First up, we added a toolbar, status bar and refined the context menu to the image viewer. We found it important to keep relevant functions with the image viewer (as opposed to the main ribbon) – since it’s not uncommon to undock the viewer from the main interface. You’ll be able to hide both the toolbar and status bar to increase screen real estate, if needed. The toolbar will include save, print, zoom, and edit functionality. The status bar will indicate the document’s page number and identifier (customizable) along with the current editing mode.

You can now save the current page or document to a new image file (and change its format) from the toolbar. This is great when dealing with single-page images and you need to quickly save a few documents to PDF format, for example. Along with this option, you can print the current page or document as well – without having to go thru the ‘Batch Printing’ wizard. Again, this is perfect for when you just need to quickly print a couple of documents.

Zooming in and out of a document’s image has also been streamlined. You can use your mouse-wheel, keyboard shortcuts, the right-click context menu, or buttons in either the toolbar and status bar to zoom in and out of a document. We’ve also made more prominent the ‘Best Fit’, ‘Fit to Width’, ‘Fit to Height’ and ‘Full Size’ buttons for automatically handling an image’s zoom. Finally, we now remember your preferred zoom method when you close and re-open ReadySuite.

When it comes to editing images, we’ve added several abilities – including image cleanup, rotation, and redaction options. For cleaning up document images, you’ll be able to deskew, despeckle, remove hole-punches, and remove black borders. Rotating an image to the left -90 degrees or to the right 90 degrees is now possible. For redacting documents, you’re able to setup a default redaction profile when adding redactions to images. Each redaction added can still have its own unique settings. We’ve added options to add text to redactions (or no text), adjust the font (style, size, color), and change the background color. Once you’re satisfied with the redactions on an image, you can then “burn-in” the changes to make the redaction permanent.

To speed up editing images, change the image viewer’s edit-mode. You can set the viewer to read-only, prompt to save changes, or auto-save changes. If you set the viewer to auto-save, when you navigate away from a page, those changes will be applied to the underlying file automatically.

Since our image viewer supports displaying most common image formats (BMP, GIF, JPG, PDF, PNG, and TIF) – we also support editing these formats directly. Basically, it doesn’t matter if your document contains single-page images or multi-page images, or if it’s in PDF or TIF format, you’ll still be able to save changes to the original format/file.

We’re excited about sharing other new features and changes in the next version of ReadySuite, so check back here often to follow our progress.

There are two ways to batch-redact documents using ReadySuite. The first method allows you to trim an entire portion of a page. The second method allows you to redact a region on a page and fill it with a white or black background.

For an example of the first method, you can remove 0.5” inches from the bottom portion of a page while maintaining the original page size. You can perform this operation on the top, bottom, left, or right sides. The amount to trim can be adjusted, allowing you to batch-remove 0.223” inches from the bottom of a page.

The second method to batch-redact documents is to select a region on a page and designate a fill color. We make this process easy for you with our preview control. To use it, enable selection mode, draw a region on the image, and we’ll translate those bounds into coordinates. Using this method also allows you to see where the redaction will occur on each page across all documents. For the advanced user, we offer options to manually input the start and end positions of the redaction area.

All pages are not created equally, therefore, applying document- and page-level filters allows precise control over which documents will be redacted. For example, if you have a field named “Production” with values of “Y” or “N”, you can filter for all documents with a production designation (“Y”). The page-level filters allow you to redact based on even or odd page numbers, being the first page only, or portrait and landscape orientation.

In part 4 of our series, we’ll go over new functionality allowing you to export images and native files.