Got our hands on Workshare Professional 5.2 SR2 beta last week, not really had time to get our hands on it (we’re still on a live 4.5 release and struggling with some specific issues with our environment and 5.2 SR1!). But thought it would be worth blogging what’s new in this release:
- In Compare (i.e. Deltaview part of Professional)
- Comparison of embedded Excel tables – this is the data not the formulae in the tables, but still a pretty useful feature.
- Comparison of images – no it isn’t that fancy as to show what’s changed (i.e. that person has a scarf on in that photo!), it just checks whether the image has been modified, deleted etc
- OCR support for PDF comparison – nice, BUT you need to have ABBYY recognition server configured
- In Protect
- Manual redact – is this a growing demand?
- Cleaning password protected documents
- Previewing cleaned or PDF attachments
- In Review
- PDF combine – this could be really useful. The ability to combine multiple files into a single PDF. Useful at the close of a case when you want to combine many documents into a single file. BUT although it supports the combination of the following file types into a single PDF: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, PDF, TXT, HTML. The PDF Combine functionality is only available from the local file system!! i.e. NOT the DMS!
When we’ve got it up and running successfully I’ll blog some more thoughts, particularly on:
- Is the configuration easier to manage/understand?
- Lightspeed clean in protect – how much faster is it than v4.5?
