eMediaLibrary received extensive upgrades focused on:
- AI-powered automation (classification, entity detection, RAG, AI chat)
- Document intelligence (OCR markdown, page entities, embeddings)
- Search modernization (semantic search, UI refactor, structured queries)
- UI/UX improvements across navigation, dialogs, galleries, pickers
- Media processing stability (audio/video transcription, standardized image generation)
- Better collections & category management
- Enhanced permissions and administrative controls
- Infrastructure and reliability fixes
1. AI & Machine Learning Features
AI Asset Processing
Enhancements standardize and improve AI-driven tagging, entity detection, document chat, semantic search, and image generation. System now supports expanded metadata, OCR output, embeddings, and advanced chat context.
- Auto Login for AI workflows
- Asset AI (automatic tagging, semantic topics, metadata generation)
- Face Recognition (detect and tag faces)
- Entity AI (create or detect entities from documents)
- AI Categories (auto-category assignment)
- NER – Named Entity Recognition added to document processing
- AI Document Search (semantic search)
- Semantic Role Labeling (parse_sentence.json updates)
- Image Generation (AI Create Image, Create Entity with AI)
- AI Chat (Entity Chat, Document Chat, RAG responses)
- AI Servers refactor: models moved to servers table
- Metadata generation refactor (image, documents, transcripts)
- Add markdown generation + OCR for documents
- Document Embedding + RAG Source Display (rag response)
- AI Assistant configurations standardized (Qwen 3 VL, LLaMA server keys, etc.)
Clients Affected
- eMediaLibrary Project — all AI tasks, search, chat, model configuration
- United Nations Upgrade — AI search, picker behavior interacting with AI
- AGBU Asset Library — gallery issues indirectly affected by metadata changes
- Allegro Design / Orren Pickell — data model / entity structure relied on by collections
2. Search & Navigation Enhancements
Search UI is significantly modernized: better layout, improved search messages, smoother category tree movement, and more precise search instructions via updated JSON parser schemas.
- New Search Result layout + parameters
- Quick Search refactor
- Fixes for multiple search modules (AI Search, Picker Search, Media Viewer search)
- Search header styling updates
- Category search improvements (moving categories, tree UI)
- Document AI Search using semantic text
Clients Affected
- United Nations Upgrade — gallery search, picker search, default module selection
- eMediaLibrary Project — AI search tests and refinement
- AGBU — gallery display changes influenced by search output structure
3. Document Management
PDF and document workflows upgraded end-to-end: splitting, OCR, per-page metadata, embeddings, collection management, and semantic interactions.
- Document Auto List (auto-assign record type from assets)
- Document Splitting (per-page, auto-split PDFs)
- Category Picker for documents
- Document total pages display
- Document Embedding (vector embeddings + RAG)
- Markdown extraction added (OCR)
- Drag & Drop Documents in Collections
- Page-Level entity properties added and renamed
- Document Chat (LLM-assisted document Q&A)
Clients Affected
- eMediaLibrary Project — full document AI overhaul
- eMedia Customer Service — PRN PDF CMYK issues, sync/pull-only issues
- United Nations Upgrade — document gallery display
4. User Interface & UX Improvements
Large-scale UI modernization: consistent styling, accessible dialogs, improved pickers, responsive layouts, and clean iconography. Enhances daily DAM usability.
- Offcanvas, masonry, gallery view max-width fixes
- Header navigation & dropdown fixes
- Consistent CSS refactoring
- Picker button improvements (visibility, positioning, iframe modes)
- Dialog header/footer improvements + ellipsis, responsive design
- Crop editor layout updates
- Improved closed captions component (video transcript layout)
- New upload icons, expanded actions buttons, consistent labels
- Play button alignment on thumbnails
- Profile picture updates (User vs UserProfile asset)
- Multilingual support & updated labels
- Right/left keyboard shortcuts for assets
- Edit menus hidden for PDF assets
- Light theme improvements, removed unused CSS files
- Favorite star improvements
- Blockfind picker updates
- Tree toggle “Featured”
- Collection views improved
Clients Affected
- United Nations Upgrade — gallery behavior, picker visibility, blockfind issues
- AGBU — gallery display & caption behaviors
- eMedia Hosting / Mailu — admin UI improvements indirectly noticed
5. Media Processing (Audio, Video, Images)
Media ingestion pipeline stabilized and modernized. Audio/video transcription is cleaner and more accurate. Image conversion standardized at high resolution.
- Audio Transcribing (GoogleTranscriberManager refactor)
- Video Transcribing (caption creation)
- Audio presets added
- Refactor of clips, video cues, tracks
- Large universal 3000x3000 WebP generation
- Video caption layout improvements
- Remove unused images, optimize theme assets
- Crop tool updates
- Timeline + Closed Captions moved to edit tab
Clients Affected
- United Nations Upgrade — gallery image sizes, conversions
- eMediaLibrary Project — transcription testing and improvements
6. Collections, Categories & Asset Operations
Improved asset organization for large libraries using dynamic collection management and consistent folder-based synchronization.
- Featured collections
- Drag & drop into collections
- Category path script updates
- Move to collections UI improvements
- Entity Header breadcrumb + improved navigation
- Asset adjustments module added
- Assets folders fixes
- Synchronization issues (pull only)
- Logic for marking missing originals as deleted
- Folderbase sync & URL generation fixes
Clients Affected
- United Nations Upgrade — sync issues, folderbase asset fixes, download URL mismatches
- AGBU — gallery asset display changes
- eMedia Customer Service — sync and replication fixes
7. Security, Permissions & Admin Tools
Improved clarity and control over user permissions, group visibility, and administrative UI. Helps reduce configuration errors.
- Permissions module refactor
- Show Groups & Roles in My Account
- Refinements to user creation notes
- Entity Admin Settings
- Activity history management
- Remove Entity Editor (cleanup)
- Settings Menu reorganization
Clients Affected
- Applies to all installations using the management console.
8. Infrastructure, Syncing & System Maintenance
System reliability enhanced: indexing, sync workflows, cleanup, and admin utilities.
- System index restart improvements
- Sync to pull-only refined
- Remove unused folders (themes, finder)
- Google Visio & Google Transcribe events disabled
- Scripts moved/refactored
- AI tool re-runs and document re-runs
- JSON imports added
- Clear cache function updates
Clients Affected
- United Nations Upgrade — several sync-related patches
- eMediaCustomer Service — sync and replication issues resolved
- AGBU / Allegro — benefited from system-level improvements indirectly
