Version History

The following changes are part of PDF-Mapper version 1.9.1:

New functions:

• The settings for partner identification have been expanded to include the comparison operators text not equal to, text not contained, text does not start with and text does not match regular expression.

Changes:

• The component for reading PDF text is more tolerant of PDF structural errors, invalid characters, and missing or incorrect font information.
• Minor user interface improvements 

The following changes are part of PDF-Mapper version 1.9.0:

New functions:

• Wizard “Transfer layout mapping”
• When correcting a document, use the “For correction” button to provide the current PDF document as a test data set for adjustments to the layout mapping.

Changes to function blocks:

• Separate address line into elements: Number of NAME fields set variably, default is 3 as before.
• Convert date in text to ISO date: Bug fix for format parser ddmmyyyy
• Header extended for use in XSLTs for validation and in-house format

Additional components for use in plugins are provided.

The following changes are part of PDF-Mapper version 1.8.3:

New function blocks:

• Convert date in text to ISO date
• Convert calendar week to ISO date
• Convert date or calendar week to text to ISO
• Replace text parts with regular expression
• Determine decimal number from text

A detailed description of the function blocks can be found in the PDF-Mapper help – Description of the function blocks.

The following changes are part of PDF-Mapper version 1.8.2:

• Area mapping
  • Toolbar: Automatically specify anchor texts (-P:) and the associated UnDo function.
  • AI-powered area assignment wizard determines suggestions for configuring area assignment
• Check Area Assignment
• Field mapping
  • Toolbar: Automatically specify anchor texts (-P:) and the associated UnDo function.
• PreProcessingRoute after common input
• Fix for group.xq: Header table end set from default 0.0 to 999999990.0 – allows reading header tables without end identifier

The following changes are part of PDF-Mapper version 1.8.1:

• Partner identification expanded by setting: Use texts in the PDF (standard setting, as before) or individual text lines (simple reading of content without position information).
• Added module for preprocessing, which allows for preprocessing steps like text grouping, page filter or text filter.
• The validation view shows a symbol with the validation result for the entire document, so there is no need to scroll to check the result in larger documents:
  • no validation errors: green check icon
  • with validation errors: red warning icon
• Fix for validation rule from \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} to ^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$.

• Document types in the data structures extended to
  • Request for quotation (M_REQOTE),
  • Offer/quotation (M_QUOTES),
  • Purchase order (M_ORDERS),
  • Order response/order confirmation (M_ORDRSP),
  • Despatch advice/delivery bill (M_DESADV),
  • Invoice/credit note (M_INVOIC) and
  • Payment advice (M_RECADV).
    A selection of the used document types is possible.
• Existing document types order (M_ORDERS) and invoice (M_INVOIC) have been extended by additional fields.
• Administrator can remove unused data elements for field mapping in configuration to make it easier for users to use.
• Plugins have been added
• Function blocks can be displayed as grouped in user interface.
• XML mapping: Filter for displaying all XML elements or only the mapped XML elements. Effect on data display and function view.
• Tables header/footer and sub-tables in position extended in function range like main table.
• Validation e-mail dispatch: addition of StartTLS
• New switch -L: in connection with -S:+gl{m}, -S:-gl{m}, -S:+gr{m}, -S:-gr{m}
• License check reduced to MAC address to bypass sporadic Windows mapping changes of network interface names to MAC addresses.
• Access to web user interface restrictable
• Adjustments:
  • Validation email: Fixed error in employee assignment when list is empty
  • Automatic URL encoding of special characters e.g. for passwords added.
  • Function block “Value assignment from key list” (getValue4KeyList) with “List entry for key” “contains” corrected.
  • Google fonts included locally, no longer loaded via CDN.
  • Switch -S: regular expression for parameter detection corrected
  • Validation: XSLT processing “reset” now works.

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