Client Requirements
- Windows 10 (64-bit) or higher with .NET Framework 4.8 installed.
- 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 21c and 18c
- Oracle Database Enterprise Edition 21c and 19c
- Oracle Cloud Autonomous Database
Setup instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
Upgrade Information
- Full upgrade support is only provided for PDFKeeper 7.0.0 or higher.
- Starting with PDFKeeper 9.0.0, the RemoveListAllDocuments policy has been renamed to HideAllDocuments.
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 8.1.2 or lower, if flagged documents were being listed on startup of PDFKeeper, you will need to select "Find flagged documents on startup" in Options to enable.
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 8.x.x, XML files in %APPDATA%\Robert F. Frasca\PDFKeeper\UploadProfiles will be upgraded. The original XML files are stored to %APPDATA%\Robert F. Frasca\PDFKeeper\UploadProfiles.bak where they will remain and can be deleted if no longer needed.
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 8.1.0 or lower, if prompted for an admin account, select No and then right click on the Windows Start Menu, select Run, and then type: winget install pdfkeeper
- Starting with PDFKeeper 8.0.0, Windows 10 (64-bit) or higher is required.
- Starting with PDFKeeper 8.0.0, 64-bit Oracle Data Access Components 21.4 is required when connecting to Oracle Database. Instructions are available in the Help file that can be viewed post-install.
- When upgrading from PDFKeeper 7.2.3 or lower, XML files in %APPDATA%\Robert F. Frasca\PDFKeeper\UploadConfig are upgraded and stored in %APPDATA%\Robert F. Frasca\PDFKeeper\UploadProfiles. The original XML files will remain for backwards compatibility and can be deleted if no longer needed.
Improvements
- Added rule when saving Notes that verifies the size of the Notes string does not exceed the maximum length of the DOC_NOTES column in the database when the database platform is Oracle.
Changes
- Added predefined tokens to step 2 in the "Upload Profile Editor" help topic.
- Updated "Uploading PDF Documents from outside of PDFKeeper" and "Uploading PDF Documents using Upload Profile Folders" help topics to state that one or more folders that contain only PDF documents can be copied into PDFKeeper Upload.
- Updated Ghostscript to 10.03.1.
- Updated itext to 8.0.4.
- Updated itext.bouncy-castle-adapter to 8.0.4.
- Updated itext.font-asian to 8.0.4.
- Updated Magick.NET to 13.8.0.
Fixes
- Specific error message will be displayed in place of unhandled System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException when selecting or attempting to upload PDF that contains % and/or + in the filename.
- System.InvalidOperationException will be handled when document that triggers this exception is selected.
- Corrected location of PDFKeeper Upload shortcut in "Uploading PDF Documents from outside of PDFKeeper" help topic.
- Menu and toolbar items that should be disabled will now be disabled following a find operation that returns no results.
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.
- By default, text will not be extracted from embedded images contained in a PDF.
- PDF text extraction will be skipped for each page that is to be processed by OCR when the pixel width or pixel height exceeds the maximum image pixel dimensions supported by the Windows OCR engine.