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Black Ice Tiff Viewer Changelog

What's new in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.85 Revision 2526

Apr 15, 2024
  • Minor stability improvement to not show any error message, when canceling the email sending with Microsoft Outlook (#17371)
  • Stability improvement for editing text annotations (#17358)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.84 Revision 2479 (Mar 28, 2024)

  • Improvements for drawing using the Pencil annotation (#16683, #17217, #17218, #17219, #17276)
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 13.16.1005

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.83 Revision 2466 (Mar 13, 2024)

  • Stability improvements for the TIFF Viewer Core and Extension to rotate and then save PDF documents (#17168)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.82 Revision 2429 (Jan 31, 2024)

  • New Features for the TIFF Viewer Extension to open documents without downloading (#17130)
  • Enabled the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-In on Windows 11 (#17141)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.81 Revision 2403 (Jan 19, 2024)

  • Performance improvements saving annotations on some systems with slow network connections (#17061)
  • Stability improvement for quickly and repeatedly saving large files (#17068)
  • Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTiff) to version 13.16.998

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.78 Revision 2360 (Dec 20, 2023)

  • Fixed scrolling bug in multi-page and single-page view on Surface tablets (#16985)
  • Removed the AI Assistant feature from TIFF Viewer Chrome/Edge extension (#16993)
  • Improvements for disabling the AI Assistant feature in the TIFF Viewer Core (#16896, #16996)
  • Added the “Install the AI Assistant Feature” option for Tiff Viewer Core in the Tiff Viewer installers (#16987,#16988)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.77 Revision 2348 (Dec 15, 2023)

  • Fixed annotation creation/movement issue on Surface tablets when using gesture controls (#16720)
  • Improved, updated OCR to Tesseract version 5.3.3 in the Tiff Viewer. Updated BiOCR.dll to version 13.16.996 (#16980)
  • Upgraded the installers (InstallShield) to version 2022 R2

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.75 Revision 2339 (Nov 28, 2023)

  • Performance improvements for saving PDF documents with TIFF Viewer Core and Extension (#16919)
  • Stability improvements for Tiff Viewer Interactive installers when updating the Tiff Viewer MSI (#16911)
  • The Move Page feature moves the selected page to the desired location keeping Vector PDF pages searchable (#15533)
  • The Drag and Drop feature moves all the selected pages to the desired location keeping Vector PDF pages searchable (#16930)
  • The Copy and Paste feature keeps the PDF searchable instead of turning it into an image (#16928)
  • Stability improvements for Deleting pages in searchable PDF files (#16927)
  • The text selection is displayed correctly after any operation on a searchable PDF page (#16886)
  • Rotating a PDF page keeps it searchable (#16931)
  • Saving a newly inserted page from a Tiff file to a searchable PDF file doesn’t invert the bitmap using any bit count per pixel. (#16937)
  • Stability improvements for inserting Tiff pages to searchable PDF files (#16944)
  • Stability improvements for basic operations like move page and delete on searchable PDF files (#16945)
  • Stability improvements for the Save operation after using more operations than the Undo limit (#16942)
  • Disabled updating if Tiff Viewer was registered manually (#15887)
  • Added an option to turn off warning message for operations that turn searchable PDF pages into an image (#16940)
  • Copy-pasting a searchable PDF page from one file to another file pastes the annotations as well (#16954)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.72 Revision 2312 (Oct 25, 2023)

  • Improved printing quality for PDF files (#16784)
  • Added the page orientation option to the print dialog (#16779)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Annotation tab. The Burn in, Save, Show and Hide annotations buttons are disabled when there are no annotations in the document (#16778, #16780, #16781)
  • Stability improvement for reading the installation time from the registry after the Document Imaging SDK evaluation version has been uninstalled from the system (#16785)
  • Updated the BiAnno.dll to version 13.13.981
  • Updated the BiPdf.dll to version 13.13.981

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.70 Revision 2301 (Sep 26, 2023)

  • New “Hamburger Menu” feature to optimize the TIFF Viewer Core and Extension for IFRAME, and for low-resolution (#16738, #16737, #16760, #16749, #16766)
  • New feature to protect the PDF documents with passwords, and restrict editing and accessibility in TIFF Viewer, TIFF Viewer Core and Extension (#16458, #16700, #16699, #16758)
  • New feature to specify the Quality of the PDF pages for viewing (#16765)
  • Stability improvements for saving the PDF meta information (Title, Author, Subject, Keywords) when saving a PDF document with TIFF Viewer Core and Extension (#16739, #16759, #16764)
  • Stability improvements for saving files with TIFF Viewer Extension; Saving local files with Save As, simply saving the file on the original location (#16762)
  • Stability improvements for opening local files in the TIFF Viewer Extension; In certain cases, files open twice (#16761)
  • Stability improvement for saving large PDF files while the thumbnail generation is in progress (#16768)
  • Minor user interface improvements for saving PDF documents with Annotation or Interactive Form elements in the TIFF Viewer Core and Extension (#16750)
  • Added the “OCR selected area to clipboard” option to the copy menu (#16751)
  • The Copy Selection menu item can also copy text from PDF files (#16751)
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer 64-bit installers when trying to install it on Windows 32-bit (#16770)
  • Updated PDF SDK DLLs to version 3.3.1.751

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.66 Revision 2272 (Sep 6, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for saving into PDF image format from Tiff Viewer Standard (#16730)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.65 Revision 2270 (Sep 4, 2023)

  • New user interface for TIFF Viewer Core and Extension Option window (#16664, #16663)
  • Added support for GPT-4 OpenAI engine for the TIFF Viewer Core and Extension (#16647)
  • New feature: Copying selected text from vector/editable PDF files without OCR (#16103)
  • Stability improvements for the AI Assistant in the TIFF Viewer Chrome Extension (#16721)
  • Stability improvements for opening documents in the TIFF Viewer Core, if the system default browser is not supported, and Microsoft Edge is not installed. In this case the TIFF Viewer Core will use Google Chrome if it’s installed. (#16728)
  • Stability improvements for the TIFF Viewer Extension opening PDF documents in Dynamic Embedding iframe when the “Allow access to file URLs” is disabled (#16724)
  • Improved Signature feature handwriting capture when using the touch screen or signature pads (#16683)
  • Updated the End User Software License Agreements in the interactive installers

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.61 Revision 2248 (Aug 14, 2023)

  • Added license type detection during update (#15790,#16686)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Tiff Viewer installers (#16015, #16016, #16017)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.60 Revision 2246 (Aug 1, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for opening AFP documents in the TIFF Viewer Core (#16665)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.59 Revision 2245 (Jul 20, 2023)

  • Stability improvement for the PDF Preview Handler on Windows Server (#16658)
  • Added license agreements of third-party components (#16524)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.58 Revision 2244 (Jul 17, 2023)

  • Disabled the “Ask me what to do with each download” option in Microsoft Edge when installing the Tiff Viewer Chrome Extension or Tiff Viewer Core (#16652, #16653, #16656)
  • Stability improvement for installing the Tiff Viewer Extension for Microsoft Edge on systems that are not in a domain (#16654)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.57 Revision 2242 (Jul 5, 2023)

  • Added components for the TIFF Viewer Core for helping develoers to embed the TIFF Viewer Core viewer into their website (#16626)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.56 Revision 2241 (Jul 3, 2023)

  • Added progress window for the Insert Pages option, to prevent Tiff Viewer from going into the “Not Responding” state (#16595)
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling Tiff Viewer with the MSI installer when the license is not valid (#16600)
  • Fixed handle leak during license checking (#16602)
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.37.325
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 17.41.3051

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.52 Revision 2216 (May 23, 2023)

  • New Feature for TIFF Viewer Core to use the User Default Browser automatically (#16498)
  • Stability improvements for TIFF Viewer Core, if the browser Downloads folder is overwritten or redirected in the Group Policy Settings (#16497, #16496)
  • Stability improvements for reading the TIFF Viewer Core configurations, if the Application Data folder is not accessible on the System (#16495)
  • Added the COREBROWSER parameter for Tiff Viewer MSI installers (#16494)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.15 Revision 2064 (Oct 11, 2022)

  • Fixed translations for the OCR menu (#15749)
  • Fixed certain vector PDF files being incorrectly identified as PDF forms (#15788)
  • Stability improvement for the “Search the Help for More Information” link on the getting started dialog on 64-bit systems (#15789)
  • Searching has been changed to case-insensitive by default in the Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extension (#15638)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 14.10 Revision 2058 (Sep 26, 2022)

  • Fixed the text editor not being re-focused after changing font in Comment and Note annotations (#15549)
  • Fixed modifying the font of Comment and Note annotations when nothing is selected changes the font of the whole text (#15550)
  • Fixed first page of PDF documents flashing up in Normal view mode while opening (#15710)
  • Fixed currently viewed page flashing up at 100% zoom when changing the zoom level in Fit To Width and Fit To Window view modes (#15719)
  • Fixed the Enable Annotation tab option not affecting options in the image right-click menu (#15606)
  • Fixed setting a custom zoom level in Fit To Width and Fit To Window view modes not possible (#15499)
  • Added Center Page view mode (#15721)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Border toggle feature when a Note, Highlight or Redact annotation is selected (#15551)
  • Minor user interface improvements for view modes menu (#15722, #15744)
  • Minor user interface improvements for tooltips (#15501, #15562)
  • Minor user interface improvements for email sending (#15740)
  • Stability improvement for removing old Wang and MODI annotations from JPEG compressed TIFF files (#15704)
  • Added the product name to the Manual Registration dialog (#15707)
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 17.12.2886
  • Updated BiDisp.dll to version 13.05.952

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.97 Revision 2006 (Aug 6, 2022)

  • Added support for opening TIFF and PDF documents generated by the Black Ice Printer Drivers in memory without writing the files to disk
  • Added new INI option to disable the “Upload to SharePoint” feature in the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-In
  • Added new INI option to disable the “Send Email” and “Email Settings” features in the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-In
  • Not forcing the Tiff Viewer Chrome Extension installation on Windows Desktops
  • Removed the yellow background of the Text annotation that appeared while editing it
  • Fixed vector PDF pages being converted to image PDFs when using the Split, Cut or Extract features
  • Removed the “bi-native-messaging-host.bat” file from the Tiff Viewer installers
  • Removed the old visual c redistributable dlls from the Tiff Viewer installers
  • Added version number to the BiTiffViewer-NativeMessaging.exe
  • Improved error handling for Tiff Viewer installers when the installers cannot write the installation time into the registry
  • The Tiff Viewer installers no longer ask for a restart when Tiff Viewer is running during update or uninstallation
  • Added option in the Tiff Viewer Options to set the default OCR output viewer application

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.96 Revision 1995 (Jul 29, 2022)

  • Added Text Search feature for PDF documents (#15381)
  • Added Text Search feature for PDF documents in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15436)
  • Minor user interface improvements in the Chrome / Edge extension, renamed “Search in Document” to “Search with OCR” (#15372)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Home tab, renamed “Search” to “OCR & Search” (#15373)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the “Text Search” and “OCR Search” windows (#15335)
  • Minor user interface improvements Chrome / Edge extension, when trying to open PDF documents from the local computer (#15402)
  • Stability improvement for scrolling to the found text when the view mode is set to Single Page View or Multi-Page View (#15387)
  • The “Copy Selected Area” feature only copies text to the clipboard if the OCR result is not empty (#15374)
  • Added a progress dialog when using “Copy Selected Area” or OCR features from the right-click context menu (#15375)
  • New feature for Chrome / Edge extension to save the last used View Mode automatically (#15391)
  • Stability improvement for the selected annotation being visible on all pages in multi-page view (#15393)
  • Added new dialogs for splitting, cutting the document into pages and extracting specific pages from the document (#15153)
  • Stability improvement for installing Tiff Viewer with the NOSERIAL=1 MSI parameter. (Fixes the “Install error. (1)” problem) (#15463)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.96 Revision 1973 (Jul 28, 2022)

  • Added Text Search feature for PDF documents (#15381)
  • Added Text Search feature for PDF documents in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15436)
  • Minor user interface improvements in the Chrome / Edge extension, renamed “Search in Document” to “Search with OCR” (#15372)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Home tab, renamed “Search” to “OCR & Search” (#15373)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the “Text Search” and “OCR Search” windows (#15335)
  • Minor user interface improvements Chrome / Edge extension, when trying to open PDF documents from the local computer (#15402)
  • Stability improvement for scrolling to the found text when the view mode is set to Single Page View or Multi-Page View (#15387)
  • The “Copy Selected Area” feature only copies text to the clipboard if the OCR result is not empty (#15374)
  • Added a progress dialog when using “Copy Selected Area” or OCR features from the right-click context menu (#15375)
  • New feature for Chrome / Edge extension to save the last used View Mode automatically (#15391)
  • Stability improvement for the selected annotation being visible on all pages in multi-page view (#15393)
  • Added new dialogs for splitting, cutting the document into pages and extracting specific pages from the document (#15153)
  • Stability improvement for installing Tiff Viewer with the NOSERIAL=1 MSI parameter. (Fixes the “Install error. (1)” problem) (#15463)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.90 Revision 1961 (Jun 22, 2022)

  • New feature for Administrators to Enable / Disable the Chrome / Edge policy, to download PDF files (#15198)
  • Stability improvements for the Chrome / Edge extension, when printing a selected portion of the page (#15252)
  • Improvements for calculating margins, when printing to physical printers in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15254)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.85 Revision 1959 (Jun 16, 2022)

  • – Fixed the Single-Page View and Multi-Page View options in Tiff Viewer Options > View not getting saved (#15236)
  • – Selecting a color mode on the Batch Scan dialog now automatically selects the default compression for that mode (#15250)
  • – Fixed incorrect page compression when saving pages that were appended to the document using Batch Scan (#15255)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.80 Revision 1957 (May 31, 2022)

  • stability improvement for printing large documents in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15207)
  • Stability improvement for opening PDF documents in the Chrome / Edge extension directly from Gmail (#15219)
  • Added new feature to Chrome / Edge extension to scale printout to the paper size proportionately (#15210)
  • It is now possible to select the text in Text annotations using the mouse (#15178)
  • Stability improvement for reading some non-standard JPEG compressed TIFF images that use the JPEGInterchangeFormat (513) and TileOffsets (324) TIFF tags. (#15218)
  • Fixed TiffViewer sometimes showing annotations from another page after saving (#15222)
  • Updated the BiAnno.dll to version 12.99.931
  • Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTiff) to version to 12.99.930

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.75 Revision 1951 (May 23, 2022)

  • Added new feature to print only the Selected Areas in Tiff Viewer (#15086)
  • Added new feature to Chrome / Edge extension printing, to scale printout to the paper size, or center printout without scaling (#15147)
  • Stability improvement for copy-pasting images from Outlook (#15175)
  • Stability improvement for quickly copying or pasting pages multiple times (#15173, #15174)
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.98.926, Tesseract version 5.1.0 (#14992)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.70 Revision 1942 (May 9, 2022)

  • New feature to print only the Selected Ares in Chrome / Edge extension (#15105)
  • Minor user interface improvemnets when flattening PDF documents in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15089)
  • Added support for “application/afp” MIME Type in the Chrome / Edge extension (#15128)
  • Text, Comment and Note annotations that do not contain any text are automatically removed when deselected (#15070, #15122)
  • Fixed remaining lines after closing the comment/note annotation editor window using the Esc key (#15101)
  • Removed unnecessary warning message when saving single page images to single page file formats (#15114)
  • Updated the BiAnno.dll to version 12.98.925

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.65 Revision 1934 (May 3, 2022)

  • Improved copying and drag-dropping speed between Tiff Viewer windows (#15054)
  • Fixed annotation issue when copying pages with the keyboard (#15116)
  • Fixed translation issue on the save error messages (#15127)
  • Updated the BiAnno.dll to version 12.97.924

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.60 Revision 1932 (Apr 26, 2022)

  • Fixed translation issues in the OCR menu (#14251)
  • Fixed translation issues with the save confirmation dialogs (#14270)
  • Fixed translation issues in the Paste menu (#14859)
  • Fixed confusing error message when loading annotations manually (#14725)
  • Added tooltips for the items in the Shapes menu on the Annotation tab (#14825)
  • Improved saving speed when editing annotations (#14827)
  • Tiff Viewer now checks if it is the default TIFF application when a TIFF file is opened (#15008)
  • The ‘Save OCR data to separate file’ option now also works with file formats other than TIFF (#15049)
  • Fix for license error 350 after registering manually (#15064)
  • Tiff Viewer now remembers the border setting for new Highlight annotations (#15068)
  • Fixed the Comment and Text Note annotation editor dialogs staying open after deselecting the annotation (#15069)
  • Added option to copy the current page with annotations burned in automatically (#15071)
  • Tiff Viewer is now able to highlight the currently selected area when using the Highlight tool (#15082)
  • Fixed an issue where typing specific letters in the Text annotation also pasted text from the clipboard (#15083)
  • Fixed a crash when using “Convert to Color” with larger images (#15091)
  • Fixed a crash when deleting Highlight annotations (#15094)
  • Updated the BiAnno.dll to version 12.97.922
  • Updated the BiDIB.dll to version 12.97.922
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.30.301
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.90.2813

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.55 Revision 1922 (Mar 28, 2022)

  • Fixed flickering when drawing new annotations (#14987)
  • Version checking improvements in the licensing (#14541)
  • Stability improvements for removing PDF file associations in the Tiff Viewer uninstaller (#15007)
  • Stability improvements for opening IOCA and MO:DCA images in the Chrome/Edge extension (#15045)
  • Stability improvements for opening large TIFF documents with annotations in the Chrome/Edge extension (#15025)
  • PDF compression is enabled by default in the Chrome/Edge extension (#15036)
  • Added Ctrl + Mouse wheel zoom, and RubberBand zoom features to Chrome/Edge extension (#15011, #15013)
  • Updated Email sender to version 12.85.1042
  • Updated the BiAnno.dll version to 12.97.920
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.29.300
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.89.2801

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.50 Revision 1894 (Mar 1, 2022)

  • Added new Deskew Image dialog for adjusting the angle of the deskew operation (#14858)
  • Switched Tiff Viewer to subscription-based licensing
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.86.2780

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.45 Revision 1887 (Feb 14, 2022)

  • Enabled creating and editing Black Ice Annotations for Vector PDFs in Tiff Viewer
  • Added new feature for Administrators to control Tiff Viewer settings for every user
  • Added new feature for Administrators to control Edge/Chrome extension settings for every user
  • Added new feature for Administrators to control Internet Explorer Browser Plugin settings for every user
  • Stability improvements for opening PDF documents in the Edge/Chrome extension from a URL
  • Restarting Tiff Viewer with administrator privilege when re-activating in case of a licensing error

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.37 Revision 1880 (Jan 24, 2022)

  • Added INI option to disable the Layers feature on the Annotation tab.

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.33 Revision 1869 (Dec 27, 2021)

  • Stability improvements for detecting the Microsoft Edge in the Tiff Viewer installers (#14705)
  • Fixed ASCII tag saving issue with the Tiff tag information dialog (#14707)
  • Added option to disable file assocations for the .tif, .tiff and .fax file extensions to the Tiff Viewer MSI installer (#14721)
  • Added options to disable loading and saving annotations manually (#14720)
  • Added architecture information (bitness) to the title and the about box in the 32-bit Tiff Viewer (#14731)
  • Stability improvement for the Browser Plugin being uninstalled when updating from an older version using the MSI installer (#14732)
  • Updated the BiAnno.dll version to 12.86.869

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.31 Revision 1851 (Nov 16, 2021)

  • Added options to disable individual features on the Home, Tools, Annotation and Document Cleanup tabs
  • Stability improvement for using OCR on documents larger than 32767 by 32767 pixels
  • Added more informative dialogs for when Tiff Viewer fails to open a file
  • Minor user interface improvement for the main window
  • Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.85.851

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.30 Revision 1843 (Nov 2, 2021)

  • Created native 64-bit version of Tiff Viewer.
  • Minor user interface improvements.
  • Updated Document Imaging Dlls to version 12.84.840.
  • Stability improvements for the Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge extension, for opening PDF documents from local file URLs.
  • Minor improvements for the Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge extension, for opening large TIFF documents.
  • Added the “View PDF document in the Black Ice Chrome Extension” option to the Tiff Viewer installers.
  • Changed the Tiff Viewer Chrome extension installation to force install.
  • The installers ask to close Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge for Every User during uninstallation or update, when necessary.
  • Added error message when tiff viewer detects that some licensing related components where not installed correctly.

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.27 Revision 1830 (Oct 18, 2021)

  • Added the “View PDF document in the Black Ice Chrome Extension” option to the Tiff Viewer installers (#14459)
  • Changed the Tiff Viewer Chrome extension installation to force install (#14461)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Image Information dialog (#14462)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.26 Revision 1806 (Sep 28, 2021)

  • Removed read-only property of the destination folder path fields on the Split File and Cut File dialogs (#14433)
  • Stability improvements for the Google Chrome / Microsoft Edge extension, for opening large TIFF documents (#14424)
  • Stability improvements for Tiff Viewer MSI installer (Special Application Layer Edition) when using the CUSTOMINI parameter (#14437)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the Batch Scan dialog (#14443)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.25 Revision 1801 (Sep 17, 2021)

  • Added option to append batch scanned pages to the currently opened document (#14381)
  • Fixed text conversion issue from old binary annotation format (#14420)
  • Fixed issues with relative hyperlinks (#14419)
  • Updated biAnno.dll to version 12.84.839

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.20 Revision 1782 (Sep 3, 2021)

  • Added block arrow shapes to Tiff Viewer (#14190)
  • Added the Shapes annotation group with the Basic Shapes and Block Arrows annotation (#14343)
  • Minor user interface and stability improvements for the Annotation category (#14285)
  • The view no longer jumps to the top of the document when Save or Undo functions are used (#14290, #14291)
  • Changed design of Free Version and Pro Version dialog boxes
  • Annotation improvements for small DPI documents (#14279)
  • Improved performance of online license validation (#13808)
  • Stability improvement for registration and license validation on systems that use Bluetooth Network Connections (#13979)
  • Updated biAnno.dll, biAnnoDlg.dll, and biTwain.dll to version 12.84.824
  • Updated eLicense dll version to 6.22.280

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.16 Revision 1773 (Aug 2, 2021)

  • Stability improvement for saving external annotations if the opened tiff document is read-only (#14257)
  • Stability improvement for updating the Tiff Viewer Pro version (#14260)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.15 Revision 1771 (Jul 16, 2021)

  • Added support for Chrome / Edge extension to open supported files from ZIP archives (#14131)
  • Added support for opening IOCA and MO:DCA images with Chrome / Edge extension (#14127)
  • Added feature to open unknown file types in Notepad automatically in Chrome / Edge extension (#14205)
  • Added feature to let Administrators configure the IFRAME element ID for the Chrome / Edge extension (#14206)
  • Minor improvements for the error messages in the Chrome / Edge extension (#14154)
  • Improvements for the Chrome / Edge extension to re-download the document when refreshing the browser tab (#14155)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.00 Revision 1715 (Jun 8, 2021)

  • Added missing “Your Demo registration number” and “Your Demo License Number” text to the manual registration window. (#14037).

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 13.00 Revision 1699 (May 23, 2021)

  • Added support for reading IOCA and MO:DCA files to the Browser Plug-in (#13971)
  • Added administrator option to open unknown file types with Notepad (#13824)
  • Added administrator option to open unknown file types as Text in Tiff Viewer (#13978)
  • Stability improvement for reading JPEG compressed TIFF images that use the JPEGInterchangeFormat (513) TIFF tag. (#13936)
  • Stability improvement for reading longer text annotations (#13943)
  • Stability improvements for uninstalling and updating Tiff Viewer when the Tiff Viewer Chrome Extension is currently in use on the system. (#13923)
  • Stability improvement for checking file existence and access rights when using the Previous Image and Next Image buttons (#13922)
  • Fixed incorrect default directory for the ‘Restrict file saving to the following directory’ option (#13975)
  • Added default values and descriptions to the TiffViewer.ini (#13974)
  • Minor user interface improvement (#13973)
  • Updated BiTIFF to version 12.82.801

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.98 Revision 1675 (Apr 23, 2021)

  • New feature to force open each TIFF file in a New Tab in the Chrome / Edge extension (#13884)
  • The cut and split tools remember the last location the user selected (#13870)
  • Stability improvement for checking file existence and access rights in the cut and split tools (#13902, #13903, #13913, #13914, #13916)
  • Stability improvement for the cut and split tools (#13881, #13882, #13883, #13898)
  • Renamed the Tiff Viewer installers (#13910, #13908)
  • Stability improvements for logging in the Email sending feature (#12853)
  • Added support to reading IOCA and MO:DCA images (#13918)
  • Updated BiTIFF to version 12.82.799

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.96 Revision 1641 (Mar 25, 2021)

  • New options for Chrome / Edge extension, to customize the View Mode, Zoom Percentage and Thumbnail on startup (#13757, #13756, #13755)
  • New User Interface for Chrome / Edge extension for customizing the extension settings (#13758)
  • New capability for Chrome / Edge extension to open TIFF files on a new browser tab (#13800)
  • Stability improvements for opening TIFF files in Edge, if the “Ask me what to do with each download” option is turned on (#13821)
  • Stability improvements for opening TIFF files in Chrome, if the browser tab was opened with JavaScript with “status=no” attribute (#13820)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Chrome / Edge extension (#13802, #13801, #13803, 13811)
  • Major improvements for the Signature annotation in the Chrome / Edge extension, to improve user experience (#13768)
  • Added language selection to Tiff Viewer options (#12998)
  • Restarting Tiff Viewer with administrator privilege for registration (#13580)
  • Added administrator option to disable saving in the browser plug-in (#13760)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.94 Revision 1630 (Mar 15, 2021)

  • Added support for using Proxy Settings in the Chrome / Edge extension (#13704)
  • Stability improvements for using the Chrome / Edge extension through RDP connections (#13710)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.93 Revision 1604 (Feb 12, 2021)

  • The opened TIFF file is not modified when saving annotations into external file and the TIFF file did not contain annotations in TIFF tags previously. (#13700)
  • The opened TIFF file is not modified when saving OCR data into external file and the TIFF file did not contain OCR data in TIFF tags previously. (#13705)
  • New features and major improvements for the Chrome/Edge web browser extension
  • Added new annotations (Image, Highlight, Note, Comment, Text, Line, Arrow, Ellipse, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Rubber Stamp and Signature annotations (#13546)
  • Added new feature to Show/Hide Thumbnails (#13618)
  • Added new Thumbnail View for easier navigation between pages (#13620)
  • Added new feature to Show/Hide the Footer (#13665)
  • Improved User Interface to be responsive, and adapt to the browser size (#13617)
  • Added new feature to Hide icons on the user interface (#13622)
  • Added new feature to Customize colors on the user interface (#13632)
  • Stability improvements for rotating certain TIFF documents (#13644)
  • Stability improvements for navigating between pages while the document is still loading (#13619)
  • Stability improvements for opening, saving, exporting large TIFF files (#13658, #13663, #13662)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.92 Revision 1592 (Jan 29, 2021)

  • Stability improvement for using the "Split file" and "Cut file" features after pages have been pasted to the document (#13625)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.91 Revision 1591 (Jan 27, 2021)

  • Added new feature to scroll between the pages for Chrome/Edge web browser extension (#13215)
  • Minor user interface improvements for Chrome/Edge web browser extension (#13566, #13590, #13591, #13593, #13594, #13595, #13596, #13597, #13600)
  • Improvements for the Chrome/Edge web browser extension to remember the custom Zoom percentage when navigating between pages (#13586)
  • Stability improvements for redact annotations, when Copying, Moving, Deleting pages in the Chrome/Edge web browser extension (#13588)
  • Stability improvements for opening and saving TIFF or PDF files with unsupported annotations in the Chrome/Edge web browser extension (#13587, #13592)
  • Stability improvements for opening unsupported files in the Chrome/Edge web browser extension (#13608, #13607)
  • Better vertical word positioning in the HTML output of the OCR (#13502)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.90 Revision 1577 (Jan 21, 2021)

  • Added Redact annotation feature to Chrome/Edge web browser extension
  • Added Intelligent Redact feature to Chrome/Edge web browser extension
  • Added feature, menu item to Send OCR text to the default web browser
  • Stability improvement for opening the OCR results on Windows XP systems
  • Added Tiff Viewer language selection option to the Tiff Viewer update
  • Improved startup performance
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.83 Revision 1551 (Dec 21, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for uninstalling OCR Language pack during Tiff Viewer uninstall (#13420)
  • Stability improvement for copying OCR data when copy-pasting pages (#13368)
  • Added warning when closing files that contained WANG, MODI or old binary Black Ice annotations (#13424)
  • Added warning before overwriting existing OCR data (#13402)
  • Added warning before discarding unsaved OCR data (#13399, #13407)
  • Changed “Save OCR data” feature to “Save OCR data when saving TIFF file” (#13405)
  • Added “Delete OCR data” feature (#13418)
  • Improved German translations (#13347)
  • Added long file name support for OCR output files (#13423)
  • Stability improvement for saving annotations into TIFF tags (#13396)
  • Stability improvement for the OCR icon on Windows 7 systems (#13422)
  • Stability improvement for OCR Data handling when using Search (#13410)
  • Stability improvement for OCR Data saving into separate file (#13433)
  • Stability improvement for OCR Data saving when handling non-TIFF files (#13450, #13434)
  • Stability improvement for the “Delete current file” option (#13414)
  • Stability improvement for trying to open files with long file names (#13432, #13447)
  • Stability improvement for opening files from directories containing files with long file names (#13431)
  • Fixed file name changing to uppercase when editing TIFF Tags (#13373)
  • Improved OCR output directory checking (#13426)
  • Stability improvement for using Undo after page deletion (#13446)
  • Stability improvement for trying to use Undo during OCR (#13451)
  • Stability improvement for undoing multiple operations too quickly (#13427)
  • Minor user interface improvement (#13417)
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.80.792
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.80 Revision 1514 (Dec 8, 2020)

  • Added support for reading Microsoft Office Document Imaging annotations and OCR text (#13333)
  • Added support for PDF files for the "Split file" and "Cut file" features (#12378)
  • Added feature to save the OCR data into a TIFF tag (#13320)
  • Added feature to show the OCR data saved into the TIFF file (#13321, #13319)
  • Stability improvement for the OCR directory option (#13322, #13325)
  • Stability improvement for reading text annotations made in Tiff Viewer version 11.98.1145 or earlier (#13317)
  • Disabled the Tiff Viewer Internet Explorer Browser plug-in on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. (#13265)
  • Stability improvements for the Chrome/Edge extension for long filenames and long URLs (#13301)
  • Changed the CHROMEEXT and EDGEEXT parameters to CHROME in the Tiff Viewer MSI. (#13277)
  • Improved German and French translations (#13329)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#12519)
  • Updated BiAnno.dll and BiImg1.dll to version 12.80.791
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.76 Revision 1494 (Nov 16, 2020)

  • Improvement for the Chrome and Edge extension to be able to open TIFF files, even if .TIF or .TIFF extension is not in the URL (#13282)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.75 Revision 1493 (Nov 11, 2020)

  • Added Chrome and Edge extension to Tiff Viewer for viewing, editing TIFF images
  • Improved manual registration - The manual registration window could be opened twice (#13229)
  • Stability improvement for OCR, fixed OCR text not updating after the page is modified (#13260)
  • Stability improvement for OCR, added Warning messages to functions affecting OCRs (#13266, #13276)
  • Stability improvement for deleting pages while the search dialog is opened (#13286)
  • Corrected page numbers on the "Move Image" dialog (#13237)
  • Replaced icons on the "Append or Overwrite" and on the annotation save dialogs (#13269)
  • Minor user interface improvements for non-English versions (#13263)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.74 Revision 1473 (Nov 5, 2020)

  • Fixed file information of TiffViewer.exe, changed "Original file name" property to "TiffViewer.exe" (#13147)
  • Added "Select page range" feature to OCR a range of pages (#11508)
  • Added "Choose side of the Punch Hole Removal" option to the punch hole removal feature (#11508)
  • Added progress bar and Cancel button to the status bar to indicate when the OCR process is running (#9867)
  • Minor user interface improvements for non-English versions (#13159, #13161)
  • Added a warning message to OCR options when no OCR language is checked (#13156)
  • Added "Test Proxy Connection" button to the Proxy Settings window to help troubleshoot connection problems during registration (#13111, # 13112, #13114)
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.18.259
  • Updated BuRegister.dll to version 16.29.2563
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.72 Revision 1458 (Oct 29, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for the registration dialog (#13203, #13208)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.71 Revision 1452 (Oct 20, 2020)

  • Stability improvements for editing text annotations (#13130, #13131, #13134)
  • Stability improvements for copying annotations (#9981)
  • Stability improvement for email sending (#13150)
  • Improved Layers dialog (#13078, #13096)
  • Improved French translations
  • Minor user interface improvements (#10057, #9964, #9980)
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.80.786
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.70 Revision 1441 (Oct 13, 2020)

  • Stability impreovements for file association (#12248)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#13101, #13100, #13085, #13082, #12521, #10272, #10174, #13059, #13120)
  • Stability improvement for registering file types in the installer (#12901, #12897)
  • Changed the file description and Copyright information of the Tiff Viewer Interactive installer (#13106)
  • Stability improvement for detecting the installed Tiff Viewer MSI when running the Interactive installer (#13092)
  • Removed the Everyone and Just Me radio buttons from the user interface of the MSI installers (#13093)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.68 Revision 1430 (Sep 30, 2020)

  • Minor user interface improvements
  • Stability improvement for uninstalling Tiff Viewer when the Tiff Viewer is running

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.66 Revision 1419 (Sep 16, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for changing annotation settings (#13038)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.65 Revision 1418 (Sep 15, 2020)

  • Added Unicode support
  • Added language support for French, German and Spanish.
  • Added support for reading WANG annotations (#12952)
  • Stability improvement for canceling printing (#12951)
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.80.777
  • Updated BiAnnoDlg.dll to version 12.80.778
  • Updated BiImg1.dll to version 12.80.775
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.17.254

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.60 Revision 1371 (Sep 3, 2020)

  • Added "Save Tiff file with proportional resolution" option (#12903)
  • Minor improvement for the thumbnail view, for displaying 204x98 DPI documents (#12145)
  • Stability improvement for the Undo feature, when undoing creating the first annotation in a file (#12926)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.55 Revision 1341 (Jul 31, 2020)

  • Updated Email Sender module to version 12.55.825
  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.79.768, Tesseract release Dec 26 2019 – V4.1.1 (#12712)
  • Tiff Viewer now does not create .ann files, when saving a document without annotations (#12796)
  • Stability improvements for the Auto-rotate feature (#12414, #12835, #12834)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#12806, #12809, #12813)
  • Minor user interface improvement for the installer (#12627, #12843)
  • Updated BiTIFF to version 12.79.767
  • Stability improvement for opening certain multi-page JPEG compressed TIFF files (#12719, #12787)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.54 Revision 1321 (Jun 29, 2020)

  • Added INI file option to select what should be copied when Ctrl+C is pressed. (bitmap, OCR text or both) (#12698)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.53 Revision 1311 (May 28, 2020)

  • Stability improvements for the Undo feature (#12395, #12455, #12472, #12474, #12488, #12489)
  • Stability improvement for loading metafile, signature and stamp annotations (#12472)
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.78.766

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.52 Revision 1310 (May 26, 2020)

  • Added warning when sending document in email or uploading to SharePoint, if the document contains redactions (#12463)
  • Minor improvements for selection (#12494)
  • Stability improvement for the Previous/Next Image buttons (#12502)
  • Single Page and Multi-Page views stay on the selected page after cropping (#12503)
  • Minor improvement for handling line annotations when cropping (#12501)
  • Keeping the current zoom value when saving the image (#12518)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.50 Revision 1303 (May 19, 2020)

  • Added Single Page View and Multi-Page View modes (continuous scrolling between pages) (#12345)
  • Stability improvement for reading some 1 bit image PDF documents (#12372)
  • Stability improvement for copy-pasting annotations (#12471)
  • Stability improvement for deleteing pages quickly (#12475)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#12469)
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.78.765
  • Updated BiDisp.dll to version 12.78.764
  • Updated BiPDF.dll to version 12.78.762
  • Updated Biimg2.dll to version 12.78.763
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.47 Revision 1275 (Feb 21, 2020)

  • Stability improvement for handling connection errors during license checking – missing proxy settings button (#12139)
  • Stability improvement closing Tiff Viewer during registration (#12138)
  • Stability improvement for default TIF file associations newly created users on Windows Server 2016 (#12161)
  • Minor user interface improvement for licensing (#12164)
  • Updated Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook to version 9.7.3407
  • FIXED: Security warnings were not disabled in Outlook version 1910 (build 12130.20272) 64-bit after installing the most recent Outlook updates.
  • FIXED: Simple MAPI warnings were not disabled in Outlook version 1911 (build 12228.20120) after installing the most recent Outlook updates.

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.46 Revision 1268 (Jan 22, 2020)

  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.77.750, Tesseract release July 7 2019 - V4.1.0 (#12075)
  • Added the Tiff Viewer to the "Open with" context menu for PDF files (#12061)
  • Stability improvement for default TIF file associations newly created users on Windows 10 (#12057)
  • Minor user interface improvement for uninstallation using the Tiff Viewer MSI installers (#12081)
  • Stability improvement for error code 304 in the Tiff Viewer MSI uninstallation (#12080)
  • Improvements in evaluation version registration (#11987)
  • Stability improvement for email sending (detecting the default email client) (#12088, #12089)
  • Minor user interface improvements in the Installers (#12093)
  • Updated Security Manager for Microsoft Outlook to version 9.6.3406
  • FIXED: Security warnings were not disabled in Outlook version 1908 (build 11929.20300) after installing the most recent Outlook updates
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.45 Revision 1257 (Dec 9, 2019)

  • Redesigned Batch Scan dialog (#11879)
  • Stability improvement for the Browser Plugin, when the Plugin is closed before the image is fully loaded (#11895)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#11829, #11901)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.40 Revision 1249 (Oct 29, 2019)

  • Added feature to move around the document using the arrow keys (#11729)
  • Stability improvement for rotation in the Browser Plugin (#11826)
  • Stability improvement for using the Redact and Highlight on the Search dialog with certain documents (#10310)
  • Minor user interface improvements (#10175, #11481, #11728, #11825)
  • Updated BiTwain.dll to version 12.75.746
  • Stability improvement for batch scanning on some systems (#11794, #11711, #11813)
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer MSI registration (Error code 57) (#11810)
  • Minor user interface improvements for the Tiff Viewer installers (#11731)
  • Added the maintenance expiration date checking to the Tiff Viewer update condition (#11738)
  • Updated eLicense.dll version to 6.10.235
  • Improvements for online license checking (computer validation for all users) (#11811)
  • Updated Manuals
  • Stability improvement for scanning with some scanners (#11818):
  • Fujitsu fi-5120C
  • Brother MFC-L5900
  • Canon LiDE 300
  • Epson 10000XL
  • HP OfficeJet Pro 8600
  • HP OfficeJet Pro 6700
  • Xerox WorkCentre 6515

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.35 Revision 1236 (Sep 4, 2019)

  • Added the Signature feature to Tiff Viewer (#11660)
  • Licensing improvements when updating Tiff Viewer (11667)
  • Added option to the end of the interactive installation to install Black Ice Form Filler (#11668)
  • Added support for the "Restrict_Saving" INI file option to the Browser Plug-in (#11675)
  • Added "Set_Default_Save_Directory" INI file option to set the default directory for the Save As dialog (#11675)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.30 Revision 1227 (Jul 22, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for loading and saving view options in the Tiff Viewer Browser Plugin (#11369, #11370, #11480)
  • Stability improvement for drawing Highlight annotations (#11501)
  • Stability improvement for burning color stamps to 1 bit documents (#11502)
  • Stability improvement for opening certain truncated TIFF files (#11435)
  • Stability improvement for opening certain image PDF files (#10315, #10983)
  • Updated Bianno.dll to version 12.71.730
  • Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTIFF.dll) to version 12.71.730
  • Updated BiPDF.dll to version 12.71.731
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.25 Revision 1223 (Jun 13, 2019)

  • Added Administrator option to detect and open fillable forms with the Black Ice Form Filler automatically (#11342, #11425)
  • Added the DESKTOPICON parameter to MSI installer (Default is no desktop icon) (#11360)
  • Added the Form Filler version 1.00.311 to the Tiff Viewer interactive installers (#11420)
  • Updated Bianno.dll to version 12.71.726
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.04.225
  • Stability improvement for registration on Korean systems. (#11202)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.21 Revision 1213 (May 3, 2019)

  • Updated the digital signature certificate on software components

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.20 Revision 1212 (Apr 30, 2019)

  • Performance improvements for loading and saving TIFF documents (#10818)
  • Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTIFF.dll) to version 12.71.691
  • Optimizations for faster TIFF file loading and saving
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.0.3.224
  • Stability improvement for registration on Windows XP (#10955)
  • Added transferable license handling for special installers (#10275)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.17 Revision 1211 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Performance improvements for loading and saving TIFF documents (#10818)
  • Updated BiImg1.dll (BiTIFF.dll) to version 12.71.691
  • Optimizations for faster TIFF file loading and saving
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 6.0.3.224
  • Stability improvement for registration on Windows XP (#10955)
  • Added transferable license handling for special installers (#10275)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.16 Revision 1208 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Added option to burn-in timestamp annotations to every page
  • Stability improvement for remembering the last selected Note text color
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer MSI installer for TIF and TIFF file association on Windows 10 version 1809
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.15 Revision 1230 (Feb 19, 2019)

  • Stability improvement for the external annotation save as dialogs and handling external annotation file names (#10420)
  • Annotations are burned in automaticaly when closing the document, if the "Burn annotation into the image when saving the document" and "Enable automatic saving..." options are turned on (#10484)
  • Increased page limit to 65535 (#10491)
  • Added administrator option disable printing (#10483)
  • Added option to open documents in the existing window, or in a new window (#10548)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.10 Revision 1184 (Dec 18, 2018)

  • Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.70.633, Tesseract release October 29 2018 - V4.0.0
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer MSI uninstallation when the network card is disabled (#9923)
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer MSI uninstallation when the internet connection is disabled (#9922)
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer MSI installation when Tiff Viewer MSI installer cannot get the value of the ProgramFiles variable (#10222)
  • Added update feature for interactive Tiff Viewer installer when the Tiff Viewer MSI is installed (#10236, #10274)
  • Added update feature for Tiff Viewer MSI installer when the interactive Tiff Viewer is installed (#10237)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.05 Revision 1173 (Nov 7, 2018)

  • The Magnifying Glass to displays the selected area (#9794)
  • Added to display thumbnails in multiple columns. The thumbnail viewer window can be resized to be wider (#10195)
  • Added option to the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in to show the thumbnails for single page documents (#10004)
  • Added “Cut Page”, “Paste Before Current Page” and “Paste After Current Page” buttons to the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in toolbar (#10005)
  • Added to save document as PDF, JPEG, PNG, BMP and Dialogic Fax formats in the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in (#10006)
  • Added the feature of “Insert Image” to the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in (#10188)
  • Added MSI installer option to associate the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in to with TIFF or only with JPEG files (#10127)
  • Added Drag and Drop support to the main window of the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in (#10004)
  • Added to place or drop a stamp with single click on a document, instead of selecting an area to place the stamp (#10159)
  • Stability improvement for scaling documents when printing from the Tiff Viewer Browser Plug-in (#10125)
  • Set default magnification for the Magnifying Glass to 200%. (#9794)
  • Improvement for file naming when saving documents. File names are not converted to lower-case. (#10197)
  • Stability improvement for switching to the Highlight annotation ribbon tab when a Highlight annotation is created (#10203)
  • Stability improvement for switching back to the previous ribbon tab when an annotation is deselected (#10173)
  • Added the version number to the Title bar of Tiff Viewer installers (#10041)
  • Updated Bianno.dll to version 12.65.627
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 12.00 Revision 1149 (Oct 5, 2018)

  • Changed format of annotation files (.ann) and annotation tiff tags to XML. The change is backwards compatible so Tiff Viewer can read annotations from the earlier binary format .ann files and TIFF tags. (#10069)
  • Added Ctrl+N shortcut to open a new Tiff Viewer window (#10087)
  • Removed Left Arrow and Right Arrow shortcuts to go to Previous / Next file in the current folder by default. User can configure these keyboard shortcuts manually, if need for them. (#10088)
  • Updated BiImg1.dll to version 12.65.625
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.65.625

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.95 Revision 1126 (Aug 9, 2018)

  • Added Redact, Redact All, Highlight, Highlight all buttons to the Search window (#9946)
  • Added warning when saving a document with redaction, with the option to make the redaction permanent (#9973)
  • Added option to disable the search feature separately from the OCR feature (#9943)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.85 Revision 1112 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • Tesseract release June 19 2018 - V3.05.02
  • Added shortcuts for cutting, copying and pasting pages, selecting all pages. (#9725)
  • Stability improvement for running Tiff Viewer in restricted user environments (#9820)
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer MSI uninstallation when the license has been changed from transferable to static (#9609, #7493)
  • Stability improvement for using the Undo feature when thumbnail generation is in progress (#9821)
  • Updated BiDocImg to version 12.61.607
  • Stability improvement for the "Remove black border" feature (#9724)
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.74 Revision 1078 (Apr 30, 2018)

  • Added Context menu when right clicking on an image:
  • Copy Page,
  • Copy Selected Area
  • Paste as Stamp
  • OCR Current Page
  • -OCR Selected Area to Clipboard
  • -Zoom (context menu options)
  • - Normal Size
  • - Actual Size
  • - Fit to Width
  • - Fit to Window
  • - Fit to Windows Center Image
  • -Mouse Mode
  • - Select
  • - Hand tool
  • - Magnifying
  • - Zoom Mode
  • Stability improvement for typing "+" and "-" characters when editing text annotations
  • Annotations are loaded from separate .ann file automatically when printing using /p or /pt parameters and the "Enable loading annotation file automatically" option is enabled
  • Added /annotation option to /p or /pt parameters that let one specify an external annotation file to load and print
  • Renamed "Eraser" and "Whiteout" to "Redact"
  • Added biocr.config, whitelist.txt and blacklist.txt files where ocr configuration options (e.g.: character white list) can be specified
  • Stability improvement for updating with Tiff Viewer MSI installer when using custom INI file
  • Added Home, End and Ctrl+G shortcuts for "Go to First Page", "Go to Last Page" and "Go to Page..."
  • Added warning window when a file is already opened with Tiff Viewer
  • Stability improvement for opening multiple browser plugin instances on some systems
  • Updated BiAnno to version 12.60.604
  • -Added color option to "Redact"
  • Updated BiTIFF to version 12.60.600
  • -Stability improvement for opening certain multi-page JPEG compressed TIFF files
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.72 Revision 1076 (Apr 10, 2018)

  • Updated elicense.dll to version 5.15.207
  • Manual registration window was not shown on some connection errors (43 and 44)
  • Disabled the Outlook security popup window when sending emails
  • Stability improvement for sending emails when using Outlook 2010 64-bit and Outlook 2016 64-bit
  • Changed priority of emails from Low to Normal when silent email sending is enabled
  • Stability improvement for closing email sender application when the SMTP server name is invalid
  • Updated BiTIFF to version 12.60.597
  • - Stability improvement for opening certain multi-page JPEG compressed TIFF files
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.71 Revision 1073 (Mar 8, 2018)

  • Added Drag and Drop feature to the Tiff Viewer Browser Plugin
  • Added Context Menu for the Thumbnail View

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.70 Revision 1069 (Feb 27, 2018)

  • Added Drag and Drop feature between Tiff Viewer windows
  • Added Page Thumbnails to the Tiff Viewer Browser Plugin
  • Stability improvement for SharePoint uploader when using https connection
  • Stability improvement for Licensing of the Tiff Viewer Browser Plugin on Windows Server systems
  • Added update feature to Tiff Viewer installers
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.14.206
  • Stability improvements for version checking
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.65 Revision 1060 (Jan 19, 2018)

  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.65 Revision 1059 (Jan 16, 2018)

  • Stability improvement for keyboard shortcut customization
  • Set Tiff Viewer as default application for TIF, TIFF, FAX after MSI installation
  • Stability improvement for scrolling in the Tiff Viewer Browser Plugin
  • Updated BiImg1.dll to version 12.59.593. Stability improvement for loading certain TIFF files with LZW compression
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.59.592. Stability improvement for using custom colors with annotations; minor user interface improvement for selection
  • Updated elicense.dll to version 5.12.203. Made some error messages clearer; licensing improvements
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.64 Revision 1056 (Dec 14, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for keyboard shortcut customization
  • Updated BiImg1.dll to version 12.59.593
  • Stability improvement for loading certain TIFF files with LZW compression
  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.59.592
  • Stability improvement for using custom colors with annotations
  • Minor user interface improvement for selection

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.63 Revision 1050 (Dec 4, 2017)

  • Added option to hide all annotations
  • Stability improvement for the MSI uninstaller when the license is invalid

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.62 Revision 1048 (Nov 17, 2017)

  • Added Timestamp feature to annotations
  • Added Default Stamp button to main toolbar
  • Updated BiImg1.dll to version 12.58.591
  • Stability improvement for loading certain TIFF files with LZW compression
  • Stability improvement for MSI installer when using the PLUGIN=0 parameter
  • Stability improvement for Annotation Burn in confirmation dialog
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.61 Revision 1036 (Oct 10, 2017)

  • Added option to always save the annotation to a ANN file instead of the TIFF
  • Visual Studio upgrade for the browser plugin
  • Minor stability improvements in the browser plugin
  • Stability improvement for Windows XP 64-bit systems

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.60 Revision 1025 (Sep 16, 2017)

  • Updated BiAnno.dll to version 12.57.586
  • Added “Load Annotation(s) (Replace Current)” and “Add Annotation(s) from File” options to right-click menu
  • When pasting annotations using the right-click menu, the annotations are placed under the mouse cursor, otherwise their original position is kept
  • The relative position of the annotations is kept when copy-pasting
  • Stability improvement for copy-pasting annotations between pages
  • The “Save Selected Annotation(s)” right-click menu option can save multiple selected annotations at once
  • Updated Annotation user interface
  • Added “Faster TIFF file loading (Load TIFF file into memory)” option to the Admin options
  • Stability improvement for “OCR selected area to clipboard” option (fixed empty txt file generated beside the document)
  • Stability improvement for Browser Plugin registration
  • The “Delete current file” option is disabled when “File Navigation” is disabled in the Administrator options
  • Small user interface improvements
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.10.199
  • Made some error messages clearer

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.59 Revision 1018 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • Updated BiPDF.dll to version 12.57.578
  • Stability improvement for opening Image PDF Files generated by eFax
  • Added PDF file format to File Association options
  • Added “OCR selected area to clipboard” option
  • Minor user interface improvements for the serial number dialog during registration
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer uninstaller when the Serial number is suspended

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.59 Revision 1007 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Updated BiImg1.dll to version 12.57.573
  • Stability improvement for opening 16 bit TIFF files
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.59 Revision 1006 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Added Preview option to right-click context menu
  • Added Preview and Print options to right-click context menu in the MSI Installer
  • Renamed File Extensions options to File Association
  • Stability improvement for the uninstallation

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.59 Revision 1003 (May 26, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for reading the OCR settings from the custom INI file

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.59 Revision 1000 (May 26, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for the “OCR selected area” feature
  • Stability improvement for detecting Tiff Viewer MSI installation in OCR language pack installer
  • The “Enable saving” administrator option also affects the TIFF Viewer Browser Plugin
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.59 Revision 998 (May 26, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for the “OCR selected area” feature
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.58 Revision 996 (May 26, 2017)

  • Upgraded the Tiff Viewer MSI installers from .NET Framework version 2.0 to 4.0
  • Upgraded the Send email and SharePoint support from .NET Framework version 2.0 to 4.0
  • Minor user interface improvement in the MSI installers
  • Changed shortcut installation in the MSI installation to Everyone as default
  • Removed the Repair option from the user interface of the MSI installers
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.57 Revision 989 (May 26, 2017)

  • Stability improvement for the auto rotation feature

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.56 Revision 988 (May 26, 2017)

  • Renamed Note annotation to Comment
  • Added extended logging information for CUSTOMINI parameter for MSI installers
  • Added FORCEI parameters for Tiff Viewer MSI installer to ignore the occurring errors of CUSTOMINI
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.55 Revision 978 (May 26, 2017)

  • Improved OCR accuracy for “OCR all pages” and “OCR selected area” features
  • Stability improvement for the MSI installation for the registration when using the CUSTOMINI parameter with incorrect INI file
  • Added support for 3 bit TIFF documents
  • Added support for Tiled TIFF documents

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.54 Revision 974 (May 26, 2017)

  • Updated Installers
  • Added option to change between Twain 1.9 or earlier and Twain 2.0 or later data source managers
  • Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.57.553
  • Improved OCR accuracy
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.53 Revision 961 (May 26, 2017)

  • Added Admin options to disable the Tools, Annotation and Document Cleanup tabs on the main window for all users
  • Added Admin option to disable all pages on the Options dialog for all users
  • Stability improvement for registration (entering the registration number instead of the serial number)
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.52 Revision 954 (May 26, 2017)

  • Updated BiAnno.dll and BiAnnoDlg.dll to version 12.57.551
  • Added editing window for Text Note Annotations to allow copy-paste and better text formatting
  • Updated eLicense.dll to version 5.07.180
  • Stability improvement for registration on certain systems

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 11.51 Revision(951) (Oct 26, 2016)

  • Stability improvement for opening the E-mail Settings window on multi-user systems
  • Default Batch Scan directory is now the Documents folder
  • The Batch Scan directory can be set in General Settings
  • Added option to remember the last used Batch Scan directory
  • Added administrator option to restrict the saving into a single directory
  • Updated BiPDF.dll to version 12.57.548
  • Stability improvement for opening Image PDF Files saved by some HP printers
  • Note type annotations are not deleted when the annotations are burnt into the page
  • The Save As dialog is show automatically when saving a read-only file
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 10.13 Revision(515) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Updated BILM to 3.0.0.55
  • Image DLL's version 12.14(revision 390)
  • BiThumbnail.dll version 12.14(revision 425)

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 10.12 Revision(510) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Improved install on Windows Server 2003
  • Improved user interace in Split file and Cut file dialog
  • Improved error handling in scanning
  • Added Assign to user and Publish Group Policy deployment in MSI
  • Stability improvement in Thumbnail file browser
  • Updated manuals
  • Updated MSI installation guide

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 10.11 Revision(499) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Improved release registration
  • Improved MSI installer
  • Improved number inputs in the user interface
  • Improved user interface in Split file and Cut file dialog
  • Stability improvement on application start
  • Updated manuals
  • Updated MSI installation guide

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 10.10 Revision(488) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Added Quick access toolbar customization
  • Improved TXT file handling
  • Added option to cancel annotation change between file or page change
  • Added cursor position displaying in status bar
  • Updated manuals
  • Improved Most recent files list
  • Display and set zoom value in percentage
  • Added warning message to the Split file operation if the selected new file already exists

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 10.02 Revision(478) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Stability improvement in Merge text with image
  • Fixed text position problem in Merge text with image
  • Improved Default select mode loading
  • Improvements in the user interface
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 10.01 Revision(472) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Stability improvement in Options dialog
  • Corrected view mode texts in Options dialog
  • Updated install
  • Improved paste from clipboard
  • Fixed title refreshing problem
  • Reseting zoom on selecting Actual or Normal view mode
  • Fixed DPI loading problem of JPEG compressed TIFF files

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 10.00 Revision(467) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Updated User Interface for standard Ribbon menu.
  • TiffViewer converted to single document application from MDI.
  • Saving window size and position on exit.
  • Handling 0 DPI images
  • Added option button to the toolbar in Browser plug-in.
  • Fixed title and status bar refreshing problems.
  • Fixed “Selection” toolbar problem.
  • Updated manuals.

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.17 Revision(438) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Improved page view handling
  • Fixed registration problem on Windows Server 2012 with installed Citrix
  • BILM version 2.9.0.53

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.16 Revision(434) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Updated manuals
  • Updated MSI Installation Guide

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.16 Revision(426) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Discontinue of the Free version of the TiffViewer Server.
  • Added Feature: Add a link to Online Tutorials in the Getting Started Section of Help
  • Added Feature: Add a Printer Preference Button When Printing
  • Added Feature: Added feature to Selecting Personalized Stamp In Annotation Drop Down
  • Improvement: Enable page operation when a page selected in the thumbnail view
  • Improvement: Stamp tool browse dialog has wrong title
  • Improvement: Tiff Viewer jumps to the first page when using Save as option
  • Improvement: installing Tiff Viewer Server through Remote Desktop generate error in Application Event Log
  • Improvement: Arrangement of Toolbar
  • Updated manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.15 Revision(414) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Stability improvement in Print dialog
  • Updated License Manager to version 2.8.0.52
  • Improved handling of domain user accounts

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.14 Revision(411) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Added auto view mode saving to Browser Plug-in
  • Improved image saving in Browser Plug-in
  • Stability improvement in Thumbnail File Browser
  • Options dialog can be opened without opening document
  • Updated manuals
  • BILM version 2.6.0.48

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.13 Revision(407) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Improved cursor handling in note and text annotations
  • Stability improvement on insert image

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.12 Revision(406) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Improved user interface
  • Updated manuals
  • Faster annotation handling in insert image, move image, and delete image
  • Improved annotation handling in split image and cut image
  • Stability improvement on application close
  • BILM version 2.6.0.48

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.11 Revision(401) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Stability improvement in personalized stamp selecting
  • Improved annotation handling in insert image, move image and delete image
  • Improvment in invert image saving
  • BILM version 2.5.0.45

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.10 Revision(399) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Faster File Opening on Servers. Reducing the time to open the first document by seconds.
  • Stability improvement in thumbnail navigation.
  • BILM version 2.3.0.38
  • Stability improvement in error handling from BLIM
  • Fixed Thumbnail viewer annotation display problems on multiple pages
  • Stability improvement in configuration handling for “Getting Started” window.
  • Added - reading TIFF Compression type 8 from Adobe TIFF Specification Supplement 2 (2002)
  • Fix problem in file saving
  • Stability improvement in rotating
  • Stability improvement in file saving
  • Stability improvement in TIFF file merging

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.3 Revision(381) (Nov 8, 2013)

  • Use latest version of biimg2.dll and biimg3.dll
  • Updated manuals
  • Fixed save as problems

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 9.02 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • Fixed saving images to pdf
  • Fixed upload sharepoint dialog if contains bad parameters
  • Fixed open form text to image
  • Fixed load text files
  • Fixed annotations change dialog if its no changes.
  • Fixed open form text to image.
  • Fixed jpeg saving options.
  • Fixed appending image to pdf.
  • Fixed MSI registration.
  • Fixed Tiff Viewer Netscape plugin

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 8.70 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Stability improvement for the installer
  • Updated product information in the installer

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 8.66 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Changed Thumbnail View in Free version
  • Stability improvement for Thumbnail View and Thumbnail Browser
  • Stability improvement for Tiff Viewer Server Licensing

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 8.65 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Added Options Dialog
  • MSI install modification. Additional ini file parameters and icons.
  • Improved Dialog-based messagebox
  • Improved simple messagebox
  • Updated Manuals

New in Black Ice Tiff Viewer 8.61 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • Improved Delete TIFF Image function
  • Improved Insert TIFF Image function
  • Improved Move TIFF Image function