GdPicture.NET 14 New Major Release!

[Oli]

• Fixed issues in XFDF form fields import.
• Improved PPT and PPTX rendering.
• Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
• Fixed issue on BMP on UNIX platform.
• Fixed DocuVieware issue on WebForm that prevent control initialization.
• Fixed NuGet reference on DocuVieware.API package.
• Fixed GdPicture.API issue OCR on UNIX platform

[Oli]

• 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
• Fixed DocuVieware issue on search result border color.
• Improves PDF text rendering.

[Oli]

• Improved KVP engine accuracy.
• Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
• Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
• Fixed issues related to text selection within OCR-generated documents on certain viewers.
• Improved PDF/A conversion engine.
• Note: All code samples have been moved to https://github.com/Orpalis/installer-samples

[Oli]

• Improves KVP engine accuracy.
• Improves Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
• Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
• Improves PPT and PPTX rendering.
• Adds DocuVieware search result color customization on WebForm platform.
• Adds enhanced text extraction capabilities through the new GdPictureTextExtraction class.

[Oli]

• Improved DOC, DOCX and XLSX rendering.
• Improved Table to XLSX conversion.
• Improved KVP engine accuracy.
• Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
• Fixed DocuVieware programatic JS call to Zoom action.
• Fixed GdPicture issue on MSG rendering engine.

[Oli]

• Improved DocuVieware forms handling.
• Fixed minor issues with PDF digital signatures.
• Improved XLS, XLSX, DOC and DOCX rendering.

[Oli]

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

[Oli]

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

[Oli]

• Improved font and text handling performance of the toolkit.
• Improved PDF text rendering.
• Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
• Improved XLS and XLSX rendering.
• Improved AutoCropPage functionality precision for some PDF documents.
• Improved grayscale conversion engine in rare complex graphic scenarios.
• Improved Table processing accuracy.
• Improved text selection precision for OCR-generated documents.
• Improved MRC engine.
• Improved DXF image support.
• Fixed DocuVieware issue with session disposal mechanism on timeout.
• Fixed DocuVieware issue at loading document time when a popup is opened.
• Improved PDF/A conversion engine.
• Added support for importing InstantJSON annotation data in GdPicturePDF class.
• Added new methods `ImportInstantJSONDataFromFile` and `ImportInstantJSONDataFromStream` to the GdPicturePDF class.
• Upgraded libwebp library to version 1.3.2 to fix CVE-2023-4863 vulnerability.

[Shrevin]

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

[Oli]

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

[Oli]

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

[Shrevin]

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

[Oli]

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

[Oli]

• 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.