We've been able to enhance SentryFile so that it now creates "Image+Text" PDF documents. Essentially, this means that the scanned image appears on the screen, but hidden behind the image is the OCR captured text. This gives us the ability to do searches within the PDF document itself (through Acrobat Reader).
We've also enhanced the Search Interface. When doing a Quick Search or an Index Search the keywords that you used are piped into Acrobat Reader when viewing a document. This causes Acrobat Reader to "highlight" the matching keywords on the page.
Some screen shots:
SentryFile now detects "Image Only" PDF and TIF images being added to the system. The "Save Index" button changes to "Save Index, Begin OCR" as the default for "Image Only" documents. If the user presses "Save Index, Begin OCR" it will create an Image+Text PDF document.
The "Image+Text" PDF documents are advantageous because you can search for keywords within Acrobat Reader.
Another advantage is with searching. In the above screen shot, I did a full text search for "Springfield Nuclear Power Plant", then clicked "View Document" on the first result. See the next screen shot for the cool part!
When I view the document, SentryFile pushes the keywords into Acrobat. This causes Acrobat to immediately do a search for those keywords. A list of matches is displayed in the panel on the left side of the screen. Whenever you click one of the matches, the appropriate page is displayed and the matching text is highlighted.
Pretty cool stuff huh! :)
We expect to release these features with the SentryFile 5.11 update due within about two weeks. You're gonna love it! :)
Thanks,
Chris
9 comments:
this is amazing Chris, keep up the good work.
Chris, this is fantantic! What an outstanding job. Your responce to a suggestion to a request from the field is nothing short of miraculaus! I know I certainly appreciate it, and I know the prospect will really like this outstanding new enhancement. Thanks again for your effort. I also want to thank Glen for all his support. Now I need to go get some business. Fabulous job!
Chris,
You are the man!
You are amazing with the speed you are bringing these greatly desired updates to the marketplace.
I have never seen or heard of any software company bringing improvements to their products in the way you have.
I love what youe have done, keep up the fantastic work.
Scott
Thanks guys! This feature is a real "Home Run"! I've had a couple questions about performance and file sizes in the forum. Bottom line: the performance from a productivity standpoint will be awesome.
See the comments in the forum:
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Thanks! :)
Really impressive, we are still having some rough times making it work on one of our server. BUT it's been a long time since I have been so IMPATIENT in wanting to sell an application. We are a Laserfiche reseller, BUT, price performance wise SF is starting to shake the tree seriously and I am afraid that in some cases LSF will turn out second to SF...
I've been looking for this feature for about a year. You guys are fantastic, just what I wanted!!!!
Keep up the good work.
Hi Chris,
Excellent work on this feature. I do have a question, though. Will we be able to convert existing image only PDFs that are stored in SentryFile to image+text PDFs as well?
Thanks
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