List of Changes for Quick Fields 8.3

June 11, 2012 | KB: 1012982
Quick Fields 8.3

Summary

This article documents the list of changes for Quick Fields 8.3.

New Features

See the following list of new features in Quick Fields 8.3.

  • An option to limit the number of documents in line to be processed at a time is now available under the Advanced node in the Options dialog in the Tools menu.
  • There are new PDF options for generating pages in Universal Capture and the Laserfiche Capture Engine.
  • There is a new process called Retrieve PDF Form Contents that enables you to retrieve values from a PDF form and it stores those values as tokens.
  • If an image in Quick Fields has associated text, you can now draw a rectangle around the text on the actual image, copy the text, and use it elsewhere in the document (fields, document name, etc.)
  • Public Image Stamp, Text Stamp, and Text Box have been added as available annotations to add to documents in the Fixed Annotation process. (84640)
  • You can now use tokens for the starting count in the Bates Numbering process.
  • There are two new advanced options in the OmniPage Zone OCR process.
    • You can now choose if you want to use existing text or OCR text from the image.
    • You can select to set the current options as the default options.
  • You can define zone sizes using percentages now. There is also a new option under Tasks Pane in the Options dialog to set the default unit of measure to pixels or percent.
  • You can now configure if an annotation placed on an image by Quick Fields should be public, protected, or private.
  • You can now migrate multiple document classes at once to a new repository or change the account logged in to the repository associated with those classes.
  • You can configure if you want documents placed under version control before they are merged with documents of the same name when stored in Laserfiche.
  • You can configure if you want new documents created by Quick Fields to be placed under version control when sent to the Laserfiche repository.
  • There is a new toolbox process filter at the top of the Tasks Pane that will help you find a certain process by typing in a keyword.
  • The highlight and redaction added in a Fixed Annotation process will now be linked to the image's text (if the image has text) (79799).
  • You can now use field values as tokens in Storage Processing.
  • The QR barcode type is now supported (68593).
  • The "Document" numbering style option for Bates Numbering increments on every page instead of once per document (60579).
  • Quick Fields 8.3 now supports scanners that use WIA drivers.

Fixes/Changes for Quick Fields 8.3

The following is a list of fixes/changes for Quick Fields 8.3.

  • The Deskew process may not effectively deskew when Detect skew by lines is selected. You may get better results by detecting skew by text or angles (17494).
  • When Quick Fields is set up to name a document based on a field value, and that field value is blank, the document will not be sent to Laserfiche named Untitled. Instead, you will get an error informing you of the issue (57588).
  • Quick Fields version 8 and up does not automatically remove leading or trailing spaces during lookup processes (22329).
  • The Test feature of the Pattern Matching, Substitution, and Text Identification processes now updates as you type. You do not have to click an extra button.
  • You can now define if the Output Pane or Processing Pane will record data. You configure this option under Processing Information Pane or Output Pane in the Options dialog accessed from the Tools menu.
  • You can now define if drawing a rectangle on an image will zoom to the selected region under the Display node of the Options dialog. (86754)
  • There is now an option to enable the zoom field from the zoom field's context menu (82799).
  • When configuring Field Lookup or Lookup, you can now click Test to see what results are returned or to see if there were any errors in your query.
  • You can now add a combination of static text and tokens in list fields (85285).
  • TWAIN will now save images with the correct DPI (87433).
  • You can now double-click on an action in the Output Pane to be taken directly to the page where the action took place (86427).
  • Scanning multi-tiff black and white and color documents using Universal Capture does not change all pages to black and white anymore (86184).
  • Images are no longer inverted when using Auto Rotate (85328).
  • Quick Fields sessions will not stop working after installing the Quick Fields language pack (75430).
  • Repairing a Quick Fields installation will not deactivate Quick Fields anymore (68923).
  • The Quick Fields deactivation utility now logs everything it does (55391).
  • When using Laserfiche Capture Engine, documents with slashes in their names can be retrieved from a parent and its subfolders without throwing an error (72652).
  • Laserfiche Capture Engine will now use JPEG compression and export color images as JPEGs when the Use JPEG compression checkbox is selected under Tools>Options>Quick Fields>General (74810).
  • The template configured for unidentified documents (under Tools>Options>Current Session) will now be retained after saving, closing, and reopening the session (61452).
  • You can now access the Token Editor dialog box in list fields by right-clicking in the field (50831).
  • You can now configure a session to send your processed documents at a scheduled time using the icon in the bottom right corner (54566).
  • The Barcode process will no longer freeze Quick Fields if it tries to process a corrupt image (87403).
  • The e.APIShowException method, used when scripting in Quick Fields, now displays a message showing any errors that occur when the script runs (87693).
  • The image display now loads when the Windows format is set to Turkish (87234).
  • The Optical Mark Recognition process does not leave copies of master forms in the master form folder when it runs anymore (85320).
  • Universal Capture now recognizes a UNC path to a direct share (80503).
  • The Quick Fields script to reassign an unidentified document to a document class does not duplicate the first page of the document anymore (77935).
  • You can now browse for folders on servers running on non-standard ports (ports other than 80)(75758).
  • Pattern Matching now runs properly if it was set up in the Page Processing stage then moved to the Pre-Classification Processing stage (73351).
  • Having a space at the end of a document name no longer fails with an "invalid object name" error when the document class is set to merge and append and a match is found (68123).
  • You can now edit tokens in integer/number fields after you close and reopen a Quick Fields session (64891).
  • Local image enhancements are will no longer become permanent when migrating from Quick Fields 7 (62330).
  • Running image enhancements on corrupt images does not cause Quick Fields to stop creating subsequent pages (60881).
  • Tokens in a document name are now reevaluated when reassigning the document class (60512)
  • Running Lookup processes that connect to the data source using OLE drivers now works if a column name in the data source table contains special characters (55332).
  • Quick Fields 8.3 no longer displays an "Access is denied" error message when a session attempts to assign multiple blank values to a multi-value number-type field (52553).
  • Quick Fields is now able to process barcodes containing an invalid XML character. Quick Fields will also create a page after reading such a barcode (73368).
  • An "Error occurred while trying to scan document id=DocumentID, name=DocumentName, error=Stamp not found." error will not occur anymore when scanning with the Laserfiche Capture Engine scan source if a page contains a deleted public stamp (70616).
  • When a session contains a Page Removal process configured to remove a specific page number, Quick Fields will no longer remove that page when you chose to rescan that page (67855).
  • Quick Fields will no longer leave pages in the scan queue when scanning thousands of pages (68402).
  • Quick Fields will start the scanner properly when using ScanConnect if you switch between sessions without closing and opening a new instance of Quick Fields (68966).
  • An "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error does not lock up the Quick Fields UI (60097).
  • When using the Slideshow option, the pages of some of the documents will be sent to Laserfiche (60342).
  • Processing Summary now appears when you click Stop scanning and choose to leave the pages in a queue (60951).
  • Quick Fields 8.3 now correctly handles legacy sessions in which the last process in a document class is a Quick Fields 6 Barcode process (59597).
  • The migration utility no longer incorrectly converts a process' local image enhancements into permanent enhancements (62330).
  • The migration process now properly handles Quick Fields 7 sessions that contain a process with 4 or more lookup values. Previously, if a process contained 4 lookup values, the migration utility would display an "'.', hexadecimal value 0x00, is an invalid character. Line 734, position 8" error message (60265).
  • The Output Pane will no longer display an "Unspecified Error" message when a non-English edition of Quick Fields attempts to run a Barcode process (60837).
  • When Quick Fields 8.3 and Laserfiche Scanning 8.3 are installed on the same computer, you can now launch the New Session Wizard in Quick Fields.
  • When on a named device, logging in through Windows authentication with a version 8.0 client program (e.g., Quick Fields 8.0.x) will no longer display the following error message: The maximum number of sessions that this server instance is licensed for has been reached. [9030]

Related Links

1012983 Release Notes for Quick Fields 8.3.