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