Ascent Advanced Forms 3.8

Service Pack 1 for the Extraction Module - SR01

Part Number 10001571-000
Revision A

August 14, 2006

These notes apply to Ascent Advanced Forms 3.8 and include the following sections:

Introduction

New Features

Resolved Problems

Installing the Service Pack

Kofax Technical Support

Trademark/Copyright Statements

Introduction

This Service Pack applies to the Ascent Advanced Forms V3.8 SR01 Extraction module.

New Features

Service Pack 1 for the Ascent Advanced Forms - Extraction module SR01 provides the following new features.

A new property HeaderPhraseFile (Column Node) for the Table field allows you to supply a list of phrases for the table headings in a text file.
The US Invoice Totals field displays an additional property Currency that allows you to specify legal currencies. This field will only return found currencies. Note that the US Invoice Totals field will not return results for a currency that was not specified in the Currency property.
The Address field has been optimized. The detection of addresses that span two lines has been improved. You will notice a significant improvement when matching company names that span two lines against a database.
The Date field will now read date values with month names in Dutch, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian, and Swedish languages when the Language property is set to the new value "WestEurope."
The Invoice Totals field has been extended for additional currencies. This field is now able to detect currencies from 31 different countries.
The InvoiceItems field has been optimized for the dot separator, comma separator, and decimal point within quantity values.
The fields for the Invoice option now allow you to read invoice header data and line items from Spanish invoices.
The FuzzyDb and InvoiceVendor fields can now be used as classification features.
The FuzzyDb field can now be used as the key field for the KeyValue field.
A new example has been added for the integration of Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction into a .Net application using C#.
Project specific color processing is supported. The program IPPP.exe located in the bin folder of the Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction installation allows you to build project files (.ipp extension) for the DOKuStar Imaging Toolkit. If you copy a new project file to the knowledgeBase folder, it will then appear as an additional value for the Method property.
If the property Diagnostics is set to "on" for the InvoiceVendor field, then it will display the data that was found and used for database matching in the Design Studio.
The new field BetweenKeys allows you to search a field in an area specified by the key fields. Note that this field is similar to the KeyValue field, which allows you to search a value field relative to the position of a key field. The BetweenKeys field allows you to search a field in a region whose start and end position are determined by two separate key fields, StartKey and EndKey.
The header section of the result file now contains the following additional tags: the classifier tag displays the classifier used during character recognition, and the codepage tag displays the used codepage. For example:

<head> <version>3</version>...<classifier>de-DE</classifier> <codepage>1252</codepage> </head>.
A new function LoadXMLAutoRotate in the DOKuStarResult26.dll file loads a result file and rotates all zones according to the orientation information in the header section of the results file. A new function ResultState returns the global result state contained in the process node of the result file.
The image processing function Orientation has been optimized.

Resolved Problems

Service Pack 1 for the Ascent Advanced Forms - Extraction module SR01 resolves the following problems.

You can now read all the text in the Timeout Settings dialog box. In the previous release, the text was trimmed to fit the width of the dialog box. (SPR 00022458)
Line item data is now populated for customized document types. In the previous release, when a Table field was specified as a sub-field to the KeyValue field, no table data was transferred to Ascent Capture. The table always remained empty. (SPR 00024530)
The ShareZone property displayed by the KeyValue field now works correctly. Prior to this release, when the KeyValue field was used as a sub-field to the FirstOf field and a global field was also used as a key field, the ShareZone property did not work correctly.
When a copy-and-paste operation is performed in the KeyValue field, the copied field will no longer be linked to the KeyValue field. In the previous release, when the copy-and-paste operation was performed, it also copied the reference point of the KeyValue field.
The Address field no longer stops responding. Prior to this release, when an index field was added under the DbFields node, the address matching would simply stop.
When a global field is used more than once as the key field of the KeyValue field, then all the key fields will successfully return the correct results. In the previous release, several key fields did not return the correct results.
The Bar Code field no longer returns "0 0 0 0" for the Zone properties. In the previous release, when no bar codes were found within the search area, then the values "0 0 0 0" would be returned for the coordinates.
An index field will now be processed when no attribute file is supplied for an image. Prior to this release, when a value was specified for the PageFilter property for a field and an attribute file was not supplied for the image, the index field would not always be processed.
The Phrase field will no longer continually search for a phrase when a very low percent value is used for the MatchRate property. In the previous release, the Phrase field would execute the search an indefinite number of times when a low value was used for the MatchRate property.
The InvoiceVendor field will now identify the tax identification number on Danish invoices. In the previous release, when the country code preceded the number in the database file and it was missing on the invoice, the InvoiceVendor field could not identify the tax identification number on the Danish invoices.
The KeyValue field no longer returns erroneous Zone properties for empty field results. Prior to this release, when the FuzzyDb field was used as a sub-field for the KeyValue field, the KeyValue field returned zone coordinates for an empty result instead of (0,0,0,0).
The result zone for the FuzzyDb field will now display the correct results for sub-fields that use field-specific image processing.
The Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction module can now successfully return an empty result for the PhraseSet field. In the previous version, when the PhraseSet field was specified with the Occurrences property set to the value "last" for the sub-field of the KeyValue field, the Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction module would stop responding when the PhraseSet field returned an empty result.
Nesting of field-specific image processing is not supported. In the previous release, it was possible to specify field-specific image processing for the fields CheckboxGroup, FuzzyDb, InvoiceItemsCustom, and EndOfTable node for Table fields. When illegal field-specific image processing is found in a project, it is removed and a message is displayed.
You will now no longer receive a fatal error message when an expression is tested in the Regular Expression Test dialog box. Prior to this release, when a Regular Expression field was used as a value field for the KeyMultiValue field, a fatal error message could display when the expression was tested in the Regular Expression Test dialog box.
The names of alternative value results are now correct when using a global field for the KeyValue fields. In the previous release, when a KeyValue field was used as a global field, the names of alternative value results were not correct.
The Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction module will no longer run in an infinite loop when corrupt TIFF images are used.
The project description file (.ipx extension) no longer has elements that contain an empty name. In the previous release, the project description file would sometimes contain empty name elements.
You can now successfully set the BlankSuppress property to the value "all" and phrases that span two lines will be found.
The Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction module can now successfully locate phrases that span two lines. Prior to this release, when the BlankSuppress property was set to the value "all" for the Phrase field, a phrase that spanned two lines could not always be found.
The fields specified at the EndOfTable node in the Table field will no longer display an erroneous ShareZone property. The property is no longer displayed.
You can now successfully see a new zone after it has been created in the image processing function Erase. In the previous release, when a new zone was created in the image processing function Erase and another node was selected, the new zone would not be displayed. It was only displayed when the corresponding node was selected again.
The Design Studio will no longer stop responding when changing the ShareZone property of the FirstOf sub-field. Prior to this release, when a KeyValue field with the FirstOf field was used as a sub-field and the ShareZone property was changed, the Design Studio could stop responding.
Phrases specified by the ExclusionList property will now be taken into account correctly. In the previous release, when the Scope property for the Phrase field was set to paragraph or column, the phrases specified by the ExclusionList property were not always taken into account correctly.
You can now successfully use the ALPHA and alpha buttons on the CharacterSet dialog box. Prior to this release, if the Country settings within a project were set to "Greece," the ALPHA and alpha buttons in the CharacterSet dialog box would not work.
The Phrase field can now locate very short phrases. In the previous release, when the Phrase field searched for a very short phrase, it could not always find the phrase.
The Browse button is now displayed in the Select Directory dialog box. In the previous release, when the command "Create Types & Classes from Directories" was used within a project with a long path name, the Browse button would not display in the Select Directory dialog box.
The FuzzyDb field no longer incorrectly contains the search area of the sub-fields. In the previous release, when the sub-field did not return a result and the Significance property was set to the value "optional," the result zone of the FuzzyDb fields incorrectly contained the search area of the sub-field.
You can now use the DbFields field for the AddressUS node. (SPR 00023309)
The Cancel button on the IDIS Options dialog box is no longer displayed in German text. (SPR 00024267)
The Orientation field no longer rotates incorrectly.

Installing the Service Pack

Service Packs for Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction module are available from the Kofax Web site at www.kofax.com. Go to the Support | Downloads Library area and locate the Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction 3.8 link.

Note that there are two Service Packs: Service Pack 1 for the Extraction module and Service Pack 1 for the Validation module. If you use both modules and want to install the Service Packs, you must download the Service Packs and run their separate installations.

In addition, Ascent Advanced Forms Extraction 3.8 must be installed before you install the Service Packs. If you attempt to install the Service Packs without the required version of Ascent Advanced Forms, the Service Pack installation will not complete successfully.

To install the Service Packs, the logged-in user must have full administrative privileges to the local computer.

Kofax Technical Support

For additional technical information about Kofax products, visit the Kofax Web site at www.kofax.com and select an appropriate option from the Support menu. The Kofax Support pages provide product-specific information, such as current revision levels, the latest drivers and software patches, online documentation and user manuals, updates to product release notes (if any), technical tips, and an extensible searchable knowledgebase.

The Kofax Web site also contains information that describes support options for Kofax products. Please review the site for details about the available support options.

If you are a certified representative from an authorized company and need to contact Kofax Technical Support, please have the following information available:

Ascent Advanced Forms software and Service Pack versions
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Operating system and Service Pack versions
Network and client configuration
Copies of your error log files
Special custom configuration or integration information

Trademark/Copyright Statements

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Ascent Advanced Forms uses DOKuStar Extraction. Copyright Océ Document Technologies GmbH 1996-2006. DOKuStar is a registered trademark of Océ Document Technologies GmbH.

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