Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog.

3.23.1

Released on 18-11-2024

Added

• additional keywords and logic to improve PDF cutting

• check into runner-process to see if device is still running

• reading exchange rate into the InvoiceReader when processing pdf invoices

Fixed

• log warning instead of raising an exception when display-mask is out of the screen boundary

• convert_to_decimal to remove whitespace characters from the input string

• AttributeError in cloud processor when extracting currency code

3.23.0

Released on 25-10-2024

Added

• reading secondary totals from ISDOC files via InvoiceReader

• aiviro-cli deploy toolkit for deploying Reader, Image Recognition, and other services in one gradio app

• merge_files_into_pdf method into PDFRobot to merge multiple PDF or Image files into a single PDF file

• two columns into prefect stats report markdown_report & markdown_error

• cut_pdf_to_valid_pages method into PDFRobot to cut a PDF file to valid pages only

• ability to read primary and secondary totals and currencies via InvoiceReader

Changed

• reading prefix of the local bank account to 2-6 characters

• merge excel extra requirement into reader

Fixed

• TypeError: cannot pickle '_regex.Match' object error when using RegexText

• requests to Reader server, re-open file with each failed request to prevent 422 http-error

• raise exception RequestFailedException when APIClient stops retrying request to the server

3.22.0

Released on 10-10-2024

Added

• command to extract text & ui elements from an image get_raw_elements

• doc-example into PDFRobot get command to extract all texts or words from a page

• invoiceField to indicate if vendor is not a tax payer into InvoiceReader

• convertors module, to convert string into Decimal, Datetime and to convert result if get command

• documentation section Aiviro Utilities > Convertors

• enhanced quality of reading bank accounts in InvoiceReader

• searching for more than one order number per page in pdf when using InvoiceReader

• gradio Explorer into deployment as a separate service

• aiviro-cli log stats command for generating statistics using local & prefect logs

• section of scenario performance metrics into email-notification

• metric argument into @step decorator to define custom metrics for a scenario

• email_metrics argument into send_report method in EmailNotifier to include performance section in email

• additional keywords and logic for DueDate in InvoiceReader

Changed

• internal implementation of bound-box to Pydantic 2.0

• interface of Gradio Explorer app

• disallowing empty title & content for Notification blocks & messages

• update pre-commit to use ruff instead of other linters

Fixed

• value-error while converting IBAN to Local account bank number

• filtering of already used IDs and tax IDs when using InvoiceReader

• print format of BoundBox in logger

• parsing of old-format of run-folders

• merging of YAMLConfig objects

3.21.2

Released on 16-09-2024

Added

• enhanced reading of due dates in InvoiceReader via checking payment term or texts like “payable in XX days”

• removal of all Unicode characters at the beginning of the text for text normalization, instead of just the first character

• getting company name from ARES’ response when parsing invoice via InvoiceReader

Fixed

• calculation of wait-time for new screen, change negative value to 0

• normalization of email attachment’s name in Outlook connector

3.21.1

Released on 09-09-2024

Added

• field for local-bank-account in reader-client app

Fixed

• search-settings for order-number in reader-client app, now search through every page

Removed

• previously added check if device is running, due to failures in production

3.21.0

Released on 27-08-2024

Added

• check for correctness of a parsed IBAN

• pDF robot now uses dynamically calculated DPI for better handling of PDFs with different page sizes.

• improvements in Reader’s ability to read tax IDs

• path attribute for str/repr into Image search-object

• the tmp_folder attribute for BaseScenario which enables automatic creation of temporary folder(s) for the scenario

• the __auto_folder option which automatically creates shared-folder in RDPRobot via YAML configuration file

Changed

• to unidecode and lowercase comparison of identifiers and reader’s items

Fixed

• currency reading (especially invoices with multiple currencies)

• fixed bug that application tried to interact with already closed robot

• saving email with empty subject

• runtime-error when closing robots in scenario - dictionary size changed

3.20.5

Released on 16-08-2024

Added

• additional build checks for aiviro build-documentation job

Fixed

• condition statement, which allowed passing empty TZ variable to the agent-container

• missing references in aiviro documentation

3.20.4

Released on 15-08-2024

Fixed

• calculation of waiting time for taking new screenshots & screen stability

3.20.3

Released on 12-08-2024

Added

• normalization of the email’s attachments’ filenames (especially characters like ‘/’, ‘’, etc.)

• logging for _before_run & _after_run methods in scenario

• option to start scenario in with statement

Changed

• moved mypy parameters from CI to pyproject.toml

Fixed

• fixed error in automatic closing of aiviro which in some cases could cause a infinite hang

• incorrect parsing of invoice & due-date in the invoice

• Windows fatal exception, when detecting QR codes in pyzbar library

• encoding problem in PowerShell create_and_copy_powershell_script command on Windows

3.20.2

Released on 17-07-2024

Added

• TZ variable into agent docker-compose to set the timezone for the agent container

Changed

• identifier of FindMethod in cache-context from value to attribute-name

Fixed

• aiviro-cli log generate creates output folder if it doesn’t exist

3.20.1

Released on 08-07-2024

Added

• more detailed logging for API requests

Changed

• value of skip_waiting to None for go_to_url command

Fixed

• endless loop in streaming waiting for new image, in case stream is closed

• filtering of word-boxes with single character €

• cI build for python package, CentOS 7 reached EOL

• video streaming for Static-Robot-Runner (PDF Robot)

3.20.0

Released on 26-06-2024

Added

• conversion for Aiviro Reader’s IBAN to a bank account, and vice versa

• new log folders for statistics and data-storage

• description into @step decorator

• error_step attribute to access failed step in get_run_context method

• Logging section into documentation

• calculation of the net-amount for items in the InvoiceReader

• warning message when custom api-url is used

• best-practices for dataclasses and pathlib into docs

• docs for ISDOCProcessor, Parsers examples

• docs about key-value search into tips & tricks section

• working-area into the debug images (search-object service result)

• working-area into robot’s video stream

• option for clear_and_type & clear_text to accept None as element value

• webdriver_type argument into create_web_robot to support additional web browsers - Firefox, Edge, Safari

• webdriver_path argument into create_web_robot to override the default path to the web-driver

Changed

• structure of the log folders, 3 separate folders - runs, stats, storage

• default value of maximum disk-size of logs to 20GB

• default value of maximum number of log-files to unlimited (limited by disk_size)

• primarily unit-price net-amount is extracted from .isdoc files

• internal arguments for robot’s initialization method

Fixed

• deployment of gitlab-pages in CI, caused by too big artifacts

• user-normalization, apply it only when USER_NORMALIZATION find-method flag is set

• empty item-line in .isdoc document

• improvements in reader’s accuracy (mainly tax-date & order-numbers)

Deprecated

• setting webdriver_path in configuration file, it’s loaded now automatically from $PATH

3.19.0

Released on 15-05-2024

Added

• --project-name argument for deploy agent start command, to set prefect project name

• deploy agent start-env command to start an agent using existing .env file

• AUTO and DYNAMIC option for find_method

• additional keywords for order-number search in Reader

• option to ignore_keywords search in InvoiceReader for order-number search

• item-identifiers & tags/category search for InvoiceItem

• simpler (client’s version) of gradio Aiviro Reader app

• processing of .isdoc files into InvoiceReader

• new option into aiviro.find_method CASE_SENSITIVE

Changed

• default find_method option from SIMILAR to AUTO in search-objects

• attribute extra to extra_comparable instead, for BoundBox hash calculation - same as eq_

• [breaking] logic for text/element search

• timeout for pdf conversion to images from 30 to 60 seconds

• normalization of words, first and last characters with length in bytes >= 3 are removed

• words with only one character which length in bytes >= 3 are removed

• default value of arguments in start_process command, use_likely_area - False to True, sleep_time - 0 to 1

• text search, by default as CASE_INSENSITIVE

• logic for element-search, now only element and text are checked (before element, other type of elements, text)

• “improved InvoiceReader accuracy of DUZP field”

Fixed

• ModuleNotFoundError('No module named /root/') exception when agent-container is restarted

• problem of text merging for icons

• extraction of unresolved pdf-attachments

• split sentence if texts have too different heights (vertical vs horizontal texts)

• duplicated sentences when prediction element splits a sentence

Removed

• assertions in pdf processing, replace them with PDFError exception

3.18.1

Released on 14-04-2024

Fixed

• encoding in mime-multipart emails, from utf8 to utf-8

3.18.0

Released on 04-04-2024

Added

• builder Gradio app for creating HTML robot’s reports

• explorer Gradio app for exploring robot’s logs

• video aiviro-cli command to generate video from robot’s logs

• automatic image resize for bigger than 3350x4750x3 pixels, before sending to server

• documentation example for @step and @staticmethod

• processing of other content-types from smime.p7m files

• method as_imap_message to convert ‘message/rfc822’ attachment into IMAPMessage object

Changed

• allow usage of recipients arguments in EmailNotifier.send_email method

Fixed

• digital PDF parsing for words containing only _ (underscore) characters

• closing of streaming-service, handling of ValueError if process is still running

• empty text-body of email from imap-basic-auth, extract text from html-body

• closing streaming in case of exception

• exception for script without initialized logging

• handling of negative sleep time in RunnerProcess

• IMAPMessage empty-None subject, by default now set to empty string

3.17.3

Released on 12-03-2024

Added

• nano tool into agent docker-container

Changed

• version of CI python-docker image to 3.11 from 3.9

• versions of pre-commit packages to the newest

Fixed

• unexpectedly PDF robot switching to OCR, due to missing mask-removal update

• sorting of boxes from sub-image search, sort them by position instead of matching-score

3.17.2

Released on 07-03-2024

Added

• retry for TimeoutError('Screen wasn't updated for way too long.')

• error message when main process ends unexpectedly

Changed

• version of pypdf package dependency from 4.0.1 to 3.16.1 due to file corruption problem

Fixed

• fix closing of shared memory process

• encoding problem of ErrorHandler on Windows

• including content of invoice item (text content) into InvoiceItem dataclass

• starting deployment server without running docker service

• logging of robot-id attribute into logs

3.17.1

Released on 21-02-2024

Changed

• @step can be used also without BaseScenario running

Fixed

• formatting of documentation for rdp shared-folder

3.17.0

Released on 19-02-2024

Added

• two methods into RDPRobot for working with shared-folder, local_shared_folder & remote_shared_folder

• new tab “convert-csv” into reader Gradio app

Changed

• repository for pylint tool in pre-commit

• new versions for all pre-commit tools

• versions of all dependencies (update them)

Removed

• singleton pattern from LoggingContext class

3.16.0

Released on 02-02-2024

Added

• unique identifier for each run of aiviro-script (run-id)

• run-id into logs name and email report content

• localization for aiviro package (cs_CZ, sk_SK, de_DE, en_US)

• post-processing of invoice items into InvoiceReader

• reading of missing “variable-symbol” from QR code

• datetime information into .eml files for email messages

• support for np.ndarray as argument in Image search-object

• additional logging methods, stop_logging, get_logger, get_logger_advanced, disable_logger

• @step decorator into template module, to separate script into logical blocks

• new logging attributes as ‘step_name’, ‘step_id’, ‘step_run_id’

Changed

• visual design and structure of the email report

• internal structure & implementation of the logging module

• documentation section “Utility methods” to “Aiviro Utilities” & restructure it

• name of “Template” section to “Scenario Structure” & add documentation for @step decorator

Removed

• ares-utils dependency as old ARES API is not supported anymore

3.15.2

Released on 18-12-2023

Added

• option for agent container to install requirements.txt, using ENABLE_REQUIREMENTS_INSTALLATION variable

Fixed

• starting script of the agent docker container

3.15.1

Released on 14-12-2023

Changed

• deprecated warning for skip_waiting argument, it shows only once

Fixed

• current working-directory in agent-container

3.15.0

Released on 12-12-2023

Added

• exception for agent-container & aiviro-package version mismatch

• logging capability into EmailNotifier

• new doc section “Integration Process”

• additional tips and tricks from Aiviro Cookbook

• new “Best Practices” section from Aiviro Cookbook

• local deployment of Aiviro into documentation

• new wait argument, instead of skip_waiting allowing numeric argument to call time.sleep function

• sleep_time argument into type_* commands, to sleep between every sub-action, e.g. click, key-shortcut, …

• restriction of maximum size of a single PDF page, to 3350x4750 pixels

• constants section into documentation

• SCENARIO_CONFIG_FOLDER_PATH available from aiviro.* module, to access the configuration folder

• --old-deployment option to aiviro-cli create scenario command

• customer & vendor IČO fields into InvoiceReader

• additional fields into InvoiceReader - customer & vendor name, shipping address & amount due

• implicit utf-8 encoding for aiviro-cli create scenario command

• additional group-context into CacheService to save results separately for each group (digital PDF or OCR)

• read smime.p7m files from outlook

• documentation how to add additional handlers into aiviro logging

• unencrypted option for SMTP server (port 25)

• new command clear_working_area_and_screen_masks into robots

Changed

• hierarchy in documentation based on sections priority

• naming from subscriber to customer, supplier to vendor for InvoiceReader

• name of parameter -pn to -pf in aiviro-cli create scenario command

• internal implementation of switching between digital PDF and OCR texts

Fixed

• long block’s title in the notification email

• deployment of several flows at once

• clearing of working area and masks in InvoiceReader

Deprecated

• the NotifierManager class

Removed

• Xlib dependency

• path to aiviro-config file from Flow template

3.14.0

Released on 31-10-2023

Added

• exchangeLib protocol into EmailClient

• new functionality into Gradio Reader app

• cli connectivity test for RDP robot

• pre-commit check & installation when creating Aiviro project

• new improved implementation of Aiviro Reader

• documentation with code examples of main story, email extractor, erp handler and pdf reader

• auto-language detection for InvoiceReader

Changed

• new logos in the documentation

Fixed

• removal of old records from cache

• pre-commit error when new Aiviro project is created

• fix a value of max disk size of logs to 5GB, when in docker and initially set to 0

• missing page size for empty Invoice page

• missing confidence value in Invoice fields

• parsing exception of “tax_date” in Reader

Deprecated

• old implementation of Aiviro Reader (Universal Parser)

Removed

• find_utils unused sub-module from reader module

• aiviro-cli reader find command

3.13.3

Released on 20-10-2023

Fixed

• converting of Decimal number in Czech QR codes

• build of prefect-agent & correct version of chromedriver

• exceptions which occur in child process are now properly transferred to main process for handling.

• handling of ConnectionError in the Microsoft Graph API calls

• loading of aiviro-config in prefect AiviroNotifyTask

3.13.2

Released on 18-10-2023

Added

• plain_login argument into imap_basic_auth to allow utf-8 login authentication

Changed

• base docker-image from python3.8 to python3.11 for prefect-agent

Fixed

• version of google-chrome and chromedriver in prefect-agent

• handling of 404 client error from Microsoft Graph API

3.13.1

Released on 13-09-2023

Added

• flag docker-compose into deployment commands to use docker-compose command

• execute_script command into WebRobot

• raise of RuntimeError when robot was closed and user tries to use it

Changed

• by default docker compose (plugin version) is used in aiviro-cli deployment commands

• cumulative enum implementation to be an extension of python builtin enum type

Fixed

• loading of aiviro-config in flows

• ci pipeline for prefect-agent build

• loading of yaml and aiviro configuration files correctly from old environment variables

• converting of total-amount string to Decimal in UniversalParser

3.13.0

Released on 23-08-2023

Added

• public method clean for every context-manager to clean up after itself

• ErrorHandler for saving and processing image & text logs when error occurs

• aiviro-cli test-connection commands for testing IMAP & SMTP server configurations

• unencrypted IMAP mailbox support

• parsing of bank-account information into UniversalParser

• parsing of due-date information into UniversalParser

• parsing of company-name, based on IČO, into UniversalParser

• separate reader analysis for OCR and Digital pdf documents

• server and agent deploy command into aiviro-cli deploy

• deployment section into documentation

• docker build into CI for prefect agent & ui

• error handling for invalid metadata-log records, skip them

• type restriction, arguments of WaitUntilDisappear can only be of type SearchObject

• aiviro-cli config command to set-up api credentials and other settings

• delete_folder method into EmailClient class

Changed

• context-manager logic from decorator into separate class

• loading strategy of aiviro-config files, several options are now available

• alignment of boxes in one line, added threshold for which the alignment is ignored

Fixed

• context-manager for setting working-area while other context-manager is active

• qr-code decoding for empty values

• pip dependency backtracking issue

• empty string argument in Notifier message object

• adding text into PDF when exception occurs

• recursion bug when using BaseKey in interactive console

• empty file processing in EmailExtractor

• rendering of email’s report for desktop Outlook

• attribute access in cache-file if attribute does not exist

Deprecated

• environment variable “AIVIRO_CONFIG”

Removed

• deprecated email-client methods setup_imap and setup_smtp

3.12.0

Released on 03-07-2023

Added

• bigger retry-waiting time for sending email

• standard BoundBox output for UniversalParser lookup objects

• post-processing method for UniversalParser lookup objects

• auto-rotation functionality of scanned documents into PDFRobot

• outlook authentication token refresh, if 401 is returned

• merge functionality for YAMLConfig

• wait_until_ready method for RDPRobot

• BaseScenario object that helps with initialization of some basic Aiviro services

• support for custom split-condition argument in document items detection

• no-verify argument for ssl certificate verification in SMTP & IMAP basic-auth email methods

• dynamic repack of the cache to reduce its disk-size

Changed

• default endpoint from “api.*.aiviro.com” to “api.aiviro.com” in doc & config file

Fixed

• pSKeyword error while loading pdf-file

• handling of ReadTimeout exception for api-calls

• adding text to an empty scanned PDF file

• improved accuracy of total-amount extraction

• recursive loading of Outlook email attachments

• streaming initialization error

• handling of locked cache file

• pDFRobot closing in global-context object

• dynamic removal of cache records (time reduction)

Removed

• old request structure to api.aiviro.com endpoints

3.11.2

Released on 10-05-2023

Fixed

• encoding of PDF attachments

• position recalculation when adding text or image into PDF file

3.11.1

Released on 03-05-2023

Added

• aiviro-cli deploy command to deploy certain Aiviro functionality as a web application

• exception handling in global-context, when service cannot be closed properly

Fixed

• read error of non-existing temporary folder

3.11.0

Released on 25-04-2023

Added

• extraction of attachments & comments from PDF file

• new properties attachments and comments into PDFRobot

• documents item parsing into UniversalParser

• lazy loading of PDF files for text or image addition

• oneDrive module which allows to perform basic operations on user, shared and sites drives

• functionality to add new-column in CSVWriter

• excel module to read .xlsx files

• documentation examples for NotifierManager

• test into CI for default dependency imports

• inactive option (gray color) for notifier

Changed

• dependency from PyPDF4 to pypdf

• longer waiting/retry time for api requests (up to 5 minutes in total)

• CSVWriter can be initialized also with empty PDFRobot

• documentation for EmailNotifier

Fixed

• loading of PDF files with invalid structure

• improved order-number extraction in universal-parser

• warning message about package versions in aiviro-cli log command

• closing of streaming service when communication pipe between processes is broken

• long compression time of complex png images

3.10.0

Released on 14-03-2023

Added

• pause & unpause methods into robot

• get_last_image method into ImageCollector service

• unit-tests for runner-service

• __add__ method for CumulativeEnum object, used in BaseKey

• activate robot method into dynamic robots

• missing metrics into global-context

Changed

• code structure of how streaming is started

Fixed

• bug with token normalization replacing wrong elements

• initialization of RDP shared-folder, when only path is provided without path-name

3.9.2

Released on 02-03-2023

Fixed

• PDFRobot failing to read some pdfs

• PDFRobot spliting words at some unicode chars

• IndexError exception while parsing total_amount

3.9.1

Released on 28-02-2023

Added

• documentation for universal-parser module

• new version of Universal Parser

• additional tests for universal-parser

• improve universal-parser performance

3.9.0

Released on 13-02-2023

Added

• access to created working-area & display masks by with statement

• last_block variable into NotifierManager

• send_report method in NotifierManager to send messages across all notifiers based on scope

• oauth2 authentication for SMTP & IMAP into EmailClient

• .coveragerc file to improve code coverage

• evaluation test for universal-parser

• global-context object that contains information about script & correctly closes robots & services

• additional metadata into aiviro-metrics

• method as_file_attachment to convert IMAPMessage into IMAPAttachment

• support for processing IMAPAttachment in send_email method

• point into image-logs for click commands

• unit-tests for desktop, rdp & web devices

• additional methods for easier PDF annotation

• new search-object Biggest

• argument ignore_exception into QR code decoder, to ignore invalid codes

• text extraction from body of HTML email content into email.text variable

• renaming of aiviro processes (on linux only) for better debugging

Changed

• updated project metadata information

• documentation for Email’s Outlook OAuth2

Fixed

• logic for selecting correct working-area by checkpoints

• default parameter of send_report in EmailNotifier

Removed

• support for python3.7

3.8.0

Released on 29-12-2022

Added

• command add_mask_windows_taskbar to cover windows taskbar

• strict argument into check_are_intersecting command

• NotifierManager to share messages between several notifiers at once

• powershell command create_and_copy_powershell_script

• aiviro-cli command reader find to validate if exported data is present in pdf-files

• test coverage reports into GitLab-CI

• negative results into cache

• dynamic records removal from cache

• option FindMethod.GLOBAL which finds all occurrences of searches not only the first one

• methods for text and image addition to the PDFRobot

• method for saving the PDF file, modified or not, was added to the PDFRobot

Changed

• imports of notifier components from aiviro.modules.email.notifier to aiviro.modules.notifier

Fixed

• typing of all functions to follow the newest versions of mypy

• error some pdfs failing on decoding error

• regex backtracking error

Deprecated

• creation of message directly through EmailNotifier, use instead NotifierManager

• recipients argument in send_report() method in EmailNotifier, moved into object’s constructor

3.7.1

Released on 01-12-2022

Added

• info log into pdf-robot about the name of parsed pdf-file

• Secret object for better handling of secret/sensitive texts

• logging support for new pyfreerdp version

Changed

• all exceptions which are triggered from worker process now use ChildProcessError class

Fixed

• added timeout handling for starting worker process

3.7.0

Released on 29-11-2022

Added

• argument auto_move into EmailExtractor, extract_* methods

• email argument into EmailExtractor Conditions

• EmailDatetimeCondition & EmailSubjectCondition new EmailExtractor conditions

• supported python, os & cpu versions into documentation

• new version of API calls to backend-vision server

• api versioning, new endpoint /v1/detect

• aiviro-cli reader commands - stats & extract

• search-object ClosestElement to find closest object to its reference

• simple scenario metrics calculation, cache usage, pdfs, api calls

• checkout to master/develop into flow templates

• logging of INFO logs into separate text-file

Changed

• pillow version to 9 so higher versions of python can use prebuilt wheels

• clean-up internal code of Universal Parser

Fixed

• report template for microsoft Outlook

Deprecated

• old configuration of backend-vision server

3.6.0

Released on 24-10-2022

Added

• find_method variable instead of text_find_methods

• chaining capability for key, find_method & boundary_type

• processing of Outlook itemAttachments, as if attachment is additional e-mail

• MultiPDFRobot, can extract and hold data of several PDF files

• variable IS_RUNNING_IN_PREFECT into aiviro package

• get_working_area command

Changed

• some headless tests into static-robot, to speed them up

• version of imap-tools dependency from 0.49.1 to 0.57.0

• file & inline email-attachments into file_attachments variable

• name of method do_text_extraction to parse in PDF robot

Fixed

• visibility of Outlook OAuth2 folders

Deprecated

• variable text_find_methods

Removed

• argument skip_chars argument from PDF robot, moved into parse method

3.5.2

Released on 21-09-2022

Fixed

• data-type of shared-folder path in RDP robot

3.5.1

Released on 19-09-2022

Added

• group argument into mask_* commands to add/delete only specific group of masks

Fixed

• ci deploy job now working correctly

• pdf extraction error which sometimes didn’t split words correctly

3.5.0

Released on 15-09-2022

Added

• methods for Outlook with OAuth2.0 & graf.microsoft endpoints into EmailClient

• setup_imap_basic_auth & setup_smtp_basic_auth methods in EmailClient

• unit testing for multiple versions of python (3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10)

Changed

• updated versions of dependencies

Fixed

• pdf text duplication issue

Deprecated

• username & password arguments in EmailClient

• setup_imap & setup_smtp methods in EmailClient

3.4.0

Released on 30-08-2022

Added

• czech Invoice-Payment decoder for QR codes (https://qr-faktura.cz/)

• CheckCommandError exception for check_* commands

• documentation section for aiviro-exceptions

• implicit_wait option into user_config options

• alternatives for some standard fonts in pdf

• support for pdfs which don’t have characters in top level

• Copy-Item command into PowerShell

• get_shared_folder_path variable into PowerShell to get path on remote machine

• universal_parser modul

• exception_to_raise argument into get, see & wait_* commands

• create command into aiviro-cli to initialize Aiviro project structure & add scenarios

Changed

• internal use of os.path to pathlib.Path

• internal points distance calculation to use math module

• name of FindService to SearchObjectService

• names of Positioned* to Positional*

• location of robots from one big script into separate ones

• class Robot, split into BaseRobot, DynamicRobot & StaticRobot

• internal use of deque for OrderedDict

Fixed

• pdf robot font parsing

• pdf character merging not working sometimes properly

Removed

• decoder argument from CodesExtractor

3.3.1

Released on 25-07-2022

Changed

• regex dot changed to new style

3.3.0

Released on 25-07-2022

Added

• aiviro-cli log analyze command

• option to edit Notification type in EmailNotifier - notification_type variable

• argument email_attachments into EmailNotifier

• user_config object to change similarity_threshold & set custom text-normalization

• user Configuration section into documentation

• AutoSelectParsingStrategy for ParserHandler

• ignorable_parser_objects argument into ParserHandler

• parser attribute into ParserProcessingError

• forward method into email module

• encoding argument into CSV & YAML configurations

Changed

• aiviro-debugger into aiviro-cli

• functionality of *_by_boundary commands into BoundaryArea search-object

Fixed

• documentation typos in email-notifier section

• texts & examples in documentation

• loading of duplicated parser-classes

Deprecated

• command add_mask_by_boundaries

• command add_mask_by_margin

• command set_working_area_by_boundaries

Removed

• parser_name attribute from ParserProcessingError

3.2.4

Released on 20-07-2022

Added

• missing keys into web-robot

Fixed

• bug when creating pdf robot state data

3.2.3

Released on 19-07-2022

Fixed

• regex issue when using escaped special character

3.2.2

Released on 11-07-2022

Added

• y-alignment of ocr-boxes when merged into common line

• regex support for backref characters

Changed

• added normalized_text of BoundBox to noncomparable keys as it is lazy evaluated

Fixed

• ocr-boxes line-grouping into fix order

• bound box mutable issue

• regex normalization for charclasses containing space

3.2.1

Released on 01-07-2022

Added

• current_page property into PDFRobot

• is_digital property into PDFRobot

Changed

• opencv-python-headless dependency back to opencv-python

Fixed

• typo in unable-to-process message in EmailNotifier

• ocr-box connection for bigger boxes

• cache version incompatibility, between <3.1.5 & >=3.1.5

3.2.0

Released on 29-06-2022

Added

• pdf robot now uses masks correctly

• commonly used Powershell commands for RDP-Robot

• subject argument for sending email-notification

• last_block property into EmailExtractor

• option to pass Msg or str argument as message for EmailExtractor

• Item object for creating notification messages

• duration tag into EmailNotifier

• functionality to load aiviro_config from env-variable in prefect flows

• configuration loaders for YAML & CSV files

• ignore_exception option to get element

• emailExtractor for simplified way of email & attachment extraction

• documentation for image-buffer

• default values into doc for Aiviro configuration file

• skip_chars argument into create_pdf_robot method

• codes module for reading QR & Bar codes from image

Changed

• regex normalization to be more intelligent and prevent normalization of regexes with catastrophic backtracking

• opencv-python dependency to opencv-python-headless

Fixed

• timezone in EmailNotifier & message typo

• less verbose log messages when creating pdf robot

• duplicated OCR boxes in metadata

• box sorting for ocr-line-grouping

• bug with memory not releasing before application exit

• combination of paste & blocking argument in transfer_files_to_guests_clipboard cmd

Removed

• sorting of email notifications, make it optional

• force option for robot-streaming

3.1.5

Released on 09-06-2022

Added

• check when file exists when using RDP transfer to host

Changed

• pip project summary, email, licence

Fixed

• reference box filtering in positional elements

• wrong argument call to pyfreerdp when using clipboard

• ocr filtering by Icon elements

3.1.4

Released on 20-05-2022

Fixed

• error handling of internal errors when parsing pdf

3.1.3

Released on 18-05-2022

Fixed

• bug when using cc field in send_mail

3.1.2

Released on 17-05-2022

Fixed

• bug when regex match didn’t appear in unicode texts

• robot now correctly releases shared memory

• handling of email attachments with no content disposition

• email sending to CC and BCC now works correctly

3.1.1

Released on 09-05-2022

Fixed

• pdf text extraction now correctly uses clipping boxes

3.1.0

Released on 04-05-2022

Added

• email-notification object for creating reports

• ability to use non-default port when using RDPRobot

• context-manager into clear_screen_masks command to work with with

• sleep-time argument into rdp-robot start-process command

• interval parameters to debugger

• or_index variable into bound-box for result of Or search-object

• BaseParser and ParserHandler as standardized way to implement document data extraction

• image logs for key_* commands

Changed

• debugger to use more processor cores to speedup logs generation

Fixed

• rdp-robot start_process command issues

• error when parsing log names

• email sending from alias or shared mailbox

• email query when used without parameters

• email message operations when the message is not in the same path

• too-many-elements exception in wait-for command

3.0.1

Released on 14-04-2022

Fixed

• unknown method error in wait_for_clipboard_file_transfer command

3.0.0

Released on 09-04-2022

Added

• missing RDPRobot clipboard functions.

• several new SearchObject exceptions

• ability to change name of the folder which is shared with rdp machine

• text split by capital letters and special characters as “:”, “.”

• PDFRobot which is used to read and parse PDF files.

Changed

• calculation of area intersection between working-area and detected boxes

• email connection handling

• core structure for merging core & toolbox together

• main logger from aivirocore into aiviro

• location of toolbox modules into aiviro package

Fixed

• regex correctly searching after normalization.

• detection of a scene stability transition

• element-index error in line-grouping service

• documentation typos

• documentation after aiviro + toolbox merge

• waiting for rdp file transfer not working correctly

Removed

• all deprecated funcionality of 2.x.x aiviro-core versions

• unimportant warning messages from wait_* commands

2.6.4

Released on 23-03-2022

Added

• command disable_cross_validation

• gif generation from image buffer

• ignore_timeout_exception argument for wait-until-disappear command

• bitwise operators & (and), | (or) for search-objects

• command close_tab for WebRobot

• new TableAnchor options, that calculates distance between objects based on both axis

• more advanced cache into recognition-service, reducing time to find elements

Changed

• image hash in cache-service from percentual to sha1

• cross-validation is skipped for Area & BoundBox elements

• prefect version dependency to 1.0.0 from 0.15.6

Fixed

• onTheRight/Left element search, reference object is removed from the find-results

• debug-log for CustomBox search-object

• handling of connection errors to vision server.

• some typos in documentation

• typo in text_to_type & check_are_in_row commands

• cross-validation exception in wait-for command

• error logs into prefect

• merge of Input element with OCR text

• behaviour of DISTANCE option in positional search-objects

2.6.3

Released on 14-12-2021

Added

• option to run start_process as admin when using RDP robot

Fixed

• issue when calculating disjunction of ocr and icon box, could lead to bounding box with negative width

2.6.2

Released on 08-11-2021

Added

• print_port option into configuration file for video-stream

• argument use_full_screen into working-area checkpoint commands

• rolling logs that can be specified by maximum disk size, maximum number or both

• set_working_area_by_grid command, which can be used for tables

Changed

• error when image is not set in StaticRobot

Fixed

• get-by-scroll command with timeout > 0

• set-working-area-by-checkpoint when checkpoint is created with set working-area

• incorrect mask generation of add_mask_by_display when all sides are set to True and include_object set to False

Removed

• restriction of saving images locally from buffer in docker environment

• unused tests & test-data from repository

2.6.1

Released on 11-10-2021

Added

• aiviro-core version into robot’s printout info

• limit-working-area command

• exception section into documentation

• extra requirement Prefect into setup.py

Changed

• wait-* commands to work as get command when timeout is 0

• command proxy now uses cached property

Fixed

• get_by_scroll sometimes didn’t register scroll when application registered scroll slowly

• required version of pyfreerdp package

• changelog text & doc-strings

Removed

• unused methods from robot

2.6.0

Released on 22-09-2021

Added

• timezone option into config-file for aiviro-logs

• create_static_robot which can be used when working with images without the need to create another type of robot

• option to compress Aiviro-Logs

• set_working_area_by_boundaries now supports multiple rules of bounding box creation

• metadata-logging for Aiviro image-logs

• option to generate only last-N-log-images

• filtering of too big OCR boxes

• get_by_scroll command which can be used to scroll until the all elements are found

• support for new version of pyfreerdp (version 3.0.0)

• new arguments for create_rdp_robot which allow shared folder

• integration tests for RDP robot

• documentation for aiviro-config file

• automatic import sorting of repo

• exception raise in set-working-area-by-checkpoint for images with different shape

• automatic generation of CHANGELOG.md

• collection of all release changes into one file CHANGELOG.md

Changed

• filtering of OCR boxes using Icon elements

• documentation examples to use interactive python correctly

• versions of required dependency packages

• start_process has now a parameter to check only in lower left corner of the screen for dialog windows. (Most likely place for the run window)

• start_process waits for the dialog to disapear to continue execution

Fixed

• text splitting for special characters in sentence

• generation of documentation changelog

• type_text argument call error

• type-text command when input element is not found

Deprecated

• parameters upper_boundary and lower_boundary of set_working_area_by_boundaries will are replaced with first_boundary and second_boundary

Removed

• error logs in cross-validation for wait-until-disappear command

2.5.4

Released on 18-08-2021

Changed

• doc-strings & documentation references

Fixed

• working-area for get with static-image

• log of after-image in type-text command

Removed

• ReferenceObjectNotFound exception

2.5.3

Released on 28-07-2021

Added

• AND search-object

Changed

• version of pyfreerdp for extra-dependency

Fixed

• too-nested-object exception

2.5.2

Released on 21-07-2021

Added

• cwd argument for prefect-utils method run_shell_command

• doc-string for EXCLUSIVE find-text-method option

• unit-tests for devices/

• static runner manager & get-elements command from image

Changed

• aiviro setup options with extra python packages

• reformat source-code with Black

Fixed

• image resources for documentation

• table-anchor, NO_THRESHOLD option for Above/Below positional elements

Removed

• upload file-size restriction

2.5.1

Released on 15-07-2021

Fixed

• regex normalization

• missing keyboard for RDP-robot

2.5.0

Released on 12-07-2021

Added

• filter of reference object in positional search-objects

• markdown reporting into Prefect artifact

• command to get streaming url

• EXCLUSIVE text-find-method option

• command to switch between robots as video-streaming source

• RegexText search-object

• option to create a robot from env-variable

• support for CustomSearchObject & CustomBox

• support for webdriver capability setting

Changed

• constants value names to a shorter version (deprecated)

Fixed

• text merging into lines

• exact word search

• reference-object & element-index exception for wait_* commands

• checkpoint working-area command to work with current working-area

• Above/Below anchor distance thresholds

Removed

• deprecated functionality for 2.5.0 version

2.4.6

Released on 23-06-2021

Fixed

• merging of different sized text

2.4.5

Released on 01-06-2021

Fixed

• correct termination of Aiviro-script in Prefect

• empty regex_match is not stored in BoundBox anymore

• positional elements overlaping

• processing of image-logs & add additional evaluation for wait_* command

2.4.4

Released on 19-05-2021

Changed

• streaming settings

2.4.3

Released on 13-05-2021

Added

• example code into documentation

Fixed

• prefect logging

2.4.2

Released on 28-04-2021

Added

• debug messages for cross-validation service

• sensitive-data argument to clear-and-type command

• SearchObjectError exception everywhere, when search-object is not found

• prefect logging safeguard

• non-case-sensitive option for aiviro.text_find_methods

Changed

• updated prefect API for version 0.14.16

Fixed

• clear-and-type command causing double-click

• image-logging for INFO debug level & INFO level set as default

• Icon object text-reference when texts are too close to each other

2.4.1

Released on 07-04-2021

Fixed

• wait-for command for positional element

2.4.0

Released on 02-04-2021

Added

• text content into output BoundBox

• aiviro custom exceptions

• argument for env variables for prefect-utils, run-aiviro-script method

• move-away command, mouse moves over empty position at screen

• artifacts integration with Prefect

• asynchronous logging for stdout/stderr for Prefect Tasks

• wait-until-disappear command

• regex result into output BoundBox

Changed

• optimize Wait-For command

Fixed

• robot methods documentation

• sub-image search service

• configuration constants

• cross-validation service

• working-area checkpoint command for gray background

2.3.1

Released on 12-03-2021

Added

• warning for image-buffer, transfer-file & forbid image-logging and streaming in docker

• socket timeout for robot streaming

Changed

• return state for NotifyTask

Fixed

• context manager for working-area

2.3.0

Released on 09-03-2021

Added

• image upload logs to dashboard

• api-key check for Aiviro configuration

• argument for addional files into image-upload logs

• notification task for Prefect

• tips & trciks section into Documentation

• video streaming static link

Changed

• stability checking limited by working-area

• method of screen capture for cross-validation service

Fixed

• small bugs & sleep-check

2.2.0

Released on 12-02-2021

Added

• timeout for recieving a new image

• image logging buffer

• creation of working-area by checkpoint

Changed

• logging of BoundBox object into human readable form

Fixed

• sleep-check for type-text command

• cache getting duplicated results