Version 10.2 is the final 10.x release and is designated Long-Term Support (LTS), with support guaranteed at least until 1 January 2031. It is also the last version to include the legacy iDRS 15 rendition engine and the legacy .NET Office plug-in — customers are encouraged to switch to iDRS 16 and the modern Microsoft 365 integration. This release also brings the second generation of Intelligent Document Processing (IDP).

E-Signatures

• New IrisSign plugin. Provides a workflow node to sign documents using PKCS#11 or MSCAPI. It can also extract and validate signatures from PDF documents, and perform bulk sealing with a D-Trust Multi-Seal smartcard.
• Customisable signature image. Users can now design their own signature image (using different fonts or hand-drawing) for use with IrisSign.
• New Scrive plugin. Workflow node for signing documents via the Scrive platform.
• New DocuSign plugin. Workflow node for signing documents via DocuSign.
• For all three plugins (IrisSign, Scrive, DocuSign), the person preparing the signature request can now be included as a signatory.
• The old DSSESIG plugin has been replaced by IrisSign. Signature options on object types and storage of user/object certificates have been removed.

IDP & AI Services

• New AI engines: Anthropic and MistralAI have been added alongside existing engines.
• Multiple models per database. Both Ollama and OpenAI engines can now use multiple models inside a single database.
• Azure improvements. The Azure engine now supports custom models, updated pre-built models, and ships with all pre-built models as ready-to-use index cards and object types.
• Flexible document handling for AI. All LLM engines now support sending documents to the AI in different formats (plain text, embedded text, PDF, or images at low/high resolution).
• IRISNext KARE — a new fully local extraction engine (no external subscription needed) for Keywords And Regular Expressions. It can extract numbers, dates, URLs, emails, IBANs and more, with advanced filtering and scoring based on page number, position, proximity to keywords, and custom rules.
• IRISNext Barracuda — a new fully local engine for recognising and extracting values from barcodes within documents.
• AI Actions. Administrators can configure “AI actions” that let users ask questions about a document directly from its PDF preview.

Import Jobs

• AI-infused import jobs. Two new processing modes:
  • Pre-processing mode: extracts information automatically before importing the batch.
  • Interactive mode: extracts information and then sends the batch to the IDP user assistant for confirmation.
• JSON support as a data source in VFS/LFS import jobs (in addition to CSV and XML).

Rendition Server

• Very large images supported — up to 32,767 × 32,767 pixels (the equivalent of a full A0 page scanned at 600 DPI).
• For each file extension, you can now choose whether to replace the original or add a PDF rendition alongside it.

Workflows

• New SVG-based graph editor for designing workflows.
• New “Transform” node — converts an object to a different object type or moves it; can use IDP to find the parent object.
• New “Pause” node — pauses a workflow until a specific moment. The wait can be defined as a fixed duration, a cron expression, a specific date/time, a calculated duration, or a workflow field.
• The “Launch Workflow” action can now pre-fill the workflow form with values.
• Improved “Wait for next task in same execution” option — it now also considers parent and child executions.
• New “Upload a version” UI node.
• New action to delete all binaries (versions and renditions) of an object without deleting the object itself.
• New actions to attach an object to a workflow execution or detach it.
• The legacy IDR workflow node (used for IRISXtract integration)  now runs through the Hades service.

Microsoft 365 Integration

• The PowerPoint add-in can now store the IRISNext document link in PowerPoint’s custom properties (requires a recent PowerPoint version).

User Interface & Experience

• Cleaner left navigation bar with an improved look and feel.
• Timeline-based retention view showing past and future retention applied to an object.
• Profile picture support. Users can now set their own profile picture, either via webcam or by uploading an image.
• Built-in localisation. Each database can be configured with a default language, regional format for dates/times/numbers, time zone, and paper format. Users can override any of these in their preferences.
• Notification Bell icon added to object dialogs (where notifications are supported), with a simplified configuration dialog.
• Improved password fields.
• New ScanOnWeb client — for customers with an IDP licence, batches and documents can now be separated using IRISNext QR codes, custom barcodes, or blank pages; QR codes can contain metadata, and documents can also be reconciled directly by QR code. A new WIA scanning engine is available as a preview.

Other New Capabilities

• Object Type: the fields displayed on the “linked objects” tab and in pop-ups can now be configured.
• Index Model: new IBAN field type.
• Zip Export from the UI: export several objects at once as a single ZIP file.
• Storage: new storage engine for Google Cloud Storage (both with and without IRISNext-managed retention).
• Monitoring: a new monitoring page in dbadm shows the status of all services running in the cluster (web, business logic, rendition, IDP).
• Reconciliation barcodes can now be generated as QR codes (the older PDF417 format is still available).

Scripting

• Two new hooks (beforeBarcodeReconciliate and afterBarcodeReconciliate) for advanced barcode handling.
• The “launch workflow” API now supports pre-filling the workflow form.