ScanToPDF V6 Release Notes

To update ScanToPDF click Help on the ScanToPDF menu and choose Check for software update (since release 6.5.0.15) or Check for updates (earlier releases) and follow the prompts

Version – 6.5.0.24
Release date – June 18th 2026

Release Highlights

  • Improved – Data Gatherer Test using capture batch
  • Improved – Document View. Now includes full page navigator and barcode, OCR and variable explorer including full search and filter
  • Improved – Barcode discovery (via Help menu and Document View)

Version – 6.5.0.19
Release date – Feb 25th 2026

Release Highlights

  • Improved – Error handling of file locking when running as a service
  • Fixed – Auto File Import v1.2.5.5 – Auto Import After End Of Save Batch option conflicting with the Service
  • Fixed – Timeout on internet connection failure so that message is displayed when using Help >> Check for software update or Help >> Check for settings update
  • Fixed – Message being displayed when a license file cannot be written after applying a new activation key

Version – 6.5.0.15
Release date – Jan 19th 2026

Release Highlights

  • Improved error handling when running as a service
  • Improved PDF Render – PDF Import v1.2.0.9 (Engine v15.1.0.1 & GDI)
  • Introduction of “Settings Channels” for automatic update of system settings

Version – 6.5.0.12
Release date – Nov 18th 2025

Release Highlights

  • Barcode recognition v1.4.0.2 (Engine v5.0.60)

Version – 6.5.0.10
Release date – Oct 2nd 2025

Release Highlights

  • URGENT RELEASE – Fix problem introduced in earlier version with using ScanToPDF constants in Origami script

Version – 6.5.0.9
Release date – Sep 24th 2025

Release Highlights

  • PDF Import v1.2.0.8 (Engine v14.0.2.3 & GDI) – Improve the rendering engine for large image sizes

Version – 6.5.0.8
Release date – Apr 15th 2025

Release Highlights

  • Page Stamper v1.6.0.0 – Fix problem with placing stamps consisting of rotated text
  • Improved Document Profile Selector (v1.2.2.2) – New feature – Settings profiles can now be either Global: settings apply universally regardless of current profile or Specific: settings are exclusive to the selected profile

    Additionally, a Specific profile can have its own unique settings or derived (shared) settings from another profile. See the documentation page for more details.

Version – 6.5.0.7
Release date – Jan 13th 2025

Release Highlights

  • Fix a problem with display of scanned pages in the main image user interface which caused some pages to display incorrectly.
  • Improved activation messaging in the ProductActivation window to help users determine the activation status of the software and make activation documentation easier to read and follow.
  • Improvement in page rendering of imported PDF documents for the Japanese character set.

Version – 6.5.0.6
Release date – Dec 20th 2024

Release Highlights

  • Fix a problem with local license keys not being persisted due to existing license file being read-only on some versions of Windows. Any customer experiencing a problem with local keys not being saved after closing ScanToPDF should update to this release.

Version – 6.5.0.5
Release date – Dec 17th 2024

Release Highlights

  • Fix a problem with local license keys not being persisted due to existing license file being read-only.
  • Fix a problem with ScanToPDF script functions not being triggered in certain circumstances.

Version – 6.5.0.3
Release date – Nov 28th 2024

Release Highlights

  • Important – 6.5.0.3 was released to fix a bug with product activation using off premise license server. This bug results in the software using additional license slots from the server, or a message that no license slot is available when closing the Module Activation window using the OK button. Update the software to 6.5.0.3 using the Help >> Check for updates menu.
  • Fix a problem with activation keys that have spaces at the end not being accepted. Spaces are now trimmed from activation keys to prevent this error.
  • Fix a problem where the serial number display did not have the SPV6- prefix

Version – 6.5.0.1 & 6.5.0.0
Release date – Oct 29th 2024

Release Highlights

  • Important – 6.5.0.1 was released to fix a bug introduced in 6.5.0.0 – This bug results in the software not being able to scan multiple pages and only scanning a single page for each click of the Scan button. Update the software to 6.5.0.1 using the Help >> Check for updates menu.
  • Change to license activation and technical improvments to facilitate easier and simpler activation process. The update activation processes are documented here
  • New release of barcode recognition engine (v5.0.57)
  • New release of PDF engine (v13.2.0.1)

Version – 6.4.0.3
Release date – Jul 12th 2024

Release Highlights

  • Change to enable license activation during installation. Click here for more details about the change to the installation process.

Version – 6.4.0.0
Release date – Apr 22nd 2024

Release Highlights

Critical release to change license key activation process. 

  • ScanToPDF – Activation process now performed by external application called ActivationStatus.exe. Check this page for more details.
  • Version 6.4.0.2 – Released with 1 minor improvement to ActivationStatus.exe

Version – 6.3.0.0
Release date – Jan 2nd 2024

Release Highlights

This new release introduces the following improvements

 

  • ScanToPDF now includes its own scripting language called Origami which enhances the syntax available in most plugin modules. Please replace any syntax which uses the %syntax% style, for example %barcode% to use a barcode value, with the latest syntax. Check the syntax guide for details.
  • Barcode Recognition (v1.4.0.1) – Enhanced barcode recognition engine – (Engine v5.0.35)
  • PDF Import (v1.2.0.3)- Enhanced rendering of PDF files using- (Engine v12.2.1.1)
  • Data Gatherer (v1.3.0.3) – Enhanced features for handling of Raw Data

Version – 6.1.10.0
Release date – Oct 5th 2022

Release Highlights

This new release introduces the following improvements

  • Fix a problem with the 64 bit version of Image Output not working correctly due to missing library
  • PDF Import v1.2.0.0 – New render engine (v11.1.0.1) with bug fixes, added features and performance improvements
  • Barcode recognition v1.3.0.4 – Fix a bug with Regex Inclusion Match not being persisted when used with Document Profile Selector

Version – 6.1.9.0
Release date – Jul 5th 2022

Release Highlights

This new release introduces the following improvements

  • Auto File Namer v1.2.1.0 – Added Force error on condition option to force the Error case if a pre-defined condition equates to true
  • Auto document recognition (ADR) v2.0.6.0 – Fix a problem where profile list was not enabling scroll

Version – 6.1.8.0
Release date – Jun 22nd 2022

Release Highlights

This new release introduces the following improvements

  • PDF Import – PDF Import v1.3.0.0 – Improved render and import engine (v10.2.2.1) with many low level bug fixes and improvements
  • Page Stamper v1.3.0.0 with special instructions support (for DataMatrix barcode size parameters) and extended stamp text fonts – More info 

Version – 6.1.7.0
Release date – May 11th 2022

Release Highlights

This new release introduces the following improvements

  • PDF Import – PDF Import v1.2.0.0 – Improved render and import engine (v10.2.1.1) with many low level bug fixes and improvements
  • Page Sort v1.0.0.9 – Added new mode of Document sort to allow pages to be sorted at document level

Version – 6.1.6.0
Release date – March 28th 2022

Release Highlights

This new release introduces the following improvements

  • Complete translation of German, Dutch, Spanish, Norwegian, Italian, Polish and Swedish
  • Auto file namer v1.2.0.0 – Change default backup copy behaviour to overwrite any existing file

Version – 6.1.5.0
Release date – March 8th 2022

Release Highlights

This new release introduces 7 improvements

  • ADR v2.0.4.3 BUG Fix – ADR match not assigned when top match excluded
  • Redaction v1.3.0.0 (Engine v10.0.0.1) – BUG Fix – Settings parameters were missing
  • Auto File Print v1.0.4.0 – BUG Fix Unhandled exception using preview feature
  • Barcode recognition v1.2.6.0 (Engine v4.2.316) – Latest engine. Improvements in barcode recognition
  • WebDAV v1.1.3.0 – BUG Fix – with uploading file names containing #
  • Bookmarks v1.2.0.0 – BUG Fix – an error message with bookmarking
  • PDF Metadata v1.0.3.0 – BUG Fix – with Metadata not always being updated
  • PDF Import v1.1.0.0 (Engine v10.1.1.1 & Aurora (external)) – Latest Render engine

Version – 6.1.2.0
Release date – November 29th 2021

Release Highlights

This new release introduces 6 improvements

  • PDF Page Export v1.0.1.4 – fix problem with exporting tif
  • ScanToPDF with PDF Format PDF/UA1 as an added option. Learn more
  • Barcode recognition v1.2.6.0 (Engine v4.2.316) – Latest release of barcode engine
  • Auto file namer v1.1.9.0 – fix problem where Auto File namer settting Advanced>>OutputProduction is not correctly persisted in the settings
  • Run as service – Added time ranges to the service so it only processes files during pre-defined time ranges – Learn more
  • PDF Import v1.1.0.0 (Engine v10.0.0.1) – new PDF rendering version
  • ADR v2.0.4.3 – Fix ADR match not assigned when top match excluded 

Version – 6.1.0.8
Release date – July 7th 2021

Release Highlights

This new release introduces 1 improvement

  • Bookmarking plugin – Add paid option to insert pre-defined or free hand text bookmarks by right clicking a page thumbnail in the thumbnail pane
  • Bookmarking plugin – Use bookmark plugin in FREE MODE to create manual free hand bookmarks

    Documentation is available from this page

    Version – 6.1.0.7
    Release date – June 15th 2021

    Release Highlights

    This new release introduces lots of improvements

    some visible as user experience improvements

    • Better method for creating templates (affecting Data Gatherer, ADR and Document Profile Selector)
    • Data Gatherer – Added Regex Library to store and re-use Regular Expressions
    • Data Gatherer – import zones from other document profiles
    • Full redesign of ADR for better recognition and easier setup

    some operational…..

    & others related to improvements in performance and processing such as ……

    • improved PDF rendering
    • improved handling of corrupt files
    • improved page size handling in auto file print
    • improved handling of rotated pages in Data Gatherer

    Documentation is available from this page – https://www.scantopdf.com/help-info/documentation/

    Version – 6.1.0.0
    Release date – December 21st 2020

    Version 6 Product Release Highlights

    This brand new version introduces lots of improvements, some visible as user experience improvements

    • Simplified license activation
    • Average 22% speed improvement against the same configuration in version 5
    • New free plugins (Page Deskew and Auto Image Rotation)
    • New Document View Window (View OCR data, extracted data and barcode values)
    • Improved Data Gatherer user interface
    • Improved ADR (auto document recognition)
    • New Redaction plugin
    • Improvements to Digital Signatures
    • Improvements to the Auto File Namer plugin (additional syntax support)
    • Improvements to the Auto File Import plugin (exclude folders and files based on pattern matches)

    some operational…..

    • NEW Utility called USM (Universal Service Monitor) for administering the ScanToPDF Service
    • Better settings vault
    • Improved evaluation mode with silo settings

    & others related to improvements in performance and processing such as ……

    • improved PDF import engine for better rendering and data extraction from native PDF
    • improved OCR engine
    • improved Barcode engine
    • advanced Barcode engine for more challenging barcode recognition scenarios

    Documentation is available from this page – https://www.scantopdf.com/help-info/documentation/

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