Ascent Xtrata Pro

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Product Support Overview

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.1 Service Pack 2 is the latest release of the Ascent Xtrata Pro product.

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 History

The Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 product was released on 07/16/07. At that time, it replaced the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 product release as the latest release of the Ascent Xtrata Pro product.

What is new in Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 is a cumulative package and contains all features and problem resolutions from the 3.0 release and from Service Pack 1.

New Features

This section contains information about the new feature provided with this Service Pack.

New Recognition engine
RecoStar 4.0 ® by Océ Document Technologies GmbH is a new recognition engine that can be used for full text or zonal OCR and is recommended for hand written forms. You can use this recognition engine without any additional licensing.

Note that the language settings for RecoStar ® suggest that you can combine languages, but you can only choose exactly one language. So, if you select a language the previously selected language will be cleared.

Resolved Problems

This section contains information about issues that you can resolve by installing Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2.

Project Builder – Database Locator (SPR00030718)
Server – Memory Leak (SPR00029647)
Validation – Page Rotation (SPR00030049)
Validation – Save Changes when using Next / Previous Documents toolbar Icon (SPR00030050)

For additional information on these resolved problems, please refer to the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 Notes document described below.

Known Issues

RecoStar® - Languages
- RecoStar recognition will only work for the “Greece” or “Central Europe” options in the Language panel, if you have selected “Machine print” as the print type. (SPR00030404 and SPR00030719)
- RecoStar recognition fails, if you have selected “OCR-A / OCR-B” from the Language panel. (SPR00030720)
For additional information on this known issue, please refer to the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 Notes document described below.
INDICIUS install breaks AXP3 Server Module Extraction (SPR00025848)

Workaround: Install Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 SP2 after the INDICIUS product. If Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 SP2 has been installed before, uninstall the Xtrata Pro product, install the INDICIUS product, then re-install Ascent Xtrata pro 3.0.

Additional Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 Documentation

The Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 Notes supplement the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 release notes.

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2 Notes
(PDF, 79 KB) PN 10001642-000 - Revision A - 07/09/07

The following additional documentation will be available for Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 2.

RecoStar® Engine Documentation — contains the description of the RecoStar engine’s property pages.

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 History

The Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 product was released on 03/08/07. At that time, it replaced the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 product release as the latest release of the Ascent Xtrata Pro product.

What is new in Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1

Resolved Problems

This section contains information about issues that you can resolve by installing Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1.

Finereader - (SPR27660)
ProjectBuilder –Automatic Rotation During OCR (SPR00027790)
ProjectBuilder – Extraction Design (SPR00025066)
ProjectBuilder – Table Locator (SPR00027575)
ProjectBuilder – Rotation of Fax images having different X and Y resolution (SPR00028158)
Project Builder – Invoice Group and Order Group Locator (SPR00028679)
Knowledge Base Administration – Training Set (SPR00027181)
Server - Table Recognition (SPR00028411, SPR00028416, SPR00028412)
Server and Validation – Extraction Data Loss after switching between daylight saving time and standard time (SPR00028162)
Validation – Displaying Folder Panel (SPR00025625)
Validation – Batch Editing (SPR00026514)
Validation – Automatic Batch Opening (SPR00027545)
Validation – Table Indexing Improvements
- Multiple row selection (SPR00028319)
- Automatic Table Row Interpolation (SPR00028414)
- Toolbar and automatic scrolling (SPR00028417, SPR00028309, SPR00028415, SPR00028314
Validation –Document Splitting

For additional information on these resolved problems, please refer to the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 Notes document described below.

Resolved Problems for Ascent Capture Integration

Ascent Capture Administration – Release Script (SPR00027747)
Ascent Capture Release (SPR00027579)

For additional information on these resolved problems for Ascent Capture integration, please refer to the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 Notes document described below.

Known Issues

Uninstallation (SPR00025657)

For additional information on this known issue, please refer to the Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 Notes document described below.

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 Notes Document

Click on the link below to access the following Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 Notes document.

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Service Pack 1 Notes
(PDF, 83.3 KB) PN 10001617-000 - Revision A - 02/09/07

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 History

The Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 product was released on 11/13/06. It is the first release of the Ascent Xtrata Pro product.

What Is Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0

Ascent Xtrata Pro is a complete system for processing structured, semi-structured, and unstructured documents within the Ascent Capture framework. Ascent Capture’s document and data capture capabilities are enhanced by advanced intelligent document processing. Ascent Xtrata Pro provides methods for hierarchical, content-based classification, and the free-form field extraction of arbitrary, mixed, and unstructured documents.

Ascent Xtrata Pro adds the following components to your Ascent Capture system:

Ascent Xtrata Pro Project Builder lets you set up, store, and test Ascent Xtrata Pro projects that contain all the information required to process documents.
Ascent Xtrata Pro Synchronization tool is a setup component that is integrated into the Ascent Capture Administration module as a custom panel. It is used for linking Ascent Capture document classes and index fields to classes and fields in the Ascent Xtrata Pro project.
Ascent Xtrata Pro Knowledge Base Administration is used to train documents and manage knowledge bases for a given project. Fields cannot be added to the project and locator settings cannot be changed.
Ascent Xtrata Pro Server processes batches in the Ascent Capture workflow by performing document classification and data extraction. The Server module uses the definitions stored in a project and executes them when processing batches for a linked batch class.
Ascent Xtrata Pro Validation provides enhanced validation functionality. It allows for validating and manually correcting documents that contain invalid classification and/or extraction results. Problem documents can be flagged for additional training.
Ascent Xtrata Pro Statistics Viewer is used to show statistical data gathered by Ascent Xtrata Pro Server.
Ascent Xtrata Pro XDoc Browser is used to view the contents of XDoc files. These files contain a textual representation of the contents, structure, and extraction results from image files. Ascent Xtrata Pro uses XDoc files internally when processing batches.
Ascent Xtrata Pro Image Classifier is a utility that you can use to classify and cluster documents without using the Project Builder

Once Ascent Xtrata Pro is installed, you can add Ascent Xtrata Pro Server and Ascent Xtrata Pro Validation to any batch class already defined in the Ascent Capture Administration module. Typically, Ascent Xtrata Pro Server is placed directly after the Scan module and replaces the Recognition Server in the Ascent Capture workflow. Documents are classified and processed for data extraction and then routed to the Ascent Xtrata Pro Validation module and/or the Release module.

Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Release Document

Click on the link below to access the following Ascent Xtrata Pro 3.0 Release Notes document.

Ascent Xtrata Pro Version 3.0 Release Notes
(PDF, 135 KB) PN 100001552-000 - Revision A - 10/24/06

Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture Advanced Forms Support

The Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture Technical Support group is comprised of three subgroups (discussed on the Support Options Web page), whose members are knowledgeable in all aspects of the Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture product and Kofax / Ascent modules, including installation, configuration, operation and development. Each group receives ongoing product training from our Engineering department relating to the general Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture product and their specific area of expertise. These groups have in depth knowledge of networking, databases, hardware, and programming which they use when assisting all supported Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture customers.

The Kofax Capture / Ascent Capture Advanced Forms product's Technical Support group can assist with problems related to INDICIUS, Ascent Advanced Forms, Ascent for Invoices, Ascent for Health Insurance, and Ascent Xtrata Pro. They are trained on these Kofax created Ascent modules which are designed to expand on the basic Ascent Capture application.

For details regarding technical support available for all Kofax products, please review the current Support Overview & Options and Product Support Eligibility Matrix Web pages.