LogicalDOC Store Live

Logical Objects presents the new LogicalDOC Store. This is the official e-commerce site where you can purchase all LogicalDOC products.

We have created this online store to allow you to buy in simplicity and security all products related to LogicalDOC from software licenses to support services.

To all of you, from all of us at LogicalDOC Store - Thank you and Happy Shopping!

http://store.logicaldoc.com

The LogicalDOC Team

2 lines about the New Graphic

For the 5.0 release of LogicalDOC we thought it was appropriate to do a restyling of the Web interface.
In particular we wish to give to the program a more modern design to communicate an image more professional and the strength of the solution.

Following this path we have taken action to change the head of the program by entering a dark-blue color to separate from the more operational section below, by including however, a varied background pattern to communicate a sense of modernity and speed.

As regards the menus we have redefined the head menus by removing the icons to give more uniformity to the whole and in consequence of this choice also contextual menus on documents have undergone the same treatment.

In a article appeared on a Polish blog our system was at fault in relation to others regarding the ergonomics of use.
To improve this aspect we have taken action on three fronts:
introduction of the navigation tree on folders, repositioning of the breadcrumb, restyling of the buttons.

Thanks to the navigation tree is much faster to move between folders, the repositioning of the breadcrumb in turn facilitates the user to understand its exact location within the repository, while the new style of the buttons enhances their visibility and usability.

We are very satisfied of the result obtained because our customers have appreciated this renovation and they informed us spontaneously that the new interface was more pleasant and functional than the last.

In the future we already have other innovations to further improve the GUI of LogicalDOC, one of which will be the contextual menu on folders.
This improvement will allow even easier access to functions on the folder, similar to the contextual menu on the documents.

LogicalDOC 5.0 Released

Logical Objects is pleased to announce the new release 5.0 of the popular LogicalDOC DMS. This new release represents a milestone in the product evolution.

LogicalDOC 5.0 comes with a complete and powerful Workflow, with this feature you can visually design your processes directly inside the browser without external editors. This workflow comprises an escalation management that allows you to define tasks lenghts and recurring warning messages to involved users.

Another important update regards the auditing, now users can register themselves to be notified about changes of single documents or entire folders, and this via e-mail or RSS.

Read more in the product website: http://www.logicaldoc.com

The LogicalDOC development Team

LogicalDOC changed the reference Database

With the recently released version 5.0, LogicalDOC adopts MySQL as reference database.
The decision was taken in compliance with a lot of performance tests and MySQL was the right solution to obtain good speed performances on huge amounts of documents.

What's new in LogicalDOC 4.5.2

Among the already mentioned improvements in the parsers of which we have previously given notice, in the new release there is an interesting update.

This is a new importer for ZIP compressed archives.

This importer, which is the class InMemoryZipImport, as its name suggest, is able to perform the import in memory of the documents in a compressed .zip archive.

This new importer replaces the previous one and is able to specify the encoding used for the names of directories and files in the archive.
This allows LogicalDOC to read correctly, with the right encoding, also archives created in format different than Unicode.

Also allows to overtake some limitations related to the extraction on the file system of those archives that contain characters not supported by the Operating System on which LogicalDOC is installed.

Another update that i find relevant is the one made on the translations.

In fact, thanks to the work of Sebastian Wenzky (krypthonas.de) and Jesús Marín (A.P.L. software) we have updated the translations of the software for German and Spanish.

The new version of LogicalDOC Community Edition, LogicalDOC CE 4.5.2 is available as usual on the project site at SourceForge at the following web address:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/logicaldoc/files/distribution/LogicalDOC%20CE%204.5.2/logicaldoc-4.5.2-tomcat-bundle.zip/download

Parsing Parsing Parsing...

After the release of LogicalDOC EE 4.5 our partners have reported a small problem during the automatic extraction of Tags on particular types of documents.
In fact, we checked that extracting tags from OpenOffice documents the accented letters (found in most Latin languages) were eliminated.
At this point our development team was activated to resolve the problem and to review the various parsers / extractors of LogicalDOC to extract text from documents in the best possible way and in accordance with the UTF-8.
In this way the texts are then indexed by LogicalDOC and the document archive is full-text searchable.

The Community Edition of LogicalDOC owns the parser for Microsoft Office 2003 applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), AbiWord, AbiWord compressed (.zabw files), OpenOffice 2.3/3.0, StarOffice, KOffice 1.6, HTML, XML, TXT, PDF, PS (PostScript), WordPerfect (versions 4, 5, 6).

The licensed version of LogicalDOC Enterprise as well as having the parser in the Open-Source release of the software is able to index the text content of Microsoft Office 2007 documents (.docx, .xslx, .pptx), Autocad DWG documents and is able to perform optical character recognition (OCR) in PDF files (PDF raster), TIFF (Multipage), JPG, PNG.

Our developers have been involved also to implement support for the extraction of the textual content of documents .eml (Thunderbird saved emails, MS Outlook Express, email forwards) and documents with .msg file extension (Microsoft Office Outlook 2007).
These new parser will be available for the next release of LogicalDOC Enterprise scheduled for next autumn.

New Translation Program for LogicalDOC

After about a year since the release of LogicalDOC 3.5 and after several intermediate versions a problem have started to emerge:
keeping aligned translations of LogicalDOC with the current version of the program.

At the same time we need to understand what was the status of alignment of a given translation respect to a particular release of LogicalDOC.
Also we had a third problem: how to simplify the translation process, so that even a
person with no particular knowledge of Java could participate in the process of localization, without having to install special software or IDE to work on a translation.

At this point we began to look around to find a solution to our problems.

The first Open-Sorce solution we found was NickelsWebtranslator, but still not particularly satisfied, because the interface was a bit woody and why there was the need to install a Python interpreter on our server.

Continuing our research we have evaluated the translation system offered by Launchpad.
In the end we chose the latter because it is easy to use, even a person without knowledge of programming and without special tools may work on a translation, allowing more players to work simultaneously on the same translation and speeds up the translation with good suggestions. Also this system allows to graphically view the percentage of completion of a translation.

There are also negative aspects, such as the need to convert the RB in input into Gettext format and returned files back to .properties, but this negative aspect is largely offset by the convenience of the translation platform of Launchpad - Rosetta.

On the wiki of LogicalDOC there is a page (Translate LogicalDOC) with detailed instructions to start working with the new platform for the translations.