What's new in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.130
Jul 7, 2021
- Improved OCR engine.
- Improved PDF/A converter engines.
- A battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.129 (Jun 3, 2021)
- Added HEIF/HEIC & EML/MSG & HTML as input formats.
- PaperScan can now be set as the default application to read files.
- Improved TWAIN scanning support.
- Improved OCR engine.
- Improved PDF/A converter engine.
- Improved Office formats rendering engine.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Fix the translation in Turkish language.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.128 (Apr 7, 2021)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Better OCR engine.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.126 (Mar 2, 2021)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Improved blank pages detection engine.
- Improved OCR engine.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.119 (Dec 29, 2020)
- Global performance improvements.
- Better OCR engine.
- Added support for doc, xls and ppt formats.
- Improved compatibility with some old devices.
- Added option to open the device configuration dialog from the settings panel.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.118 (Oct 3, 2020)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.117 (Oct 1, 2020)
- Improved user interface.
- Improved speed.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.109 (Jun 19, 2020)
- Speed improvement of the document import feature
- Thumbnails are displayed in real-time during the scanning process
- Allow to rotate by 1/10 angle
- Minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.105 (May 6, 2020)
- Battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.104 (May 5, 2020)
- Dramatically improved the MRC engine.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.102 (Apr 25, 2020)
- New Digital Signature functionality
- Battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.101 (Mar 25, 2020)
- Improved OCR
- Improved automatic page orientation detection
- Battery of minor bug fixes
- Annotation toolbar improvements
- Tooltip improvements
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.100 (Mar 19, 2020)
- Improved OCR
- Improved automatic page orientation detection
- Battery of minor bug fixes
- Annotation toolbar improvements
- Tooltip improvements
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.97 (Feb 16, 2020)
- Global performance improvements.
- Improved transfer rate with high speed scanning devices.
- Improved MRC engine.
- Improved OCR engine.
- Battery of min bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.96 (Dec 15, 2019)
- Improved OCR engine.
- Several minor enhancements.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.94 (Dec 15, 2019)
- Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
- Improved MRC engine.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.90 (Aug 27, 2019)
- General application performance improvements.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.88 (Jul 15, 2019)
- Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
- Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
- Improved global performances.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.85 (Jun 6, 2019)
- Improved global performances.
- Dramatically improved the MRC engine.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.83 (Apr 24, 2019)
- Improved global performances.
- Dramatically improved the MRC engine.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.82 (Mar 30, 2019)
- Improved MRC engine.
- Improved generated PDF compression.
- Batterty of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.81 (Mar 23, 2019)
- Improved OCR engine.
- Improved MRC engine.
- Improved user interface speed.
- Improved support with large images.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.80 (Mar 5, 2019)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Improved MRC engine
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.78 (Mar 4, 2019)
- Dramatically improved the built-in MRC engine.
- Improved rendering & processing speed.
- Improved PDF generation.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.77 (Jan 7, 2019)
- Improved compression rate of produced documents.
- Improved the MRC engine.
- General UI improvements.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.75 (Nov 22, 2018)
- Improved MRC engine.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.74 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Improved UI speed.
- Improved MRC compression.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.73 (Nov 19, 2018)
- Improved MRC compression.
- Added support for very large PDF creation (more than 2GB).
- Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.72 (Nov 11, 2018)
- Improved dramatically the MRC engine.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Improved OCR engine.
- Improved global performances.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.71 (Oct 5, 2018)
- Dramatically improved the PDF/MRC generator.
- Added options to select paper size.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.68 (Jun 4, 2018)
- Improved black borders removal filter
- A battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.67 (May 29, 2018)
- Improved black borders removal filter.
- Improved punch holes removal filter.
- Improved blank pages detection engine.
- Improved OCR engine.
- Improved MRC engine.
- A battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.65 (Apr 27, 2018)
- Improved punch holes removal filter speed.
- Support for new PDF scheme creation: Added new PDF conformance levels and versions as output format : PDF/A-1a, PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2a, PDF/A-2b, PDF/A-2u, PDF/A-3a, PDF/A-3b, PDF/A-3u.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.63 (Apr 19, 2018)
- A battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.62 (Mar 29, 2018)
- Processing can now be applied to every selected page
- Annotation presets can now be added to several pages at once
- The improved color detection engine
- A battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.61 (Mar 17, 2018)
- General performance improvements.
- A battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.60 (Mar 1, 2018)
- Improved blank page detection engine
- Improved PDF import engine
- A battery of speed improvements
- A battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.57 (Jan 31, 2018)
- Various improvements in UI and filters.
- A battery of minor bug fixes.
- PaperScan is now available in 30 languages.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.56 (Jan 9, 2018)
- Improved automatic page orientation detection.
- Improved blank pages detection engine.
- Improved auto-deskew engine.
- Improved document saving with page separation.
- Improved UI on an operating system using display scale.
- Improved PDF import engine.
- Improved OCR engine speed and accuracy.
- A battery of updates to improve global performance (speed and memory usage).
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.55 (Dec 14, 2017)
- Improved black borders detection accuracy.
- Improved OCR engine.
- Improved PDF import support.
- Improved blank pages detection engine.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.54 (Dec 14, 2017)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Improved overall speed.
- Improved the blank page detection engine.
- Improved the auto-deskew filter.
- Improved the margins detection engine.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.53 (Nov 22, 2017)
- Battery of minor bug fixes
- Improved overall speed
- Improved the blank page detection engine
- Improved the auto-deskew filter
- Improved the margins detection engine
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.52 (Oct 27, 2017)
- Improved compatibility with TWAIN drivers of modern Canon devices.
- Improved Auto deskew algorithm.
- Added support for black margins removal from color and grayscale images.
- Improved the PDF rasterizer engine.
- A battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.51 (Oct 27, 2017)
- Improved auto-deskew filter
- Battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.50 (Oct 3, 2017)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Improved document imaging filters.
- Improved PDF generation speed.
- Improved OCR accuracy.
- Improved support for devices using memory transfer mode.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.48 (Jul 28, 2017)
- Improved auto deskew filter.
- Improved blank page detection filter.
- Improved automatic color detection accuracy.
- Improved OCR speed.
- Improved UI speed.
- The hole punch removal filter can now be applied to grayscale and color images.
- A battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.47 (May 22, 2017)
- Improved blank page detection filter.
- Improved image rendering.
- Improved PDF rasterizer.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.45 (Apr 18, 2017)
- Dramatically improved the blank page detection mechanish.
- Improved TWAIN memory transfer speed.
- Improved document import speed, quality and compatibility with complex documents.
- Improved user interface speed.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.42 (Apr 11, 2017)
- Improved autodeskew filter.
- Improved OCR engine accuracy.
- Improved support for high definition document scanning (1200 DPI).
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.35 (Mar 2, 2017)
- Improved TWAIN acquisition speed.
- Settings dialog enhancement to fit every screen resolutions.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.34 (Feb 21, 2017)
- Improved acquisition speed for high volume scanners.
- Improved image rendering speed.
- Improved JPEG-2000 file loading speed.
- Improved PNG file generation speed.
- Improved PDF importing engine (quality and speed).
- PDF/OCR: improved generation speed.
- Improved user interface behaviour.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.33 (Feb 21, 2017)
- Added option to favor memory transfer mode
- Improved speed of the viewer
- Battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.32 (Dec 22, 2016)
- Fixed a Windows Vista related issue.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.31 (Dec 22, 2016)
- Fixed a Windows XP related issue.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.30 (Nov 21, 2016)
- Improved autodeskew accuracy.
- Improved application behavior when the WIA service is not available.
- Improved quality of imported PDF pages.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.29 (Oct 13, 2016)
- Improved automatic updates.
- Improved document imaging filters quality and speed.
- Improved compatibility with some buggy drivers.
- Improved the PDF import engine.
- Improved the OCR engine speed and accuracy.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.21 (Jun 9, 2016)
- Settings are now preserved when an update is applied.
- Improved image transfer with Canon devices.
- Improved image loading speed.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.19 (May 23, 2016)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.18 (May 19, 2016)
- Improved format handling.
- Improved page orientation detection accuracy.
- Fixed a bug with the "Keep source open after scan process" feature. This option is also disabled by default.
- New feature in the scanning dialog box: "Show device user interface before scanning".
- Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.13 (Mar 16, 2016)
- This version is now based on the latest GdPicture.NET 12 core technology.
- Improved page orientation detection accuracy.
- Improved blank page detection accuracy.
- Improved color detection accuracy and quality of produced documents.
- Improved user interface speed and memory usage.
- PDF/OCR generated are now using TrueType font.
- Dramatically improved document import & generation speed, especially for jpeg images.
- Fixed some PDF rendering issues.
- More than 50 bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.12 (Dec 28, 2015)
- Improved document import speed.
- Fixed some PDF rendering issues.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.11 (Oct 6, 2015)
- Several minor UI enhancements.
- Improved AutoDeskew.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.8 (Aug 17, 2015)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Several typos and translation fixes.
- New version update mechanism.
- Uninstallation before update is not required anymore.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.4 (Jul 17, 2015)
- Battery of minor bug fixes
- Improved file saving mechanism
- Improved memory usage
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 3.0.0 (Jul 1, 2015)
- New User Interface with many bug fixes and better performance.
- New Settings panel.
- More than 20 new filters and effects.
- New despeckle filter in batch acquisition/import filters.
- Improvement of all document imaging filters such as Auto - deskew, punch holes removal...
- Improvement of the automatic colour detection engine.
- Support for automatic image orientation added.
- Replacement of autocrop by automatic black borders removal in batch acquisition/import filters.
- ICM support for image import.
- Support for 60+ OCR languages added.
- Support for SVG, EMF and WMF file format added.
- New advanced printing dialog to specify alignment, adjustment, orientation...
- New profile manager to create, remove and switch configuration settings.
- Support for custom keyboard shortcuts management added.
- Pre-set annotations support with a featured designer.
- New polygon ruler annotation.
- New preview feature in scanning wizard.
- Improved support for camera devices.
- Improved support for large bitmap handling.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.28 (Aug 5, 2014)
- Improved separator sheets handling
- Improved PDF import quality
- Battery of minor bug fixes
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.21 (May 23, 2014)
- Improved separator sheets handling.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.20 (May 23, 2014)
- Improved document loading speed.
- Improved Auto-Deskew filter.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.19 (May 10, 2014)
- Improved document loading speed.
- PDF import quality improvement.
- Fixed a critical issue when using separator sheets to produce PDF/OCR documents.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.18 (Apr 23, 2014)
- Improved document loading speed.
- PDF import quality improvement.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.17 (Mar 6, 2014)
- Improved Windows XP support based on old hardware architectures
- PDF import quality improvement
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.16 (Feb 27, 2014)
- Some bug fixes.
- Speed improvement.
- PDF import quality improvement.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.13 (Dec 27, 2013)
- Added feature to define bitmap compression scheme in PDF. See Saving Options panel.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.10 (Dec 17, 2013)
- Some bug fixes.
- TWAIN Data Source Manager updated to the 2.3.0 version.
- Improved PDF importing support.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.8 (Nov 13, 2013)
- Some bug fixes.
- Added option to automatically open saved documents.
- Improved PDF importing support.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.6 (Oct 31, 2013)
- Added support for DICOM format (import).
- Generated TIFF image files are now compatible with some legacy viewers.
- Improved speed of the document viewer.
- Memory usage decreased in some cases.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.5 (Oct 1, 2013)
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.4 (Sep 29, 2013)
- Improved JPEG 2000 file saving options and output quality.
- Added option to handle produced files attributes (Options / Saving Options / Output Files Attributes).
- Improved custom page size support and added option to handle the automatic page size capability of TWAIN devices.
- Battery of minor bug fixes and various speed improvements.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 2.0.0 (Sep 4, 2013)
- Support for scanning with separator sheets.
- Tiff file saving is dramatically faster.
- Improved speed of all document imaging filters.
- Added option to show / hide the viewer toolbar.
- Added annotation toolbar.
- Improved persistent settings behavior.
- Added WEBP image format saving.
- Added option to Crop Selected Area In a New Page.
- Added option to save PDF with Fast Web View mode enabled.
- Some UI improvements and fixes.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.8.8 (May 23, 2013)
- Fixed some TWAIN acquisition issues.
- Fixed license registration problem.
- The package has been updated with the latest available Data Source manager (TWAINDSM.DLL).
- GdPicture.NET 9.4.9 is now used.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.8.6 (Apr 30, 2013)
- Fixed some TWAIN acquisition issues.
- Some speed improvements.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.8.5 (Apr 12, 2013)
- Fixed some TWAIN acquisition issues on Windows 8.
- Some speed improvements.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.8.4 (Mar 17, 2013)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Some speed improvements.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.8.3 (Mar 5, 2013)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Some speed improvements.
- Better support with some non TWAIN compliant device driver.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.8.1 (Dec 7, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Better support for high resolution document acquisitions.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.8.0.0 (Nov 13, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Updates notifications support.
- New option to suppress warning and notification dialogs.
- New option to convert color bitmap to 1-bit monochrome bitmap using a dithering algorithm.
- Bunch of new annotations support: Free Hand Highlighter, Text, Image, Ellipse, Rectangle, Line, Connected Lines, Free Hand Pen, Ruler, Polygon, Free Hand Polygon.
- Quick scan mode feature: start a scan process by CTRL+Q, without getting the acquisition wizard.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.7.0.2 (Oct 6, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Some speed improvements.
- Improvement of the AutoDeskew filter.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.7.0.0 (Sep 21, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Some speed improvements.
- Added option to save a specific number of pages per file.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.6.0.1 (Jul 31, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Speed improvement of the main UI.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.6.0.0 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Better compatibility with some old TWAIN drivers.
- Color detection feature is now stable and can be used in production. (hot)
- Batch document processing filters can now be applied during image import.
- Fixed some productivity issues during high volume scanning.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.5.5.3 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Introducing automatic color detection in the batch filters (Beta).
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.5.5.1 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Added an option to switch to TWAIN 1.9 DSM
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.5.5.0 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Updated TWAIN Data Source Manager to version 2.2.
- Speed improvement and lower memory usage.
- Added option to disable TWAIN cap. detection (Options / Extras... / Disable Capability Detection).
- Improved quality and speed of PDF pages import.
- Improved quality of 8-bit colour image convertion.
- Improved speed of the auto-deskew engine.
- Improved speed & design of the thumbnail pannel.
- Fixed unicode issue in PDF metadata.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.5.0.0 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Added confirmation message before deleting a page.
- Changed the resolution choices to deliver standard resolutions with some devices.
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Fixed a memory leak with the PDF import.
- Contextual menu can be displayed on the current page to remove it or to save it quickly.
- Added option to configure PDF import resolution.
- Changed the behavior when user is prompted to clean the list after a saving operation. Now suggested deletion is only saved pages and not all pages.
- Files can be imported from Windows Explorer to Paperscan by drag & drop operation.
- Added an option to automatically add the date in a predefined format in each saved file name.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.4.0.8 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Battery of minor bug fixes.
- Problem with WIA acquisition from document on some scanners fixed.
- Added an option to select the TWAIN Data Source Manager version (see Options / Extras...).
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.4.0.6 (Feb 28, 2012)
- Added support for JPEG 2000 format saving.
- Added support for page reordering with drag & drop.
- Speed improvement of the thumbnail generation.
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.3.5 (Sep 29, 2011)
- Added support for JPEG 2000 format saving.
- Added support for page reordering with drag & drop.
- Speed improvement of the thumbnail generation
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.2.000 (Jul 15, 2011)
- Better AutoDeskew & AutoCrop engine
- Improvement of the OCR engine, better speed and better accuracy
- Added support for encrypted PDF (read & write)
- New set of options to control output JPEG image quality & progressive encoding mode
- New options to control PDF output encryption
New in PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition 1.1.0 (Mar 2, 2011)
- Minor bug fixes
- Improved compatibility with some odd TWAIN drivers
- Speed improvement of the document import feature
- New set of features to select multiple pages in the thumbnail view
- Minor bug fixes
- New feature Edit / Erase Selected Area