PDFKeeper 7.2.1
Client Requirements
- Windows (64-bit) with .NET Framework 4.8 installed.
- OCR text extraction requires Windows 10.
- Any additional requirements will be referenced in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
Database Compatibility
- SQLite (included as a single-user database option)
Multi-User Database Management Systems
- Oracle Database 19c
- Oracle Database 18c Express Edition
- Oracle Database 11g Express Edition
Setup instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
Upgrade Information
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 6.1.1 or lower, the database schema will require an upgrade. Database Schema Upgrade instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
- Starting with version 6.0.0, PDFKeeper is now 64-bit. The latest 32-bit version of PDFKeeper is 5.0.3.
- Starting with PDFKeeper 6.0.0, 64-bit Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) Runtime 19.3 is required when connecting to Oracle Database. Instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 4.x.x, the User name and Data source will need to be entered on the first login.
- Starting with version 4.0.0, PDFKeeper is installed per-user, requiring older, per-machine installs to be uninstalled manually.
Improvements
- Added Connection Timeout=60 to the Oracle Database Connection String to mitigate connection timeouts.
Changes
- Improved PDF image extraction performance and OCR accuracy.
- Updated Magick.NET to 8.3.0.
- Updated System.Data.SQLite to 1.0.115.
Fixes
- Fixed UploadRunningToolStripStatusLabel not being visible during an upload cycle and Search Results not refreshing after completing.
- Login form error message will no longer appear behind the Login form making it impossible to acknowledge.
- iText.IO.IOException when reading an invalid PDF is now handled.
- iText.Kernel.Pdf.Canvas.Parser.Util.InlineImageParsingUtils.InlineImageParseException when extracting text from PDF is now handled and ignored.
- Fixed application hang when extracting text from an “image-only” PDF while running "Update PDF Text Annotations and Text in Database".
Additional Information
- Oracle Database 19c (19.3) requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64) - 12.0.30501 to be installed on the computer hosting the database.
Known Issues
- Text from image-only pages contained in a PDF that contain both image-only pages and pages with text will not be extracted.
- Text will not be extracted from embedded images contained in a PDF.