Client Requirements
- Windows (64-bit) with .NET Framework 4.8 installed.
- OCR text extraction requires Windows 10.
- Any additional requirements will be referenced in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
Database Compatibility
- SQLite (included as a single-user database option)
Multi-User Database Management Systems
- Oracle Database Express Edition 18c and 11g
- Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 19c
Setup instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
Upgrade Information
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 6.1.1 or lower, the database schema will require an upgrade. Database Schema Upgrade instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
- Starting with version 6.0.0, PDFKeeper is now 64-bit. The latest 32-bit version of PDFKeeper is 5.0.3.
- Starting with PDFKeeper 6.0.0, 64-bit Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) Runtime 19.3 is required when connecting to Oracle Database. Instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 4.x.x, the User name and Data source will need to be entered on the first login.
- Starting with version 4.0.0, PDFKeeper is installed per-user, requiring older, per-machine installs to be uninstalled manually.
New Features
- Text from image-only PDF will be extracted using OCR before uploading, and then stored in an indexed database column. (requires Windows 10)
Improvements
- Menu function was added to move local SQLite database to an alternate location.
Changes
- Migrated from iTextSharp to iText Core/Community 7.1.15.
- PdfPig 0.1.4 was added to handle text extraction when iText throws an ArgumentException while trying to extract text from a PDF that contains an invalid encoding.
- Magick.NET was updated to 7.24.1.0.
Fixes
- Fixed License not opening from About box.
Development Changes
- Improvements were made to the File Type and PDF Text Extractor classes.
- Help file is now compiled manually outside of build process to verify help file is not corrupt.
Additional Information
- Oracle Database 19c (19.3) requires the Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable (x64) - 12.0.30501 to be installed on the computer hosting the database.
Known Issues
- Text from image-only pages contained in a PDF that contain both image-only pages and pages with text will not be extracted.
- Text will not be extracted from embedded images contained in a PDF.