This article details the key new features in Quick Fields 8.0.
Overview
Laserfiche Quick Fields 8 contains many new processes and features to help your organization capture data. The new features help create more efficient and accurate sessions, allow additional metadata customization, and offer increased support for working with electronic documents.
Below, please see descriptions of the new features and enhancements available in the base Quick Fields release and each add-on.
Basic Quick Fields Installation
- Detailed session creation and document class creation wizards.
- Ability to create a blank session without using a wizard.
- More customizable interface.
- Pre-Classification Processing stage: apply processes to every page in the session.
- Storage Processing stage: apply processes upon storage in Laserfiche.
- Text Extraction process: generate text from electronic documents.
- Page Size Identification process: identify documents by image dimensions.
- Text Identification process: identify documents by specified text patterns.
- Ability to run a process or groups of processes (Process Profiles) on a document that has already been scanned and processed.
- Metadata Updater: automatically updates repository connection and information.
- Search feature for documents that have been captured but not yet sent to the repository.
- Metadata customization options.
- Detailed session permissions.
- Ability to reclassify unassigned documents.
- Ability to use Laserfiche search syntax to specify Laserfiche Capture Engine criteria.
- Token Validation
- Migration utility for Quick Fields 6/7 sessions.
Add-Ons
Barcode Add-on
- Ability to read 2D barcodes.
- Multiple barcode zones within a single barcode process.
Optical Mark Recognition Add-on
- Auto-OMR process to analyze complex Optical Mark Recognition regions.
Real-Time Lookup Add-on
- Token Verification process: checks whether a token value exists in a database column.
- Support for additional data sources.
- Support for custom SQL queries.
Auto Stamp/Redaction/Bates Num.
- Auto Annotation process: annotates based on a pattern.
- Fixed Annotation process: annotates a specified region.
Pattern Matching Add-on
- Substitution process: performs a find and replace on a document's text or token values.
- Inline regular expressions: you can use pattern matching expressions within a token.
Zone OCR Add-on
- Multiple zones within a single Zone OCR process.
Document Classification Add-on
- Ability to specify a repository location for unidentified documents.
- Ability to reassign documents from one class to another.
Quick Fields Toolkit
- Custom Process: run an executable from the Quick Fields interface.
- Script Editor (beta feature). Write C# and VB.NET scripts for Quick Fields.
You can also learn more about Quick Fields 8 in the technical white paper "Quick Fields 8 New Features Quick Reference" or the Laserfiche Quick Fields 8 Guided Help - New Features video.