This article highlights changes and fixes for Import Agent 10.
- Import Agent now supports multiple threads on multi-core machines.
- Existing profiles can be copied, giving you a starting point when creating a new profile.
- When importing into an existing document, that document can now be put under version control.
- Schedule importing has been updated so that it only imports files during the configured time period. Previously, schedule importing would import any documents found during the configured time period even if the import process took longer than the time period.
- A new option lets you delete monitored subfolders if they are empty after import.
- Text generation:
- If you generated pages from a PDF, and that PDF doesn't have a text stream, you can now OCR the PDF.
- A new option lets you generate text from electronic documents.
- New tokens:
- Email tokens (for MSG files) let you populate metadata with values from emails.
- Tokens for the creation date and modification date of imported files
- Importing XML list files:
- Files imported from an XML list file can be post-processed
- PDF files imported from an XML list file follow the PDF import options
- Profile format:
- Import profiles are now saved as XML files (saved under Program Data) instead of as registry keys
- You can now generate pages for PDFs imported via LST file. (116665)
- Importing will no longer fail if Import Agent cannot generate Laserfiche pages for a PDF. (126968)
- Files that have a creation date in the future and that are copied into the monitored folder can now be imported. (144153)
- Text will now be extracted from MSG files when the generate text option is enabled. (140624)
- Field values will no longer be reset to their default values if you re-open and edit a profile. (140323)
- Files imported via an XML list are now correctly moved into the "Processed" folder. (116667)
- Files created directly in the monitored folder now respect the time period specified in the "Import files that have not been modified within the last x seconds" option. (115771)
- Non-ASCII characters in entry names in LST files now display correctly. (122692)
- The %(Date), %(DateTime), and %(Time) tokens now correctly resolve in Date, Date/Time, and Time fields assigned to an imported document. (125350, 140479)
- Exception details are now logged when the import fails. (126721)
- A memory leak in the Import Agent service has been fixed. (130229)
- Signature images on pages generated from PDFS are now retained. (138975)
- Documents with no file extensions no longer fail to import when the profile uses the %(Extension) token. (141813)
- The Laserfiche pages generated from some PDFs will no longer have black and white inverted. (142862)
- The first page generated from some PDFs with annotations on their first page will no longer be blank. (143060)
- The [Settings]ImportJPEGCompressionLevel attribute will now be followed when importing JPEG images, black and white images from Fax Group 4 that are saved as JPEG files, and non-color TIFF-LZW images. (144022)
- The [Settings]BurnPDFAnnotationsOnLFImage attribute will now be followed when importing. (144019)
- The [Options]DefaultBWFormat and [Options]DefaultColorFormat attributes will now be followed to determine how image files will be imported. If attributes are not set, Bitonal images will be imported as TIFF-G4 files, JPEG images will be imported in their native format, and all other image formats will imported as TIFF LZW files. (106798)
- The Session Count token is now correctly resolved when Display parsed token is checked. (114040)
1013768 Release Notes for Import Agent 10.