Black Ice Software is proud to announce the new version of the BiBatchConverter and Document Converter Server. The new versions include exciting new features and tons of improvements to help users convert documents more easily and efficiently!

The latest BiBatchConverter and Document Converter Server comes with the following improvements for printing:

• Faster printing for images
• Improved support for printing PDF documents with Foxit PDF Reader
• Improved printing of PNG images
• Improved compatibility for printing with PowerPoint 2016 and 2019
• Added grayscale support for printing to TIFF JPEG file format

The Content-based File Naming is one of the many new and exciting features that was introduced in the latest BiBatchConverter and Document Converter Server. By using the Content-based File Naming feature, users can place a specific text (For example ##~~Filename=Invoice 0066050137~~) into their documents, and the software will automatically save the printed document with the specified filename. This feature allows users to more efficiently specify the document name individually for all their documents!

Improved Network Folder Monitoring, when the network connection is lost during conversion. If new files are added to the monitored folder when the network connection is lost, during the conversion, the newly added files would not convert.

The new version of BiBatchConverter and Document Converter Server includes an improved, more reliable Tesseract OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine, to help users to extract the text information from digitized, scanned documents or images more accurately.

Last but not least, the BiBatchConverter and Document Converter Server includes a stability improvements for the installation on Windows Server 2019 Essential operating systems.

The complete list of improvements in the latest BiBatchConverter includes the following:

DATE : 06-30-2021
Version : 4.95 (revision: 661)

• Added the separated Cc email address to printed document from an email files (#14124)
• Stability improvement for monitoring network shared directory (14123)
• Stability improvement for printing Unicode text files (#14119)
• Stability improvement for detecting the network directory connection (#14128, #14129)
• Updated Auto-print to version 16.55.477

DATE : 06-17-2021
Version : 4.91 (revision: 655)

• Stability improvement for printing PDF files with Foxit PDF Reader (#14052)
• Added a description for the BiBatchConverter Server Service (#13946)
• Updated Printer Driver to version 16.55.2665
• Added grayscale support to the TIFF JPEG file format (#6456)
• Removed unnecessary dithering to decrease file size and increase quality of 8-bit grayscale output files (#13848)
• Added options for setting the list of resolutions on the user interface or in the INI file (#13133)
• Faster printing for image formats (#13862)
• Minor user interface improvements (#13866, #13967)
• Stability improvement for printing certain documents with invalid handles in the EMF data (#13834)
• Stability improvement for PDF encryption where PDF files could not be opened when some specific passwords where used (#13987)
• Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.6.725
• Updated Auto-print to version 16.55.475
• Updated Manuals

DATE : 04-19-2021
Version : 4.87 (revision: 648)

• Minor user interface improvement for File Format Filtering (#13886)
• Updated Auto-print to version 16.48.469
• Added Unicode support for printing email (.msg, .eml) files (#13890)
• Stability improvement for duplicated email body when printing email (.msg, .eml) files (#13894)
• Updated manuals

Version : 4.86 (revision: 645)

• Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808, KB5000809, KB5000822 or KB5000848
• Stability improvement for uninstalling the old version of the BiBatchConverter using a newer installer (#13804)
• Updated Printer Driver to version 16.48.2647

DATE : 03-02-2021
Version : 4.85 (revision: 642)

• Minor user interface improvement on About window of BiBatchConverter (#13310)
• Stability improvement for printing PNG files (#12830)
• Fixed installation on Windows Server 2019 Essentials systems. (#13713)
• Updated Printer Driver to version 16.45.2642
• Redesigned email sending window, added text formatting features (#13095)
• Minor user interface improvement for the "Exact filename from the registry" and "Exact filename from the INI file" filename generation options (#13579)
• Added option to the Redirect Printing feature to use the default printer of the user (#13610)
• Added content-based file naming feature (#12628)
• Added option to remove specified text from the document name (#13518)
• Enabled the "Embed licensed fonts" PDF option by default (#13309)
• Stability improvement for SharePoint uploading if the printer driver is set to open the output PDF with ABBYY PDF (#13331)
• Added support for paper sizes larger than 3276 mm (#13110, #13123)
• Added raw text datatype support to handle print jobs from legacy software systems (#12840)
• Added "Print document as bitmap" option to the "Redirect printing" feature (#12950)
• Changing the printing preferences for Administrators also change the printer settings for the SYSTEM user (#12936, #13023, #13027)
• Stability improvement for drawing transparent images in certain PDF/A documents (#12923)
• Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.79.768, Tesseract release Dec 26 2019 - V4.1.1 (#12712)
• Added the TLS 1.2 support to the Upload to FTP feature (#12761)
• Stability improvement for the Merge Window when printing quickly (#12321)
• Stability improvement for printing from BarTender (#12308)
• Changed file format in the PDF common profile files to "Compact PDF" (#12314)
• Added progress dialog when printing using the Save As dialog (#11903)
• Stability improvement for output directory access checking in the Printer Drivers (#12146)
• Stability improvement for saving into JPEG LAB format (#12174)
• For shared printers, output directory is now set on the Host computer by default, added option to set the directory on the Client (#11726)
• Stability improvement for IPP printer sharing (#12101)
• Added the "Embed Windows fonts" value to the "PDF Settings" section in the printer driver configuration INI files (#12122)
• Stability improvement for application starter utility not starting in some cases (#12100)
• Added missing entries to the PDF Settings section of the default Printer Driver INI files (#12124)
- Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.1.3.720
• Improvements for vertical positioning of characters in PDF files (#13001)
• Stability improvement for appending to PDF documents saved by Adobe Reader (#12360, #12878)
• Stability improvement for the FrameRgn GDI function in the PDF output (#12860)
• Stability improvement for saving into Linearized PDF format (#12868)
• Improved image quality in certain non-letter sized PDF documents (#12870)
• PDF Output size optimizations (#12293)
• Updated Auto-print to version 16.29.463
• Added option to print text files with user specified extensions (#13287, #13288)
• Stability improvement for printing using PowerPoint 2016 and 2019 version 16.0.13328 (#13255)
• Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.18.263
• Changed some licensing related error messages to be more meaningful (#13452)
• Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.40.2625
• Added "Test Proxy Connection" button to the Proxy Settings window to help troubleshoot connection problems during registration (#13438)

DATE : 07-03-2020
Version : 4.80 (revision: 632)

- Added view log function (#12727)

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