The WebExport module sends StoreResult request that
contains all information of the preceding
RetrieveFile request
- The ReportError request that the WebImport
module sends if a batch finishes by an error contains
all information of the preceding
RetrieveFile request
Fixes
- Module FileSystemExport does not throw an
error anymore when property File extension is not set
- The Cockpit stays responsive after batches are filtered
- DocYard is able to read bitmaps that have a
transparency layer
Log Rotation for the Module Manager
- Like Master.log the log of the ModuleMagers can
be configured with a MaxLogFileSize and a
';MaxLogFileCount
- Sample file C:\Program Files (x86)\
DocYard\DocYard\Samples\ModuleManagerConfig.xml
contains these new settings
Version 3.1.2
[Date: 22 February 2018]
[Date: 22 February 2018]
General
- Improved the visualization of email objects
in the Quality Assurance Module
- The Create Compound Module is now able to create
an Email Hierarchy with bodies and attachments
- The PDF Rasterize Module is now able to
render damaged PDF files
- Fixed importing DocYard 3.0 and
earlier Macro Repositories
- Various small improvements and bugfixes
Extended functionality of the Email Import Module
- Capability of creating dedicated Email objects
- Enhanced permanent monitoring feature
- Included the most recent API of ComponentPro
Mail-expert
Extended functionality of the Email Rasterize Module
- Creates a well-readable email header layout
- Able to render emails with text formatting
and embedded images
Version 3.1.1
[Date: 15 January 2018]
[Date: 15 January 2018]
Development
- Web service workflows start with Web Service
Import and end with Web Service Export
- Using the Web Import and Web Export modules
requires a package license for each of them
- DocYard aborts conversions that exceed
the time-out specified by the request
- DocYard reports errors in any module of
the workflow back to the DocYard web service
- Performance improvements Batch Tree View,
by limiting the amount of batches listed
- Remark: DocYard-Update instructions section
"Completing the Server Update" point 4
must be executed to make this option work
New job configuration that will run an HTTP web service for converting documents that communicates asynchronous with customer services
- Jobs have a new batch creation option
"From a Web Service"
- New module Web Service Import
- New module Web Service Export
- The new product DocYard Web Service forms the
interface between Web Service jobs and customer
web services. It comes in a separate delivery
Version 3.1.0.783
[Date: 12 September 2017]
[Date: 12 September 2017]
General
- Extra features added to the Email Import module
to limit retrieved emails and more
- The Born Digital conversion modules have a fix
- Minor fix for the 1D Barcode Recognition Module
Version 3.1.0
[Date: 30 June 2017]
[Date: 30 June 2017]
<h3>Breaking changes</h3>
- We move the recognition of Codablock F barcodes from the 2D to the 1D Barcode Recognition module.<strong> If you use Codablock F barcodes you must replace the 2D Barcode Recognition module with the 1D Barcode Recognition module</strong>
- To simplify the use of the barcode recognition modules, we replace a number of advanced configuration options with a new recognition mode property. With this property you can choose a recognition mode that controls the balance between accuracy and speed. The default settings should work for regular quality barcodes, but <strong>you must test all workflows that use barcode recognition modules to determine if these settings still work for your specific situation</strong>
- <strong>If you are using the 2D Barcode Recognition module, you must request a new license</strong> (for which there is no additional charge)
<h3>Development</h3>
- Add option to stop the 'permanent' monitoring mechanism of the Email Import module by defining a cron schedule
- Add option to disable automatic redirects in the Send API Request module (3xx status code)
- Add option to disable certificate validation in the Send API Request module
- Replace the barcode recognition engine with Aspose.BarCode
- Refresh DocYard module icons
<h3>Fixes</h3>
- Fix "Processing data objects failed" error when the Send API Request module receives no content from the API (204 status code)
- Fix "The specified @job_name ('Extract and Transform for Data Warehouse') does not exist" error which could occur when using the DocYard data warehouse feature in conjunction with Microsoft SQL Server
- Fix the log rotation of data warehouse logs
