Version 0.8

  • Distributed OCR queue processing via celery is disabled for the time being

  • Added support for local scheduling of jobs

    • This addition removes celery beat requirement, and make is optional

  • Improve link highlighting

  • Navigation improvements

  • Documents with an unknown file format now display a mime type place holder icon instead of a error icon

  • Mayan now does pre caching of document visual representation improving overall thumbnail, preview and display speed

    • Page image rotation and zooming is faster too with this update

  • Removed all QUALITY related settings

  • COMMON_TEMPORARY_DIRECTORY is now validated when Mayan starts and if not valid falls back to creating it’s own temporary folder

  • Added PDF file support to the python converter backend via ghostscript

    • This requires the installation of:

      • ghostscript python package

      • ghostscript system binaries and libraries

  • Added PDF text parsing support to the python converter backend

    • This requires the installation of:

      • pdfminer python package

  • Added PDF page count support to the python converter backend

  • Added python only converter backend supporting resizing, zooming and rotation

    • This backend required the installation of the python image library (PIL)

    • This backend is useful when Graphicsmagick or Imagemagick can not be installed for some reason

    • If understand fewer file format than the other 2 backends

  • Added default transformation support to document sources

  • Removed DOCUMENT_DEFAULT_TRANSFORMATIONS setup options

  • Document sources are now defined via a series of view under the setup main menu

  • This removes all the DOCUMENT_STAGING related setup options

    • Two document source types are supported local (via a web form), and staging

    • However multiple document sources can be defined each with their own set of transformations and default metadata selection

  • Use python-magic to determine a document’s mimetype otherwise fallback to use python’s mimetypes library

  • Remove the included sources for python-magic instead it is now fetched from github by pip

  • Removed the document subtemplates and changed to a tabbed style

  • Added link to document index content view to navigate the tree upwards

  • Added new option MAIN_DISABLE_HOME_VIEW to disable the home main menu tab and save some space

  • Added new option to the web theme app, WEB_THEME_VERBOSE_LOGIN that display a more information on the login screen (version, copyright, logos)

  • Added a confirmation dialog to the document tag removal view