When a picture isn’t worth a single word. Have you ever tried to find information in a long PDF file using good old Ctrl+F, only to get hit with a “no matches found” warning on every keyword you try? Your troubleshooting instincts probably lead you to furiously click on the paragraphs and try to highlight words, […]
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Case Study – Managing Gas Pipeline Data
The Challenge Suppose your employer gives you the task of quickly finding a document containing information critical to the success of the company. Complicating the situation, your employer is a large conglomerate in the energy sector who possesses a vast archive containing tens of millions of documents, both physical and digital and in all manner […]
New Features in Ephesoft Transact 4.1
At the Ephesoft Innovate conference in October, 2016, the Ephesoft team highlighted the new features that would be part of the Ephesoft 4.1 release. Ephesoft 4.1 is now available, and this article will highlight some of the main new features in this version. The first major change is that the Ephesoft product has been re-branded […]
Blue Fish Takes Home Innovation in Energy Award
This March, Blue Fish attended the Ephesoft Innovate 2015 Conference in Dana Point, California, where hundreds of end users and partners came together for three days of networking, insightful presentations and many entertaining happy hours. A highlight of our time at Innovate 15 was receiving the 2014 Innovation in Energy award from Ephesoft. The Blue […]
Ephesoft’s Inaugural Partner & End User Conference
Mark you calendars! Ephesoft recently announced that the 2015 Inaugural Partner and End User Conference will be held on March 15 – 18 in Dana Point, California at the Laguna Cliffs Marriot Resort & Spa. This conference will be Ephesoft’s primary annual event for channel partners, global customers and industry experts. Attendees will experience two […]
Resolving "Another User is Already Connected" Error when Running Ephesoft Sync DB
When running the “Sync DB” command from the “Reports” tab in Ephesoft 3.x, the error “Another User is already connected to the database” may be seen. In some cases, this error occurs even though no other user is trying to synchronize the reports table. This article will provide the steps to reset the flag that […]
Capturing data from varied documents within Ephesoft (pt. 2)
In part one we explored some strategies to address variability in the appearance of data within documents that might be captured by Ephesoft in document-level fields. But what if we’re trying to capture whole tables of data that might exhibit the same variability? This may again seem to be a daunting challenge, but Ephesoft has […]
Capturing data from varied documents within Ephesoft (pt. 1)
Ephesoft offers a great toolkit for setting up extraction logic to automate the capture of information from scanned documents. But, sometimes the documents we’d like to feed into the system do not exhibit regular and reliable formatting, key words, or positioning, even if they are otherwise similar in content and subject matter. In these cases, […]
Resolving Z-Index Issues with Alternate Values List in Ephesoft 3.0.3.4
In a previous video about Ephesoft 3.0.3.4 SP1, we provided instructions on how to customize the “Alternate Values” items for a field so that you could pop-up a custom list of values. One thing that we have seen in the field when using the pop-up list is that the z-index of the window is set […]
Set Lowercase when using Ephesoft with Linux-based MySQL
Although Ephesoft Enterprise currently requires Windows as its platform, the database that it uses can reside on an external server. In one of our use cases, Ephesoft 3.0.3.4 SP1 is connecting to a MySQL server running on Linux. After installing Ephesoft, both the application and report databases were created without problem. In addition, handling batch […]
Getting Trained on Ephesoft
Ephesoft’s product training and certification course, an extensive 3-day tour of the product’s operation and capabilities. The class was well prepared with detailed visual lessons and appropriately interspersed lab components, wherein we all had the chance to get our hands on the software and learn its intricacies ourselves. Course modules started with basic installation and […]
Handling CMIS Export to Alfresco Properties that Allow for Multiple Values
Ephesoft provides a plugin in their Export module that allows for export via CMIS. An issue that we have noticed in Ephesoft 3.0.3.4 is that the CMIS export does not support exporting to an Alfresco property that has “Multiple” set to “True”. In Alfresco, when “Multiple” is enabled, it is expected that a List of […]