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GdPicture.NET SDK Changelog

What's new in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.71.0

Apr 26, 2024
  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine. (J#PDFA-47, J#PDFA-48)
  • Fixes issues with Type3 font handling in PDF redaction and text remover engines (J#GDPDF-1343)
  • Fixes PDF rendering issue for specific graphics state configurations (J#GDPDF-1344)
  • Fixes text extraction issue in GdViewer (J#GDPDF-1166)

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.69.0 (Apr 12, 2024)

  • Improves rendition of metafiles inside Office documents.
  • Improves rendition of diagrams inside Office documents.
  • Improves PDF grayscale conversion engine.
  • Fixes issues with InstantJSON forms import.
  • Fixes a parsing error for some doc(x) files.
  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Adds DWG file format support
  • Adds support for building PDF document outlines from DOC and DOCX document headings.
  • Improves PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.68.0 (Apr 1, 2024)

  • Adds new property EmailInjectHeader in GdPictureDocumentConverter.
  • Improves PDF/A validation processing.
  • Fixes issue where certified email messages in MSG format failed to load in certain scenarios.
  • Improves PDF text extraction engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.67.0 (Mar 22, 2024)

  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Fixes a memory leak when reading 1D barcodes.
  • Improves PDF rendering engine.
  • Adds new property SpreadsheetMaximumContentWidthPerSheet in GdPictureDocumentConverter.
  • Adds new property SpreadsheetMaximumContentHeightPerSheet in GdPictureDocumentConverter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.66.0 (Mar 17, 2024)

  • Improves rendition speed of Office documents.
  • Fixes TIFF rendering regression on 32bits execution mode.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.65.0 (Mar 8, 2024)

  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improves processing of malformed PDF documents.
  • Improves rendition of metafiles inside Office documents.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves DOC, DOCX, XLS and XLSX rendering.
  • Improves PDF fonts processing.
  • Improves OCR page rotation detection accuracy.
  • Fixes minor issues with PDF form fields handling.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.64.0 (Mar 1, 2024)

  • Improves DOC, DOCX, PPTX and XLSX rendering.
  • Adds GdPicture14.GdPictureDocumentUtilities.SetTiffOutputModel method.
  • Improves 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improves QR Code reading accuracy.
  • Improves font substitution mechanism.
  • Improves form fields font handling.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.63.0 (Feb 23, 2024)

  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Optimized file size of PDF documents, especially for conversion output.
  • Adds GdPicture14.GdPictureDocumentUtilities.SetEmailCertificateValidationCheck method.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.62.0 (Feb 16, 2024)

  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves handling of bookmarks in malformed PDF documents.
  • Improves Table to XLSX conversion.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.61.0 (Feb 9, 2024)

  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Added conditional statement support in OfficeTemplater.
  • Fixed textbox alignment issue in ‘Text Annotations Properties’ modal dialog box.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.60.0 (Feb 5, 2024)

  • Adds support for converting endnotes from Office documents.
  • Improves the conversion of footnotes from Office documents.
  • Improves DOC, DOCX, XLS and XLSX rendering.
  • Improves PDF to Office conversion.
  • Improves PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improves InstantJSON annotation import.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.59.0 (Jan 26, 2024)

  • Fixes minor issues in XFDF import.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improves PDF to Office conversion.
  • Adds new property SpreadsheetRenderOnlyPrintArea to the GdPictureDocumentConverter class.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Fixes issue with LoadFromHttp method in GdPictureDocumentConverter class.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.58.0 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Improves DOC, DOCX and PPTX rendering.
  • Improves PDF to Office conversion.
  • Improves PDF rendering engine.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Adds new property HTMLSnapshotLoadEvent in GdPictureDocumentConverter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.57.0 (Jan 15, 2024)

  • Improves PPTX and DOCX rendering.
  • Fixes regressions introduced on Open XML SDK update

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.56.0 (Jan 5, 2024)

  • Adds new method GetFormFieldCount in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldKeyRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldKeyText in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldValueRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldValueText in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldType in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableCount in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableCellRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableCellText in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableColumnCount in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableColumnRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableRowCount in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetTableRowRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method IsHeaderCell in GdPictureTextExtraction.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.55.0 (Dec 26, 2023)

  • Improves XLS rendering.
  • Improves rendition of charts from Office documents.
  • Improves MRC engine.
  • Improves Office to PDF conversion fidelity.
  • Improves PDF to Office conversion.
  • Improves PPT, PPTX, XLS and XLSX rendering.
  • Reduces average processing time of Office -> PDF by 40%.
  • Improves PDF generation speed.
  • Adds support for embedding ZUGFeRD/Factur-X cross-industry invoice data.
  • Adds new method EmbedInvoiceData in GdPicturePDF.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.54.0 (Dec 18, 2023)

  • Improves Office formats rendering.
  • Improves PDF text rendering.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion and validation.
  • Improves parsing PPT files.
  • Fixes NuGet runtimes libraries resolution on Visual Studio debugging on WSL.
  • Improves Conversion to DOCX.
  • Adds conversion of hyperlinks to DOCX and to PPTX.
  • Improves PDF/UA support in OCR output documents.
  • Improves PDF/A-2u and PDF/A-3u support in PDF generation.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.53.0 (Dec 8, 2023)

  • Adds support for retrieving KVP from digital born documents without using OCR.
  • Adds support for redaction on digital born documents without using OCR.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Adds support for IP address lookup into the Smart Redaction engine.
  • Adds new property EnableKeyValuePairsExtraction in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairCount in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairKeyString in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairValueString in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairKeyRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairValueRect in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairDataType in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairPublicName in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairConfidence in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairIsStrong in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Adds new method GetKeyValuePairCount in GdPictureTextExtraction.
  • Fixes minor issue in Office to PDF conversion.
  • Improves PDF rendering.
  • Fixes an issue on EML / MSG conversion with GdPicture assembly on NETCoreApp3.1 framework on non WPF project.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.52.0 (Dec 1, 2023)

  • Improves Office formats rendering.
  • Improves PDF text rendering.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion and validation.
  • Improves parsing PPT files.
  • Fixes NuGet runtimes libraries resolution on Visual Studio debugging on WSL.
  • Improves Conversion to DOCX.
  • Adds conversion of hyperlinks to DOCX and to PPTX.
  • Improves PDF/UA support in OCR output documents.
  • Improves PDF/A-2u and PDF/A-3u support in PDF generation.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.51.0 (Nov 24, 2023)

  • Introduces a new PDF to Office engine that enables converting PDF documents to DOCX, XLSX and PPTX.
  • Fixes PDF/A issues with OCR output documents.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.50.0 (Nov 21, 2023)

  • Fixes GdViewer object creation in .NET 8.
  • Fixes zoom issue in GdViewer.
  • Fixes text selection issue with Office documents.
  • Improves font substitution engine.
  • Improves DataMatrix barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improves parsing DOC and DOCX files.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves XLS and XLSX rendering.
  • Improves AutoCropPage functionality precision for some PDF documents.
  • Improves MICR reader accuracy with CMC7 font.
  • Improves PDF font handling and optimization.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.49.0 (Nov 2, 2023)

  • Introduced a new Office templating engine that allows replacing placeholders with actual data in DOCX files through the new GdPictureOfficeTemplater class.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.48.0 (Oct 26, 2023)

  • Improves PDF page normalization feature.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Adds support for form fields extraction in GdPictureOCR.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldCount in GdPictureOCR.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldKeyRect in GdPictureOCR.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldKeyText in GdPictureOCR.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldValueRect in GdPictureOCR.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldValueText in GdPictureOCR.
  • Adds new method GetFormFieldType in GdPictureOCR.
  • Improves parsing DOC and DOCX files.
  • Fixes HEIF issue on EXIF metadata parsing.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.47.0 (Oct 19, 2023)

  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine stability and precision.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves InstantJSON annotation import.
  • Fixes zooming issues in GdViewer and DocuVieware controls when documents have different page sizes.
  • Fixes rendering issue in GdViewer when digital signature validation is enabled.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.46.0 (Oct 12, 2023)

  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved DataMatrix barcode reading accuracy.
  • Fixed text extraction issue directly after OCR process.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.45.0 (Oct 6, 2023)

  • Improves font and text handling performance of the toolkit.
  • Improves PDF text rendering.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves XLS and XLSX rendering.
  • Improves AutoCropPage functionality precision for some PDF documents.
  • Improves grayscale conversion engine in rare complex graphic scenarios.
  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Improves text selection precision for OCR-generated documents.
  • Improves MRC engine.
  • Improves DXF image support.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Adds support for importing InstantJSON annotation data in GdPicturePDF class.
  • Adds new methods ImportInstantJSONDataFromFile and ImportInstantJSONDataFromStream to the GdPicturePDF class.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.44.0 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • Improves PDF text rendering.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Fixes minor issue in PDF optimization.
  • Fixes minor compatibility issue with certain viewers when handling optimized PDFs.
  • Improves PDF/A Conversion stability when handling malformed PDFs.
  • Fixes issue with MSG rendering engine on certain files with mixed encodings.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.43.0 (Sep 14, 2023)

  • Improves PPT and PPTX rendering.
  • Disables transparency applied to headers/footers during office files rendering.
  • Adds new property EnableOrientationDetection to the GdPictureTextExtraction class.
  • Improves GdPictureTextExtraction with office file formats.
  • Adds new property SpreadsheetPageWidthOverride in GdPictureDocumentConverter, SpreadsheetPageHeightOverride in GdPictureDocumentConverter, SpreadsheetLeftMarginOverride in GdPictureDocumentConverter, SpreadsheetTopMarginOverride in GdPictureDocumentConverter, SpreadsheetRightMarginOverride in GdPictureDocumentConverter., SpreadsheetBottomMarginOverride in GdPictureDocumentConverter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.42.0 (Sep 8, 2023)

  • Fixes minor issues with PDF digital signatures.
  • Improves XLS, XLSX, DOC and DOCX rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.41.0 (Sep 1, 2023)

  • Improves DOC, DOCX and XLSX rendering.
  • Improves Table to XLSX conversion.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Fixes GdPicture issue on MSG rendering engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.40.0 (Aug 26, 2023)

  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves PPT and PPTX rendering.
  • Adds enhanced text extraction capabilities through the new GdPictureTextExtraction class.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.39.0 (Aug 18, 2023)

  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Fixes issues related to text selection within OCR-generated documents on certain viewers.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.38.0 (Aug 4, 2023)

  • Fixes minor issues in PDF annotation rendering.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improves OCG visibility expressions handling
  • Improves PDF text rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.37.0 (Jul 28, 2023)

  • Fixes issues in XFDF form fields import.
  • Improves PPT and PPTX rendering.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Fixes issue on BMP on UNIX platform.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.36.0 (Jul 20, 2023)

  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improves PDF annotation flattening feature.
  • Improves pagination around graphic objects in Office documents.
  • Improves PPT rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.35.0 (Jul 13, 2023)

  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX to PDF conversion.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improves PDF/A conversion and validation engine.
  • Improves font substitution mechanism.
  • Improves parsing Office documents.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.34.0 (Jul 6, 2023)

  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves DOCX, PPTX, XLS, XLSX and XLSM rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.33.0 (Jun 29, 2023)

  • Improved DOCX, PPTX and XLSX rendering.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.32.0 (Jun 23, 2023)

  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Added support for postal addresses detection and smart redaction.
  • Added new property RedactPostalAddresses to the SmartRedactionOptions class.
  • Improved MSG rendering engine, especially in case of mixed encoding messages.
  • Improved XLS and XLSX rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.31.0 (Jun 16, 2023)

  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves PDF text rendering.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Fixes minor issue in PDF form fields processing.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.30.0 (Jun 9, 2023)

  • Improved extraction of links from xls(x) files.
  • Improved rendition of links from doc(x) files.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT and RTF rendering.
  • Added HEIF / HEIC decoding capability on all supported platforms (previously it was only on Windows)

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.29.0 (Jun 2, 2023)

  • Improved DOC, DOCX, PPT, ODT and RTF rendering.
  • Improved extraction of links from ppt(x) files.
  • Fixed a parsing error for some xls(x) files.
  • Improved PDF/A conversion and validation engine.
  • Improved Office formats table rendering.
  • Fixed minor issues in PDF annotation rendering.
  • Improved rendition of cell borders from XLS(x) documents.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.28.0 (May 23, 2023)

  • Added support for PPSX format (Microsoft PowerPoint Open XML Slide Show).
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improved PDF FreeText annotations rendering.
  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improved rendition of 1900 date fields on XLS and XLSX files.
  • Improved rendition of VML shapes on DOC and DOCX files.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.27.0 (May 12, 2023)

  • Improved PDF path rendering fidelity.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved rendering of function based Gouraud shadings in PDF documents.
  • Improved rendition of charts from Office files.
  • Improved Table to XLSX conversion.
  • Set min Framework target to 4.6.2 for GdPicture and DocuVieware assemblies.
  • Added new method GetAnnotationQuadPoints to the GdPicturePDF class.
  • Improved PDF/A validation engine.
  • Improved Downgrade GLIBC requirement for Linux system (from 2.29 to 2.28)

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.26.0 (May 4, 2023)

  • Fixed issue in GetPageTextWithCoords method output.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved handling of malformed PDF documents.
  • Improved DOC, DOCX and RTF rendering.
  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved Table to XLSX conversion.
  • Improved PDF text and image rendering.
  • Improved rendition of right-to-left and mixed content from Office files.
  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved rendition of Gouraud shadings from PDF documents.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.24.0 (Apr 20, 2023)

  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved Table to XLSX conversion.
  • Added new method GetTextFormattedByParagraphs to the GdPicturePDF class.
  • Improved PDF/A conversion and validation engines.
  • Fixed issue in MSG rendering engine.
  • Fixed minor PDF digital signature issue.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.23.0 (Apr 7, 2023)

  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improves PDF rendering.
  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improves Office formats equation rendering.
  • Improves Office formats table rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.22.0 (Apr 3, 2023)

  • Improved handling of shadings in PDF grayscale conversion engine.
  • Fixed issue on native lib for macOS x64 platform
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A conversion and validation engines.
  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering.
  • Improved Office formats tables rendering.
  • Improved PDF page normalization feature.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.21.0 (Mar 24, 2023)

  • Added the capability to convert tables, from image, PDF and more than 100 different formats, to XLSX.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering.
  • Improved RTL support for annotation.
  • Improved rendition of SVG documents.
  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved rendition of RTL text on PPT(X) files.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.20.0 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved Table Processing accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved PostScript interpreter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.19.0 (Mar 3, 2023)

  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF resource optimization.
  • Improved detection of document format type.
  • Added new property RenderSheetHeadersAndFooters in GdPictureDocumentConverter.
  • Added new member `SSN` to the DataType enumeration.
  • Added Support for Social Security Numbers detection.
  • Added new property RedactSocialSecurityNumbers in SmartRedactionOptions.
  • Improved PDF repair feature.
  • Improved Office formats equation rendering.
  • Fixed minor softmask handling issue in PDF grayscale conversion engine.
  • Fixed minor PDF linearizer issue with specific document configurations.
  • Improved PostScript interpreter.
  • Improved XLS and XLSX rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.18.0 (Feb 23, 2023)

  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved table processing engine accuracy.
  • Improved pagination of DOC, DOCX, and RTF files.
  • Improved Office formats table rendering.
  • Improved Office formats equation rendering.
  • Added Support for importing XFDF form fields and annotation data in GdPicturePDF class.
  • Added new methods ImportXFDFDataFromFile and ImportXFDFDataFromStream to the GdPicturePDF class.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.17.0 (Feb 15, 2023)

  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved COM edition compatibility with some environment of developments.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved DocuVieware assets management: it’s not required anymore to specify links to any DocuVieware js/css file.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.16.0 (Feb 9, 2023)

  • Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
  • Improved DOC, DOCX, RTF and ODT rendering.
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • DocuVieware fix: issue on loading PDF documents with unexpected tab order structure.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.14.0 (Jan 26, 2023)

  • Improved PDF/A validation engine.
  • Improved rendition of shapes for all Office formats.
  • Improved page numbering for Office formats.
  • Added font kerning on all Office formats.
  • Added macOS support.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.13.0 (Jan 26, 2023)

  • Improved rendition of SVG documents.
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering.
  • Improved Office formats and PDF font rendering.
  • Improved Office formats table rendering.
  • Added Math office rendering for DOCX.
  • Improved DOC, DOCX, RTF and ODT rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.12.0 (Jan 12, 2023)

  • Improved XLSX, XLSM, XLS rendering.
  • Added `GdPictureDocumentConverter.HTMLCustomJavascript` and `GdPictureDocumentConverter.EmailCustomJavascript` properties.
  • Added `ApplyViewRotation` to SaveAsTIFF method of DocuVieware & DocuViewareControl classes.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A validation and conversion engines.
  • Fixed BurnAnnotationsToPage issues with certain page box configurations.
  • Fixed minor PDF file embedding issues.
  • Fixed minor MSG loading issue.
  • Improved detection of thumbnails from JPEG images.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.11.0 (Dec 30, 2022)

  • Improved DocuVieware rendering performance on Safari iOS and MacOS.
  • Improved DocuVieware HTML markup.
  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.29.0 (Dec 29, 2022)

  • Improved DocuVieware rendering performance on Safari iOS and MacOS.
  • Improved DocuVieware HTML markup.
  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.9.0 (Dec 17, 2022)

  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Fixed PDF OCG print and export states handling.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering engine.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.8.0 (Dec 8, 2022)

  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Added new property `RedactVehiculeIdentificationNumbers` to the SmartRedactionOptions class.
  • Added new member `VIN` to the DataType enumeration.
  • Improved PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
  • Improved metafile rendering on `*.API` assemblies on Office formats

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.6.0 (Nov 24, 2022)

  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Table Processing accuracy.
  • Added new method `SetSignatureAlternateTitle` to the GdPicturePDF class.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.5.0 (Nov 17, 2022)

  • Improves office formats rendering engine.
  • Improves Smart redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Improves PDF rendering engine.
  • Improves PDF linearizer engine.
  • Improves PDF text extraction engine.
  • Fixes EML/MSG rendering issue on linux

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.4.0 (Nov 11, 2022)

  • Improves office formats rendering engine.
  • Improves Smart redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Improves OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improves MRC engine accuracy.
  • Fixes HTML to PDF on linux issue

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.3.0 (Nov 3, 2022)

  • Improves Table processing accuracy and speed.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves Smart redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improves PDF/A validation and conversion engines.
  • Improves PDF OCG flattening performance.
  • Fixes some instabilities loading .xls files

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.2.0 (Oct 27, 2022)

  • Improves OCR accuracy and speed.
  • Improves KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves borders detection engine accuracy.
  • Improves HTML rendering engine.
  • Fixes Office formats: issues preventing some `.doc`, `.ppt` and `.xls` files from being rendered.
  • Improved RTL support for annotation.
  • Adds SplitExcelSheetsIntoPages option in GdPictureDocumentConverter.
  • Fixes DocuVieware: issue on freehands annotation on iPad.
  • Improves PDF/A validation and conversion engines.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.1.0 (Oct 21, 2022)

  • Improves OCR accuracy.
  • Improves table processing engine.
  • Improves table rendering for .doc files.
  • Improves line spacing for .doc files.
  • Improves text frame for all office formats.
  • Improves PDF/A validation and conversion engines.
  • Improves PostScript interpreter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.2.0.0 (Oct 13, 2022)

  • Major New Features:
  • Adds Fuzzy search to GdPicturePDF. Use the new method SetSearchTextFuzzyMatch().
  • Adds Fuzzy search to DocuVieware. Use the new parameter fuzzySearch in the Search JavaScript function.
  • Adds Fuzzy search to GdViewer (WinForms & WPF). Use the new property EnableFuzzySearch.
  • Adds Smart redaction to GdPicturePDF. Use the new method SmartRedaction().
  • Adds Table processing to GdPictureOCR. Use the new methods GetTableCount(), GetTableRect(), GetTableColumnCount(), GetTableColumnRect(), GetTableRowCount(), GetTableRowRect(), GetTableCellRect(), GetTableCellText() and IsHeaderCell().
  • Improvements and Fixes:
  • Adds New NET 6 assemblies with Linux compatibility (x64 & ARM64). Use the new assemblies GdPicture.NET.14.API assembly and GdPicture.NET.14.WEB.DocuVieware.API.
  • Adds Support for PostScript format (reading & viewing) in GdPicture & DocuVieware.
  • Fixes Office formats: issues preventing some .doc, .ppt and .xls files from being rendered.
  • Fixes Office formats: text and shape positioning issues.
  • Adds Load from URI capability to GdPicturePDF. Use the new method LoadFromHttp.
  • Improves OCR and KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improves HTML -> PDF conversion engine.
  • Improves table rendering for all office formats.
  • Improves diagrams rendering for all office formats.
  • Adds new method GetPageRotation to the DocuViewareControl class.
  • Adds new method overload TiffExtractPage to the GdPictureImaging class to specify compression scheme.
  • Improves DocuVieware behaviour for expired session context.
  • Fixes ThumbnailEx issue at DesignTime when using NuGet package

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.189 (Sep 26, 2022)

  • Improved PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improved PDF unembed font feature.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.188 (Sep 15, 2022)

  • Improved speed of the 1D barcode recognition engine.
  • Improved speed of the PDF417 recognition engine.
  • Improved DXF renderer.
  • Improved Key-Value Pairs processing engine.
  • Fixed a memory leak in ThumbnailEx (WPF edition).

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.187 (Sep 7, 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved DocuVieware UX.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF resource optimization.
  • Improved 2D barcode decoding speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.186 (Aug 24, 2022)

  • Added .dotx format support.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved HTML -> PDF engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improved PDF resource optimization.
  • Improved PDF/A validator engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: New overloads for NewActionGoTo and NewActionGoToR to allow retain current coordinates on destination page.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.184 (Aug 4, 2022)

  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property JBIG2PMSThreshold.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Key-Value pair engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering.
  • GdPicturePDF: New method PageIsBlank().
  • GdPicturePDF: New overload AutoCropPage() allowing to ignore white rectangle graphic objects.
  • GdPictureImaging: Fix issue on font size computation with text drawing methods.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: Fixed an issue that could cause a TimeOutOperation status.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.183 (Jul 29, 2022)

  • Improved Office Format Rendering.
  • Fixed minor PDF page scaling issues.
  • Improved PDF repair feature.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine performance.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Key-Value pair engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.182 (Jul 22, 2022)

  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF optimization speed.
  • Improved JBIG2 compression rate and speed.
  • Improved text extraction engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.181 (Jul 15, 2022)

  • Improved PDF/A validator engine.
  • Improved JBIG2 compression rate and encoding speed.
  • Improved Arabic OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved Key-Value pair engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.180 (Jul 7, 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved QR Code reader accuracy.
  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
  • Improved Key-Value pair detection engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.179 (Jun 28, 2022)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Key-Value pair detection engine.
  • Improved document rendering speed.
  • Global speed improvement of image processing & document-cleanup features.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.178 (Jun 24, 2022)

  • Improved PDF/A converter and validator engines.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Key-Value pair finder engine.
  • Improved WEB TWAIN controller.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.177 (Jun 17, 2022)

  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method ToGdPictureStatus().
  • Key-Value pair detection engine improvements.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • New enumeration PdfGridSplitOrdering.
  • GdPicturePDF: new methods GridSplit().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.176 (Jun 9, 2022)

  • OCR engine improvements.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property PdfEnableLinearization.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.175 (Jun 2, 2022)

  • Improved PDF/A Validator engine.
  • Improved PDF OCG flattening feature.
  • Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
  • Ocr accuracy improvements.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF digital signature support.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method IsSignatureFieldSigned().

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.174 (May 27, 2022)

  • Improved PDF text removal engine.
  • Improved PDF/A Validator engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • OCR engine improvements.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.173 (May 23, 2022)

  • Fixed a regression in the PDF generator engine.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the barcode reader engine.
  • Improved annotations support into the WPF edition of the GdViewer control.
  • Improved PDF incremental saving into the AnnotationManager class.
  • Battery of other minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.172 (May 21, 2022)

  • Fixed a critical regression in the OCR engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.171 (May 20, 2022)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • First implementation of a key-value pair data extractor in the OCR engine.
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairCount().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairKeyString().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairKeyRect().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairValueRect().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairValueString().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairDataType().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairConfidence().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetKeyValuePairIsStrong().
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF parsing and processing.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.170 (May 12, 2022)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A Validator engine
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved DocuVieware UI.
  • Improved PDF page scaling annotation handling.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.169 (May 6, 2022)

  • OCR accuracy improvements.
  • Improved DocuVieware user interface.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.168 (May 6, 2022)

  • DocuVieware: added user interface themes support. new property UserInterfaceTheme added into the public API.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF reducer engine.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validator engines.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.167 (Apr 29, 2022)

  • Added blank page dropout support in the PDF reducer engine when input document is in raster format.
  • Fixed a dependency issue with System.Drawing.Common in the Core edition.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.165 (Apr 23, 2022)

  • Vulnerability fix in DocuVieware.
  • Vulnerability fix in the MICR engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.164 (Apr 22, 2022)

  • Improved text extraction engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method HasJavaScript().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveAnnotationAction().
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF reducer engine.
  • Improved PDF OCG flattening feature.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF annotation flattening feature.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.163 (Apr 8, 2022)

  • Fixed a critical regression into the PDF parser.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.161 (Apr 1, 2022)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Fixed a critical issue with XLSX loading in .NET Core edition.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.160 (Apr 1, 2022)

  • Improved PDF digital signature support.
  • Improved QR Code reader accuracy.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF page normalization feature.
  • Improved PDF OCG flattening feature.
  • Improved PDF parsing performance.
  • Improved PDF redaction engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering: Text wrapping and table rendering.
  • Added support for docm, xlsm and pptm formats. Handled as if the macros are not enabled.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.158 (Mar 20, 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Critical bug fix preventing office formats parsing in .NET core edition.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.157 (Mar 17, 2022)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • PdfOcrOptions class: new property RemoveExistingText.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.156 (Mar 10, 2022)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF page normalization feature.
  • Improved PDF unembed font feature.
  • Improved Office formats rendering.
  • Improved EMG & MSG rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF resource optimization.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.155 (Mar 4, 2022)

  • Fixed a critical regression in the PDF engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.154 (Mar 3, 2022)

  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property TiffEnableExifRotate, HtmlPreferOnePage & HtmlEmulationType.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved HTML, MSG & EML rendering engines.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF redaction engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.153 (Feb 24, 2022)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering of text markup annotations.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine with malformed documents.
  • DocuVieware: new .NET properties: SearchResultsBorderColor, SearchResultsBackColor.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetJBIG2PMSThreshold().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.152 (Feb 17, 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Added new OCR special context engine to read numeric symbols and capital letters. See OCRSpecialContext.AlphaNumAllCapsML enumeration member.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.151 (Feb 10, 2022)

  • GdViewer (WinForm) new method ClearCache().
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved EML/MSG conversion engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
  • Improved PDF text removal engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.150 (Feb 1, 2022)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.149 (Jan 29, 2022)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.148 (Jan 20, 2022)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validator engines.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.147 (Jan 14, 2022)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved text extraction engine.
  • Improved MaxiCode reader accuracy.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved internal PDF repair engine.
  • Improved PDF forms flattening functionality.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.146 (Jan 10, 2022)

  • GdViewer (WinForm): fixed a critical bug fix introduced in previous version.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.145 (Jan 10, 2022)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved Maxicode reader accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.144 (Jan 6, 2022)

  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved Office rendering engine
  • Improved text extraction engine.
  • Improved PDF 2.0 / PDF/A-4 support.
  • GdPicture & DocuVieware are now available as NuGet packages.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Happy new year!

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.143 (Dec 23, 2021)

  • Added support for PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e PDF/A-4f, generation, conversion & validation.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Improved built-in PDF font pack engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.142 (Dec 17, 2021)

  • Introduced support for Maxicode reading & writing.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeGetSize().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeWrite().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderClear().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderDoScan().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeCount().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeValue().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeValueRAWBase64().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeConfidence().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeX1().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeX2().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeX3().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeX4().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeY1().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeY2().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeY3().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMaxicodeReaderGetBarcodeY4().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.141 (Dec 8, 2021)

  • OCR: improved accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF reducer engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved grayscale conversion engine.
  • DocuVieware: improved formfields support.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.140 (Nov 25, 2021)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF digital signature support.
  • Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function: RegisterOnPageDeleted().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function: RegisterOnUnknownLinkNavigation().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.139 (Nov 18, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Improved COM edition stream reading performance.
  • DocuVieware: new property PrintDefaultPageRange.
  • DocuVieware: new property SaveDefaultPageRange.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript API: RegisterOnAttachmentClick.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.138 (Nov 8, 2021)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved text extraction & paragraphs detection engines.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved grayscale conversion engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.137 (Oct 28, 2021)

  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: improved functionality of DropPDFASupport() method.
  • DocuVieware: improved form fields support.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.136 (Oct 22, 2021)

  • Improved MRZ reader engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy & speed.
  • Improved page orientation detection accuracy.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved RegEx text search.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved grayscale conversion engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: New overload ConvertToGrayscale() to enable/disable unused resources removal.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved AutoCropPage functionality.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.135 (Oct 7, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF parser engine.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FontIsSymbolic().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FontCanRenderText().
  • OCRSpecialContext enumeration: new member NumericLineML.
  • OCRSpecialContext enumeration: new member HandwrittenNumericBoxML.
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetCharacterAlternativeCount().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetCharacterAlternativeValue().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetCharacterAlternativeConfidence().
  • DocuVieware: new function RegisterOnUriNavigation().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.133 (Sep 23, 2021)

  • OCR engine accuracy & speed improvements.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved internal PDF repair engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.132 (Sep 17, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • ThumbnailEx control: new property SelectedThumbnailBackColorAlpha.
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: improved PDF repair functionality.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.131 (Sep 9, 2021)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRZ reader engine accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.129 (Aug 27, 2021)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • GdPictureSegmenter: added word segmentation support.
  • GdPictureSegmenter: new property InputValue.
  • SegmentationMode enumeration: new members WordLayout & WordLayoutLK.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • BookmarkTree (WinForm & WPF): new property RightToLeftLayout.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.128 (Aug 19, 2021)

  • Improved MRC compression engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved PDF parsing.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.127 (Aug 13, 2021)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy & speed.
  • Improved lossy JBIG2 encoder (better pattern matching on text content).
  • PDF Reducer engine can now produce PDF/A output.
  • Added support for file attachments in Office formats.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF Reducer compression rate.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DropPDFASupport().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageImageMaskResName().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.126 (Aug 5, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • BookmarkTree: new property AutoGenerate.
  • DocuVieware: improved user interface.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.125 (Jul 29, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved DocuVieware user interface.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • DocuVieware: new property SnapInSplitterBarColor.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript API SetCustomHeaders().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetMRCImageMaskResolution().
  • Improved MRC engine compression rate.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.123 (Jul 16, 2021)

  • Added support to convert any document to SVG.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SearchAndHighlight().
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new method SaveAsSVG().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.122 (Jul 8, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved DocuVieware UX.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new overloaded method CombineToPDF() taking an array of stream.
  • DocuVieware: new Event BeforeRequest.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.121 (Jul 2, 2021)

  • DocuVieware: new property EnableThumbnailRotateButtons.
  • DocuVieware: new property EnableThumbnailDeleteButton.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved AutoCropPage functionality.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved embedded files handling.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved RegEx text search.
  • DocuVieware: DocuViewareManager new method SetEncryptionMode().
  • DocuVieware: DocuViewareManager new method AbandonSessions().
  • DocuVieware: new enumeration DocuViewareFilesEncryptionMode.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.120 (Jun 25, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office documents rendering engine.
  • Improved QrCode reader accuracy.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.119 (Jun 16, 2021)

  • GdPictureOCR: new property MaxThreadCount.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF & image rendering speed.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overload Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeValue() to specify if Febraban digital line should be computed.
  • GdPictureStatus enumeration: added new member BarcodePDF417InvalidDataCount.
  • DocuVieware: improved page generation speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.118 (Jun 10, 2021)

  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF digital signature support.
  • Improved PDF/OCR engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • DocuVieware: some UI improvements.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.117 (Jun 3, 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF digital signature support.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.116 (May 27, 2021)

  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved speed & robustness of the PDF417 recognition engine.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader engine accuracy.
  • Added EML & MSG formats support.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property EmailPageWidth.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property EmailPageHeight.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property EmailPageMarginLeft.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property EmailPageMarginTop.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property EmailPageMarginRight.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property EmailPageMarginBottom.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.115 (May 20, 2021)

  • Added support for HEIF format.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved TWAIN scanning support.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.114 (May 13, 2021)

  • Added support for HEIF format.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.113 (Apr 29, 2021)

  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR engine speed.
  • Improved GdViewer Winform rendering engine.
  • General speed improvements.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.112 (Apr 22, 2021)

  • Improved GdViewer Winform rendering engine.
  • Improved RTL support for annotation editing.
  • Improved MICR accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.111 (Apr 15, 2021)

  • Improved support for unstable TWAIN drivers.
  • DocuVieware: added support for 64-bit TWAIN devices acquisition.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved global toolkit speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.110 (Apr 8, 2021)

  • Improved MICR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved support for JPEG compression in tiff images.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AutoCropPage().
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF generation speed.
  • Improved PNG images generation speed.
  • DocuVieware: improved page transfer speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.109 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • TextExtractionOptions enumeration: added new member IgnoreRotatedText.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function SetMaxUploadThreads().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function DeletePages().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RotatePages().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function SwapPages().
  • DocuVieware: new .NET method DeletePages().
  • DocuVieware: new .NET method RotatePages().
  • DocuVieware: new .NET method SwapPages().
  • DocuVieware: extended page reordering support to all document types.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.108 (Mar 23, 2021)

  • New enumeration MRZFormat.
  • New enumeration OCRBlockSpecialFormat.
  • TextExtractionOptions enumeration: added new member DisableTextOrientationDetection.
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetBlockSpecialFormat().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetBlockSpecialFormatData().
  • Improved Office rendering engine.
  • Improved MICR engine accuracy.
  • Improved HTML engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new methods OverlayPage().
  • DocuVieware: improved printing speed.
  • DocuVieware: improved HTTP loading speed. Up to 4x faster.
  • DocuVieware: improved page rotation mechanism.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.107 (Mar 11, 2021)

  • Added HTML format support for viewing and conversion.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved HTTP transfer support and added support for HTTP/2 protocol.
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method IsWebBrowserAvailable().
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method GetWebBrowserPath().
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method SetWebBrowserPath().
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method SetWebBrowserPoolSize().
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method ClearWebBrowserCache().
  • GdPictureStatus enumeration: new member WebBrowserStartingError.
  • DocumentType enumeration: new member DocumentTypeHTML.
  • DocumentFormat enumeration: new member DocumentFormatHTML.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property HtmlPageWidth.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property HtmlPageHeight.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property HtmlPageMarginLeft.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property HtmlPageMarginTop.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property HtmlPageMarginRight.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property HtmlPageMarginBottom.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property HtmlPreferCSSPageSize.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new method LoadFromHttp().
  • DocuVieware: new property EnableLinkRect.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.106 (Mar 4, 2021)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved MICR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRZ reader accuracy.
  • Improved quality image annotations embedded into PDF.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.105 (Feb 26, 2021)

  • Improved MICR engine accuracy and speed, and we will do even better in next release.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved (a lot) PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • OCRSpecialContext enumeration: added MICRLineE13B and MICRLineCMC7 members.
  • GdPictureOCR: new property ExpectedSymbolCount.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetForceRasterizerInterpolation().
  • Improved blank page detection algorithm.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function: DirectSave().
  • GdPictureImaging: new overload of Barcode1DReaderDoScan() to allow to set a timeout.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.104 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • Improved MICR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloads of SearchText() to enable text search of any word in the search expression.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.103 (Feb 11, 2021)

  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Improved MICR engine accuracy & speed.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.102 (Feb 5, 2021)

  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property TimeoutMilliseconds.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method ConvertTo1BppWAN().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ConvertToGrayscale().
  • DocuVieware: new property LoadingTimeout.
  • DocuVieware: new contextual menu item to remove selected text.
  • DocuVieware: new property EnableRemoveTextItem.
  • Improved MRZ reader accuracy and speed.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved OCR engine.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.101 (Jan 28, 2021)

  • Improved PDF redaction engine.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generation with Chinese language.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function: RegisterOnTextUnselected().
  • DocuVieware: new property: EnableTextCopyMenuItem.
  • DocuVieware: added Chinese traditional locale.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.100 (Jan 21, 2021)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy for Chinese language.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF engine.
  • Improved DocuVieware UI responsiveness.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.99 (Jan 14, 2021)

  • Improved digital signature support.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
  • PDFReducerConfiguration class: new property EnableParallelization.
  • Improved PDF417 barcode decoder accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.98 (Jan 6, 2021)

  • Improved toolkit speed.
  • Improved automatic page orientation engine speed and accuracy.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.97 (Dec 31, 2020)

  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF) new method TerminateLastAnnotInteractiveAdd().
  • Improved PDF merging engine.
  • Improved RTL support with GdPicture/XMP annotations.
  • Improved page orientation detection engine.
  • Improved MRC engine speed.
  • DocuVieware: improved UI and document loading speed.
  • DocuVieware: added support for file attachment annotations.
  • DocuViware: new property EnableFileAttachments.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.96 (Dec 24, 2020)

  • Improved internal rendering engine speed.
  • Improved digital signature support.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines (speed & accuracy).
  • Improved PDF parser, especially to handle malformed documents.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved color detection engine accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Merry Christmas / Feliz Navidad.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.95 (Dec 17, 2020)

  • Fixed a critical issue on .NET 5.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): new property PreserveViewRotation.
  • DocuVieware: improved TWAIN controller.
  • DocuVieware: improved interactive form-fields support.
  • DocuVieware: dramatical speed improvement when session state mode is DocuViewareSessionStateMode.File.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.94 (Dec 10, 2020)

  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Improved PDF parser with malformed documents.
  • Improved rendering engine.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader engine accuracy.
  • DocuVieware: improved the TWAIN Web scanning support.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.93 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • AnnotationRuller: new TicksPerUnit property.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • DocuVieware: added support for multiple annotations selection.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function EnableAnnotMultiSelect().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function UnselectAnnot().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.92 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode reader engines accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.91 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageImageICCProfile().
  • Added support for CR3 raw image format and more than 50 others camera support.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): added support for multiple annotations selection by code.
  • GdPictureSegmenter: improved layout analyzer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved OCR engine.
  • Improved PDF redaction engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.90 (Nov 13, 2020)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine (speed and rendering fidelity).
  • Improved PDF rendering engine (speed and rendering fidelity).
  • Improved PDF reducer engine.
  • Improved PDF redaction engine.
  • GdViewer (WPF & WinForm): added multiple selection support to annotations.
  • GdViewer (WPF & WinForm): new property AnnotationEnableMultiSelect.
  • GdViewer (WPF & WinForm): improved annotations rendering quality and speed.
  • DocuVieware: new property TwainAcquisitionFormat.
  • DocuVieware: improved contextual menu appearance and interactivity.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetSelectedTextAreas().
  • GdPicturePDF: improved PDF repair functionality.
  • GdPicturePDF: new methods IsValidPDFA().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method CheckPDFAConformance().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.88 (Oct 20, 2020)

  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved DOCX format conversion to PDF.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • DocuVieware: improved user interface & user experience.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property: PdfUseDeflateOnJPEG.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.87 (Oct 9, 2020)

  • Added support for doc, xls and ppt formats.
  • DocuVieware: the SaveAsPDF method is now taking an optional parameter allowing to apply page view rotation(s) to the produced document.
  • Improved text extraction and text search speed.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved built-in PDF font pack engine.
  • DocuVieware: new property AnnotationOrientationMode.
  • New enumeration OrientationMode.
  • GdViewer (COM/ActiveX edition): new property hWnd.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.86 (Oct 1, 2020)

  • DocuVieware: improved document rendering speed.
  • DocuVieware: new event OpenFileError offering a fallback strategy to handle unsupported document formats.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved SVG renderer.
  • Improved DXF renderer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.85 (Sep 23, 2020)

  • GdViewer: new property: ClipRegionsToPageBounds.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeConfidence().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeDataMatrixReaderGetBarcodeConfidence().
  • GdPicturePDF: improved formfields handling during page cloning.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SearchAndAddRedactionRegions().
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
  • Improved OCR engine speed and accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine speed and accuracy.
  • Improved memory usage.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.84 (Sep 17, 2020)

  • Improved MICR engine reading accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.82 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF text exaction engine.
  • DocuVieware: saving dialog now offers a way to save documents with/without annotations.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.80 (Aug 24, 2020)

  • Improved MRZ engine accuracy.
  • Improved 2D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF generator engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.79 (Aug 13, 2020)

  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved RAW image format support.
  • Released first version of the MRZ recognition engine (special context of the GdPictureOCR API).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.78 (Aug 13, 2020)

  • Improved OCR page rotation detection speed & accuracy.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.77 (Aug 3, 2020)

  • GdPictureImaging: new method TwainSetKeepSourceEnabled().
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR page rotation detection.
  • Added special context for OCR of MRZ (Beta).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.76 (Jul 27, 2020)

  • Introduced support for text search using regular expressions.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): new method SearchTextRegex().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SearchTextRegex().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveXFAFormFieldsData().
  • GdPictureOCR: new overloaded method GetOCRResultText().
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.75 (Jul 13, 2020)

  • Improved automatic page orientation detection engine.
  • Improved OCR segmentation engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.74 (Jul 9, 2020)

  • GdPictureImaging: new overload: TagGetValueString() to favor ASCII representation of undefined tag types.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved image loading speed.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method UnembedFont().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.73 (Jul 2, 2020)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy speed.
  • Improved 1D barcode recognition engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • DocuVieware: added multi-line text search support.
  • DocuVieware: improved accessibility support based on WAI-ARIA specifications.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method IsTagged().
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.72 (Jun 25, 2020)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript API: RegisterOnDocumentSigned().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript API SelectAnnot().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemovePageBox().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.71 (Jun 18, 2020)

  • AnnotationPolyRuler & AnnotationRuler annotations: new property Value.
  • AnnotationManager: new method RenderAnnotation().
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode recognition engines.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF format rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF parser to handle / recover more malformed documents.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetPageAnnotCount().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetPageAnnotId().
  • DocuVieware: added support for impersonation level management.
  • DocuVieware: improved UI about annotation manipulations.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.70 (Jun 11, 2020)

  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • DocuVieware: improved UI.
  • Added Content and Password properties in GdViewer.WPF in order to set the content from the ViewModel in a MVVM fashion.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.69 (Jun 4, 2020)

  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SearchText() to enable text search of strings across multiple lines.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.68 (May 26, 2020)

  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method IsImageFormat(). Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF redaction engine.
  • Improved accuracy of 1D barcode recognition engine.
  • Improved accuracy of DataMatrix barcode recognition engine.
  • Improved accuracy of OCR engine.
  • Added new OCR engine producing fast & accurate recognition on single line of numeric characters.
  • OCRSpecialContext: new enumeration member: SingleLineNumerics.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new properties: Author, Title, Subject, Producer, Metadata, Keywords.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.66 (May 14, 2020)

  • Global performance improvements (memory & CPU usage).
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • ThumbnailEx: new method UnselectAllItems().
  • ThumbnailEx: new method LoadAllItems().
  • ThumbnailEx: new porperty DefaultItemCheckState.
  • ThumbnailEx: DefaultItemTextPrefixe property renamed to DefaultItemTextPrefix.
  • PDFReducerImageQuality: new enumeration member ImageQualityVeryVeryHigh.
  • DocuVieware: new method AddCustomToolbarButton().
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.65 (May 1, 2020)

  • Improved text extraction engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.64 (Apr 23, 2020)

  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function SetAnnotationsInteractionState().
  • DocuVieware: improved TWAIN scanning speed.
  • Improved text extraction engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.63 (Apr 16, 2020)

  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function UnselectAllAnnotations().
  • DocuVieware: several UI improvements.
  • DocuVieware: fixed SVG file loading issue.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved margins detection filter.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer.
  • AnnotationEmbeddedImage: new property KeepAspectRatio.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.62 (Apr 9, 2020)

  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • DocuVieware: improved touch support.
  • DocuVieware: added overload of LoadFromUri() taking ICredential parameters.
  • DocuVieware: added new JavaScript API: RegisterOnViewerScroll()
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.61 (Apr 2, 2020)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved OCR engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • DocuVieware: improved UI responsivness.
  • DocuVieware: added zooming support using crtl+whell.
  • DocuVieware: added pinch zoom support.
  • DocuVieware: added support for adding image annotation from the AddAnnot() JavaScript API. See reference guide for an example of usage.
  • GdViewer (WinForms & WPF): new method ApplyAllRedactions().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.58 (Mar 19, 2020)

  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved OCR engine.
  • Improved automatic page orientation detection engine.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • TextExtractionOptions enumeration: added new member PreserveLayout.
  • GdPicturePDF: new event BeforePrintPage.
  • GdPicturePDF: new event AfterPrintPage.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved timestamp server compatibility for digital signatures.
  • DocuVieware: improved UI responsiveness.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.57 (Mar 12, 2020)

  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved links support for built-in PDF merger engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: New method RemoveTextArea().
  • GdPicturePDF: New overload GetPageTextWithCoords() to specify which information should be included in the output.
  • GdPicturePDF: GetPageTextWithCoordsEx method marked as deprecated.
  • New enumeration TextExtractionOutputInfo.
  • DocuVieware: Various UI Improvements.
  • DocuVieware: Improved support with stylus devices.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.56 (Mar 5, 2020)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF/OCR accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.55 (Feb 27, 2020)

  • GdPicturePDF: New method RemoveAllText().
  • GdPicturePDF: New method SetTextDecorationStyle().
  • GdPicturePDF: New method SetTextUnderlineStyle().
  • GdPicturePDF: New method SetTextUnderlineWidth().
  • GdPicturePDF: New method SetTextUnderlineColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: New method SetTextUnderlineDistance().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetSignatureText() to specify text decoration style of the text.
  • GdPicturePDF: DrawTextUnderline methods marked as deprecated.
  • New enumeration PdfTextDecorationStyle.
  • New enumeration PdfTextUnderlineStyle.
  • Automatic conversion of Interleaved2Of5 barcode value to Febraban digital line.
  • Improved PPTX and DOCX rasterizer engines.
  • Added special context support into the OCR engine.
  • GdPictureOCR: new overloaded method RunOCR() to specify a special context.
  • New OCRSpecialContext enumeration.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.54 (Feb 20, 2020)

  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improved PPTX rasterizer engine.
  • Improced OCR engine accuracy.
  • PDFReducerConfiguration: New configuration option member RemovePagePieceInfo.
  • GdPicturePDF: New method DeletePagePieceInfo().
  • GdPicturePDF: New method HasInvisibleText().
  • ThumbnailEx: New method SetItemToolTipText().
  • Improved JPEG2000 image decoder.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetAnnotBBoxOnViewer()
  • DocuVieware: new digital signature snap-in.
  • DocuVieware: new property ShowDigitalSignatureSnapIn.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.53 (Feb 13, 2020)

  • Implemented support for PPTX (Preview).
  • Improved XLSX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved OCR automatic orientation detection.
  • Improved TWAIN support with memory transfer mode.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload AddRedactionRegion() to specify transparency value of the region color.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved Redaction Engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved form fields Unicode support.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved font substitution for CJK text rendering.
  • DocuVieware: Improved annotation rendering support.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function: RegisterOnAnnotationMoved().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.51 (Jan 22, 2020)

  • DocuVieware class: new method GetDocuViewareControl().
  • DocuVieware & DocuViewareControl classes: new method RegisterCertificate().
  • DocuVieware & DocuViewareControl classes: new method ResetCertificates().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function SetAnnotationsVisibility().
  • GdPicturePDF: Fixed minor issues in parsing engine.
  • Improved PDF & Office format rasterizers.
  • GdViewer: dramatically improved text selection and extraction for right-to-left text based documents.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.50 (Jan 15, 2020)

  • GdPicturePDF & DocuVieware: Improved redaction precision for text objects.
  • DocuVieware: New JavaScript function: ResetSelectedTextContextMenu.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved .NET Core editions interfaces.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.49 (Jan 5, 2020)

  • Improved PDF/OCR generation.
  • Improved office format rendering engines.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.47 (Dec 13, 2019)

  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved redaction precision on text objects.
  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
  • DocuVieware: New JavaScript function SelectRedactionSnapIn().
  • DocuVieware: New JavaScript function RegisterOnRedactionMarksApplied().
  • DocuVieware: New JavaScript function HasPendingRedactionMark().
  • DocuVieware: New javaScript function ExitAnnotationDrawingMode().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.46 (Dec 6, 2019)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Dramatically improved RTL text support in office format rasterizers.
  • General improvements on office format rasterizers.
  • DocuVieware: Added redaction support. (New redaction snap-in + set of features / API).
  • DocuVieware: new .NET property ShowRedactionSnapIn.
  • DocuVieware: new .NET method ApplyAllRedactions().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RedactSelectedText().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function ApplyAllRedactions().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function AddRedactionMarkAnnotInteractive().
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved redaction precission.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.45 (Nov 27, 2019)

  • Dramatically improved OCR accuracy.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload AddRedactionRegion() to specify color for each added region.
  • GdPicturePDF: Fixed minor issues in Annotation Flattening for FreeText Annotations.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved Redaction Engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.44 (Nov 21, 2019)

  • This is mostly an emergency update causing regressions:
  • Bad assembly version.
  • Adding item to ThumbnailEx control was not working anymore.
  • OCR with automatic page orientation was raising exception in particular situations.
  • Enhancements:
  • Improved PDF rendering.
  • DocuVieware: Improved displaying of document having different page sizes .

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.43 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • Improved MRC accuracy.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved QrCode reader accuracy.
  • Improved memory management.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new overload GetDocumentPreview to specify if thumbnail must be generated without any margin.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveHiddenText().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ClearCachedResources().
  • GdViewer (WinForms & WPF): new method AddRedactionAnnotInteractive().
  • DocuVieware: reduced memory usage.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.42 (Nov 19, 2019)

  • Added new annotation type: AnnotationRedaction
  • AnnotationManager: new method AddRedactionAnnot().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method Repair().
  • DocuVieware: improved TWAIN scanning support.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.41 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetPageRotation()
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetPageSkewAngle()
  • GdPictureOCR: new mehod GetBlockOrientation()
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • DocuVieware: improved page transfer speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.40 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • Added PDF redaction support.
  • Dramatically improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy & speed.
  • Improved OMR engine accuracy.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • GdPictureOCR: new property EnablePreprocessing.
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetWordConfidence().
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetSerializedResult().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetOcrPageOrientationDetection().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddRedactionRegion().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ApplyRedaction().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ClearRedactionRegions().
  • New enumeration OCRBlockOrientation.
  • DocuVieware: new property ImageQuality.
  • Improved rendering speed.
  • Improved font substitution mechanism for all formats.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.39 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved OMR engine speed and accuracy.
  • Dramatically improved PDF/OCR generation.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved patch code reader accuracy.
  • Added support for external OCR engine usage during PDF/OCR generation.
  • DocuVieware: new property DisableAnnotationPrinting.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method MergePages().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetOverrideOcrEngine().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetOverrideOcrEngine().
  • GdPicturePDF: new event ExternalOcrPageRequest.
  • New class added: PdfOcrOptions.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.38 (Sep 30, 2019)

  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved digital signing support with the .NET core edition.
  • Dramatically Improved MRC engine: accuracy, speed and produced document quality.
  • Dramatically improved OCR speed and accuracy.
  • Improved .NET Core 3 edition. (now based on the final .NET core 3.0 release).
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function LoadFromBase64().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.37 (Sep 18, 2019)

  • Added support for converting SVG images to vector PDF documents.
  • ThumbnailEx control (WinForm): improved drop shadow appearance and rendering speed.
  • Improved PDF optimizer engine.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved document printing support.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • DocuVieware: new method LoadFromByteArray().
  • DocuVieware: new method LoadFromFile().
  • DocuVieware: new method BurnAnnotations().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.36 (Sep 11, 2019)

  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new methods ConvertToPDF().
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new methods CombineToPDF().
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtPageWidth.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtPageHeight.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtPageMarginLeft.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtPageMarginTop.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtPageMarginRight.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtPageMarginBottom.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtHorizontalTextAlignment.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtFontSize.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtFontFamily.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtFontBold.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter class: new property TxtFontItalic.
  • Improved PDF encryption support.
  • Improved Office formats renderers.
  • Improved DocuVieware data transfer performances.
  • Improved DocuVieware TWAIN controller.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.35 (Sep 3, 2019)

  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved XLSX format rendering and conversion to PDF.
  • Improved performance and stability of the GdPicture.NET COM/ActiveX edition.
  • DocuVieware: improved stability and performance under high server loads.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.33 (Aug 16, 2019)

  • Improved PDF form-fields support.
  • DocuVieware: dramatically improved TWAIN scanning controller (speed & memory usage).
  • XLSX rasterizer engine: improved support for cell/text formatting.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.32 (Aug 13, 2019)

  • Improved PNG file creation speed and compression rate.
  • Improved TIFF image creation speed and compression rate (when Deflate encoding is used).
  • Improved PDF reducer engine (compression speed and rate).
  • DOCX rasterizer engine: fixed paragraph numbering-related issues.
  • DOCX rasterizer engine: fixed header/footer-related issues.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property PdfEnableColorDetection.
  • DocuVieware: improved global performances.
  • DocuVieware: introduced a new adaptive raster cache mechanism which dramatically speed-up transfer content of reused documents.
  • DocuViewareControl: new property EnableAdaptiveRasterCache.
  • DocuVieware: new property EnableAdaptiveRasterCache.
  • DocuViewareManager: new method SetAdaptiveRasterCacheLength().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.31 (Aug 13, 2019)

  • GdViewer (WinForm): Improved UI.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved XLSX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved RAW image loading.
  • Improved WIA and TWAIN scanning support.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • GdPicture & DocuVieware: added .NET Core 3 edition of the assemblies. (preview).
  • GdPicturePDF: new method FlattenVisibleOCGs().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.30 (Jul 30, 2019)

  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved XLSX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generator.
  • Improved PDF Reducer engine.
  • PdfEncryption Enumeration: added new member PdfEncryption256BitAES2.
  • GdPicturePDF added AES-256 encryption algorithm with improved password handling introduced in ISO 32000-2.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.29 (Jul 30, 2019)

  • Introduced support for XLSX format.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF Reducer engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload FlattenFormFields() to specify page on which form fields shall be flattened.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method FlattenAnnotation().
  • GdPicturePDF: reduced produced file size.
  • Improved COM edition support for Delphi.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.28 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine speed and accuracy.
  • New PDF optimizer engine. Delivered through the GdPicturePDFReducer class (requires Ultimate edition).
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • DocuVieware: Improved UI responsiveness.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.27 (Jul 17, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine speed and accuracy.
  • Introduced support for tables in RTF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • DocuVieware: Improved gesture support with touch screen devices.
  • DocuVieware: Added support for password protected documents from the client side.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.26 (Jul 4, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Improved support for password protected PDF with unicode characters.
  • Improved printing speed.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload EmbedFile() for embedding files from stream.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method PrintSetPreRasterizationDPI().
  • GdViewer (WPF and WinForms): new method PrintSetPreRasterizationDPI().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.25 (Jun 25, 2019)

  • GdPicture.NET is now compatible with .NET core 3 Windows Forms App.
  • Improved COM edition interfaces generation to offer backward/forward compatibility starting version 14.0.25.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generator.
  • Several improvements on user control appearances (WinForm and WPF).
  • ThumbnailEx WinForm control: new property EnableDropShadow.
  • GdViewer WinForm control: new property DrawPageBorders.
  • GdViewer WinForm control: new property PageBordersPenSize.
  • GdViewer WinForm control: new property PageBordersColor.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved built-in PDF font pack engine.
  • GdPictureOCR: Added automatic automatic orientation support with LSTM based dictionaries.
  • DocuVieware: improved document loading speed while using http/ftp transfer modes.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.24 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • Critical bug fixes with annotation system and COM support.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.23 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • Improved image autocrop with 32bpp bitmap.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.22 (Jun 12, 2019)

  • Introduced the first version of the built-in PDF to PDF/A converter.
  • Improved PDF generation speed.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ConvertToPDFA().
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved QR-Code reader engine.
  • New enumeration PdfConversionConformance.
  • DocuVieware: improved stylus support.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.21 (Jun 4, 2019)

  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved 2D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved ODT rasterizer.
  • Improved MRC engine compression rate.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.20 (May 22, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • GdPictureImaging: New enumeration BarcodeAztecCodeVersion.
  • DocuVieware: new property AjaxCustomHeaders.
  • DocuVieware: new property FileDownloadCustomHeaders.
  • DocuVieware: new property AjaxRequestTimeout.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function DisplayMessageBox().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function DisplayPendingActionNotification().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function HidePendingActionNotification().
  • DocuVieware: improved speed on farms context.
  • GdPicturePDF: set of new methods DrawBarcodeAztec().
  • GdPicturePDF: improved text extracion / text selection coordinate precision.
  • Improved compatibility with .NET Core 3.0 (preview).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.17 (May 1, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF generator engine.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • DocuVieware: Improved UI with mobile devices.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.16 (Apr 24, 2019)

  • Important improvements in the DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • DocuVieware: improved gesture support with touch screens.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.15 (Apr 17, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy and speed.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageUserUnit().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetPageUserUnit().
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property RasterizationDPI.
  • DocuVieware: improved annotations manipulation support.
  • Introduced support for tables in header/footer in DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved header/footer rendition in DOCX rasterizer engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.14 (Apr 9, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering quality.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overload SaveAsJPEG() to specify jpeg sub-sampling mode.
  • New enumeration JPEGSubsamplingMode.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.13 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • Improved zero-length pdf path rendering.
  • Fixed a critical bug in DocuVieware preventing execution in some context. (2)

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.12 (Apr 2, 2019)

  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved 2D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved ODT rasterizer.
  • Improved MRC engine compression rate.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.11 (Apr 1, 2019)

  • Introduced a new rendering engine based on Skia. Now GdPicture.NET.14.Imaging.Rendering.Skia(.64).dll is required by the runtime.
  • GdViewer: dramatically improves rendering speed and control responsiveness with large bitmap.
  • Improved of lot the rendering speed of all kind of documents (PDF, DOCX, DXF, raster images…).
  • Improved memory usage of the toolkit.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetTextExtractionOptions().
  • Improved autodeskew filter speed and produced image quality.
  • new enumeration TextExtractionOptions.
  • Improved support of tables (notably tables split over several pages) in DOCX and ODT rasterizer engines.
  • Several improvements on the MRC engine.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RegisterOnSnapInPanelResized().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RegisterOnSnapInPanelToggle().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RemoveAnnotById().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.0.10 (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Improved MRC accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.0.9 (Mar 15, 2019)

  • Improved the support of forced page breaks and tables of one single cell in the DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader engine accuracy and speed.
  • Dramatically improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Reintroduced PDFA/1 (a-b) generation support for produced documents of the MRC engine.
  • Added support for custom annotations printing.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generator accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • GdPicture.NET 14.1.8 (Mar

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.0.8 (Mar 7, 2019)

  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy and speed.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved text rendering and extraction support with multi-byte characters.
  • DocuVieware: new property RasterizerPixelSizeLimit.
  • DocuVieware: new method GetLastTransferError().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.0.7 (Feb 26, 2019)

  • Greatly improved the rendition of table borders in the DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine compression rate and produced documents quality.
  • Improved PDF rendering speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.6 (Feb 21, 2019)

  • Improved rendering and rasterizing speed of large bitmaps.
  • Introduced the support of tables in the ODT rasterizer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering speed and memory usage.
  • GdViewer (WinForms & WPF): improved zooming speed of large documents.
  • DocuVieware: improved page transfer speed.
  • Improved PDF Text Search functionality.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SearchText().
  • GdViewer: new overload SearchText().
  • GdViewer: new overload GetTextOccurrenceCount().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldsNeedAppearances().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldsNeedAppearances().
  • Improved built-in PDF optimization engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.5 (Feb 12, 2019)

  • Improved MRC compression rate and produced document quality.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved DOCX and ODT rasterizers.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode reader accuracy & speed.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveUnusedResources().
  • Improved PDF parser and built-in PDF optimization engine.
  • DocuVieware: new property CustomHeaders.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.4 (Feb 12, 2019)

  • Improved MRC compression rate and produced document quality.
  • Improved DOCX and ODT rasterizer engines.
  • Improved PDF/OCR engine.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved built-in PDF font pack engine.
  • DocuVieware: dramatically improved loading speed of RTF, ODT and DOCX document on farms hosting.
  • DocuVieware: fixed compatibility issue with RequireJS.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.3 (Jan 23, 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine compression rate.
  • Improved memory management of the internal PDF merger engine.
  • Improved accuracy of 1D & 2D barcode reader engines.
  • Improved DOCX and ODT rasterizers.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generator.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.2 (Jan 17, 2019)

  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved 2D barcode reading accuracy.
  • Improved ODT rasterizer.
  • Improved MRC engine compression rate.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.1 (Jan 11, 2019)

  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): new property AnnotationSelectionLineColor.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method IsPageImage(bool IgnoreHiddenText).
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ReplaceImageMRC().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AutoDeskew().
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • Improved ODT rasterizer.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.0 (Jan 2, 2019)

  • Added support for OpenDocument Text format (.odt).
  • Dramatically improved MRC compression rate and quality of produced documents.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved the color detection engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetWrappedTextLineCount().
  • Improved built-in PDF merger engine.
  • Improved built-in PDF font pack engine.
  • The SDK now targets the .NET framework 4.6.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.77 (Nov 29, 2018)

  • MRC engine: improved quality and compression rate of produced documents.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new method SaveAsDOCX().
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property DocXImageQuality.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method SetPixelArrayByteBGR().
  • Improved PDF, DOCX and RTF rasterizers.
  • Improved 2D barcode recognition speed and accuracy.
  • Improved PDF form-fields support, especially with Unicode characters handling.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.76 (Nov 22, 2018)

  • MRC engine: improved quality and compression rate of produced documents.
  • Dramatically improved 1D barcode reader accuracy, especially with low quality images.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.75 (Nov 16, 2018)

  • MRC engine: improved quality and compression rate of produced documents.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageTextWithCoordsEx().
  • Improved OCR speed, especially with document having lot of content.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF text extraction.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.74 (Nov 11, 2018)

  • MRC engine: improved quality and compression rate of produced documents.
  • Improved 2D barcode recognition speed and accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.73 (Nov 8, 2018)

  • Implemented a new adaptive file caching mechanism into the toolkit.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer.
  • Improved MRC engine compression rate and quality of produced documents.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • GdPictureOCR: new property EnableVigorousDespeckle.
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method SetAdaptiveFileCachingMechanism().
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method ReleaseAllGdPictureImages().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GuessPageTextRotation().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetAnnotationName().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetAnnotationName().
  • GdPicturePDF: dramatically reduced memory usage while manipulating / cloning documents.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.72 (Oct 31, 2018)

  • Added support for reading and writing Aztec Codes.
  • Improved the MRC engine compression rate, quality and speed.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetMRCPreserveSmoothing().
  • GdPictureSegmenter: new method GetBlockType().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderClear().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderDoScan().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeCount().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeValue().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeValueRAW().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeValueRAWBase64().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeX1().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeX2().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeX3().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeX4().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeY1().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeY2().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeY3().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecReaderGetBarcodeY4().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecGetSize().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeAztecWrite().
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.71 (Oct 31, 2018)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • DOCX rasterizer: Fixed a number of issues related to tabs, lists and indentation.
  • Improved PDF page normalization feature.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.70 (Oct 31, 2018)

  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetMRCImageBackgroundResolution().
  • Improved MRC engine: produced output quality and compression rate.
  • Improved DOCX and PDF rendering engines.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generation (accuracy and memory usage).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.69 (Oct 5, 2018)

  • GdPicturePDF: new overload FormFieldHasBorderColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldBorderColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldBorderColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldNoBorderColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldBorderStyle().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldBorderStyle().
  • Improved MRC engine: speed, compression rate, output quality.
  • Improced rendering of PDF documents with CJK fonts.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved DOCX renderer, especially images position, text position, text rendering, indentations and tabulations.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.68 (Sep 23, 2018)

  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine: speed, compression rate, output quality.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.67 (Sep 21, 2018)

  • Dramatically improved quality of produced documents by the MRC engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy & speed.
  • Improved DXF rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF/A generator.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.64 (Aug 16, 2018)

  • Fixed regression on the PDF/MRC engine.
  • Improved MRC engine (produced document quality and compression rate).
  • Improved borders detection engine accuracy.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.63 (Aug 14, 2018)

  • GdPictureImaging: improved speed of the TiffMergeFiles() methods.
  • Improved DXF -> PDF converter.
  • Improved borders detection accuracy.
  • MRC engine: improved compression rate and dramatically increased quality of produced documents.
  • DocuVieware: the control is now FIPS compliant.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.62 (Aug 3, 2018)

  • Added support for PDF 2.0 reading (writing was already supported).
  • Improved MRC compression engine (better quality of produced documents and better compression rate).
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer, especially with tables rendering.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.61 (Jul 26, 2018)

  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode recognition speed and accuracy.
  • Improved DXF rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • Improved DXF –> PDF conversion to produce smaller file size.
  • GdPicturePDF: added a font compression / reduction engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method PackFonts()
  • Improved compression rate and produced document quality of the MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF417 barcode decoder accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Fixed a DOCX reading error.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.60 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • GdViewer: ForceTemporaryModeForImage and ForceTemporaryModeForPDF properties renamed to ForceTemporaryMode.
  • DocuVieware: new static method DocuViewareManager.CollectSessionsData().
  • Improved color detection engine accuracy.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • Improved DXF rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF417 barcode reader accuracy.
  • Dramatically improved compression rate of the MRC engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.58 (Jul 7, 2018)

  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy and speed
  • Improvd DOCX rendering
  • Improved DXF rendering
  • Battery of minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.57 (Jul 5, 2018)

  • Added support for DXF document viewing (preview).
  • Improved malformed PDF parsing.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode detection accuracy.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • Reduced size of produced PDF.
  • Improved MRC engine to produce better quality output.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ResetFormFieldCheckedState().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ResetFormFieldDefaultCheckedState().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldFontSize().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldFontColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldFontSize().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldFontColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldBackgroundColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldBackgroundColor().

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.56 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • Improved DOCX renderer
  • Improved PDF renderer
  • Improved MRC compression engine to produce better quality output
  • Improved color detection engine accuracy
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode readers speed & accuracy
  • Added support for generating PDF/Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA)
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetTagRootID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method NewTag()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method BeginMarkedContentSequence()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method BeginMarkedContent()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method EndMarkedContent()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AttachTagToAnnotation()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AttachTagToFormField()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method MapStructureType()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetLanguage()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetTagTitle()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetTagAlternateDescription()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetTagActualText()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetTagLanguage()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetTagAttribute()
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function ShowSnapIn()
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function HideSnapIn()
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RegisterOnThumbnailsSnapInSelected()
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RegisterOnBookmarksSnapInSelected()
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RegisterOnSearchSnapInSelected()
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RegisterOnAnnotationsSnapInSelected()
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RegisterOnCommentsSnapInSelected()
  • Battery of minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.55 (Jun 14, 2018)

  • GdPictureImaging: new method AppendToTiff().
  • Improved form-fields handling.
  • Improved MRC compression rate.
  • Improved DataMatrix reader accuracy.
  • Improved automatic borders removal filter.
  • Improved PDF parsing and rendering.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.54 (Jun 7, 2018)

  • Improved borders detection filters speed and accuracy.
  • Improved DOCX rendering.
  • Improved QR-code reader speed and accuracy.
  • Improved OCR accuracy on color bitmap.
  • Improved PDF form-fields handling.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function LoadFromByteArray().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.53 (May 30, 2018)

  • Improved black border removal filter.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved QR-code reading speed and accuracy.
  • Improved form-fields handling support.
  • GdViewer (WinForm and WPF): the aspect ratio of annotations is maintained during resizing with shift key pressed.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property PdfImageQuality.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.52 (May 22, 2018)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generation.
  • Improved borders removal filter accuracy.
  • Improved punch holes removal filter accuracy.
  • Improved blank page detection filter accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.51 (May 21, 2018)

  • Improved docx renderer.
  • Improved PDF parser.
  • Improved borders detection algorithm.
  • Improved OCR page orientation detection feature.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode readers accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.50 (May 10, 2018)

  • Improved PDF rendering with ICC color spaces.
  • Improved accuracy and speed of Qr Code recognition engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.49 (May 8, 2018)

  • Improved PDF rendering with CJK fonts.
  • Improved punch holes removal filter speed and accuracy.
  • Dramatically improved black margins removal filter speed and accuracy.
  • Dramatically improved white margins removal filter speed and accuracy.
  • Dramatically improved borders detection filter speed and accuracy.
  • Improved the blank page detection engine.
  • Improved accuracy and speed of 1D barcode recognition engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.48 (Apr 27, 2018)

  • GdViewer WPF: improved annotation rendering quality.
  • Improved speed of the punch holes removal filter.
  • Improved loading speed of large tiff files.
  • Improved text search and text extraction speed.
  • DocuVieware: form-fields tab order is now honored.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.47 (Apr 20, 2018)

  • Dramatically improved punch hole removal filter accuracy and speed (up to 6x faster).
  • Improved docx document rendering.
  • DocuVieware: new javascript function EnsureAnnotVisibility().
  • DocuVieware: improved user experience related to annotations and text results navigation.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.46 (Apr 13, 2018)

  • Improved DICOM image reader speed and memory usage.
  • Improved jpeg2000 & JBIG2 decoding speed and memory usage in the 32-bit version (64-bit was already optimized).
  • GdPicturePDF: improved SetFormFieldDefaultChecked() method.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveJavaScript()
  • GdViewer (WPF version): improved support for page link navigation in touch mode.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy and speed.
  • Improved COM/ActiveX interface.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.45 (Apr 9, 2018)

  • Improved color detection engine accuracy
  • PDF: Improved form-fields handling (radio buttons, list boxes)
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldOnStateName()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldOnStateName()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldDefaultChecked()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldDefaultChecked()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldChecked()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldChecked()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldValue()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldValue()
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: improved PDF -> TIFF convertion speed and produced file size
  • Improved robustness and speed of 2D barcode recognition engines
  • Improved PDF rendering speed with complex documents

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.44 (Mar 23, 2018)

  • Improved docx rasterizer.
  • Improved docx -> pdf conversion.
  • PDF: improved form-fields handling.
  • GdViewer: new property: RenderGdPictureAnnots.
  • The DeleteBlackBorders() method of the GdPictureImaging class can now work with any pixel format bitmap.
  • Improved 2D barcode encoding engines to better handle utf8 characters.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.43 (Mar 16, 2018)

  • New GdPictureSegmenter class to offer segmentation features (requires an Ultimate license).
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload of MergeDocuments() to enable control over some merging options.
  • Improved color detection engine.
  • Improved PDF/OCR engine.
  • Improved all barcode reader engines (speed & accuracy).
  • DocuVieware: new RegisterOnTextAnnotated(docuViewareID, callback) JavaScript event.
  • DocuVieware: new HighlightSelectedText(docuViewareID, [color]) JavaScript function.
  • DocuVieware: new StrikeoutSelectedText(docuViewareID, [color]) JavaScript function.
  • DocuVieware: new UnderlineSelectedText(docuViewareID, [color]) JavaScript function.
  • DocuVieware: new AddSelectedTextContextMenuItem(docuViewareID, caption, callback) JavaScript function.
  • DocuVieware: new AddAnnotationsActionButton(docuViewareID, title, icon, callback) JavaScript function.
  • DocuVieware: new EnableSelectedTextAnnotationEdition .NET property.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.42 (Mar 9, 2018)

  • GdPictureOCR: added support for obtaining the page segmentation without characters recognition.
  • Improved MRC engine. Speed and compression rate.
  • Improved speed & robustness of the PDF417 recognition engine.
  • DocuVieware: Selected text context menu now provides direct highlight, strikeout and underline features.
  • DocuVieware: New .NET property: EnableTextSelectionAnnotation.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.41 (Mar 2, 2018)

  • Improved blank page detection speed & accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer memory usage.
  • Improved PDF parser.
  • Improved robustness of PDF417 engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.40 (Feb 23, 2018)

  • Improved PDF417 barcode reader accuracy.
  • Fixed a licensing issue.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.39 (Feb 22, 2018)

  • 1D barcode reader: speed improved.
  • DataMatrix barcode reader: Improved accuracy.
  • QR code reader: Improved accuracy and speed.
  • Fixed a regression into the PDF417 barcode reader.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method HasXFAFormFields().
  • Fixed Digital Signature issues with encrypted documents.
  • Improved process of applying Multiple Digital Signatures, especially when using Signature Place Holders.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload of SetSignaturePosFromPlaceHolder() to select place holder by name.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetPageFormFields().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function UpdateFormFields().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.38 (Feb 14, 2018)

  • Improved PDF formfields support.
  • DocuVieware: new javascript function AddAnnot.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.36 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.35 (Feb 2, 2018)

  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetParagraphBlockIndex()
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetTextLineParagraphIndex()
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetWordLineIndex()
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetCharacterWordIndex()
  • Improved PDF rendering.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.34 (Jan 25, 2018)

  • DOCX rasterizer: Introduced support for rotated pictures.
  • DOCX rasterizer: Introduced support for sub tables.
  • DOCX rasterizer: Introduced support for structured document content within tables.
  • DOCX rasterizer: Improved speed and accuracy for the rendition of tables.
  • RTF rasterizer: added support for image rendering.
  • OCR: improved recognition speed on HQ bitmap.
  • TWAIN: improved memory transfer mode.
  • PDF rasterizer: improved pattern rendering.
  • PDF417 barcode reader: Improved speed and accuracy.
  • GdPicturePDF class: updated interface of AddRadioButtonFormField method.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.33 (Jan 17, 2018)

  • GdPictureImaging: new method PrintSetPageSelection().
  • GdPicturePDF: GetAnnotationReadOnly marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SetAnnotationReadOnly marked as deprecated.
  • GdPictureOCR: new method GetTextLineValue().
  • Improved the font substitution mechanism.
  • DOCX: Improved the rendition of tables.
  • DOCX: Introduced support for alternative content.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property PdfBitonalImageCompression.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property PdfColorImageCompression.
  • GdPictureOCR: removed recently introduced RunOCR() and GetOrientation() methods taking a GdPicture image as parameter*.
  • OCR: added support for page orientation detection for arabic language.
  • *Now the SetImage() method must be called before doing OCR process(es). This has been done to ensure consumer to take advantage of all possible internal optimizations, especially in multiple zones OCR context.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.32 (Jan 8, 2018)

  • Fixed a critical regression introduced in the 14.0.31 about a GDPICTUREIMG_GetImageFormat function missing.
  • Some memory usage improvements to the OCR engine.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.31 (Jan 6, 2018)

  • GdPictureOCR: new property CharacterBlackList.
  • GdPictureOCR: new property EnableSkewDetection.
  • GdPictureOCR: new property EnableOrientationDetection.
  • GdPictureOCR: new property OrientationDetectionAccuracyLevel.
  • Improved autodeskew engine speed and accuracy.
  • Introduced support for loading CUR files.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.30 (Jan 3, 2018)

  • Improved blank page detection accuracy.
  • Improved page orientation detection accuracy.
  • Improved autodeskew engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/OCR generation accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.22 (Oct 3, 2017)

  • Improved PDF parser speed.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode reading accuracy and speed.
  • DocuVieware: improved .NET core demo.
  • DocuVieware: improved UI responsiveness.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.20 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.18 (Aug 31, 2017)

  • Improved TWAIN memory transfer mode with CCITT4 encoded dib.
  • Improved autodeskew filter.
  • Improved speed and memory usage of the toolkit core.
  • Improved ocr accuracy and speed.
  • PdfConformance enumeration: added new member PDF_UA_1.
  • Improved image decoders of the PDF engine to reach best performance and better support for malformed data.
  • Improved MICR engine especialy for e13b font detection.
  • DocuVieware: improved rendering quality.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.17 (Aug 19, 2017)

  • OCR:
  • Fixed issues with reading Japanese vertical text.
  • Fixed issues with reading mix of Hebrew and English text (heb+eng).
  • Fixed issues with reading Arabic text (ara).
  • Fixed issues with reading English vertical text.
  • Fixed an issue causing characters to be replaced with the rejection character.
  • Improved memory handling and speed.
  • Fixed memory allocation failures management.
  • Fixed an issue causing white list and black list not to work properly.
  • BARCODE 1D:
  • Improved robustness for reading IATA2OF5 barcodes, avoiding some false positives.
  • BARCODE PDF 417: Fixed a bug preventing some PDF417 to be read.
  • BARCODE 1D: Improved the accuracy.
  • PDF:
  • improved support for keeping initial PDF conformance after edition.
  • PDF merging: added support for merging any kind of PDF/A by keeping input conformance.
  • DocuVieware:
  • improved form field filling support.
  • improved speed when sticky session is not enabled.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.14 (Jul 30, 2017)

  • GdViewer (WinForm and wpf) now honors the exif rotation tag of the displayed image.
  • Improved blank page detection accuracy.
  • Improved color detection and MRC accuracy.
  • DocuVieware: added support for link to URI.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.13 (Jul 24, 2017)

  • GdPictureImaging: improved primitive drawing speed (rectangle, ellipse, line, path...) (up to 3x faster)
  • Improved blank page detection filter accuracy.
  • Improved Color detection filter accuracy.
  • DocuVieware: new SetAnnotPropertiesToDisplay() JavaScript function.
  • DocuVieware: new ResetAnnotPropertiesToDisplayDefault() JavaScript function.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.12 (Jul 18, 2017)

  • Dramatically improved MICR engine accuracy and speed with checks.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method ForceTopDown()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method ForceDownTop()
  • Punch hole removal filter is now able to remove punch holes from greyscale and color images.
  • Punch hole removal filter now removes punch holes from documents scanned with a white background scanner.
  • Punch hole removal filter now removes punch holes made by specialized hole punch for comb binding (rectangles).
  • DocuVieware: improved memory usage with large documents.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.11 (Jul 11, 2017)

  • Improved document format detection.
  • Improved auto-deskew accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.10 (Jul 8, 2017)

  • - GdPicturePDF: added support form CMYK JPEG file to the AddJpegImageFromFile() & AddJpegImageFromStream() method.
  • - Improved auto-deskew accuracy.
  • - Datamatrix barcode reader engine: Fixed a bug causing some umlauts not to be read properly.
  • - Qr barcode reader engine: Fixed a bug causing GdPicture.NET not to interpret properly some raw bytes within QR code (accuracy +4%)
  • - 1D barcode reader engine: Fixed a bug causing some barcodes not to be detected when the expected number of barcode is set to a value different than 1
  • - DocuVieware: DocuViewareManager: new overload of SetupConfiguration() to specify the application URI.
  • - DocuVieware: Added support for ASP.NET Core Web Applications (.NET Framework).
  • - DocuVieware: New JavaScript function AddLinkAnnotInteractive().
  • - DocuVieware: Added link annotation support in built-in annotation palette.
  • - Battery of other minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.9 (Jun 28, 2017)

  • Barcode 1D: Improved the accuracy for some difficult cases of code 128.
  • Barcode 1D: Improved the accuracy for some degraded code 39.
  • 2D Barcode writer: Fixed a bug affecting Datamatrix Edifact encoding.
  • Docx: fixed a problem causing images not to be rendered properly in headers and footers.
  • Docx: fixed a problem causing images not to be rendered at the correct location.
  • Docx: Improved table borders rendition.
  • Improved RTF and PDF rendering engines.
  • DocuViewareManager: new static overloaded method SetupConfiguration(bool StickySession, DocuViewareSessionStateMode SessionStateMode, string CacheFolder)
  • DocuVieware: new enumeration DocuViewareSessionStateMode.
  • DocuVieware: CacheFolder & StickySessionsEnabled properties have been marked as obsolete.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.8 (Jun 28, 2017)

  • Introduced a new filter to dropout colors into several contexts: drop out forms, etc.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxColorDropout().
  • New enumeration ColorDropoutFilter.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.7 (Jun 16, 2017)

  • Improved PDF rendering quality with small bitmap.
  • GdPicturePDF: new OcrPages() overload to specify if the method must run synchronously.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MeasureTextBox().
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TwainIsMemoryTransferModeAvailable()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TwainAcquireToMemoryFile()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method PrintSetPreRasterization().
  • GdViewer (WinForms and WPF): new method PrintSetPreRasterization().
  • GdViewer WinForm: fixed a flickering issue while navigating through multipage documents in single page view mode.
  • Battery of performance enhancements, especially for getting and setting bitmap data.
  • Improved speed and dramatically reduced memory usage while converting bitmap to 32 bpp.
  • ViewerZoomMode enumeration: new member ZoomModeShrinkToViewerWidth.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): added new zoom mode: Shrink image to viewer width.
  • GdViewer (WinForm): new method SetZoomShrinkWidthViewer()
  • Docx: Fixed an issue with specific headers and footers causing some not to be rendered.
  • Docx: Added the rendition of the page numbers.
  • RTF: Implementation of underline support.
  • RTF: Implementation of paragraph justification support (horizontal alignment of type "both").
  • RTF: Implementation of forced line breaks support.
  • RTF: Fix incorrect page break detection bug.
  • DocuVieware: Improved file transfer mechanism to recover from transfer error.
  • DocuVieware Improved speed when sticky session is disabled.
  • DocuVieware Improved error handling and diagnostic mechanism.
  • DocuVieware New mobile/touch device optimized toolbar.
  • DocuVieware New .NET property ToolbarStyle to choose between auto, desktop or mobile.
  • DocuVieware Improved rendering quality on devices with high pixel density.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 14.0.6 (Jun 5, 2017)

  • Added support for rtf document.
  • Dramatically Improved docx rendering speed.
  • PDF: fixed a bug preventing to set the owner password when the user password was empty.
  • PDF printing: reduced generated spool size for some complex documents.
  • PDF printing: improved quality of produced pages, especially with virtual printers.
  • Barcode QR: +24% accuracy.
  • Barcode Datamatrix: Fixed a bug causing some characters not to be properly decoded.
  • Datamatrix encoder: Fixed a bug when encoding a string starting with FNC1 character.
  • Improved the efficiency tables rendition for docx.
  • Improved text extraction and selection for docx and txt documents.
  • DocuVieware: Dramatically decreased the amount of data required to handle free hand drawing annotations.
  • DocuVieware: Added Slovenian language support.
  • DocuVieware: new .NET method TwainSetCapCurrentNumeric().
  • DocuVieware: new .NET method TwainSetCapCurrentString().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function TwainSetConfig().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function TwainGetLocalServiceStatus().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function TwainGetSources().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function TwainDownloadServiceSetup().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function TwainAcquireToNewDocument().
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript function TwainAcquireToCurrentDocument().
  • DocuVieware: TwainSetConfig JavaScript function has been improved to accept advanced TWAIN configuration.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.65 (Apr 20, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.64 (Apr 13, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.63 (Apr 3, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.62 (Mar 7, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.61 (Mar 2, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.60 (Feb 22, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.59 (Feb 15, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.58 (Feb 7, 2017)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.57 (Jan 31, 2017)

  • Improved docx rendering.
  • GdViewer (WPF) improved annotation support with fax documents.
  • PDF printing: fixed a scaling issue.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript event : RegisterOnAnnotationEdited().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.56 (Jan 24, 2017)

  • Improved GdViewer (WPF) control gesture support.
  • Improved ThumbnailEx (WPF) ScrollViewer behavior.
  • Improved pre-multiplied alpha bitmap adding to PDF documents.
  • DocuVieware: new JavaScript method SetSearchSettings().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.55 (Jan 24, 2017)

  • Improved GdViewer.WPF control gesture support.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.53 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • Improved PDF parsing speed.
  • Improved annotation behavior when AutoSize property is toggled.
  • DocuVieware: new .NET LoadFromURI() overload that allows custom HTTP headers to be sent in the request.
  • DocuVieware: added other rest examples of usage.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.52 (Jan 16, 2017)

  • GdViewer Winform: improved document rendering speed.
  • DocuVieware: added examples showing how to integrate DocuVieware in rest mode within any kind of application (html/javascript,php, nodejs, asp.net...)
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.51 (Dec 29, 2016)

  • ThumbnailEx (WPF): improved scrolling behavior.
  • GdViewer WinForm: improved memory usage and rendering speed.
  • DocuVieware: new property: EnableAnnotationActionButtons
  • battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.50 (Dec 22, 2016)

  • ThumbnailEx: new property DefaultItemTextPrefixe.
  • DocuVieware: New JavaScript method: ResetAnnotAutoCreateProperty().
  • DocuVieware: New "any word" text search option to search several words at once. (through UI and JavaScript SearchText() function).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.49 (Dec 22, 2016)

  • GdViewer WinForm: Improved rendering speed of large bitmap.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method IsOwnerPassword().
  • DocuVieware: new static method DocuViewareManager.CreateDocuViewareSession().
  • DocuVieware: new static method DocuViewareManager.IsSessionAlive().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.48 (Dec 13, 2016)

  • Improved PDF rendering.
  • DocuVieware: RegisterOnThumbnailsOrderChanged JS event now provides the callback with source and destination information.
  • DocuVieware: New JavaScript function: RegisterOnAnnotationDeleted().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.47 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Fixed a bug in GdViewer that was making it not usable from Windows Vista.
  • Improved rendering speed of the GdViewer control (WinForm).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • DocuVieware is now targeting framework 4.5.2 or 4.6.X.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.46 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Fixed a regression introduced within the code 39 extended decoding.
  • Improved pdf page normalization.
  • Improvements of the rendering engine for PDF and docx.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.45 (Nov 24, 2016)

  • Improved autodeskew filter accuracy.
  • Improved support for hyperlinks in docx.
  • Improved the PDF parser to handle corrupted documents.
  • Improved pdf rendering speed with documents containing lot of vector data.
  • Fixed a bug in GdViewer that was making it not usable from Windows XP.
  • DocuVieware: improved initialization when the control is embedded within an iframe.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.44 (Nov 24, 2016)

  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode reading accuracy and stability.
  • Added support for Extended Channel Interpretation within the QR engine.
  • Added support for hyperlinks and bookmarks in docx.
  • Annotation.UnitMode enumeration: new member: Custom.
  • AnnotationRuler & AnnotationPolyRuler: new property MeasurementUnitCustomString.
  • Improved the PDF parser to better handle some malformed documents
  • Improved PDF portfolio support.
  • Improved autodeskew of id cards.
  • Improved gesture behavior while drawing annotations.
  • Improved rendering of freehand highlighter annotation in continuous mode.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 12.0.43 (Nov 8, 2016)

  • Added docx printing support.
  • Improved pdf and docx rendering.
  • Improved pdf printing speed with complexe documents.
  • Improved pdf parser to handle documents with invalid page tree.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.36 (Jan 7, 2016)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.33 (Dec 4, 2015)

  • ThumbnailEx (WPF edition): new dependency property ItemContainerStyle. see Document Viewer Demo for an example of usage.
  • Improved PDF printing speed with document including patterns.
  • DocuVieware: Improved free hand annotation drawing support.
  • DocuVieware: New .NET property DisableAnnotationDrawingModePanel.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.32 (Dec 4, 2015)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Improved the PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved WPF user controls rendering and responsiveness.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.31 (Dec 4, 2015)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Improved the PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved WPF user controls rendering and behavior on resizing event.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.30 (Nov 10, 2015)

  • GdPicturePDF: a critical regression causing exception into the Disposal method has been fixed.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method: AddFreeTextAnnotation().

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.29 (Nov 10, 2015)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method NormalizePage().

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.28 (Oct 29, 2015)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Annotation abstract class: New property: Guid.
  • DocuVieware: new javascript function: RegisterOnAnnotationSelectedStateChanged().

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.27 (Oct 29, 2015)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.26 (Oct 6, 2015)

  • Improved AutoDeskew algorithm speed & accuracy.
  • GdViewer: Improved region selection mechanism. (WinForm).
  • DocuVieware: new .NET property: TextSearchMaxResults.
  • DocuVieware: Improved speed in non stick sessions context.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.23 (Sep 18, 2015)

  • GdPicturePDF: OcrPage() and OcrPages() methods now detect automatically the page orientation.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldFontProperties().
  • DocuVieware: new javascript function GetDisplayedArea().
  • Improved memory usage of the PDF parser.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.21 (Sep 17, 2015)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 11.2.20 (Sep 10, 2015)

  • SVG image format support (starting Framework 4 edition).
  • Native WPF controls, for viewing and annotating documents.
  • Native ASP.NET WebControl (DocuVieware), HTML5 & AJAX based, for viewing, editing and annotating documents.
  • Improved image compression in PDF by using mixed raster content.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.36 (Sep 22, 2014)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes and memory usage improvement.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.29 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Fixed a PDF rendering bug
  • Fixed a loading crash with malformed tiff image
  • Fixed a PDF parsing bug.
  • Fixed a licensing issue related to the GdPicture.NET XMP/Annotation plugin.
  • Improved Arabic, Hebrew and other RLT script writing in PDF documents.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.28 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • ThumbnailEx.LoadFromDirectory() bug fix with PDF document preview.
  • Security flaw fix with the CCITT decoder.
  • Improved PDF rendering with malformed font files.
  • Some minor internal performance enhancements.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.26 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • PDF rendering bug fix.
  • DICOM color space parsing bug on certain color images fixed.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.25 (Jun 6, 2014)

  • Fixed multipage annotations loading bug.
  • ModificationTime of annotation can be automatically set or through the property setter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.24 (Jun 3, 2014)

  • Improved PDF text extraction.
  • Improved Document recognition algorithm.
  • Improved JPEG 2000 parsing with non fully compliant images.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.23 (May 26, 2014)

  • Improved multipage tiff saving from the annotation manager.
  • Improved http/upload process.
  • Fixed some minor bugs in the installation package.
  • Some demo updated.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.22 (May 23, 2014)

  • GdPictureImaging: new method HasTransparency().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddCheckBoxFormField().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddRadioButtonFormField().
  • Improved document recognition accuracy.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.19 (May 10, 2014)

  • Improved PDF rendering.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method GetSelectedPage()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method SelectePage()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method GetPageCount()

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.18 (May 2, 2014)

  • Improved JPEG 2000 decoding quality and speed.
  • Improved PDF pattern rendering speed.
  • Improved JPEG in TIFF decoding process with malformed documents.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.17 (Apr 30, 2014)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Improved PDF rendering with pattern stroking.
  • Improved PDF formfield handling.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.15 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • Improved the page printing auto-orientation mechanism.
  • Reduced produced spool size while printing image.
  • Reduced memory consumption for image printing.
  • Improved printing speed in some cases.
  • 1D barcode recognition: For UCC / EAN-128 codes FNC1 control character is mapped to the char (ASCII code 29).

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.12 (Apr 23, 2014)

  • Decreased PDF printing spool size in some circumstances.
  • Improved PDF parsing speed.
  • Improved PDF digital signature validation process.
  • Improved DataMatrix and PDF417 barcode generation.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddComboFormField()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddListFormField()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddFormFieldItem()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldItemCount()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldItemText()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DeleteFormFieldItem()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method Barcode1DReaderCode128IsEAN()

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.11 (Apr 15, 2014)

  • MICR Plugin: Improved E13-B symbols reading.
  • Improved format detection.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Improved PDF rendering quality and speed.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.9 (Apr 11, 2014)

  • GdPictureImaging: New IsBlank overload that returns computed confidence limit.
  • GdPictureImaging: New CreateGdPictureImageFromHTTP overload to load image through http protocol by providing authentication data.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.8 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • GdViewer: new property PdfVerifyDigitalCertificates.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeQRReaderGetBarcodeValueRAW().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.7 (Mar 18, 2014)

  • GdPictureImaging: new method DrawFilledRectangleOP().
  • GdPciturePDF: new method SetLineCapStyle().
  • Improved annotation free-hand rendering.
  • Improved PDF text extraction.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.6 (Mar 6, 2014)

  • PDF rendering speed improvement.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddEllipseToPath().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetAnnotationFillColor().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetAnnotationFillColor().
  • Improved Windows XP support based on old hardware architectures.
  • Many improvements in the reference guides (we're still hardly working on it).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.3 (Feb 20, 2014)

  • Improved annotation rendering.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldReadOnly()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldReadOnly()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetAnnotationReadOnly()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetAnnotationReadOnly()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method PrintInterop()

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.2 (Feb 13, 2014)

  • PDF Rendering quality improved.
  • 1D barcode reader accuracy increased.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.1 (Feb 5, 2014)

  • Speed improvement of the PDF rendering engine.
  • PDF rendering quality improved.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.2.0 (Jan 27, 2014)

  • GdPicture.NET 10.2 medium release has been published including a new set of PDF editing features, PDF417 barcode reading accuracy enhancement, PDF rendering enhanced, a brand new incredible MICR Pluging for decoding E-13B and CMC7 symbols and some other nice features.
  • Interface changes:
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeDataMatrixReaderGetBarcodeSkewAngle()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeQRReaderGetBarcodeSkewAngle()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeSkewAngle()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeSkewAngle()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRDoMICR()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolsCount()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolConfidence()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolValue()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolLeft()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolTop()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolRight()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolBottom()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRGetSymbolLine()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method MICRClear()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TagGetValueToHandle() (COM/ActiveX version only)
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TagSetValueHandle() (COM/ActiveX version only)
  • GdPicturePDF: new method FlipPage()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RotatePageEx()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetPrependContentMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageContent()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetPageContent()

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.15 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • Forms processing: fixed Oval OMR with HasCharacter Option return value.
  • Fixed a bug in the PDF/A format detection.
  • Bug fix in the internal file format detection.
  • Fixed some minor rendering issues with malformed PDF documents.
  • Added E-13B font reading in the MICR Demo.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.14 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • Fixed bug with non updated modification date in GdPicture/XML annotation.
  • Fixed a bug in GdPictureImaging reporting unknown tag type for all parsed exif tags.
  • Fixed an access violation exception in the fxDilate() filter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.13 (Jan 7, 2014)

  • Fixed a PInvokeStackImbalance in the 32-bit version of the OMR Plugin
  • New MICR demo a preview of the upcoming GdPicture MICR SDK.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.11 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeValueRAW().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Improved RAW image import (speed & quality).

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.10 (Dec 19, 2013)

  • PDF parsing speed increased by 10%
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.9 (Dec 13, 2013)

  • PDF rendering quality improved for transparency groups.
  • Minor bug fix with region support.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalDilateH().
  • FxBitonalDespecke filter improved (accuracy and speed).
  • Some minor performance improvements and other minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.7 (Dec 7, 2013)

  • Global performance increasing
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalDilateH()

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.1.0 (Nov 13, 2013)

  • Interface changes:
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomIsMultiPage()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetPageCount()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomSelectPage()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetTagsCount()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetTagValue()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetTagDescription()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetTagGroup()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetTagElement()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetDefaultWindowLevel()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetDefaultWindowWidth()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetLastWindowLevel()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetLastWindowWidth()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetMaxWindowWidth()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetMaxWindowLevel()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomGetMinWindowLevel()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DicomSetWindowLevel()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PixelGetColorI()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PixelSetColorI()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TwainIsAutomaticColorAvailable()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TwainIsAutomaticColorEnabled()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TwainSetAutomaticColor()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ClipPath()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ClipPathOdd()
  • AnnotationText: new property AutoSize
  • AnnotationStickyNote: new property AutoSize
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Improved 1D barcode reading memory handling.
  • Improved 2D barcode detection accuracy.
  • Improved PDF pages drawing, duplicating and cloning mechanism.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Added support to determine if TIFF/JPEG codec must produce image including quantization tables and or Huffman tables (by altering the JpegTablesMode exif tag).

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.0.14 (Oct 14, 2013)

  • Dramatically speed improvement of FxBitonalDilate4(), FxBitonalDilate8(), FxBitonalDilateV(), FxBitonalErode4(), FxBitonalErode8(), FxBitonalErodeV() filters.
  • Improved JPEG in TIFF compression ratio.
  • Fixed a memory leak in the bitonal image filters core.
  • Enhanced compatibility of the COM edition with Gupta development environments.
  • Some other minor speed improvements and memory usage optimizations.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.0.13 (Oct 4, 2013)

  • Fixed a bug when burning GdPicture/XMP annotation on PDF pages with rotation flag.
  • Improved TWAIN file transfer handling.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.0.12 (Oct 2, 2013)

  • Improved PDF rendering quality in Windows XP and 2003 server.
  • Better handling of the TWAIN file transfer mode.
  • Enhanced handling of JBIG2 stream data with malformed JBIG2 segments.
  • Bug fix with the TWAIN ICAP_AUTOSIZE capability handling.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.0.7 (Sep 19, 2013)

  • Fixed licensing issue with upgrade path.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 10.0.6 (Sep 14, 2013)

  • NEW PLUGIN:
  • Color detection Plugin: GdPicture Color Detection Plugin is a 100% royalty free extension of GdPicture.NET which allows users to
  • bring automatic color detection in their applications. It dramatically reduces the size of electronically stored documents to accelerate processing and file transfer.
  • BARCODE:
  • New Micro QR-Code Reader & Writer engine.
  • New Patch Code Reader engine.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode detection speed (until to 2x faster) and accuracy.
  • IMAGE SUPPORT:
  • Added support to access image information, metadata and embedded thumbnail without decoding pixel.
  • Faster JPEG codec (between 2x & 4x faster for loading and saving purpose).
  • JBIG2 decoding: speed improvement, multipage reading optimization.
  • Support for native 48-bit and 64-bit bitmap processing.
  • Multipage tiff loading time divided by 2.
  • Multipage tiff creation with mixed JPEG & CCITT compression support.
  • Option added to extract a specific page of an editable multipage tiff document without the need to decode and re-encode the bitmap.
  • Added support for sequential multipage tiff writing into stream objects (including mixed compression support).
  • Added support to specify compression of each page in multipage tiff writing.
  • Improved PNG encoder and added interlacing + compression level customization + 48 & 64 bit PNG creation + predictor support.
  • Added RLE compression support for 8bpp BMP saving.
  • Added 48 bit & 64 bit output support JPEG 2000 saving.
  • Full ICC profile support for RGB and CMYK color spaces.
  • Added transparency support for EXR saving.
  • WebP image support (reading & writing).
  • Multipage ico reading support.
  • Added support for CMYKA, CMYK16 and CMYKA16 color spaces with ICM correction.
  • Added support for CMYKA and CMYK16A tiff creation.
  • Thumbnail reading and writing in image structure.
  • ANNOTATIONS:
  • GdPicture/XMP annotations can be burnt in vector mode into PDF
  • Added support for IPTC tags writing and editing.
  • Added support for GdPicture XMP annotation copy / paste.
  • DOCUMENT IMAGING:
  • Improved accuracy of the automatic document recognition engine.
  • Automatic document orientation detection speed and accuracy dramatically improved.
  • Auto deskew is until 5x faster.
  • "Number of copies" & collate option support in the printing dialog boxes.
  • OCR:
  • Create PDF/OCR from PDF keeping all input document content (fonts, text, bitmap, vectors, metadata, page structures...).
  • GdPicture Tesseract Plugin is now based on Tesseract 3.02 and includes more languages.
  • GdPicture Tesseract Plugin behaviour can now be fully customized.
  • PDF:
  • AES 256 bit encryption support.
  • Average page rendering time decreased by 20%. Until 50% on bitmap based PDF.
  • JPEG2000 compression scheme support for bitmamp encoding.
  • Improved PDF parser to recover corrupted documents and to speed-up document reading / generation.
  • Added support for Adobe PPKLite digital signature applying.
  • IMAGE PROCESSING:
  • Morphological Operators: Thinning, skeletonize, open, close.
  • Native 16 bit per channel images filter support.
  • Sobel and Prewitt Operators Edge Detectors filters.
  • Interface changes:
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRGetSize()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRWrite()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderDoScan()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeCount()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeValue()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeConfidence()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetVersion()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeX1()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeX2()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeX3()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeX4()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeY1()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeY2()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeY3()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderGetBarcodeY4()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodeMicroQRReaderClear()
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method CreateGdPictureImageFromFile() allowing to open image in direct-access mode.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method CreateGdPictureImageFromStream() allowing to open image in direct-access mode.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method CreateGdPictureImageFromIStream() allowing to open image in direct-access mode.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method ColorDetection()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxSobelEdgeDetect()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxPrewittEdgeDetect()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalSkeletonize()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalOutline()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalClose8()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalOpen8()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method HasAttachedThumbnail()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method GetAttachedThumbnail()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method AttachThumbnail()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method DetachThumbnail()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method EnableICM()
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method SaveAsBMP()
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method SaveAsPNG()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method SaveAsWEBP()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method OCRTesseractSetVariable()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TiffAddToMultipageFile()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TiffExtractPage()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method IPTCSetValueString()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method IPTCDelete()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method IPTCDeleteAll()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderDoScan()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeCount()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeType()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeX1()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeX2()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeX3()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeX4()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeY1()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeY2()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeY3()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderGetCodeY4()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method PatchCodeReaderClear()
  • GdViewer: new property EnableICM
  • GdViewer: new overloaded method BurnAnnotationsToPage() to specify vector burning mode
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetCustomPDFInformation()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetCustomPDFInformationKeys()
  • GdPicturePDF: GetPageTextWithCoords() now also returns font information and text mode.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method InsertPage() to specify predefined page size.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method NewPage() to specify predefined page size.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method OcrPage()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetJpeg2000Quality
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetCustomPDFInformation()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetLineJoinStyle()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method SetLineDash() to specify custom length dash pattern.
  • AnnotationManager: new method AddAnnotationFromXML()
  • AnnotationManager: new overloaded method BurnAnnotationsToPage() to specify vector burning mode
  • AnnotationManager: new method GetAnnotationXML()
  • ThumbnailEx: new property ThumbnailAlignment.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.4.9 (May 24, 2013)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes
  • Improvements on the QRcode generator

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.4.6 (Apr 19, 2013)

  • Improved non GUI thread TWAIN scanning behavior.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.4.5 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • AnnotationStickyNotes: new properties DashStyle, Alignment, LineAlignment, StrokeColor, BorderWidth, Stroke.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.4.4 (Apr 5, 2013)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes
  • AnnotationManager: new method GetAnnotationType().
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method SaveAsIco() to better handle transparency.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.4.2 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetObjectInterop() (in the COM/ActiveX edition only)

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.4.1 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • Emergency update fixing memory access violation in OCR and filters.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.4.0 (Mar 5, 2013)

  • New features overview:
  • New QrCode barcode encoder for image & PDF.
  • New DataMatrix barcode encoder for image & PDF.
  • New PDF417 barcode encoder for image & PDF.
  • New Sauvola local adaptive thresholding method with contrast normalization.
  • Bitonal image filters speed enhancement.
  • Unicode support for the QRCode reader engine added.
  • Improvement of the Gaussian filter.
  • Optional drop shadow effect to the GdPicture.XMP annotation added.
  • Improvements of 1D & 2D barcode reading speed and accuracy.
  • New function for counting the number of unique colors in an image.
  • Horizontal and vertical alignment support in AnnotationText objects.
  • SquaredBox property for AnnotationRectangle, AnnotationRectangleHighlighter and AnnotationEllipse objects added.
  • Improvements of the internal Image decoding engine.
  • PDF text extraction and annotation support improved.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Documentation enhancements and lots of new code snippets.
  • Interface changes:
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalErode()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalDilate()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalErodeV()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddTextFormField()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method DigiSign() taking stream as parameter.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method DigiSignWithStamp() taking stream as parameter.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetAnnotationOpacity()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldTextAlignment()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldBackgroundColor()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldBorderColor()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldBorderStyle()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldChildCount()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldChildID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFormFieldMaxLen()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageLinkAnnotationIdx()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveFormFields()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemovePageLink()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemovePageLinks()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetAnnotationOpacity()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overloaded method SetBookMarkColor() to accept CMYK color space.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldTextAlignment()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldBackgroundColor()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldBorderColor()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldBorderStyle()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFormFieldMaxLen()
  • GdViewer: new method AddCustomAnnotInteractive()
  • GdViewer: new event OnCustomAnnotationPaint()
  • AnnotationManager: new event OnCustomAnnotationPaint()
  • AnnotationManager: new method AddCustomAnnot()
  • BookmarkTree: new property ItemHeight.
  • BookmarkTree: new method SetNodeBitmap()

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.3.7 (Nov 14, 2012)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetPageImageSize()
  • ThumbnailEx: new property RotateExif

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.1.1 (Aug 13, 2012)

  • Improvement of the image resizing algorithm to provide better output quality.
  • Fixed a licensing verification issue.
  • Fixed some interop issue with C++ Builder XE2.
  • GdViewer: new method GetObjectInterop() for com interop purpose.
  • Improved CMYK tiff saving.
  • Improved PDF packing algorithm to generate smaller document and improving processing time.
  • Fixed temporary file generation issue during TWAIN acquisition.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.1.0 (Aug 6, 2012)

  • Main changes:
  • Added support for loading the entire document into the memory before the start of the decoding process. This allows to subsequently overwrite or delete the source file.
  • Stream support improvement. Documents can now be loaded from non-seekable stream objects.
  • Added item insertion in the ThumbnailEx control.
  • Owner drag & drop support in ThumbnailEx. New example in vb & c# added demonstrating drag & drop between two ThumbnailEx objects.
  • Added asynchronous support for item deletion, modification & insertion in the ThumbnailEx control.
  • Improved image compression performances.
  • Improved TWAIN support with Citrix and WPF applications.
  • Improved document rendering speed.
  • PDF caching mechanism improved, especially for image attributes extraction.
  • Small performance enhancements & minor bug fixes.
  • Changes in GdPictureImaging class:
  • new overload CreateGdPictureImageFromFile() allowing to load input file in memory.
  • new overload CreateGdPictureImageFromFileICM() allowing to load input file in memory.
  • new overload TiffCreateMultiPageFromFile() allowing to load input file in memory.
  • new overload TiffCreateMultiPageFromFileICM() allowing to load input file in memory.
  • new method GetDocumentFormatFromStream() allowing to load input file in memory.
  • Changes in ThumbnailExclass:
  • new property OwnDrop allowing to implement custom drag & drop support.
  • new method GetItemBitmap()
  • new overload AddItemFromGdPictureImage to specify the item text.
  • new overload AddItemFromStream to specify the item text.
  • new method GetItemAt()
  • new method ReleaseGdPictureImage()
  • new method InsertItemFromGdPictureImage()
  • new method InsertItemFromStream()
  • new method InsertItemFromFile()
  • Changes in GdViewer:
  • new method CopyRegionToGdPictureImage()

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.0.10 (Jul 9, 2012)

  • NET Framework 4.5 support,
  • Windows 8 support,
  • PDF Transparency,
  • PDF formfield and annotation flattening improved,
  • Support for linearized PDF creation (fast web view mode),
  • New PDF417 Barcode Reader,
  • New noise removal filter,
  • new blob removal filter,
  • new sophisticated line removal filter.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 9.0.9 (Jul 5, 2012)

  • Toolkit Core:
  • Binaries for NET Framework 4.5 available.
  • Memory usage optimization.
  • Battery of speed enhancement.
  • Better error handling.
  • Improved usercontrols appearance customization.
  • Multithreading handling improvement, especially with the ThumbnailEx control.
  • Better stream handling.
  • Temporary files creation has been avoided while loading from stream, array of bytes or string data. (Especially for usage in cloud or in sand-box)
  • Several Unicode issues fixed.
  • Improved OCR & PDF support for RTL languages such Arabic.
  • Annotations:
  • Memory usage optimization.
  • Speed Improvement.
  • New Ruler annotation object.
  • Improved synchronization with other GdPicture Objects (ThumbnailEx, AnnotationEditor, BookmarkTree...).
  • Added support to load and save annotations of all pages of a document from/to a single XML block.
  • PDF:
  • PDF rasterizer can produce any Pixel format bitmap.
  • Support for linearized PDF creation (fast web view mode).
  • PDF Transparency support for Rendering.
  • PDF rendering speed has been increased by 15-30% with lower memory usage.
  • PDF formfield and annotation flattening quality increased.
  • PDF now supports alpha channel when adding 32-bit ARGB bitmap (soft mask).
  • PDF Document Viewing preference support.
  • Full files attachment support (Embedded file stream).
  • Full PDF transparency support (Blend modes).
  • Graphics state stack and transformation matrix support.
  • Digital Certificate support with stamp.
  • Digital signature validation with certificate & document content checking.
  • Page duplication support.
  • Page drawing support. For example, draw the Page X of a PDF to a specified area of the page Y of another PDF.
  • Bookmark reading & writing support.
  • Document Imaging:
  • Speed improvement of the Document Imaging Filters (AutoDeskew, Despeckle...)
  • New 8bpp and 4bpp Quantizer with very high quality, high speed and low memory usage.
  • GIF encoder enhancement to produce better quality image with dramatically speed increasing.
  • Faster image resizer on indexed bitmaps.
  • Memory usage has been dramatically decreased for document filters.
  • Better support for large tiff files (IE 4gb multipage tiff documents).
  • Dramatic increase in speed in handling editable multipage tiff & gif.
  • New blob removal filter.
  • Multipage documents are opened in read & write mode by default (at the same speed as the previous read-only mode).
  • Added new noise removal filters.
  • New sophisticated line removal filter.
  • Barcoding:
  • Added option to specify barcode type to detect during 1D barcode recognition process.
  • Added option to return undecodable barcode.
  • Added option to specify the number of expected recognized barcode for 1D, Datamatrix , QRCode and PDF417 reader.
  • Increased speed & accuracy of the 1D barcode reader (speed increased between 33% and 50% according to our benchs).
  • Increased accuracy of the QR barcode reader .
  • Increased accuracy of the DataMatrix barcode reader .
  • Decreased memory usage.
  • New PDF417 Barcode Reader Plugin.
  • GdPicture.NET interface changes:
  • GdPictureImaging: new method RemoveBlob()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalDespeckle()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalDespeckleMore()
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method Barcode1DReaderDoScan() to specify the types of barcode to detect.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method BarcodeDataMatrixReaderDoScan() to specify the types of barcode to detect.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overloaded method BarcodeQRReaderDoScan() to specify the types of barcode to detect.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderDoScan()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeCount()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeConfidence()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeValue()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeRows()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeColumns()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeX1()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeY1()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeX2()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeY2()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeX3()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeY3()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeX4()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderGetBarcodeY4()
  • GdPictureImaging: new method BarcodePDF417ReaderClear()
  • GdPictureImaging: new overload of the method CreateGdPictureImageFromStream() to specify the input image format.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overload of the method CreateGdPictureImageFromStreamICM() to specify the input image format.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method RemoveLines()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddGraphicsPath()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddPageRotation()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddRotationAt()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method AddTransformationMatrix()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DeleteEmbeddedFile()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DigiSignWithStamp()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DrawPage()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DrawTextBox()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DuplicatePage()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method EmbedFile()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ExtractEmbeddedFile()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetActionPageDestination()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetActionURI()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetActionType()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkActionID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkChildCount()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkColor()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkCount()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkFirstChildID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkNextID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkParentID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkPrevID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkRootID()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkTextAttribute()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetBookMarkTitle()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetEmbeddedFileCount()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetEmbeddedFileCreationDate()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetEmbeddedFileDescription()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetEmbeddedFileModificationDate()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetEmbeddedFileName()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetEmbeddedFileSize()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetEmbeddedFileTitle()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetSignatureCount
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetSignatureProperties
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetViewerLayoutMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetViewerNonFullScreenPageMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetViewerPageMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetViewerPreference()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method MoveBookMark().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method MoveBookMarkDown().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method MoveBookMarkUp().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method NewBookMark()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveBookMark()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method RestoreGraphicsState()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SaveGraphicsState()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetBlendMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetBookMarkActionPageDestination()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetBookMarkActionURI()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetBookMarkColor()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetBookMarkTextAttribute()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetLineAlpha()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetFillAlpha()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetViewerNonFullScreenPageMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetViewerLayoutMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetViewerPageMode()
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetViewerPreference()
  • ThumbnailEx: new method FindNearestItem()
  • ThumbnailEx: new method GetItemFocusState()
  • ThumbnailEx: new method LoadFromFiles()
  • ThumbnailEx: new overloaded method LoadFromDirectory() to specify different pattern
  • ThumbnailEx: new method SetItemsFont()
  • ThumbnailEx: new property ShowText
  • ThumbnailEx: new property SelectedThumbnailBackColor
  • ThumbnailEx: new property ThumbnailBorder
  • ThumbnailEx: new property HorizontalTextAlignment
  • ThumbnailEx: new property VerticalTextAlignment
  • ThumbnailEx: new property TextMarginLeft
  • ThumbnailEx: new property TextMarginTop
  • BookmarkTree: new method ReloadBookmarks()
  • BookmarkTree: new property FontName
  • BookmarksTree: new method LoadFromGdViewer() form COM interop purpose.
  • GdViewer: new overload of the method DisplayFromStream() to specify the document format.
  • GdViewer: new overload of the method DisplayFromStreamICM() to specify the document format.
  • GdViewer: new method SelectAnnotation().
  • GdViewer: new method SaveAnnotationsToXMPEx().
  • GdViewer: new method GetAnnotationManager().
  • AnnotationEditor: new method LoadFromGdViewer() form COM interop purpose.
  • AnnotationManager: new method SaveAnnotationsToXMPEx() to save annotations of all pages into a single xml file.
  • AnnotationManager: new property PageCount

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 8.5.29 (May 21, 2012)

  • .NET Managed PDF Support,
  • Full Annotation support for image & PDF,
  • Multi-thread OCR support.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 7.0.1 (Sep 27, 2010)

  • JBIG2, Thumbnails, PDF Encryption, PDF Bookmarks, Faster Image Loading, Faster PDF Viewing, Native 64-bit Support

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 6.7.0 (Apr 15, 2010)

  • Major improvements:
  • New PDF Reader features in the GdPictureImaging class.
  • Image extraction from PDF feature.
  • New JPEG lossless transformation features.
  • New set of TWAIN features.
  • Size of assemblies have been reduced.
  • Battery of bug fixes & speed improvement.
  • New methods of the GdPictureImaging class:
  • new method GetDocumentFormatFromFile
  • new method JPEGLosslessCrop
  • new method JPEGLosslessFlipX
  • new method JPEGLosslessFlipY
  • new method JPEGLosslessRotate90
  • new method JPEGLosslessRotate180
  • new method JPEGLosslessRotate270
  • new method JPEGLosslessTranspose
  • new method JPEGLosslessTransverse
  • new method PdfReaderCloseDocument
  • new method PdfReaderExtractImage
  • new method PdfReaderGetAuthor
  • new method PdfReaderGetCreationDate
  • new method PdfReaderGetCreator
  • new method PdfReaderGetCurrentPage
  • new method PdfReaderGetEncryptionScheme
  • new method PdfReaderGetImageCount
  • new method PdfReaderGetKeywords
  • new method PdfReaderGetMetadata
  • new method PdfReaderGetModificationDate
  • new method PdfReaderGetPageCount
  • new method PdfReaderGetPageHeight
  • new method PdfReaderGetPageRotation
  • new method PdfReaderGetPageText
  • new method PdfReaderGetPageTextArea
  • new method PdfReaderGetPageThumbnail
  • new method PdfReaderGetPageWidth
  • new method PdfReaderGetProducer
  • new method PdfReaderGetSubject
  • new method PdfReaderGetTitle
  • new method PdfReaderGetVersion
  • new method PdfReaderIsEncrypted
  • new method PdfReaderLoadFromFile
  • new method PdfReaderLoadFromStream
  • new method PdfReaderRenderPageToGdPictureImage
  • new method PdfReaderSelectPage
  • new method PdfReaderSetPassword
  • new method TwainGetGamma
  • new method TwainGetNoiseFilter
  • new method TwainGetOrientation
  • new method TwainGetRotation
  • new method TwainGetXScaling
  • new method TwainGetYScaling
  • new method TwainIsGammaAvailable
  • new method TwainIsNoiseFilterAvailable
  • new method TwainIsOrientationAvailable
  • new method TwainIsRotationAvailable
  • new method TwainIsXScalingAvailable
  • new method TwainIsYScalingAvailable
  • new method TwainLoadConfiguration
  • new method TwainSaveConfiguration
  • new method TwainSetGamma
  • new method TwainSetNoiseFilter
  • new method TwainSetOrientation
  • new method TwainSetRotation
  • new method TwainSetXScaling
  • new method TwainSetYScaling
  • New method of the GdViewerclass:
  • DisplayFromPDFHandle

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 6.6.3 (Feb 19, 2010)

  • Minor bug fixes

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 6.6.2 (Feb 19, 2010)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • New overloaded method SaveAsICO to provide icon size.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 6.6.1 (Feb 19, 2010)

  • Major bug fix in multipage tiff creation using JPEG compression.
  • Speed improvement for rectangle & highlighted region rendering.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 6.4.0 (Sep 2, 2009)

  • Barcode recongition, OCR, RAW format support, Barcode Writing.

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 6.3.0 (Jun 9, 2009)

  • Major improvements
  • Added binaries for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 & 3.5.
  • Speed optimization of the toolkit core, especially for image filters.
  • Improvement of the TWAIN support.
  • Speed improvement of the document viewer.
  • New methods of the GdPictureImaging class
  • New method: TwainGetModalUI()
  • New method: TwainSetModalUI()
  • New method: TwainIsEndorserAvailable()
  • New method: TwainGetEndorserNumber()
  • New method: TwainSetEndorserNumber()
  • New method: SetBCSG()
  • New method: CreateGdPictureImageFromBitmap()
  • New overloaded method: Isblank: ()
  • Warning:
  • By default multipage tiff & multiframe gif are opened as read only.
  • TiffOpenMultiPageAsReadOnly() Replaced by TiffOpenMultiPageForWrite()
  • GifOpenMultiFrameAsReadOnly() Replaced by GifOpenMultiFrameForWrite()
  • New property of the GdViewer class
  • New property PDFShowDialogForPassword
  • New event of the GdViewer class
  • New event PDFPasswordRequest
  • New method of the GdViewer class
  • New method DisplayFromBitmap

New in GdPicture.NET SDK 6.2.1 (May 13, 2009)

  • Major improvements:
  • Added support for writing EXR image
  • Speed optimization of the toolkit core
  • Autodeskew enhancement
  • Automatic borders removal enhancements
  • Speed improvement of the document viewer
  • Bugs fix:
  • Bug fix with DrawGdPictureImageTransparencyColor() & DrawGdPictureImageTransparency() methods
  • Bug fix with CropBlackBorders() & CropWhiteBorders() methods
  • Bug fix with CropBorders() method
  • Bug fix with image rotations
  • New methods of the GdPictureImaging class:
  • New method: SaveAsEXR()
  • New method: TwainSetDSMPath()
  • New method: OCRTesseractSetPassCount()
  • New method: CreateClonedGdPictureImage32BppPARGB()
  • New overloaded method: CreateNewGdPictureImage()
  • TwainAddGdPictureImageToPdfOCR() method renamed as PdfAddGdPictureImageToPdfOCR()
  • TwainPdfOCRStop() method renamed as PdfOCRStop()
  • TwainPdfOCRStart() method renamed as PdfOCRStart()
  • New properties of the GdViewer class
  • New property OptimizeDrawingSpeed
  • New property HScrollVisible
  • new property VScrollVisible
  • New events of the GdViewer class
  • New event BeforePrintPage
  • New event AfterPrintPage