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Apple updates its Workflow app for iOS

Apple has updated its Workflow app for iOS to version 1.7.8. The upgrade:

° Added a new Mask Image action;
° Added new fields to the Add Things To-Do action;
° Dictionary items are now reorderable in the Dictionary action;
° The URL scheme now supports opening workflows;
° Improved the PDF to text coercion; extracting text from PDFs now works much better;

° Improved drag and drop handling; you can now drop content onto a workflow in My Workflows without waiting for spring-loading.

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40% of energy companies believe digitalization can save ‘em money

Aspen Technology (www.aspentech.com), an asset optimization software company, has announced the results of a recent survey of over 400 energy industry managers and executives about the impact of analytics and big data on the energy business in the next 24 months. The data confirmed that improving reliability is the key objective for upstream and downstream companies as well as the engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) firms that serve them.

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BatchOutput for Microsoft Excel Now Can Save Single Sheet PDFs

Zevrix Solutions has announced BatchOutput XLS 2.5.3, a feature update to its output automation solution for Microsoft Excel.

In addition to batch printing and PDF conversion, the software lets users carry out professional PDF production directly from Excel and effortlessly repurpose Office spreadsheets for web and mobile devices. Version 2.5.3 lets users split Excel workbooks into single sheet PDF files while preserving the multi-page sheet structure in exported documents.

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