Document Converter Server for Windows 2022/2019/2016/2012 R2 Version History

  Version History

DATE : 01-20-2022
Version : 1.97 (revision: 437)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Document Converter Server installers (#14792, #14793)
– Minor user interface improvement for the manual registration (#14782)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.80.2748

DATE : 12-28-2021
Version : 1.95 (revision: 433)
– Removed the “Create and use an existing .\BiDCAdmin user account with Administrator privileges” option from the installers (#14623)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.76.2739
– Added a new feature to upload the Text Output to the database using the Upload To Database feature (#14724)
– Improved performance of opening the PDF Settings Font page (#14684)
– Added “Do not show this message again” checkbox to the “Are you sure you would like to start merging” message box (#14573)
– Stability improvement for opening the print job properties from the Print Queue window (Error 400) (#14566)
– Added “Searchable Compact PDF – OCR” file format that lets one create searchable PDF files from non-searchable documents (#14482)
– Added Floyd-Steinberg and Jarvis-Judice-Ninke high quality (larger file size) and low quality (smaller file size) dithering (#14457)
– Removed “Custom resolution” item from the list of resolutions. Custom resolutions can be added by clicking the Edit Resolutions button. (#14440)
– Added Ordered Clustered dithering method to the printer drivers (#14338)
– Stability improvement for printing with the Euclid Symbol font (#14272)
– Added special Application Layer licensing for VDI installers (#14358)
– Manual registrations are limited to the maintenance/subscription expiration date (#14264)
– Updated BiImgUser.dll to version 12.84.843
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.5.739
– Updated Auto-print to version 16.75.498
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.27.294
– Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.76.2739
– Manual registrations are limited to the maintenance/subscription expiration date (#14264)

DATE: 09-22-2021
Version: 1.91 (revision: 429)
– Added option to keep the color depth when converting images to the Document Converter Server (#14409)
– Stability improvement for the “Keep the original size of images” option if the printer resolution and image resolution are different (#14417)
– Minor user interface improvement for the Image Conversion options (#14418)
– Stability improvements for the Document Converter Server MSI installer, if the Print Spooler service cannot be started (#14431)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.70.2713
– Updated Auto-print to version 16.65.495

DATE : 09-06-2021
Version : 1.90 (revision: 422)
– Added option to keep the page orientation and size when converting images (#14105, #14130)
– Stability improvement for detecting password protection in some PDF files (#14265)
– Switched Document Converter Server to subscription based licensing
– Improved performance of online license validation (#13808)
– Stability improvement for registration and license validation on systems that use Bluetooth Network Connections (#13979)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.65.2699
– Updated eLicense dll version to 6.22.280
– Updated Auto-print to version 16.65.486

DATE : 07-23-2021
Version : 1.86 (revision: 412)
– Minor user interface improvement on Advanced -> PDF Converter tab of Document Converter Server (#14218)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.61.2679
– Decreased file size and increased quality of 8-bit grayscale PDF output (#13873)
– Stability improvement for printing into image formats with the “Enable advanced printing features” option disabled (#14217)
– Added suffix to output file names when using the “Exact filename” option without the “Overwrite the existing file” option and the output file already exists (#13864)
– Performance improvements for the Text Output (#14054)
– Fix for copy-pasting hyphen (-) characters from the generated PDF files (#14143)
– Added “Add White Background to Page” PDF option to turn on or off the drawing of the white background in the PDF output (#14147)
– Improved drawing of arcs in the PDF output (#14077)
– Removed invisible white background from the PDF output (#14147)
– Printing speed optimizations when Text Output is enabled (#14048)
– Removed large invisible rectangle from the PDF output (#14078)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.2.1.732
– Updated JPEG DLL to version 12.82.806
– Updated Auto-print to version 16.56.480
– Stability improvement for printing email files when the attachment name includes invalid characters (#14161)

DATE : 06-30-2021
Version : 1.85 (revision: 405)
– Added the separated Cc email address to printed document from an email files (#14124)
– Added a description for the Document Converter Server service (#13947)
– Stability improvement for monitoring network shared directory (#14125)
– Stability improvement for printing PDF files with Foxit PDF Reader (#14052)
– Stability improvement for printing Unicode text files (#14119)
– Stability improvement for detecting the network directory connection (#14132, #14133)
– Stability improvement for printing email files if the attachment files includes colon (#14138)
– 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 16.55.478

DATE : 04-19-2021
Version : 1.82 (revision: 393)
– Minor user interface improvement for File Format Filtering (#13887)
– 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

DATE : 03-22-2021
Version : 1.81 (revision: 390)
– Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808, KB5000809, KB5000822 or KB5000848.
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.48.2647

DATE : 03-16-2021
Version : 1.80 (revision: 388)
– Stability improvement for printing problems caused by Windows Update KB5000802, KB5000808 or KB5000848. (Fix for printing blank or broken pages.)
– Fixed installation on Windows Server 2019 Essentials systems. (#13713)
– Stability improvement for the “In Queue”, “Processed” counters in the Document Converter Server (#13799)
– Stability improvement for uninstalling the old version of the Document Converter Server using a newer installer (#13805)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.46.2644
– 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)
– Stability improvement for saving into JPEG LAB format (#12174)
– Added the “Embed Windows fonts” value to the “PDF Settings” section in the printer driver configuration INI files (#12122)
– 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 16.41.2635
– Added “Test Proxy Connection” button to the Proxy Settings window to help troubleshoot connection problems during registration (#13439)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 08-28-2020
Version : 1.75 (revision: 376)
– Stability improvement for “In Queue” counter on the user interface (#12837)
– Loading the complete daily log file to the user interface on startup (#12837)
– Stability improvement for starting the Document Converter Server Service when the computer was restarted (#12838)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server uninstallation when the demo license is expired (#12927, #12928, #12929)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 06-11-2020
Version : 1.74 (revision: 373)
– Stability improvement for “Use a temporary directory for the converted files” feature if the Filename Generation Method is Custom file naming (#12365)
– Minor user interface update for Document Converter Server installer (#12627)
– Updated Auto-print to version 16.12.452

DATE : 04-24-2020
Version : 1.73 (revision: 367)
– Enabled automatic restart for Document Converter Server service (#12309)
– Changed file format in the PDF common profile files to “Compact PDF” (#12311)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 16.10.2437
– PDF Output size optimizations (#12293)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.9.714
– Updated eLicense dll version to 6.15.251
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 04-07-2020
Version : 1.72 (revision: 360)
– Stability improvement for reinstalling Document Converter Server on Windows Server 2016 systems (#12024)
– Minor user interface update for monitoring directory (#12045)
– Stability improvement for online license validation (#12232)

DATE : 12-17-2019
Version : 1.71 (revision: 357)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server by not writing unnecessary information into the Event Viewer (#12017)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 12-05-2019
Version : 1.70 (revision: 356)
– Stability improvement for Document Conversion if the Monitored directory is on a network drive (#11943)
– Added the Update feature to Document Converter Server installers; update compatible from (1.10) (#11694)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server registration (Error code 57) (#11805)
– Minor user interface update for Document Converter Server evaluation window (#11875)
– Added “Use current printer settings” profile option to Web Interface (#11941)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.96.2327
– Added feature to Upload Documents to Database (#11838)
– Stability improvement for content-based email sending and mail merge for certain documents (#11732)
– Improved character positioning in the PDF output for some documents (#11725)
– Improved page size accuracy of the PDF output (#11618)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.7.711
– Updated eLicense.dll version to 6.10.235
– Improvements for online license checking (computer validation for all users) (#11811)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 09-12-2019
Version : 1.65 (revision: 342)
– Added the Foxit PDF reader support (#11683, #11596)
– Minor user interface improvements (#11708, #11710)
– Updated Auto-print to version 15.70.432
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.85.2280
– Added “Custom layout” option to the Text Output (#11318)
– Improved locking of the output TIFF file during printing to prevent applications from opening the file too early (Error 63 issue) (#11530)
– Added warning message to the printing preferences window to restart printing applications (#11529)
– Stability improvement for using the OCR feature in high resolution on 32 bit systems (#11586)
– Stability improvement for removing the content based/mail merge tags from the Text Output (#11589)
– Minor user interface improvements (#11599)
– Added option to specify the printed pages in the Printing Preferences (#10347)
– Changed the Printer Drivers to write lowercase extensions by default, added INI file option to write uppercase extensions (#11635)
– Changed default text output format to “Text with Layout” (#11644)
– “pmd” extension is removed automatically from the document name (#11680)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.5.709
– Stability improvement for scaling in some objects in PDF format (#11478)
– Improvements in rendering underlined text in PDF format (#11524)
– Improvements drawing of images in PDF format in high resolution (#11525)
– Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.71.732
– Stability improvement for the “Closing filter” feature on some systems (#11533)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 05-31-2019
Version : 1.61 (revision: 332)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.56.2216
– Stability improvement for printing printing custom (not listed) paper sizes (e.g.: printing from Microsoft Outlook) (#11374)
– Added support for the “Generate output in memory” feature to HTTP uploading. (Uploading document without writing the document to disk) (#11306)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.04.225
– Stability improvement for registration on Korean systems. (#11202)

DATE : 04-16-2019
Version : 1.60 (revision: 331)
– Stability improvements for the Web Interface for loading the Document Converter Settings (#10728)
– Stability improvements for the Web Interface for displaying the log events (#10729)
– Stability improvements for installing the Web Interface on Servers with foreign language (#10014)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.53.2140
– Added option to open a Web Page after HTTP upload (#10900, #10901, #10902)
– Added TLS 1.2 support to the HTTP upload feature (#10946)
– Minor user interface improvement (#10792)
– Changed HTTP uploader window titles to use the printer name
– Added second custom parameter to the HTTP upload feature
– Minor user interface improvements for the Printing Preferences dialog (#10666, #10667, #10668, #10669, #10678)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.03.224
– Stability improvement for registration on Windows XP (#10955)
– Added transferable license handling for special installers (#10275)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 02-25-2019
Version : 1.56 (revision: 327)
– Added current date to log file name (#10473)
– Changed the date time format to the system’s default format in log file (#10620)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 02-14-2019
Version : 1.55 (revision: 324)
– Minor user interface update for Document Converter Server Service Manager (#10487, #10495, #10493)
– Stability improvement for printing when error code 63 occurs (#10496)
– Stability improvement for printing when error code 104 occurs (#10480)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server MSI installer registration window (#10486)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server MSI installer when the user’s name contains space characters (#10528)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.50.2079
– Added “Force paper size” option to the Printer Drivers (#10442)
– Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.70.644, Tesseract release October 29 2018 – V4.0.0 (#10335)
– Added Outlook 2019 support (#10379)
– Updated Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook to version 9.1.3401
– Stability improvement for missing images or blank pages in the output PDF files when certain raster operations are used during printing (#10432)
– Stability improvement for using the “Overwrite the existing document” option with Custom file naming (#10295)
– Added “Number of Copies” key to the group file (#10013)
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 3.0.1.704
– Updated Auto-print to version 15.50.417
– Added better error handling to input file checking (#10479)
– Disable the compatibility mode by default in the HTML helper (#10478)
– Stability improvements for printing HTML documents (#10482)
– Added configurable Timeout for opening a file, in case it cannot be opened because it is already opened in another application. (#10524)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 01-30-2019
Version : 1.50 (revision: 316)
– Stability improvement for detecting the user running the Document Converter Server (#10437)
– Stability improvement for running the Document Converter Service Manager as Administrator (#10436)
– Stability improvement for applying the Document Converter settings when the Start Conversion button is clicked (#10439)
– Minor user interface update for Document Converter Server Service Manager (#10443)
– Minor user interface update for Document Converter Server installer (#10445, #10449, #10453, #10454)
– Updated Auto-print to version 15.46.413
– Added From, Sent, To and Subject header to printed email file format (#10242)
– Added support to Compact PDF file format (#10349)
– Stability improvement for printing into BMP format (#10451)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.45.2065
– Added Compact PDF file format (#9815, #10327)
– Supporting Windows Server 2019
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 3.0.0.703
– Added Text Watermark and Text Stamp features for the Watermark/Stamp Tab of the Printer Drivers (#9928)
– Stability improvement for handling 32 bit PNG images as watermark (#10010)
– Added support for Unicode output file names for all formats (#9888)
– Stability improvement for handling new line characters in content based email sending (#9608)
– Minor user interface improvements (#9880, #9733)
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.65.624 (#9888)
– Significant change in how the printer driver is configured through the INI file. The changes will affect every OEM printer driver installation or any installation that uses the MSI installer with the INI file option. The binary “Flags”, “LaunchFlags”, “AnnotationFlags” and “WatermarkFlags” keys are replaced with easy to use key words (#10025)
– Added option to Profile Manager tab to export current settings as a configuration INI file for customized installations (#9978)
– Added “Display email sent successfully message” and “Display error message” options to the email settings (#10080)
– Stability improvement for using environment variables in Header, Footer and Annotation text (#9929, #10027)
– The file format drop down lists is made larger to show all the file formats without scrolling (#10074)
– Stability improvements for printing using fonts with names longer then 31 characters into PDF file format (#10314)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 3.0.0.703
– Stability improvement for printing documents containing very large number of images in parallel to PDF format (#10320)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 11-05-2018
Version : 1.45 (revision: 302)
– Added the ability to set up multiple profiles based on the directory the Document Converter Server is converting (#10156)
– Stability improvement for reading the license server information from the configuration file (#10023, #10073)
– Added the version number to title of Document Converter Server installers (#10034)
– Stability improvement for detecting the supported file formats (#10046, #10067)
– Minor user interface update for Document Converter Server (#10042)
– Added option to automatically use the maximum number of CPUs that the license allows (#10043)
– Updated Auto-print to version 15.25.408
– Improved error handling for invalid characters in file names (# character in PDf file names) (#10070)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 08-09-2018
Version : 1.41 (revision: 293)
– Added the Auto-print dll version checking to Document Converter Server log (#9804)
– Added the Microsoft Office and Adobe Reader version checking to Document Converter Server log (#9702)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server MSI uninstallation when the network card is disabled (#9919)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server MSI uninstallation when the internet connection is disabled (#9918)
– Improvements for serial number checking for Document Converter Server MSI installers (#9971)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server MSI uninstallation when the license has been changed from transferable to static (#9786)
– Stability improvement for MSI uninstallers when aborting the uninstallation (#9837)
– Stability improvement for aborting installation of the Document Converter Server MSI installers in case of registration errors (#9832)
– Minor user interface update for Document Converter Server installer (#9802)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.15.1972
– Added Stamp feature for the Watermark Tab of the Printer Drivers
– Disabled output directory access check when the output is disabled or generated in memory (#9827)
– Stability improvement for text output when printing certain corrupted documents (#9843)
– Changed caption on profile manager tab
– Stability improvement for certain applications that could not print to the Black Ice Printer Driver if another printer was set as default
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.7.697
– Improved bitmap merging for PDF documents
– Stability improvement for dithering when printing from certain applications
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 07-06-2018
Version : 1.40 (revision: 287)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 15.10.1964
– Stability improvement for blank pages, when printing from certain applications and redirecting the output to another printer
– Stability improvement for Text Output when using the “Add font information, position and style” formatting style
– Added “Line Adjustment” INI file option for text output
– Added “Embed Identity encoded CID fonts only” option to PDF font options
– Added “Pages Per Sheet” (N-Up) feature to the Printer Drivers
– Added INI file options to hide resolutions from the user interface
– Fixed Print Preview appearing color when 8 bit grayscale is selected
– Changed default fax resolution to “Fine fax compatibility”
– Stability improvement for closing email sender application when the SMTP server name is invalid
– Performance improvements for the Text Output
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.4.692
– Stability improvement for font embedding when printing certain documents
– Fixed images appearing black when printing certain documents
– Stability improvement for HTTP upload test when “Delete printed document after uploading” is checked
– Added “Send each page as separate email” option to email sending
– Changed priority of emails from Low to Normal when silent email sending is enabled
– Updated elicense.dll to version 5.15.207
– Manual registration window was not shown on some connection errors (43 and 44)
– Minor user interface improvements for Document Converter Server if evaluation period is expired
– Stability improvement for Web interface uninstaller of Document Converter Server uninstaller (#9822)

DATE : 02-28-2018
Version : 1.39 (revision: 282)
– Stability improvement if the Document Converter Server service password contains quotation mark
– Added extended logging to Document Converter Server MSI installer
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.99.391
– Stability improvement for converting PDF documents in parallel on some systems (Error code 62)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.99.1894
– Disabled the Outlook security popup window when sending emails
– Performance improvement on some systems when the “Start Application” feature is used
– Stability improvement for the “Use first email address from page content” feature
– “[Read-Only]” text is removed automatically from the document name
– Stability improvement for text output even when the printed page contains no text
– Added custom error to HTTP upload feature, to allow customers to show personalized error messages (Error code 621)
– Added “Number of Copies” parameter to the “Start Application” feature
– Added “Closing filter” option for the OCR to improve recognition
– Stability improvement for Custom File Naming preview
– Stability improvement for using Custom File Naming with Bates Number and the “Save each page as separate file” option
– Improved text rendering when printing to 1 bit image formats with dithering
– Added INI file option to control Text Antialiasing
– Stability improvement for the “Add space in records” Text Output option
– Added option to Bates Numbering to count the documents instead of pages
– Minor stability improvements in the Printing Preferences dialog
– Stability improvement for drawing the watermark to 1 bit images without dithering
– Added option to Text Extraction that allows detecting space characters inside text records
– Stability improvement for Text Extraction for documents containing Arabic text and numbers
– Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.57.589
– Added hOCR output format to OCR
– Updated elicense.dll to version 5.14.206
– Fixed error 37 during registration
– Stability improvements for version checking
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.9.1.688
– Stability improvement for calculating character widths for certain documents

DATE : 01-08-2018
Version : 1.38 (revision: 274)
– Updated elicense.dll to version 5.12.203
– Improved error messages
– Licensing improvements
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.99.389
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.58.593
– Stability improvement for opening certain LZW compressed TIFF files
– Stability improvement for configuring the number of used CPU cores
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 12-08-2017
Version : 1.37 (revision: 272)
– Improvements for User Interface for the Web interface feature

DATE : 12-07-2017
Version : 1.37 (revision: 271)
– Added Web interface feature
– Added registration dialog for Document Converter Server MSI installers
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 11-16-2017
Version : 1.36 (revision: 251)
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.99.383
– Stability improvement for printing PDF documents on Windows Server 2016
– Stability improvement for printing PowerPoint documents with Office 2016
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.58.591
– Stability improvement for opening certain LZW compressed TIFF files
– Added demo registration for Document Converter Server MSI installer

DATE : 10-20-2017
Version : 1.35 (revision: 245)
– Stability improvement for monitoring folders, if a new folder has been added during the conversion
– Supporting Windows Server 2016

DATE : 10-03-2017
Version : 1.34 (revision: 243)
– Minor user interface improvements for Document Converter Server
– Stability improvement for monitoring folders with UNC path

DATE : 09-20-2017
Version : 1.33 (revision: 241)
– Stability improvement for installing Document Converter Server on certain systems

DATE : 09-15-2017
Version : 1.32 (revision: 240)
– Minor user interface improvements for Document Converter installer
– Minor user interface improvements for Document Converter Server Service Manager
– Stability improvement for monitoring folders with UNC path

DATE : 08-14-2017
Version : 1.31 (revision: 233)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.97.1807
– Stability improvement for mail merge and content based email sending (disappearing page content)
– Removed empty lines before pages in text output
– Stability improvement for using the Printer Driver with Microsoft Word with 204×196 DPI Fine Fax mode
– Minor user interface improvements on the Printing Preferences dialog Profile Manager tab
– Stability improvement for SharePoint uploader utility when the log file path is missing
– Added option to change the height of linear barcodes
– Stability improvement for the custom file naming
– Added Date and Time option to custom file naming
– Stability improvement for the Delete files after uploading to SharePoint option
– Fixed inserting unnecessary space characters after the Bates Numbering Prefix
– Barcode text used for regular expressions now matches the Printer Driver’s text output
– Removed extension from document names when printing pdf documents
– Fixed page number in text output to appear in a new line
– Added Bates Number field to Custom File Naming
– Updated PDF DLLs to version 2.9.0.686
– Fixed drawing opaque background for some text record
– Stability improvement for drawing patterns
– Improved rendering of lines with dash-dot-dot pattern
– Fixed upside down text in some documents
– Fixed some images appearing black

DATE : 07-03-2017
Version : 1.30 (revision: 232)
– Stability improvement for One time scheduling feature
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server uninstaller when the Serial number is suspended

DATE : 04-11-2017
Version : 1.29 (revision: 226)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter Server installer for Windows Server 2008 64-bit

DATE : 03-20-2017
Version : 1.28 (revision: 225)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.84.1696
– Stability improvement for mail merge and content based email sending (disappearing page content)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 02-23-2017
Version : 1.27 (revision: 224)
– Updated build process 15.
– Upgraded build process for the Document Converter components and installers
– Stability improvement for SMS Notification when the feature is disabled
– Minor interface improvement for the subject of the Email notification when the conversion is stopped
– Removed the Everyone and Just Me radio buttons from the user interface of the MSI installers
– Removed the Repair option from the user interface of the MSI installers
– Minor user interface improvement in the MSI installers
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.83.1677
– Increased maximum custom parameter length to 8192 characters for the “Start Application” feature
– Fixed Apply button on the printing preferences dialog not activating when the custom parameter is changed
– Updated OCR dlls to version 12.57.559
– Improved OCR accuracy
– Stability improvement for empty print jobs (E.g.: Printing empty page from Notepad)
– Minor user interface improvements
– Upgraded build process for the drivers
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.3.677
– Stability improvement for printing into Editable XML and Editable HTML output file formats
– Fix for lines and brushes when printing certain documents from SAP
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.08.30
– Stability improvement for resuming paused print jobs
– Added support for <>, <>, <> and <> environment variables in the output folder for shared printers
– Stability improvement for using period character in custom file names
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.82.376
– Upgraded build process for the Auto-print components
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.57.563
– Added support for loading 3 bpp TIFF documents
– Added support for loading tiled TIFF documents
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.10.193
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 01-25-2017
Version : 1.26 (revision: 210)
– Added SMS Notification feature
– Updated InstallShield Projects to version 2013

DATE : 12-30-2016
Version : 1.25 (revision: 184)
– Minor user interface improvement if the Document Converter Server was installed with MSI
– Stability improvement for configuring the start menu folder during the installation process.
– HTTP Upload Utility user interface improvements.
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.76.1619
– Stability improvement for uploading documents with Unicode names to Web (HTTP/HTTPS)
– Stability improvement for the Text Output (In some cases the Printer Driver inserted extra space characters into the text output)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.09.189
– Stability improvement for handling connection problems

DATE : 12-20-2016
Version : 1.24 (revision: 181)
– Minor improvements on the Demo window
– Added Upload to Web feature
– Minor user interface improvements for Email notification
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.08.187
– Stability improvement for registration on certain systems
– Stability improvement for uninstallation after the registration number was entered instead of the serial number during manual registration
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.76.368
– Stability improvement for handling low memory conditions (fixes deadlock)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.76.1615
– Added filename generation option: “Use the Document Name with the Output Directory from an INI file”
– Added option to Custom file naming to read the Output Directory from an INI file
– The printer driver now generates an empty txt file for text output even if the printed page contains no text
– Stability improvement for Content Based Email Sending and Mail Merge when printing certain documents, including PDF files and Web pages
– Stability improvement for the Text Output (In some cases the Printer Driver inserted extra space characters into the text output)
– Updated Manuals

DATE : 11-22-2016
Version : 1.23 (revision: 174)
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.07.180
– Stability improvement for registration on certain systems
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.71.361
– Stability improvement for Custom File Naming when printing Email files
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.76.1582
– Minor user interface improvements on the Email Settings dialog
– Performance improvement for printing some pages with extremely large amount of EMF records
– Stability improvement for reinstalling the Document Converter if the demo period is expired
– Updated manuals

DATE : 10-18-2016
Version : 1.22 (revision: 168)
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.1.667
– Improved performance of multi-threaded PDF printing
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.74.1568
– Stability improvement for Bates Number and Annotation rotation
– Changed Page, Annotation, Barcode and Bates Numbering rotation to clockwise
– Removed raw file formats from the user interface by default
– Added Tooltips to the Printing Preferences dialog
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.06.179
– Stability improvement for registration with some VPN virtual network interfaces
– Minor user interface improvements for displaying the number of documents in the Queue and displaying the number of processed documents
– Updated manuals

DATE : 09-21-2016
Version : 1.21 (revision: 163)
– Minor improvements on the uninstallation dialogs
– Updated manuals

Version : 1.20 (revision: 160)
– Stability improvement for Document Converter installer if additional DLL files is locked
– Minor user interface improvements for the Email Notification
– Added support for PDF, editable HTML and editable XML output file formats
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.8.0.661
– Stability improvement for printing documents that contain zero length text records
– Stability improvement for multi-threaded printing into PDF, HTML and XML formats
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.71.1553
– Added User Name, Computer Name, Timestamp, First Bates Number and Last Bates Number parameters to the “Start Application” feature
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.04.178
– Stability improvement for registering with certain WiFi adapters (Error 41)
– Stability improvement for multi-user, parallel license checking (Error codes 47 and 24)

DATE : 08-09-2016
Version : 1.10 (revision: 150)
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.67.359
– Stability improvement for printing certain PDF documents generated by Ghostscript
– Stability improvement for detecting corrupted PDF files
– Stability improvement for detecting password protection in some PDF files
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.70.1535
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.7.655
– Fix for certain images appearing as black rectangles (BH branch merged)
– Improved searchable PDF generation.
– Fixed missing characters when printing some documents that contain multiple fonts with the same name
– Fixed underlined and strike-through text when printing certain documents
– Fix for certain bitmap fonts
– Stability improvement for printing using RAW data type
– Added option to overwrite existing documents
– Added content based email sending feature
– Stability improvement for specifying very long email body texts or addresses
– Stability improvement for printing landscape PDF documents using the 204×98 DPI Standard Fax Compatibility Mode
– Stability improvement for annotation, bates numbering and barcode when printing landscape pages with printer redirection and 204×98 DPI Standard Fax mode
– Stability improvement for printing documents with varying page orientations
– Added INI file options to hide FTP, SharePoint and Email options from the user interface
– Stability improvement for starting the Document Converter Service
– Added the Print Spooler service checking for Document Converter Service Manager
– Stability improvement for using the Upload to FTP, Upload to SharePoint, Send printed document in email or Enable Start Application features
– Added transferable license handling
– Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.04.174
– Stability improvement for registering with certain WiFi adapters (Error 41) – Added the number of processed files to the user interface
– Changed Overwrite option to be turned off by default.
– Minor improvements on the user interface
– Updated manuals

DATE : 04-01-2016
Version : 1.09 (revision: 126)
– Added the ‘Overwrite output document option if the document already exists with the same name
– Minor Improvements for logging the output document filename
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.56.1482
– Improved user interface for the Text Extraction feature: Added Text Output tab to the printing preferences dialog
– Added “Text with layout” option to text output
– Added overwrite and append options to text output
– Added UTF-16, UTF-8 encoding options to text output
– Added new Automatic space detection and glyph conversion options for improved text output
– Improved text extraction for Hebrew and Arabic (numbers inside right-to-left text)
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-21-2016
Version : 1.08 (revision: 122)
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.55.350
– Added DICOM (DCM) input file support for Document Converter
– Updated Image Dlls to version 12.56.534
– Stability improvement for loading TIFF files larger than 2GB
– Updated manuals

DATE : 03-08-2016
Version : 1.07 (revision: 117)
– Added Working directory for output files currently under conversion.
– Stability improvement for printing when error code 62 occurs
– Minor improvements on the user interface
– Updated installer, exe and dll file signatures
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.54.343
– Added Email (MSG and EML) input file support for BiBatchConverter Service and BiCommandLineConverter
– Added EMF input file support for BiBatchConverter Service and BiCommandLineConverte
– Added synchronization when starting Office in Service (this is not the final solution)
– Stability improvement for converting PDF documents
– Stability improvement for converting large JPEG images
– Improved Excel document detection if the file is corrupt or the extension is incorrect
– Updated Image Dlls to version 12.56.527
– Updated BiAutoPDF.dll to version 2.6.3.637
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.54.1406
– Added Add annotation to the first page only feature
– Added Add header to the first page only feature
– Added Add footer to the first page only feature
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.7.1.640
– Improvements in font handling (UFI Mapping)
– Improvements in handling text inside paths
– Fixed upside down text when using some rare mapping modes
– Improved accuracy of coordinates in the Text Output when the “Save text position and style” option is used
– Added INI file option for better compatibility with certain applications printing in anisotropic resolutions (E.g.: 600×300 DPI)
– Added support for writing errors and print job information into the Windows Event Log
– Stability improvement for printing multi-sheet Excel files
– Updated manuals

DATE : 01-20-2016
Version : 1.06 (revision: 103)
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.52.1381
– Improved performance when printing to multi-page TIFF format
– Updated Document Imaging DLLs to version 12.07.26
– Stability improvement for appending multiple pages to a TIFF file
– Stability improvement for writing TIFF files larger than 2GB
– Added Email Notification feature
– Stability improvement for large file list in monitored directory
– Stability improvement for printing when error code 62 occurs
– Updated manuals

DATE : 01-05-2015
Version : 1.05 (revision: 93)
– Upgraded the Document Converter MSI installers from .NET Framework version 2.0 to 4.0
– Upgraded the Office add-ins from .NET Framework version 2.0 to 4.0
– Removed .NET Framework 2.0 support from Uploading to FTP, Upload to SharePoint and Email sending components.
From this version, the components support only .NET Framework 4.0 or higher.
– Added support for the Office 365 SharePoint online
– Added auto configuration for custom INI file in the MSI installer
– Stability improvement in the MSI installers for reading custom INI files
– Changed the profile name of the profile “Extract text from searchable documents” to “Text Output – Extract text from documents”
– Updated Black Ice Devmode dll to version 14.51.1374
– Updated Printer Driver to version 14.49.1365
– Added “Number of copies” option to redirect printing
– Added Collated/Uncollated printing option to redirect printing
– Added “Copy number” (<>) variable to annotation, header and footer options
– Added support for using the Flip options with redirect printing
– Added INI file option to use the old coordinate calculations (same as version 14.35 and older) for text output for compatibility
– Added INI file option to disable page headers in text output
– The filename generation method is automaticaly changed to “Exact filename” When the Combine/Merge option is turned on
– Added “Top” and “Fit to Width – Top” watermark positions
– Stability improvement for handling printer settings when a printer is renamed
– Improvements for registry cleanup on driver uninstall
– Improved error reporting for SharePoint uploader
– Added support for the Office 365 SharePoint online
– Updated Auto-print to version 14.50.320
– No changes
– Updated manual

DATE : 11-18-2015
Version : 1.03 (revision: 80)
– Added “Extract text from searchable documents” profile
– Updated Printer Driver module to version 14.45.1339
– Stability improvement for reloading encoded passwords from profile files
– Stability improvement for Text Output, when printing PDF documents
– Stability improvement for loading custom paper sizes from profiles
– Updated PDF Dlls to version 2.6.6.632
– Improvements for generating searchable PDF documents
– Improvements to allow copy-pasting unicode text from the generated PDF documents
– Updated Auto-print module to version 14.45.314
– Stability improvement for converting Excel documents with external links
– Stability improvement for converting Visio documents in service

DATE : 10-14-2015
Version : 1.02 (revision: 71)
– Improved release registration after the demo is expired
– Improved selection of the Number of used CPU core(s) on the user interface

DATE : 10-12-2015
Version : 1.02 (revision: 69)
– Stability improvement if the printer name was change
– Improvement to disallow multiple instances of Document Converter
– Added Purchase/Activate button for user interface of Document Converter
– Improvement for Printer Profile selection, if the Printing Preferences window was opened
– Improved directory monitoring for Document Converter Service
– Updated Auto-print module to version 14.41.304
– Fixed product version of the BiPrintImage.exe
– Updated Printer Driver module to version 14.41.1295
– Stability improvement for processing Message Capture message
– Detecting timeout error, read pipe error and write pipe error on Message Capture
– Increased Message Capture default timeout values to 10 seconds
– Updated manual

DATE : 10-07-2015
Version : 1.01 (revision: 60)
– Updated Image Dlls to version 12.55.511
– Stability improvement for converting Tiff images with missing SamplesPerPixel Tiff TAG information
– Stability improvement for converting Jpeg images
– Improved DPI detection of JPEG images
– Updated Auto-print module to version 14.41.299
– Stability improvement for converting PDF documents
– Shortened printer names to improve compatibility
– Stability improvement for uninstalling the Document Converter if more Black Ice products are also installed on the computer

DATE : 09-28-2015
Version : 1.00 (revision: 54)
– Black Ice Software releases the Document Converter
– Includes Printer Driver version version 14.41.1281
– Includes Auto-print module version 14.40.289