[Store]  [Cart]  [Resources]  [Learning]  [About]  [Solutions]  [Consulting]  [News]  [Links] s Database Pros is not affiliated with the organization posting this news item and does necessarily not endorse the products or services mentioned. If you have a question about a news item, please contact the company who posted the press release. News Main Menu New Major Version Release: 360Works Scribe 4! We are excited to announce a new major version of a popular 360Works plug-in, introducing Scribe 4! 360Works Scribe is the ultimate document automation plug-in for FileMaker; it allows integration with Word, Excel, and PDF documents. In this release, we are taking it to the next level by adding in the ability to read your scanned documents, such as receipts, forms, or contract PDF files, with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) functionality. Additionally, we added features to allow you to merge PDFs and get meta-data from them, plus multiple fixes for existing functionality in Scribe. NEW OCR FUNCTIONALITY Scribe 4 ships with brand new OCR functionality to read your scanned documents and extract text to be added into FileMaker. For example, a law firm can scan in loads of paper legal contracts and have the text extracted and imported into the appropriate FileMaker records!Scribe leverages the technology of Amazon Textract which goes beyond simple OCR by not only extracting text but also identifying key information like the contents of fields in forms. Cool demo file showing how to use this new OCR functionality in Scribe: https://s3.amazonaws.com/static.360works.com/demos/scribe/Scribe+Textract+Demo.fmp12.zip NEW PDF MERGE FEATURE We added two new functions to merge and manipulate PDFs with Scribe. For example, if you have a couple of PDFs stored in container fields, the new function ScribePDFMerge allows the two PDFs to be merged together. The new ScribePDFSplice function allows a multi-page PDF to be split up into smaller PDFs. This is beneficial if you have containers with multi-page PDFs, and only need to utilize a specific part of the entire PDF file. GET PDF META-DATA You can now get meta-data about a PDF, such as the name of the author and page count. The new ScribeGetPDFAttributes function will return various meta-data about a PDF. This can be helpful if you want to have FileMaker manage PDF files according to the author or number of pages specified in the meta-data. MULTIPLE IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING FUNCTIONALITY We also made several upgrades to the existing Scribe functionality. When using Excel with Scribe, the Excel cell reading and writing images to Excel cells has been greatly improved. We also made fixes for the ScribeDocSubstitute function for replacing a value. ------------------------------------------------------------ AVAILABILITY: Scribe 4 is available now at the Scribe product page (https://360works.com/filemaker-pdf-plugin/) . Active maintenance subscribers for Scribe or the 360Works Portfolio Bundle (https://360works.com/portfolio/) can download new major version 4 at no additional cost. **All purchases within the last 12 months are still under an active maintenance subscription. If the maintenance on Scribe has not been renewed within the last 12 months, you will need to purchase a new license to use Scribe 4. For new license purchases, we have several license types available based on number of users, client-side or server-side usage, and a solution bundle license for developers with a vertical market solution. A free, fully functional demo is available to test Scribe. While in demo mode, Scribe will run for 2 hours every time you launch FileMaker (or FileMaker Server, for server deployment). Full pricing, license type information, and the demo version can be accessed at the Scribe product page (https://360works.com/filemaker-pdf-plugin/) . TRY OR BUY 4: https://360works.com/filemaker-pdf-plugin/ ------------------------------------------------------------ 360Works (https://360works.com) Questions? Please Email plugins@360Works.com s If you have issue with the content of one of the news items posted here, feel free to voice your concerns to jmo@filemakerpros.com. Please limit feedback to improper content. Do not include your opinions about a product. Thanks for your understanding.