The new version 1.10.0 of PDF Mapper introduces two key new features: AI-powered assistants for field mapping and function blocks, and enhanced preprocessing functions for even more efficient EDI mapping. This allows layout mappings to be created in less than 10 minutes – instead of the previous 15 minutes – while maintaining consistently deterministic, 100% reliable results.
Faster EDI Mappings with AI Assistants
In addition to the existing AI assistant for area mapping, the previously manual field mapping is now also supported by an AI assistant that suggests suitable field mappings for each recognized text element (e.g., order number, delivery date, item number, quantity).
Users can review, correct, and adopt these suggestions with just a few clicks, significantly reducing configuration effort and making complete PDF-to-XML/EDI mapping achievable in under 10 minutes.
AI – but still 100% reliable results
The AI assistant generates layout mapping suggestions that the user can then confirm or adjust; the actual processing remains rule-based and deterministic, as usual.
This combines AI-supported configuration with proven, 100% accurate PDF mapping technology: mappings set up once continue to deliver reproducible, verified results in production.
AI Assistant for Field Mapping in Detail
The AI Assistant for Field Mapping analyzes the header, position, and footer of the PDF document and suggests suitable fields and types (value, anchor, value+anchor, as with manual field mapping).
The selection of suggestions can be controlled using confidence levels, invalid duplicate assignments can be easily corrected, and only explicitly selected suggestions are included in the field mapping – full control with significantly fewer clicks.
Function Module Assistant: Automatic Processing Logic
The new Function Module Assistant automatically identifies suitable functions to convert the extracted raw PDF data into the neutral format.
It recognizes, among other things, different date and number formats, addresses, and order units, and suggests appropriate function modules for each process step, which can then be refined manually as usual. By default, function modules for all process steps can be determined with a single click; alternatively, the assistant can be activated for specific steps.
This allows basic rules to be generated automatically first, and then project-specific special cases to be added – including country-specific requirements for country-specific formats.
Preprocessing: More Control Over Disruptive Text
New filters in preprocessing remove invisible text outside the page boundaries and text groups in defined areas, such as headers or footers. This allows you to remove text that interferes with the layout mapping. This simplifies the assignment of relevant fields and ensures that only the information actually needed is processed further.
Notes for Function Modules
Function modules can be supplemented with usage notes, such as information on specific conversion rules in the project.
Improvements and Fixes
Version 1.10.0 also improves error handling for incorrect file names, refines details in the user interface of the assistant functions, and fixes a bug with text filter specifications involving positions.
Conclusion
With version 1.10.0, setting up new layout mappings is significantly faster, without compromising the transparency and reliability of the results.
Users benefit from AI-supported suggestions for field assignment and processing logic, but remain in complete control of the mapping at all times – from initial configuration to stable production operation.