Dokix

Website moving hosts

Tim — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:01:54 +0000

Over this weekend, I will be migrating our website over to the fabulous WPEngine, which is the fastest WordPress hosting platform in the known universe. The upgrade is begin done to support the upgrades to PDF Scan Pro and Home Document Manager which are due next month. Expect some intermittent outage and other funniness. Hopefully, the next post will be from the new host.

Fingers crossed…

Activation Server is Down

Tim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:39:33 +0000

We’re having a problem with our activation server at the moment. I updated the server today and it hasn’t come back up properly after its reboot. This will mean that new installations of the software will not be able to activate for the next couple of hours.

Apologies for the inconvenience, needless to say I’m looking into it and will update this post when we’re up and working again.

Edit: We’re back up

Babies, delays and hackers

Tim — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:29:32 +0000

It’s been quite an eventful week here, so I just wanted to update everyone.

First of all, the dokix.com website was compromised via a PHP script exploit around a week ago. This was not a quick process to fix in the first place, but was delayed even further by the arrival of our 5th child on Monday morning. Our 4th son, Jesse was born at 10.30AM at a very reasonable 8lbs, all fine and straightforward.

I had to spend a day rebuilding the website from backups and I now think everything is back up and working fine, if you experience any problems however, please let me know.

With all the disruption, I’m afraid there’s a bit of an email backlog that I will try to clear today. Thanks for bearing with me.

Compromised websites provide neat spam sending form – based on PHPThumbs exploit (commtouch.com)

More Scanning Options Added

Tim — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:29:09 +0000

Evening all.

I’ve just released an update for Home Document Manager that adds a bit more control over your scanning process. I won’t keep you long, but I thought it would be useful to go over the new options and tell you what they do:

Use Automatic Document Feeder – If you’re using a multi-function printer or a dedicated document scanner, you probably have an automatic document feeder. It’s the bit into which you feed a pile of papers for scanning. Previously, this was automatically enabled if sheets were loaded into it. This just gives you the option to disable it.

Two-Sided (Duplex) Scanning – More advanced document scanners can scan both sides of a sheet of paper in one go. Previously, you had to use the “Custom Scan” option to enable duplex. Now you can use the built in scanning profiles.

Auto Rotate – This will automatically rotate documents to be oriented in the correct way. This has always been enabled, but now you can turn it off if you are encountering an issue with a “problem” document.

Auto Deskew – If your scanner is anything like mine, when you scan a document, it seems to always go through at a slight angle which can reduce the accuracy of the OCR process. This option will automatically deskew an image before OCR’ing it, improving the accuracy.

Auto Despeckle – Some documents, particularly scans of newspapers, old documents, books etc., have tiny marks or “specks” on them. As well as reducing readability for us humans, it can also interfere with the OCR process. This option will automatically attempt to remove these specks from the document.

As usual, no action is required on your part. Home Document Manager will update itself when an Internet connection is present.

Thanks to David for the suggestion which prompted this change.

FreeOCR.org – A free service from Dokix

Tim — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:12:10 +0000

We’ve just launched FreeOCR.org, a free OCR utility. You can upload your scanned documents and have them converted to searchable PDFs for free.

Support for Microsoft Visio Documents Added

Tim — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:22:56 +0000

I’ve just released an update for Home Document Manager which has added support for Microsoft Visio documents. Thanks to Jeff for the suggestion.

As usual, Home Document Manager will update itself when an Internet connection is present.

Re-OCR Tool Added

Tim — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:05:17 +0000

We released a small update which added a new tool for re-OCR’ing documents. This is typically useful only if you import a PDF that are not OCR’d, but contain small amounts of readable text, such as page numbers. In these instances, Home Document Manager will not automatically OCR them.

Added TXT and RTF Support

Tim — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:47:33 +0000

I’ve just issued an update which has added support for importing and displaying both plain text files (.txt) and Rich Text Format files (.rtf).

Don’t think there’s anything else to say…

As usual, Home Document Manager will update itself when an internet connection is present.

A Small Tweak to Full Text Search

Tim — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:44:04 +0000

I’ve just released an update to Home Document Manager which has changed the way the full text search works ever-so-slightly. Previously, when you searched for a particular search term, you were searching only the contents of the documents, not the titles. With this change, the document titles are now indexed too, so you can search for documents by name.

This change will only apply to new documents. Fear not – if this is something you can’t live without, I’ve also added a tool to rebuild your content index to include the titles for all documents. Simply go into the options menu, go to the “Tools” tab and click “Rebuild”. This will probably take a few minutes if you have a lot of documents.