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DataSnipper Changelog: 2020

Every DataSnipper for Excel release from 2020 (v2.x and v3.0), newest first. Part of the year-by-year DataSnipper changelog.

Each entry is tagged with its product, change type (new feature, improvement, bug fix, and so on) and release stage (GA or Preview), so you can scan the page or use your browser find (Ctrl+F) to locate a specific product or change. This page is part of the full DataSnipper changelog, which is organized by year.

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Releases in 2020

v3.0 (2020-12-02) Preview

Preview release of v3.0. Planning: 1 Feb 2021 Preview; 1 March 2021 SMB; 1 June 2021 Enterprise. Release Highlights include Form Extraction, Table Snip multiple Pages, Improvements for Document Matching and Find all Sums, Export with Snips and comments, User metrics dashboard, Text Recognition supports 73 languages.


Form Extraction

Document Extraction New feature Preview

With Form Extraction, you can extract values from similarly structured documents. Snip all the values you want to extract if everything looks good in the preview table. After clicking the extract button a new sheet will be created with a snip for all values and documents.


What the video covers: Form Extraction.


Find all Sums - horizontal and columns

Cross-references / Find all sums New feature Preview

The "Find all Sums" now includes horizontal and totals in different columns. By simply importing the documents and clicking Find all sums, DataSnipper finds all the sums from different columns.


Document Matching options

Platform New feature Preview

With Matching options, you can add different options in your document matching by clicking the "..." button. You can set a column as required so if a field in that column is not found, the corresponding row will be left empty. You can also allow a difference up to a specified amount when matching a value. Start by selecting the documents, the input columns, and the output columns. Then you can assign options to the desired columns.


Table snip on multiple pages

Snipping New feature Preview

The "Table snip" feature allows you to extract tabular data from multiple pages. Draw a rectangle around the data (excluding headers) in the PDF, so your first Table snip is created. Then click the "...", you can choose on which pages it should create addition table snips for the same positions. This is especially useful for tabular data on PDFs and it can process up to 10.000 pages.


Document overview window

Document Management New feature Preview

With "Document Overview" you can view all the imported documents in a single window where you can select or deselect the documents of your choice. This new overview window will automatically pop up when you want to export documents, remove documents or create groups.


Export with Snips and Comments

Document Management New feature Preview

While exporting documents, you can now export all the snips and comments attached to the document. Start by clicking the export button in the ribbon panel, select the documents you want to export in the Export window, and then select the "Export with snips and comments" option.


Text Recognition - 73 languages

OCR / Text Recognition Improvement Preview

Text Recognition now supports 73 different languages


Audit Trail of embedded documents

Platform New feature Preview

The DataSnipper worksheet always shows a complete list of all embedded documents. This allows Regulators and clients without DataSnipper to reperform all work.


Import MSG, ZIP, TXT

Document Management New feature Preview

When importing files in DataSnipper, you can now select MSG files with attachments, ZIP, and any text-based format like HTML, XML, CAMT, RTF, and TXT. When choosing these files, they will be automatically converted to PDF and opened in your Document Viewer.


Usage Metrics Dashboard

Platform New feature Preview

With our usage metrics tool you will be able to register and login online to a usage dashboard. This will provide key aggregated insights over: how many of each kind of snip your team are preparing, the number of documents where text recognition was performed, workbooks prepared/reviewed, and document matching tests completed. You can view the trending of these metrics over time and display them on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis. This will be available mainly for administrators or implementation managers within your organisation.


v2.1.8 (2020-11-26) GA

Enterprise/SMB release.


Waiting for OLE connection fix

Excel Workbook Bug fix GA

Solves issues with 'Waiting for OLE connection' message caused in combination with certain other Excel Add-ins


Audited with DataSnipper tag removed

Platform Deprecation GA

Removes 'Audited with DataSnipper' tag


Speed and reliability

Performance GA

Improved speed and reliability


v2.1.0 (2020-11-26) GA

Major release introducing Table Snip, Find all Sums, Document Matching with multiple groups, and more.


Table Snip

Snipping New feature GA

With the 'Table Snip' you can automatically extract tabular data from PDFs into Excel. Draw a rectangle around the data in the PDF and the table is pasted into Excel. If necessary, you can add or remove columns with the plus and minus buttons.


What the video covers: Table Snip.


Find all Sums

Cross-references / Find all sums New feature GA

With 'Find all Sums' you can automatically calculate all the sums in a document. This feature is particularly useful for calculating the mathematical accuracy of a financial statement. DataSnipper will create a new sheet and text snip the totals of a sum in column A and sum snip the parts of a sum in column B. You can now easily review the mathematical accuracy by clicking on the snips.


What the video covers: Find all Sums.


Document matching with multiple document groups

Platform New feature GA

With Document Matching you can automatically match source documents (e.g. invoices, bank statements, contracts, delivery notes, etc) with Excel data. This feature enables you to prefill your tests of details. In version 2.1 Document Matching is improved with the possibility to match data to multiple document groups. For example, you can cross check Excel data with invoices and bank statements in one test. To achieve that you can segment the imported documents into invoices and bank statements with the 'Add Group'' button. Then you can assign the preferred columns to drop the snips and run the test.


What the video covers: Document matching with multiple document groups.


Search overview dropdown

Platform Improvement GA

Navigating between search results is improved with an easy to use dropdown with a list of all the search results. The results are organized by document name and page number. You can jump from one location to the other by hovering over a search result.


One-click search

Platform New feature GA

With One-click search you check if a date or amount also appears on a different page or PDF. When you click on the date or amount in the PDF you see a list of all the matches.


Multiple snips to one cell

Snipping New feature GA

Now you can link two or more snips to one cell. This enables you to reference two different locations on a PDF or different PDFs to one cell. You can link another snip to a cell by pressing CTRL while making a snip. You can create multiple snips to one cell with the sum, text, validation, and exception snip.


What the video covers: Multiple snips to one cell.


Export PDFs

Document Management New feature GA

With the 'Export' button you can export the current PDF or all imported PDFs to a folder. This is useful if you want to store the PDFs separately and do not have access to the original PDFs anymore. After you click on one of the two buttons you can select the folder where you want to export.


Include PDFs enabled by default

Excel Workbook Improvement GA

In version 2.1 'Include PDFs' is enabled by default. With 'Include PDFs' enabled all imported files are embedded into the Excel file. This is practical when you share a DataSnipper with a colleague or upload it into audit management system. Because they cannot reach the original PDF file. If you want to disable 'Include PDFs' by default for the whole organization send an e-mail to [email protected].


Performance improvements Text Recognition and Document Matching

Performance GA


Text Recognition improved language support

OCR / Text Recognition Improvement GA

Text Recognition has improved supports for English, Dutch, German, France, Spanish, and Portuguese


Add-in never disabled by Excel

Platform Improvement GA

DataSnipper Add-in is never disabled by Excel.


Resilient saving of snips and documents

Platform Improvement GA

Saving of snips and documents is completely resilient.


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