What's New in Sohodox

Barcodes will now be detected row-wise from top to bottom. Just like reading sentences on page, the barcodes will be detected in the left-to-right, top-to-bottom (line-by-line) sequence.

doQuments now supports Code 128 barcodes. More barcode formats will be supported in the future.

Default blank page threshold is now set to a lower value for more stricter detection of blank page.

A wrong detection at any stage of the batch scan means that all subsequent pages will be saved incorrectly. We recommend that you do a test run to find out the best value for your scanner. You must choose the lowest value which works correctly for you.

Minor bug fixes.

Using this feature doQuments can detect barcodes on any document being scanned (or even any supported image document added via drag & drop). The information contained in the detected barcodes can be automatically stored in data fields. You can select the data fields in which information from the barcodes must be stored. Please note you can only select Small text or Large text data fields to store the barcode information. You cannot use multi select data fields, list data fields or auto-generate data fields to store the barcode information.

doQuments supports Code 39 barcodes. More barcode formats will be supported in the future.

Options to perform barcode detection are available in the Batch Scan Wizard, Scan Panel and Scan Window. Bar codes on existing image documents can also be detected using the Detect Barcodes option on the Document menu.

Use this option if you do not want to show any records to be displayed when a DB is opened. Please note users will need to query the DB to view the records if this option is selected.

Note: Any records added by the user in the current session (that is after the user’s latest login) will remain accessible to the user. To view these records, the user must use the “Show All Records” option on the Search menu. This option is normally used to remove any applied query and show all the records.

doQuments uses a new and improved mechanism to extract and index text from documents. Text extraction is now done using IFilters installed on the user’s machine. IFilters act as plug-ins and are a part of Microsoft Indexing Service (they are also used by Windows Desktop Search). Using the IFilter mechanism improves the accuracy and performance of text extraction in doQuments.

For doQuments to be able to extract text from a file of a particular format, an IFilter for that file format must be installed on the user’s machine.

IFilters for the following file formats are installed by default on Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista machines

• PPT (Microsoft PowerPoint presentation)
• DOC (Microsoft Word document)
• XLS (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet)
• HTML documents
• TXT documents

For PDF files, existing users will need to download the freely available PDF IFilter from

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=2611

You can also install third party filters to enable doQuments to extract text from other file types, e.g.:

• Microsoft XML IFilter
• Microsoft RTF IFilter
• Microsoft Visio IFilter

More information and downloads links for various IFilters (both free and commercial) are available at

• IFilter.org
• Desktop Search IFilters

When exporting to a doQuments DB, the doQuments DB List is now displayed for choosing the target doQuments DB (instead of the doQuments DB Details Dialog being displayed).

Using this new feature you can mark any MS Access based doQuments DB as a Portable doQuments DB. This DB along with it’s System Folder and all it’s Storage Folders can then be copied/moved to any removable media (e.g.: USB Drive, Removable Hard Disc, CD, DVD etc.). You can then attach this removable media to any machine running doQuments and open the doQuments DB located on the removable media.

You can use this feature to carry your doQuments DBs anywhere with you, distribute your doQuments DB to multiple users or to archive your doQuments DBs.

Only doQuments DBs which meet the following criteria can be marked as “Portable”

• The doQuments DB should be MS Access based
• The doQuments DB’s System Folder and all it’s Storage Folders must be under one common folder (this is the default for newly created doQuments DBs).

The Show scanner user interface option is now available in the Batch Scan Wizard. This will allow you to use the scanner’s image manipulation capabilities while batch scanning and adding documents to a doQuments DB.