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CrystalOCR Changelog

What's new in CrystalOCR 1.5 Build 276

Oct 4, 2011
  • A few minor improvements in Crystal OCR engine.
  • Updated sample projects: added new "Advanced" samples, added minimal ASP.NET and VB6 samples.
  • Updated default configuration file.

New in CrystalOCR 1.5 Build 275 (Sep 19, 2011)

  • Function "Ocr_OcrImg" was replaced by "Img_OCR" function, added new parameters and "OCRSTEP_XXXXX" constants.
  • Added ability to perform OCR step by step and get intermediate results.
  • Added ability to invert/rotate/mirror entire image or some block(s) before processing.
  • Added ability to get binarized image.
  • Added/improved "FindBorders" and "DetectArea" options and their suboptions.
  • Fixed a small memory leak that could occur in some cases.
  • Added "Blk_SetRect" function.
  • Added "Blk_IsWordInDictionary" function.
  • Added C++ Builder Sample application.
  • Updated sample projects.
  • Updated documentation.
  • A lot of minor fixes and improvements.

New in CrystalOCR 1.4 Build 261 (Aug 4, 2011)

  • Ability to OCR PDF files (GhostScript is used).
  • Added option to format output text: remove unnecessary line breaks, combine divided words, etc.
  • Added new function Engine_GetVersion.
  • Added BMP_1BIT constant for LoadBitmapFromMemory function for faster loading of b/w images.
  • Fixed issue with "LoaderLock" VS debugger warning in trial version.
  • Division of words at the end of a line is handled properly now.
  • Fixed issue with "Img_SetPage" function.
  • Added "Flags" parameter to "Img_GetImgText" and "Blk_GetText" functions.
  • Updated sample projects.
  • Updated documentation.
  • A lot of minor fixes and improvements.

New in CrystalOCR 1.3 Build 235 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Added new languages: German, French, Spanish, Russian.
  • Improved recognition quality.
  • Updated character templates database, now it consists from more than 500000 manually selected character images.
  • Enhanced character set.
  • Reduced memory usage.
  • Added new configuration options.
  • Added BT_CLEAR block type.
  • Added new function: Img_LoadBmpData.
  • Added new sample project: "C# Invoke Sample".
  • Updated sample projects.
  • Updated documentation.
  • A lot of minor fixes and improvements.

New in CrystalOCR 1.2 Build 217 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • A few major and a lot of minor improvements related to recognition accuracy were made.

New in CrystalOCR 1.2 Build 214 (Jun 16, 2011)

  • Improved recognition quality.
  • New database is used as character templates, it consists from more than 450000 manually selected character images.
  • Enhanced character set.
  • Improved recognition speed.
  • Added ICR module for handwritten digits recognition.
  • Configuration file is in unicode format now.
  • Added a lot of new configuration options.
  • Added ability to have own OCR settings for every text block.
  • Added new functions: Cfg_DeleteOption, Blk_SetType, Blk_GetType, Blk_GetCharQual, Blk_GetTextRect, Img_GetBmpData.
  • Additional options for garbage filtering.
  • Fixed problem in FreeImage TIFF format support.
  • New C# WPF sample project.
  • Updated sample projects.
  • Improved documentation.
  • A lot of minor fixes and improvements.

New in CrystalOCR 1.1 Build 182 (Mar 28, 2011)

  • New configuration API.
  • Added multi-page images support for TIFF and GIF formats.
  • Improvements in dictionary routines.
  • A lot of changes for better code portability.
  • Updated CrystalOCR SDK sample projects and documentation.
  • Updated QuickDemo application.