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ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.3.84Latest
March 24, 2026
Requires maintenance through 2025-03-24
New option to the pdf overwrite options depending on the pdf information to change the extraction mode, render or image extraction
xmpMetada is now extracted from pdf's in system fields
New image converter module for export
New IntelliTags options to increase the masterkey intellitags over global intellitags or disable globals when masterkey intellitags are found
New options for Global or Masterkey Intellitags to overwrite Al results.
Trigger, Job and global properties
Improved google-vision requests speed
new capture date format at job level
Google Vision OCR to ALTO converter option. (v2, v3 and v4)
New post-processing option
Batch labelling support for desktop
Allow custom colors in batch tags (desktop&enterprise)
Added the option for confirmation dialog when deleting a page/ document
Added info column to the processing settings dialog
Added new filtering options for "View only not ignored documents/ Not ignored pages"
Added grid info >> execute AI enabled/disabled on admin document types table
Added the option to create an empty Job from the wizzard
Added the possibility to give an alias to the grids
Drag and drop over thumbnails allows to add pages or insert a document in a certain part of a batch
Highlight and icons for mapped and found/ not found fields for ai responses on the AI data panel
Auto map ai models when fields -> reponses are the same field name. reset and clear mappings actions on the prompts configuration dialog
Added full pagination on the prompts configuration dialog (ollama, gpt and gemini)
New option for filtering images by image size (pixels or milimeters)
New option for filtering images by pages ranges
New option for filtering images by page bookmarks
New option to force a specific OCR engine when re-doing OCR on images
Added +15 new custom buttoms classes (desktop&enterprise)
Make amount of languages presented in dropdowns configurable (desktop&enterprise)
New "Go to Next..." functionality
New functionality for bookmarking pages (desktop & enterprise)
Customizable actions menu on pages/ images (OnMouseOver-Menu)
New option to confirm switching from multi-selection ({N} pages) to single selection when clicking a page thumbnail
New PDF scroll mode for indexer viewer
New buttons on data grid toolbar; filter ignored, filter not ignored and focus/scroll to selected item in both grid and thumbs/ viewer
New thumbs menu option for listing document properties directly (configurable)
Dynamic zoom window on thumbnails (alt + mouse)
SharePoint Online output, new option to save connection configurations and reuse in different output modules
New user level configurable visualization for smaller screens and other options
Administrators can change processing settings from indexer
Added the property "AI enabled" to the Jobs >> Masterkey section
Added dynamic filtering to the document types and masterkeys administration reports
Jobs table sync. >> Allow to synchronize fields in reverse mode, from database to batch
Added the possibility of adding attachments to document notes
Enterprise database hotfolders >> new options for deleting imported files and for delaying importing when looking for multiple files
Added Batch preview to the batches panel
Added the option for not deleting batches with specific labels
New report for AP processing performance
New report for application metrics
New predefined one-click reports
Give acces to users panel (block/unblock) to operators and to the reports and activity on batches and docs panel
Added jobs filtering and selection buffering on the jobs panel
Added an only errors filter mode to the documents view column mode
New Log In form
Toggle dashboard menu option
Added all ai icons to web data table
check/ uncheck all, searchboxes for users, jobs and activity on reports filters
Added ignored doc/page to (filter and visualization on web lists)
Added an option that lets operators change or select the document type directly from the Simple Index view when the job doesn't use a master key
New visualization option: the Indexer can now force all VBScript user buttons to stay in compact mode
Doctypes document processing performance status bar on doctypes section
Allow any User/Role to access the reports section
IMAP Office 365 OAuth authentication allow to use an app registration in our own tenant instead of the ChronoScan app registration
IMAP new option to allow to reuse connection settings of an existing configuration. This is usefull when different configurations use the same email but different folders
IMAP new cache connection option for keeping the conections opened instead of connect and disconnect. This will avoid throttling
New functionality for bookmarking pages (desktop & enterprise)
New history panel on dashboard
New enterprise status "reprocess_delay_ai"
New ChronoBatch methods
- DeleteDocumentType
- UnLinkDocumentTypeMasterkey
- LinkDocumentTypeMasterkey
- DuplicateDocument
- AI_AssistantRebuild
New ChronoDocument methods
- SetPageColor
- MovePageTo
- InsertXgridRow
- ConvertStringToDate
- GeminiRequest
- EstimateRequestTokens
- CopyXgridRows
- PageAddBookmark
- PageRemoveBookmark
- PageHasBookmark
- RemoveAllBookmarks
New UserField methods
- gemini-1.5-flash
- gemini-2.0-flash
- gemini-2.0-flash-lite
- gemini-2.5-flash
- gemini-2.5-flash-lite
- gemini-2.5-flash-lite
- gemini-flash-lite-latest
- gemini-3.0-pro-preview
- gpt-4.1
- gpt-4.1-mini
- gpt-5
- gpt-5-mini
- gpt-5.1
- gpt-5.2
- gpt-5.4
- gpt-4_turbo (Azure Switzerland North regional data center)
- gpt-4.1 (Azure Switzerland North regional data center)
- gpt-4o (Azure Switzerland North regional data center)
- gpt-4.1-mini (Azure Canada East regional data center)
- gpt-5-mini (Azure EastUS2 data residency standard)
- DeepSeek chat model request v3.2
- DeepSeek reasoner model request v3.2
New AI trigger crop functionality. Request on a specific cut of image instead of whole image
Assisted AI xGrids/lineItems tables creation
Added thinking and thinking_budget option (gemini)
Added retry delay to the AI integrations (gemini and gpt)
Added global prompting to the AI integrations (Ollama, gpt and gemini)
Added 'reasoning_effort' param for o-series and gpt-5* models
AI-auto generated json on json prompts
New AI fields assistant (desktop and web)
New text renderer (v2)
Added automap fields, reset and clear mappings when configuring new AI models
New improve prompt function and prompt preview for gpt and gemini
Added the possibility to use a user field as a variable for the param context_size/ max_tokens (ollama/ gpt and gemini)
Added the possibility to use a user field as a variable for the param pageConfig (ollama, gpt and gemini)
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.3.26
July 31, 2024
Requires maintenance through 2023-07-31
XGrids: Allow to set a minimum row height
PDF image extraction options: New option to resize very large extracted images
New output module for SharePoint Online
Add password protection to Nuance PDF output
Regular expression triggers, allow to set a capture group in a field instead of the match
Intellitag looking for a regular expression, allow to set a capture group instead of the match
New API method: Batch.AddFileToBatch
New option for omitting blank pages when rendering pdfs
Pdf render overwrite depending on pdf information like creator, producer, author...
New option for re-doing OCR also on ignored items
Added Two Factor Authentication (2FA) to enterprise
New ability to drag and drop files in the thumbnail panel for adding new documents (indexer)
Group fields auto-expanded if any has a validation error
New notifications for IMAP and SMTP OAuth credentials that are expired or near expiry
- wci_system_alert_AUTH_IMAP_CRED_expiration
- wci_system_alert_AUTH_SMTP_CRED_expiration
- wci_system_alert_LINK_EXPIRY_DAYS
Customizable field styles for indexer form
New Hotfolder option. Add/ Enqueue input files through database
New column view mode for documents panel
View as json mode for documents panel
Customizable IMAP error notification email
Activity view for batch/document on indexer
Reports: column chooser/ report configurator on report 3 (workflow)
Reports: New report for jobs status
New event: OnBatchClose
New event: OnENT_ValidateDocument
New events: OnExtractBegins and OnExtractEnds
New processing options after export:
- Delete ignored documents
- Delete ignored documents if only ignored documents remain in the batch
New ChronoApp methods
New ChronoJob methods
New ChronoBatch methods
New ChronoDocument methods
- Capability to process batches with ChatGPT
- Models & prompts configuration
- Different ChatGPT models available
- Capability for fine-tuning ChatGPT models with ChronoScan applications
Implementation for Azure OpenAI Service- How to use it
- Free generative AI processing
- On premise AI generation
- Open source models such as Mistral, llama3, Gemma2 and more
- Straightforward invoice processing
- No template configuration needed
- No OCR needed
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.3.01
May 25, 2023
Requires maintenance through 2022-05-25
Customizable buttons; added the option to have up to 20 buttons (desktop & web)
Intelli-Tags; New option for finding nearest code, amount and date at left
Intelli-Tags; allow setting the value found when looking for a regular expresion
Xml extended conversion; new options for main grid node and record node. Allows to add to a custom node tree and attributes
New Option to rotate images with EXIF information about orientation
New option to create Nuance MRC PDF files using the Google OCR text layer
VBScript after conversion/ output modules execution
New conversion module "PdfEdit" for pasting text, images and barcodes in a pdf
New conversion module json output
External data viewer; added scriptable text input to toolbar (desktop & web)
New option to add annotations on pages that can be exported to a pdf (desktop & web)
Grid cutter, option to avoid images that are smaller than a specific size (width and height)
Added the ignore text option for normal triggers
Added Minimum Height/Width option for patchcode detection & validation
pdfA version for ChronoScan pdf output
Database Lookup, new option, set an error when lookup key is found
New processing log for batches
New job variables: ignorevalidation_onbatch_load and job_processing_version
Trigger panel, view the main trigger characteristics in grid mode
New VBScript ChronoApp function Indexer_ShowXGridPanel(0|1)
Excel extraction, new option to select the sheet for extraction, instead of the active sheet
Preview text dialog option
Supplier wizzard helper panel
OCR Engine icon on image thumbs
Rename batch function from UI
I-Tags; Option to rename I-Tags lists
Added a visual flag to ignored documents/pages on desktop image viewer
Added a warning on main page when the log is active
Added the thumbs view to the data entry mode
Added the options "apply only to selected" and "apply only to documents with ocr error" to re-do ocr dialog
View enterprise document status on desktop form view
Added the filter for viewing only ignored pages (capture mode)
External data viewer; added the edit update statement option
Added the "Ignore pages mode" to the Scan/Input cursor menu
Added the ignored document icon on desktop grid view
Added the "View only ignored pages" to the Scan/Input filter menu
Fast batches loading (without batch information)
New approval workflow
- New user role 'approver'
- Routing documents to approvers
- Approve, reject, send to revise documents
- New filter for ChronoScan output module for approved and rejected documents
- More info
Multi-Thread INPUT server option
Multi-Thread INPUT server option for Hotfolders and IMAP input
Multi-Thread PROCESSING server option
I-Tag management button/ dialog on indexer form fields
Improved and simplified I-Tag edit dialog for web
Added I-Tags field names to canvas
Added I-Tag options (stop when found|preference for last result) to the web I-Tag edit dialog
New history panel on dashboard
Modules summary report on enterprise
View background text button on enterprise indexer
New notification for batches that are waiting in "increation" status for a specific time (OnBatch_Status_[increation]_WaitingFor)
New notification for batches that are waiting in "created" status for a specific time (OnBatch_Status_[created]_WaitingFor)
Limit certain notifications to a specific number of batches to be sent
Indexer; option to edit I-Tags from indexer tag menu icon (canvas)
Option to export external data viewer results to an excel file
Reports; New report for ChronoScan processes and services information
Password reset email from login form option
Added the filter for last month (now first and last of last month) and last 30 days for reports
Option for non-admins to change document status
New administration section UI
Added the option to assign higher/lower priority to jobs when processing
Ocr/pdf info icons (error/success/etc) on thumbs and ocr info (Clicking on them)
Indexer; added page previous/next buttons to canvas
Indexer; option for going to next batch when sending current batch to reprocess
Indexer; batches panel and go to another batch directly from the index view
Indexer; bacthes history panel on the index view
Indexer; Thumbnails will take less indexer space (show only first page made push-button)
Indexer; OCR zones background text on mouseover and document background text size/color options
Improved and standarized notifications layout
Allow opening batches on "ready to export" inbox on indexer
Reports; new Processed IMAP emails report
New layout for "Document with pending notes" inbox
IMAP import; process Outlook .msg attachments
IMAP input new rule for omitting an email if an attachment doesn't follow a rule
IMAP input, new function for attachment rules %pdf.pages%
IMAP report, allow to set a message to unseen so that it can import again
Added a set document status option to the documents panel
New dashboard inbox for batches "increation" status
Option for activating/deactivating users from users tab
Option for editing vbscripts for custom buttons on web indexer (only admins)
Option for showing indexer form at left and thumbs at right of the image
Option for compact indexer toolbar (advanced UI)
Quick goto batch/docs panel from dashboard batch record
Option for editing vbscripts for custom buttons on web indexer (only admins)
New ChronoJob object and methods
- GetName
- IsUserApprover
- IsApprovalWorkflow
- ExternalDataImportExecute
- DownloadFileInBrowser
- GetCurrentJob
- GetUserMail
- GetUserId
- GetUserName
- GetUserType
- CancelEventExecution
- Existing methods added to enterprise
- Indexer_SelectNextDoc
- Indexer_SelectLastDoc
- Indexer_SelectNextPage
- Indexer_SelectPrevPage
- Indexer_SelectLastDoc
- Indexer_SelectFirstDoc
- IgnoreDocument
- IsDocumentIgnored
- IgnorePage
- IsPageIgnored
- ExecuteConversionModule
- GetDocStatus
- SetDocStatus
- Approve
- Reject
- SendToRevise
- SetApprover
- GetEntStatus
- GetSelectedDocument
- ExecuteUpdate
- ClearCurrentView
- GetRowCount
- GetColCount
- GetColType
- GetColName
- GetColIndex
- GetCellValueNumeric
- GetCellValueString
- AddStyleClass
- RemoveStyleClass
More info: ChronoScan Scripting Model documentation
Google Vision engine configurator added to desktop
Added Google Cloud connector thru API_KEY to Google Vision OCR engine
Added new OCR settings for Google Vision
- Endpoint
- Compression level
- Deskew image
- Fallback OCR
- Language hints
Google Vision integration documentation
Google Document AI integration documentation
Fixed vertical text display issue with Google Vision
Fixed web field property 'Visible for' (editor) and added the roles (operators|approvers)
Fixed the show/hide form group fields thru vbscript on web indexer
Fixed remembering show/hide crosshair for web indexer
Fixed thumbnails footer overlapping small images on web indexer
Fixed reset previous ocr on ocr re-build for google vision (desktop)
Fixed UserButton.* vbscript methods called from not UserButton events not working on web
Other minor improvements and fixes
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.2.73
April 21, 2022
Requires maintenance through 2021.04.21
New ChronoScan launcher dialog
New download & install samples on launcher
Added a Demo license request dialog
Export configurations to zip files
Full text search on a whole batch
eTags Engine with line items
Ignore area triggers property for text density
New DB lookup functionality
- New interface
- Allow activate/ deactivate them
- allow execute on demand (VBScript funcion)
- New additional filter
- Allow to use "OR" operator to compare different lookup keys
OAuth support for IMAP import
Implemented OAUTH for SMTP output
Allow exact match or regex for imported Itags
Allow rotate image when adding merged OCR for pdf
Added a field property to remove/replace/whitelist characters i.e. # from invoice numbers
Added a notification on alerts email to admins for when licenses remaining percentage reaches out 90%
Allow users to set xGrid base colour when using multiple grids
New option for Nuance pdf output: PDFA versions
Drag and drop office documents (working when a office to pdf converter is configured)
File system output module, new option to throw an error if no document reaches the output
Remove strings for intellitag results
Stop hotfolder importing from "\imported" (or whatever is defined) when importing from subfolders
Option for when is not possible to delete files on disk don't remove batches on database and add an entry in the activity log
Barcode new image filter "Median Filter"
Improved regular expressions and regexp/alias edit manager
Added the possibility to save import errors in specific location
Added the possibility of adding a password to email rules to open a PDF
Added the possibility to restrict editor role for admin
New option to move pages to specific positions within a document on the indexer interface
New batch status waiting_external_actions
New notification for batches on status waiting_external_actions
External Data viewer & External data viewer configurator added to enterprise
New option for generating backups from enterprise interface
- More info: Enterprise backup
Added a rebuild OCR function to ENT
Option to re-do the OCR for pages
New date picker combos
When linking a local job to an enterprise config, create (actual user) permissions automatically for that job
IMAP input: allow to set several mailboxes for a configuration
Implemented a customizable password policy management
- More info: Password Policy Management
New ChronoApp functions: MovePage, Indexer_FilterDocuments
New ChronoDocument functions: Indexer_OpenBatch, OpenLinkInBrowser, AddPage, MoveDocument, CreateNewDocumentType, FullOCR
New ChronoBatch functions: AddNewDocument
More info: ChronoScan Scripting Model
ChronoTxT: A hybrid PDF/Text parser to XML (Beta)
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.2.62
July 7, 2021
Requires maintenance through 2020.07.07
New full text search on batches
Added a "Nearest regex below" for Intelli-Tags
New function to re-read barcodes
Locked batches indicator on desktop "Batches Panel"
PDF bookmarks: allow a tree structure
New configuration for Document types (negative number formats, date and decimal format)
New output module, Batch Routing to copy documents to another job/batch
Function to cache list retrieved from M-Files
Multithread export services for enterprise
xgrids now movable by drag and drop on indexer
image navigator added to indexer
Dashboard section for parked batches
New Events: OnXGridRowSelected, OnBatchLoad
New ChronoApp: RefreshBatchesPanel, Indexer_HighlightZone, Indexer_GotoPage
New ChronoBatch: SetEntityID
ChronoLite: New end users indexing application (BETA)
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.2.37
April 27, 2020
Requires maintenance through 2019.04.27
Allow user defined regex for zone
Allow to import office documents using a third party office to pdf converter
New features on Script editor: Search, Replace, Go to line, etc
Maths operations in fields
Alternative layout processor for jobs
Sharepoint output export, actions if the document already exists
New email notifications for server/services status
Hotfolders, allow custom paths
M-Files output module, allow several values for a data type multi-select
New ChronoDocument functions: LookupForceValidation, SetDocumentAsIndexed, SaveToPDF
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.2.18
February 11, 2019
Requires maintenance through 2018.02.11
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.2.15
January 31, 2019
Requires maintenance through 2018.01.31
Extended xml export. Allow attributes for main, document and custom nodes
New ShareBase by Hyland output module
New masterkey utility for import/export masterkeys
New convert module for Digital signature
Allow multiple IntelliTags for single field to create array
M-Files allow to set properties not associated to the class
New ChronoBatch: MergeDocuments
New ChronoDocument: GetZoneFieldJpg, GetDocumentGuid, GetProcessedDocumentSize
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.85
December 15, 2017
Requires maintenance through 2016.12.15
Pdf documents, allows to save original document and export using the original document
New intellitag utility to search nearest regular expression
GridCutter processing module, allows to add footer to each clip as well as header
M-Files, allow to dynamically set the object type and class
M-Files, allow to add files to an existing object (multi-file mode)
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.83
October 2, 2017
Requires maintenance through 2016.10.02
Barcode, allow unicode values
Included new UI language (Simplified Chinese)
M-Files, allow to dynamically set the object type and class
Barcode read for fixed values when value position doesn't exist - fixed
Nuance OCR plugin Release Notes v.1.0.0.24
September 8, 2017
Requires maintenance through 2016.09.08
Added new PDF A formats
Added zone location option to improve ocr
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.81
September 7, 2017
Requires maintenance through 2016.09.07
Ability to hide unwanted fields in the grid view panel
Support for very large databound lists
Blank page detection using content threshold
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.74
March 13, 2017
Requires maintenance through 2016.03.13
Mixed OCR/Native PDF text import utility
Support to SFTP through curl
Hotfolders: Allows to setup an executing time frame
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.56
July 22, 2016
Requires maintenance through 2016.07.22
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.54
July 12, 2016
Requires maintenance through 2016.07.12
Output modules: New option to add pages to an existing PDF file
Import utilities for intellitags can be executed on windows scheduler
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.35
November 17, 2015
Requires maintenance through 2014.09.11
New language detection utility
New master key working mode
New Intelli-Tag/database synchronization tool
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.24
July 23, 2015
Requires maintenance through 2014.07.23
ChronoScan OCR: overall OCR speed is higher by 20%-70%
XML Export: ability to create one XML file per document
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.12
April 27, 2015
Requires maintenance through 2014.04.27
Advanced multiline split on Zonal OCR
Solved image rotation issue with ChronoScan OCR
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.8
March 23, 2015
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.5
March 17, 2015
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.1.2
March 9, 2015
Global Scripts and Jobs scripts modules
VBScript Hotfolder, possibility of executes hotfolder scripts and configured UI scripts
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.98
January 28, 2015
Added Lithuanian interface language
Update ChronoScan OCR engine: Improved overall OCR speed by 5-15%
New ChronoBatch function: GetLastInputCount
Fixed possible memory leaks when OCR was cancelled
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.89
November 7, 2014
PDF: Native PDF format retain on export
Thumbnails: Open current image on an external viewer
Output: Allows to activate/deactivate output modules
Fixed HotFolder issues
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.81
September 19, 2014
Output: Allows to generate PDF/A-1a
Interface: German, Lithuanian and French user interface completed
OMR: Mark detection engine (Advanced version)
Stability and performance issues
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.71
May 14, 2014
HotFolders: New HotFolder utility (Advanced version)
Plug-In: New optional Nuance-OCR Plug-in
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.65
February 17, 2014
Batches: Allows you to export only validated documents
User Interface: New utilities to customize ChronoScan UI
PDF rendering problems solved
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.60
January 16, 2014
Capture table now has start/end limits and start/end triggers
New trigger: record identification and split on reports
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.58
December 26, 2013
General: Sample jobs/documents installation
Jobs: Document Types configuration is now under job folder
ChronoScan Release Notes v.1.0.0.54
November 26, 2013
Document Recognition: New zone engine allows capture zones from different scaled documents
Overall OCR speed improved by 30-40%
Alfresco/CMIS: Set object type directly (ObjectTypeId)