Newsletter-67: PDF Text Extraction, Enhancement to Preview Environment, Private Documents/Files, Documents API

Jan 17, 2025

 

Hi There!👋

We’re back! Let’s get started this week with renewed energy as we move forward. 😊

 

Enjoy a preview of what we have in store for you while you do that: Upcoming Features planned to improve your app experience with Educational Video Tutorials and Instructive Blog Posts that walk you through every step of the process, along with New Features that help you to build web apps faster without coding.💯

 

Remain inspired, relish the experience of creating apps, and get ready for even more thrilling developments shortly! 🚀
 

📰 What's New?

New features, Latest developments & Updates!
 

📝 PDF File Text Extraction
 

What's this Feature All About?

 

This feature allows the users to extract the text of any PDF file. You can upload the PDF to the Drapcode cloud, and it will extract the text for you, which you can then use for several use cases.

 

 

 
 

Benefits:

 

  • Users will be able to extract and use the text data from PDF files to execute specific tasks.

  • The collected text can be sent to a chat bot / AI LLMs for later use or to train AI or run futher prompts.

     

     

 

 

 
 
 

✳️  Enhancements to Preview Environment

What's this Feature All About?

 

Previously, the way Preview Environment worked was different from the Production Environment, Now they work in similar fashion, still utilising the core concept of separate database and separate URLs/applications.

Benefits:

  • Since both environments are same, hence the while building you will experience fewer bugs.
  • You will view and test out the features on preview before they are published for live users.

  • It will enhance the productivity and development time.
 
 

🗃 Private Documents/Files
 

What's this Feature All About?

 

This feature allows you to keep user uploaded documents and files on the DrapCode cloud in a secured way, which does not provide a direct link to download them; so that only the authorised users can do so.

 
 

Benefits:

 

  • This ensures that the end user is never exposed to your files direct URLs, hence making them secure.

  • It will be up to the user to decide whether he wants to keep the files public or private on the basis of their need.

     

     

     

 
 
 

👨‍💻 Document Upload via Developer API
 

What's this Feature All About?

 

 

With this functionality, we now have included support for file upload in the Developer API. In addition to documents, users can also upload files such as pdf, jpg, gif, and png using the Developer API.

 

 
 

Benefits:

  • This update gives users more options to with the Developer API when dealing with files and documents.
  • Data and files can now be accessed and consumed from thousands of independent sources with greater flexibility.

 

 
 
 
 

🐞 Bug Fixes & Improvements

 

  • Fixed a bug: Current Tenant Data not coming in the collection form in a subpage. 
  • Fixed a bug: External Params Filter support in subpage (Details subpage).
  • Fixed a bug: Fix Pagination in Builder Collection items when search. 

  • Fixed a Bug - Fix non-persistent collection Item data access handling.

  • Enhancement: No way to go back to the collection details from the Export dump page.
  • Enhancement: Need support of large text field in update collection field.
  • Enhancement: Need to save Original Collection/table names provided by the External Datasources.

  • Enhancement: Need current loggedin tenant support in ChatGPT API.

     

     

 
 

🎦 Video Tutorials

Watch and learn all about the Builder!

Building a Custom CRM

You will discover how to design a Custom CRM from start to finish in this two-part series. 😃🚀
 

In this video tutorial you will understand how to generate pdf dynamically.😃😃
 

Upcoming Features 

Here are some of the upcoming features that are in pipeline!
 

 📃 Upload/Download Document Activity Tracking

This feature allows the user to choose whether to enable tracking, which means that each time a user uploads or downloads a file, it is added to a collection and the user may see who submitted or downloaded what.

👨‍💼 Tenant-Specific User Profile

This feature will allow the user to add specific user settings to an existing or new tenant. So that their respective setting specific behaviour can be applied to the user for that particular tenant.
 
 
 
 

Blogs & Insights 😀😀

Read & learn about no code & low code in depth.

Why no-code needs to be the next thing on your radar?

Why no-code is the next game-changer for productivity and innovation? Read more
 

No Code or Low Code Development: Which is Right for Your Business?

No Code vs. Low Code: Which suits your business best? Read more

 

Check out all our latest blogs here: bit.ly/3FmIKOm