Software updates provide enhancements to the latest version of Ephesoft Transact. This includes security and compatibility enhancements, and fixes for features.
In addition to the updates listed in the Ephesoft Transact 2020.1.02 Feature Pack, the following issues have now been resolved:
| Salesforce ID | Category | Problem Statement/Background | Solution |
| 00011565 | Batch Class Import | Missing field types caused importing batch classes to intermittently error out at 100% with no message in the logs. | Added checks to handle the scenario for a missing field type. |
| 00007671 | Batch.xml | Batches would stop with an error due to improper handling of a ZipException, which would cause the batch.xml ZIP file to be corrupted. | Refactored the file lock handling to prevent batch.xml corruption. |
| 00007993 | DB Export Plugin | In some scenarios, an intermittent error would occur when using the DB_Export plugin to export tabular data.
Error message: “DB Export Plugin: Problem occurred in exporting batch document level fields to database. Error occurred in executing query.” |
Optimized the database connection pool management and closed stale connections. |
| 00007811 | Email Import | When importing emails from Exchange, the import process would fail if Transact was being run through a proxy server. | Added additional properties to the mail-import.properties file that enable you to use a proxy server with email import. |
| 00006327 | Export | Searchable PDFs would not be created at Export when DPI information was not available in the originating JPG files. | When a JPG is converted to a TIFF, Transact will now automatically assign a default 300×300 DPI if the JPG has a blank DPI value. |
| N/A | Folder Monitor | Stability issues could occur when Folder Monitor was configured to use JNotify. | Changed Folder Monitor default from JNotify to cron-based mechanism in fresh installations. |
| 00007119 | Format Conversion | When using format conversion to replace values that were populated using FuzzyDB lookup, one of the following would occur:
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Added checks to handle the scenarios for format conversion. |
| 00016660 | ID Extraction | Processing an ID that wasn’t detected as a supported ID type caused extraction to go into error. | IDs that don’t return results now continue to manual validation instead of erroring out.
This does not reduce the ID license image count. |
| 00007616 | ImageMagick | Rescanning or inserting a page during Review or Validation caused display images to be shown in greyscale, even when all settings in the imagemagick.properties file were set to color. | Removed hard-coded variables that were overriding properties set in the imagemagick.properties file. |
| N/A | Key-Value Extraction | The original default values for Pixel Density % and Auto-Resize K/V Areas required extra steps for configuration. | Changed the default values for ICR/OMR operations:
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| N/A | Key-Value Extraction | The following error would be logged if no Transact Value Type (Numeric or Alphanumeric) was specified for a field:
com.ephesoft.dcma.kvextraction.KeyValueExtraction – ICRExtraction :: TVT field is unknown, will use default settings |
This message is now logged at the DEBUG level instead of ERROR. |
| N/A | Key-Value Extraction | For Hand/Machine Print extraction, selecting Numeric as the Value Type still allowed for alphabetic results to be returned. | Resolved mismapping in the underlying RSP file. |
| 00006522 | LibreOffice | Batch instances would stall during PDF conversion using LibreOffice due to corrupted LibreOffice user profiles. | LibreOffice user profiles are now automatically reset based on a cron job. |
| N/A | Paragraph Extraction | On Linux (RHEL), the following fields were missing from the left panel on the Paragraph Extraction Rule page:
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Missing fields have been restored. |
| 00011838 | Pathlock | When unlocking a batch, the request would timeout with the following error: “Unable to unlock paths of host… Read timed out.” | Updated the SessionListener.class file to avoid unnecessary path unlock calls when no user is associated with the session. |
| 00006086 | RecoStar HOCR Plugin | When Use EText RecoStar Project File was set to Always or Automatically, HOCR data would sometimes be inaccurate or blank depending on the EText data from the input file. | Updated the underlying RecoStar dll files. |
| 00011310 | Review and Validation | In certain cases, index fields wouldn’t be populated at Validation when using index field search based off of Rest API Lookup. | Resolved handling from Rest API Lookup in cases where search fields are missing from the response data. |
| 00007778 | Review and Validate | Documents would intermittently disappear when
Continuously holding or quickly tapping the merge shortcut (CTRL + /). |
Made various improvements to the merging process to minimize the chance of documents being lost. |
| 00010030 | Table Extraction | Creating a table extraction rule with 2-Column layout selected was unable to extract when data was located only in the right column. | Transact now recognizes the start pattern when data is located only in the right column. |
| N/A | Web Services | Web services with SSO-integrated authentication would not function with previous versions of Transact. | Restored basic authentication for web services with respect to an SSO-integrated environment. |
Third-Party Component Upgrades
Ephesoft Transact is bundled with many third-party component software that have been used to build its framework. These components are regularly updated to address performance enhancements and bug fixes.
The following third-party component upgrades have been made with the release of Transact 2020.1.03.
| Component | Previous Release Version | Current Release Version | Benefits |
| Apache Commons BeanUtils | 1.9.3 | 1.9.4 | Security resolution to the following:
For more information, refer to the Apache Commons BeanUtils 1.9.4 Release Notes. |
| Apache Commons Codec | 1.3 | 1.4 | Security resolution to the following:
For more information, refer to the Apache Commons Codec 1.4 Release Notes |
| ImageMagick | 7.0.8-64 | 7.0.10-27 | Improvements to the following:
For more information, refer to the ImageMagick changelog. |
| XStream | 1.4.10 | 1.4.12 | Security resolution to the following:
For more information, refer to the XStream Change History. |