plusmeta 3.2

Released: 19. January 2022

New

• Release Notes in plusmeta
  • The current release notes are displayed directly in the application after the release of a new plusmeta version. Therefore, you are always informed about current changes and new functions.
  • The notification about new releases can be switched off in the release notes dialog itself or in the version dialog (button in the menu).
  • Release notes are now also available in English.
• Automatic notification for updates
  • From now on plusmeta checks in the background if updates of the application are available. An available update is indicated with the icon in the title bar of the application.
  • If an update is available, the application can be updated by clicking the button in the menu.
  • Especially for security-relevant updates, an up-to-date status can always be guaranteed this way.
• Languages in plusmeta
  • The concept for languages in plusmeta has been fundamentally revised with this release. All languages are now managed uniformly as Alpha-2 Codes (ISO 639-1).
  • There are now 33 languages preconfigured in the system. For a list of the configured languages in your system, see app.plusmeta.com/properties/plus:Language.
  • All metadata assignments for languages have been migrated automatically. If you have any questions, please contact our Support.
  • Due to the change to ISO 639-1, all flag symbols have been replaced with new language abbreviation symbols. The system-wide symbol for languages has been changed to .
• Optimized language detection
  • The Language metadatum can now be combined with all AI methods by configuration (e.g. rule-based assignment, machine learning or mapping). By default, the language recognition LG is used.
  • For automatic language recognition, the alternative method L2 is now available, which supports additional languages (e.g. Chinese or Arabic).
  • Due to the change, it is now necessary to make sure that the Automatic attribute has been activated on the Language metadata.
• New object type Image
  • plusmeta can now handle image file formats. JPEG, PNG, GIF and SVG are supported.
  • A preview is available for image files as quick view and full screen dialog. Transparency and animations (full screen only) are supported.
  • In fullscreen preview, images can be zoomed (CTRL+mouse wheel), moved (drag+drop) and downloaded.
• Optimized PDF preview
  • Preview for PDF files is displayed larger, especially for documents in landscape format.
  • In full screen view, text content in PDF files can be selected and highlighted.
  • In PDF files can now be zoomed using CTRL+mouse wheel (full screen only).
• Improved Properties View
  • The entries in the “Class” column are now clickable and filter the properties to the selected class.
  • If the properties view is filtered to a class, the “Class” column is automatically hidden.
  • In the Indicators column, the indicator types are now displayed as well.
  • Indicators can be shown and added in the “Create Property” dialog.

Enterprise & Global

• Text recognition for PDF and image files
  • OCR analysis has been revised to provide more accurate and faster results.
  • For PDF documents and image files that do not contain text, OCR analysis can be performed selectively. To do this, the object must be selected for OCR analysis via a switch in the “Text content” column (workflow step “Add content”).
  • By clicking on the symbol the language for the analysis can be set additionally (default: German & English).
  • If the language of the OCR analysis is adjusted for an object, the language is automatically applied as guideline for the Language metadata.
  • In the gear menu (workflow step “Add content”) all objects can be selected for OCR analysis.

Other

• The IT security management of plusmeta GmbH has been certified according to ISO 27001.
• There is now a button for SSO login on the login page.
• The plusmeta Properties Connector is now called “plusmeta Sync”.
• A configuration interface is now available in the administration for integration with Empolis Intelligent Views.
• The attributes “External Name” (plus:externalName) and “Public Name” (plus:publicName) are displayed in dropdown lists as a preview at the respective entry.
• The Project Settings menu has been enhanced with additional functions and visually redesigned.
• In the metadata heatmap, a history is displayed for metadata values set by fallback relationship (e.g. RB > FB).
• The workflow setting “Recognize text (OCR)” has been removed from all workflows.
• The “Download source file” switch has been removed from the “Add content” workflow step.
• To improve usability, some icons were adjusted and unified.

Bug

• Fixed a bug related to date input fields.
• When importing modified system properties, they were previously tagged as “Created” (now: “Modified”).
• Fixed an error related to downloading AI models (workflow step “Train model”).