GdPicture.NET Version History

GdPicture.NET 14.2.66 (March 15th 2024)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.65 (March 7th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.64 (February 29th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.63 (February 22nd 2024)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.62 (February 15th 2024)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.61 (February 8th 2024)

  • Improves DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Adds conditional statement support in OfficeTemplater.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.60 (February 2nd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.59 (January 25th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.58 (January 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.57 (January 11th 2024)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.56 (January 4th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.55 (December 26th 2023)

  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.54 (December 14th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.53 (December 7th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.52 (November 30th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.51 (November 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.50 (November 21st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.49 (November 2nd 2023)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.48 (October 26th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.47 (October 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.46 (October 12th 2023)

  • Improves Table processing accuracy.
  • Improves DataMatrix barcode reading accuracy.
  • Fixes text extraction issue directly after OCR process.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.45 (October 5th 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.
  • Added new methods ImportInstantJSONDataFromFile and ImportInstantJSONDataFromStream to the GdPicturePDF class.
  • Upgrades libwebp library to version 1.3.2 to fix CVE-2023-4863 vulnerability.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.44 (September 25th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.43 (September 13th 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 the following properties in GdPictureDocumentConverter:
    • SpreadsheetPageWidthOverride
    • SpreadsheetPageHeightOverride
    • SpreadsheetLeftMarginOverride
    • SpreadsheetTopMarginOverride
    • SpreadsheetRightMarginOverride
    • SpreadsheetBottomMarginOverride

GdPicture.NET 14.2.42 (September 7th 2023)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.41 (August 31st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.40 (August 25th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.39 (August 17th 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.
  • Note: All code samples have been moved to https://github.com/Orpalis/installer-samples

GdPicture.NET 14.2.38 (August 3rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.37 (July 28th 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.
  • Fixes GdPicture.API issue OCR on UNIX platform

GdPicture.NET 14.2.36 (July 20th 2023)

  • Improves PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improves PDF annotation flattening feature.
  • Improves pagination around graphic objects in Office documents.
  • Improves PPT rendering.
  • Adds support of MS Edge in HTML / MSG /EML converter engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.35 (July 13th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.34 (July 5th 2023)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.33 (June 29th 2023)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.32 (June 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.31 (June 16th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.30 (June 9th 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)

GdPicture.NET 14.2.29 (June 1st 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.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.28 (May 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.27 (May 12th 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)

GdPicture.NET 14.2.26 (May 4th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.25 (April 21st 2023)

  • Improved handling of malformed PDF documents.
  • Fixed minor issue in PDF processing resource caching.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering.
  • Fixed minor issue when processing PDF documents with malformed destinations.
  • Improved Table to XLSX conversion.
  • Fixed NuGet restore issue on some specific context.
  • Improved Office formats rendering.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.24 (April 13th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.23 (April 7th 2023)

  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering.
  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering.
  • Improved Office formats equation rendering.
  • Improved Office formats table rendering.
  • Added DocuVieware event RegisterOnDocuViewareControlLoaded

GdPicture.NET 14.2.22 (April 3rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.21 (March 24th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.20 (March 9th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.19 (March 3rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.18 (February 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.17 (February 15th 2023)

  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved COM edition compatibility with some environment of developments.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.16 (February 9th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.15 (February 2nd 2023)

  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved DOC, DOCX, RTF and ODT rendering.
  • Improved rendition of shapes for all office formats.
  • Improved computation of cell width on XLS and XLSX documents.
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.14 (January 26th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.13 (January 20th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.12 (January 12th 2023)

  • Improved XLSX, XLSM, XLS rendering.
  • Added GdPictureDocumentConverter.HTMLCustomJavascript and GdPictureDocumentConverter.EmailCustomJavascript properties.
  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.11 (December 29th 2022)

  • Improved DOC and DOCX rendering
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering

GdPicture.NET 14.2.10 (December 22nd 2022)

  • Added new property RemoveLogicalStructure to the PDFReducerConfiguration class.
  • Improved PDF reducer engine.
  • Improved DOCX rendering engine.
  • Improved PPT and PPTX rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved rendition of shapes for all Office formats.
  • Fixed handling of images with ICC profiles in GdPicturePDF class.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Added new property HTMLDefaultBrowserStartupArguments to GdPictureDocumentConverter class.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.9 (December 16th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.8 (December 8th 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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.7 (December 1st 2022)

  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Smart Redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Table Processing accuracy.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented EML from being rendered on *.API assemblies.
  • Fixed PDF OCG print and export states handling.
  • Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
  • Improved PDF digital signature memory management for large documents.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.6 (November 24th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.5 (November 17th 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved Smart redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF linearizer engine.
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Fixed EML/MSG rendering issue on Linux.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.4 (November 11th 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved Smart redaction engine accuracy.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved Table processing accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Fixed HTML to PDF on Linux issue.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.3 (November 3rd 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2.2 (October 27th 2022)

  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
  • Improved KVP engine accuracy.
  • Improved borders detection engine accuracy.
  • Improved HTML rendering engine.
  • Fixed Office formats: issues preventing some .doc, .ppt and .xls files from being rendered.
  • Improved RTL support for annotation.
  • Adds SplitExcelSheetsIntoPages option in GdPictureDocumentConverter.
  • Improved PDF/A validation and conversion engines.
  • Fixed minor colorspace issue in grayscale conversion engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.2.1 (October 21st 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.2 (October 13th 2022)

New Medium release bringing:

  • Linux compatibility.
  • PostScript format support.
  • New Table Extraction engine.
  • New Smart Redaction engine.

Changelog:

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.189 (September 26th 2022)

  • Improved PDF/A conversion engine.
  • Improved PDF unembed font feature.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property TrackOfficeDocumentRevisions.
  • Improved annotation rendering support.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.188 (September 15th 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).

GdPicture.NET 14.1.187 (September 7th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.186 (August 24th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.185 (August 10th 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering.
  • Improved Key-Value Pair engine accuracy.
  • Improved 1D barcode reading accuracy.
  • GdPictureImaging : Fixed an issue on GetTextHeight() & GetTextWidth() methods.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.184 (August 4th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.183 (July 29th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.182 (July 22nd 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.181 (July 15th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.180 (July 7th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.179 (June 28th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.178 (June 24th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.177 (June 17th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.176 (June 9th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.175 (June 2nd 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().

GdPicture.NET 14.1.174 (May 27th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.173 (May 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.172 (May 20th 2022)

  • Fixed a critical regression in the OCR engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.171 (May 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.170 (May 12th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.169 (May 6th 2022)

  • OCR accuracy improvements.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.168 (May 6th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.167 (April 29th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.166 (April 28th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.165 (April 23rd 2022)

  • Vulnerability fix in the MICR engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.164 (April 21st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.163 (April 8th 2022)

  • Fixed a critical regression into the PDF parser.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.162 (April 8th 2022)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF OCG flattening feature.
  • Improved internal PDF repair engine.
  • Improved office formats rendering.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved Handling of some malformed PDF.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF reducer engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • New native runtime: GdPicture.NET.14.machine.vision(.64).dll
  • Removed native runtimes: GdPicture.NET.14.ocr.tesseract.3(.64).dll, GdPicture.NET.14.omr(.64).dll and GdPicture.NET.14.document.analyzer(.64).dll. They have been merged into GdPicture.NET.14.machine.vision(.64).dll.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.161 (April 1st 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.160 (March 31st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.159 (March 24th 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF page normalization feature.
  • Improved Handling of some malformed PDF.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.158 (March 19th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.157 (March 17th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.156 (March 10th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.155 (March 04th 2022)

  • Fixed a critical regression in the PDF engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.154 (March 03rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.153 (February 24th 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.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetJBIG2PMSThreshold().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.152 (February 17th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.151 (February 10th 2022)

  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.150 (February 01st 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.149 (January 27th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.148 (January 20th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.147 (January 14th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.146 (January 10th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.145 (January 10th 2022)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.144 (January 6th 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!

GdPicture.NET 14.1.143 (December 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.142 (December 16th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.141 (December 8th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.140 (November 25th 2021)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF digital signature support.
  • Improved PDF parsing of malformed documents.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.139 (November 18th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.138 (November 8th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.137 (October 28th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.136 (October 21st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.135 (October 7th 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().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.134 (September 30th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.133 (September 23rd 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.132 (September 17th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.131 (September 9th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.130 (September 3rd 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.129 (August 27th 2021)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.128 (August 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.127 (August 13th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.126 (August 5th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.125 (July 29th 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetMRCImageMaskResolution().
  • Improved MRC engine compression rate.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.124 (July 23th 2021)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved MSG rendering engine.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method GetWebBrowserPoolSize().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.123 (July 16th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.122 (July 8th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.121 (July 2nd 2021)

  • GdPicturePDF: Improved AutoCropPage functionality.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved embedded files handling.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved RegEx text search.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.120 (June 25th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.119 (June 16th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.118 (June 10th 2021)

  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved PDF digital signature support.
  • Improved PDF/OCR engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.117 (June 2nd 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.116 (May 27th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.115 (May 20th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.114 (May 13th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.113 (April 29th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.112 (April 22nd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.111 (April 15th 2021)

  • Improved support for unstable TWAIN drivers.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved global toolkit speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.110 (April 8th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.109 (April 1st 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.108 (March 23rd 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().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.107 (March 11th 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().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.106 (March 4th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.105 (February 25th 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.
  • GdPictureImaging: new overload of Barcode1DReaderDoScan() to allow to set a timeout.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.104 (February 18th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.103 (February 11th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.102 (February 04th 2021)

  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property TimeoutMilliseconds.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method ConvertTo1BppWAN().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ConvertToGrayscale().
  • Improved MRZ reader accuracy and speed.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved OCR engine.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.101 (January 28th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.100 (January 20th 2021)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.99 (January 14th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.98 (January 06th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.97 (December 31st 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
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GdPicture.NET 14.1.96 (December 24th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.95 (December 17th 2020)

  • Fixed a critical issue on .NET 5.
  • Improved Office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): new property PreserveViewRotation.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.94 (December 10th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.93 (December 3rd 2020)

  • AnnotationRuller: new TicksPerUnit property.
  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.92 (November 26th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.91 (November 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.90 (November 13th 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.
  • GdPicturePDF: improved PDF repair functionality.
  • GdPicturePDF: new methods IsValidPDFA().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method CheckPDFAConformance().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.89 (November 4th 2020)

  • Improved office formats rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved text extraction/selection engine.
  • Improved OCR engine accuracy & speed.
  • Added a new PDF/A validation engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ValidatePDFA().
  • GdPictureImaging: added overload to all barcode detection method to specify if the engine must stop the recognition process when the expected number of symbols have been detected.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): improved text selection.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): new property DocumentFormat.
  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): new property ClipAnnotsToPageBounds.
  • The GdPicture.NET.14.jbig2.encoder.64.dll & GdPicture.NET.14.jbig2.encoder.dll are not required anymore.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.88 (October 20th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.87 (October 9th 2020)

  • Added support for doc, xls and ppt formats.
  • 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.
  • New enumeration OrientationMode.
  • GdViewer (COM/ActiveX edition): new property hWnd.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.86 (October 1st 2020)

  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved SVG renderer.
  • Improved DXF renderer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.85 (September 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.84 (September 17th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.83 (September 10th 2020)

  • GdPicturePDF: new overload AddJpegImageFromStream() to allow ICC profile embedding.
  • GdPictureDocumentConverter: new property: EnableICC.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved PDF rendering engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.82 (September 8th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.81 (September 1st 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.80 (August 24th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.79 (August 13th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.78 (August 5th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.77 (August 2nd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.76 (July 27th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.75 (July 13th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.74 (July 9th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.73 (July 2nd 2020)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy speed.
  • Improved 1D barcode recognition engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method IsTagged().
  • Improved PDF text extraction engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.72 (June 25th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.71 (June 18th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.70 (June 11th 2020)

  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.69 (June 4th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.68 (May 26th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.66 (May 14th 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.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.65 (May 1st 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.64 (April 23rd 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.63 (April 16th 2020)

  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Improved margins detection filter.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer.
  • AnnotationEmbeddedImage: new property KeepAspectRatio.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.62 (April 9th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.61 (April 2nd 2020)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved OCR engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF/A converter engine.
  • GdViewer (WinForms & WPF): new method ApplyAllRedactions().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.60 (March 26th 2020)

  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Annotation: new public property ClientTag.
  • GdViewer: new event AnnotationTextBoxKeyDown().
  • GdViewer: new event AnnotationTextBoxLostFocus().
  • GdPicturePDF: New method ClonePages().
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved Redaction Engine.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.59 (March 20th 2020)

  • Fixed a critical bug preventing usage of the WFP controls within the .NET Core edition.
  • PDFReducerPDFVersion enumeration: added enumeration members PdfVersionA1a, PdfVersionA1b, PdfVersionA2a, PdfVersionA2b.
  • Improved internal PDF/A editor engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.58 (March 19th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.57 (March 12th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.56 (March 05th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.55 (February 27th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.54 (February 20th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.53 (February 13th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.52 (January 31st 2020)

  • Improved tiff codec to decode some malformed documents.
  • Improved support for large linearized PDF creation (more than 2GB files).
  • Improved PDF & Office format rasterizers.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved OCR automatic orientation detection.
  • Improved OCR accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.51 (January 22nd 2020)

  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.50 (January 14th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.49 (January 04th 2020)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.48 (December 21st 2019)

  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved PDF generator engine.
  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • Improved loading speed of large office files.
  • Improved support for more than 4 GB PDF files.
  • GdPictureSegmenter: new method SetROI().
  • GdPictureSegmenter: new method ResetROI().
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved resource optimization in RemoveUnusedResources method.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved text extraction and search for right-to-left text based documents.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.47 (December 13th 2019)

  • Improved office formats rasterizer engine.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved redaction precision on text objects.
  • Improved OCR accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.46 (December 06th 2019)

  • Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.
  • Dramatically improved RTL text support in office format rasterizers.
  • General improvements on office format rasterizers.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved redaction precission.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.45 (November 27st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.44 (November 21st 2019)

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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.43 (November 19th 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().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.42 (October 29th 2019)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.41 (October 24th 2019)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.40 (October 17th 2019)

  • Added PDF redaction support.
  • Dramatically improved OCR engine accuracy.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy & speed.
  • Improved OMR engine accuracy.
  • Improved SVG rendering engine, quality and speed.
  • 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.
  • Improved rendering speed.
  • Improved font substitution mechanism for all formats.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.39 (October 08th 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.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method MergePages().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetOverrideOcrEngine().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetOverrideOcrEngine().
  • GdPicturePDF: new event ExternalOcrPageRequest.
  • New class added: PdfOcrOptions.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.38 (September 30th 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).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.37 (September 18th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.36 (September 10th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.35 (September 03rd 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.34 (August 29th 2019)

  • Improved PDF reducer engine.
  • Improved Office format rendering.
  • Improved TWAIN support.
  • GdPictureImaging: new method TwainImagePreview().
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload DeleteOCG() to specify if OCG content shall be removed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.33 (August 16th 2019)

  • Improved PDF form-fields support.
  • XLSX rasterizer engine: improved support for cell/text formatting.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.32 (August 13th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.31 (August 7th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.30 (July 30th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.29 (July 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.28 (July 17th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.27 (July 10th 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine speed and accuracy.
  • Introduced support for tables in RTF rasterizer engine.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.26 (July 4th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.25 (June 25th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.24 (June 20th 2019)

  • Critical bug fixes with annotation system and COM support.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.23 (June 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.22 (June 12th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.21 (June 04th 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved SVG renderer.
  • Introduced support of page layouts with several columns in DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved OCR accuracy and stability with LSTM based dictionaries.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved digital signature and certification processing.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved forms editing support.
  • AnnotationManager: new method GetFirstAnnotationCommentIdx().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.20 (May 22nd 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • Improved DOCX rasterizer.
  • GdPictureImaging: New enumeration BarcodeAztecCodeVersion.
  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.19 (May 15th 2019)

  • Improved QR-code decoder accuracy.
  • GdPicturePDF: Improved digital signature and certification processing.
  • Improved global speed of the Toolkit.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.18 (May 08th 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed.
  • Improved Office formats rasterizer.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.17 (May 01st 2019)

  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved PDF generator engine.
  • Improved SVG rasterizer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.16 (April 24th 2019)

  • Important improvements in the DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved MRC engine accuracy.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.15 (April 17th 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.
  • Introduced support for tables in header/footer in DOCX rasterizer engine.
  • Improved header/footer rendition in DOCX rasterizer engine.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.14 (April 09th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.13 (April 3rd 2019)

  • Improved zero-length pdf path rendering.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.12 (April 2nd 2019)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.11 (April 1st 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.10 (March 20th 2019)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.9 (March 14th 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 (March 07th 2019)

  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy and speed.
  • Improved MRC engine.
  • Improved text rendering and extraction support with multi-byte characters.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.7 (February 27th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.6 (February 21st 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.
  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.5 (February 12th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.4 (February 1st 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.3 (January 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.2 (January 17th 2019)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.1.1 (January 10th 2019)

  • GdViewer (WinForm & WPF): new property AnnotationSelectionLineColor.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.1.0 (January 2nd 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 DOCX rasterizer.
  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.77 (November 29th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.76 (November 21st 2018)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.75 (November 16th 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.
  • Improved 2D barcode reader robustness.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.74 (November 09th 2018)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.73 (November 07th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.72 (October 30th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.71 (October 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.70 (October 12th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.69 (October 04th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.67 (September 20th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.66 (September 11th 2018)

  • GdPicturePDF: new overload GetFormFieldCheckBoxStyle()
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SetFormFieldCheckBoxStyle()
  • Improved MRC engine (compression rate and output quality).
  • Improved DXF rasterizer.
  • Improved DOCX rendering speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.65 (September 03rd 2018)

  • GdPicturePDF: new method BeginXObjectForm.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method EndXObjectForm.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method DrawXObjectForm.
  • Improved PDF generation speed.
  • Improved DXF rasterizer.
  • Improved MRC engine (compression rate and output quality).
  • Improved 1D barcode reading speed and accuracy.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.64 (August 15th 2018)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.63 (August 13th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.62 (August 3rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.61 (July 26th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.60 (July 16th 2018)

  • GdViewer: ForceTemporaryModeForImage and ForceTemporaryModeForPDF properties renamed to ForceTemporaryMode.
  • 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.58 (July 7th 2018)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.57 (July 5th 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().

GdPicture.NET 14.0.56 (June 21st 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().
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.55 (June 14th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.54 (June 6th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.53 (May 29th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.52 (May 22nd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.51 (May 18th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.50 (May 10th 2018)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.49 (May 07th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.48 (April 27th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.47 (April 19th 2018)

  • Dramatically improved punch hole removal filter accuracy and speed (up to 6x faster).
  • Improved docx document rendering.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.46 (April 13th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.45 (April 6th 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 conversion speed and produced file size.
  • Improved robustness and speed of 2D barcode recognition engines.
  • Improved PDF rendering speed with complex documents.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.44 (March 23rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.43 (March 16th 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).
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.42 (March 9th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.41 (March 1st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.40 (February 23rd 2018)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.39 (February 22nd 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.38 (February 14th 2018)

  • Improved PDF formfields support.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.37 (February 8th 2018)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.36 (February 3rd 2018)

  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.35 (February 1st 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.34 (January 25th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.33 (January 17th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.32 (January 08th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.31 (January 05th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.30 (January 03rd 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.29 (December 19th 2017)

  • Fixed a problem reading some specific WSQ files.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer engine with non embedded fonts.
  • Improved blank page detection engine accuracy.
  • Improved borders removal engine accuracy.
  • Fixed a bug into the OCR engine while processing non common image resolutions.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.28 (December 14th 2017)

  • New GdPictureOCR class with advanced OCR capabilities and segmentation features.
  • New format supported: WSQ. (Wavelet scalar quantization).
  • OCR methods of the GdPictureImaging class are now deprecated. The new GdPictureOCR class must be used instead.
  • Improved pdf text extraction and search algorithms.
  • Improved PDF rasterizer with better handling of non embedded fonts and by adding support to non standard color spaces produced by popular PDF generators.
  • Reduced OCR memory usage, especially in multithread context.
  • Datamatrix reader engine: Improved accuracy by introducing support for several string encoding.
  • PDF417 reader engine: Improved accuracy by introducing support for several string encoding.
  • QR Code reader engine: Improved accuracy by introducing support for several string encoding.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.27 (December 01st 2017)

  • Fixed a problem causing the OCR not to recognize large image files.
  • Improved speed of the GdViewer control (WPF edition) for annotations drawing and rendering.
  • 1D barcode engine: improved accuracy to avoid false positives.
  • 1D barcode engine: improved speed.
  • 1D barcode writer: fixed a problem causing some characters not to be encoded properly.
  • PDF417 barcode writer: fixed a crash.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.26 (November 21st 2017)

  • Improved jpeg2000 encoding / decoding speed and memory usage.
  • Barcode 1d reader: improved recognition speed.
  • All barcode reader engines: improved robustness.
  • Barcode PDF417 reader engine: reduced memory used.
  • Barcode Datamatrix reader engine: reduced memory used.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method GetFontData().
  • Improved PDF parser engine.
  • Improved pdf rendering engine.
  • Improved borders detection filters.
  • Improved blank pages detection algorithm.
  • Improved TWAIN memory transfer mode and added compatibility with some CANON drivers producing invalid bitmap headers.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.25 (November 01st 2017)

  • Barcode 1D engine: Improved accuracy and speed.
  • Improved the accuracy of the color detection engine.
  • Improved PDF rendering with type 3 fonts.
  • Improved PDF rendering with badly encoded font references.
  • Improved TWAIN acquisition support.
  • Improved GdViewer (WinForm) rendering and behavior with native screen scale.
  • Improved PDF parser to better handle some corrupted data.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.24 (October 17th 2017)

  • improved auto-deskew algorithm.
  • improved JPEG decoder for tiff format to better handle malformed images.
  • improved pdf annotations rendering.
  • improved GdViewer WPF gesture support to produce a better user experience.
  • 1D barcode engine: improved speed and accuracy.
  • battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Updated Digital Signatures with Hash selection and SHA256 as default.
  • Updated Digital Signatures with Timestamp functionality.
  • GdPicturePDF: DigiSign() method and all overloads marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: DigiSignWithStamp() method and all overloads marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetCertificationLevel() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetCertFromP12() method and all overloads marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetCertFromStore() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetCertFromSmartCard() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetCertFromSmartCardBySerialNumber() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetSignaturePos() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetStampImage() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetSignatureInfos() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSetText() method and all overloads marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigShowValidationMark() method marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: SigSign() method and all overloads marked as deprecated.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureCertificationLevel().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureCertificateFromP12() + 1 overload.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureCertificateFromStore().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureCertificateFromSmartCard().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureCertificateFromSmartCardBySerialNumber().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignaturePos().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureStampImage().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureInfo().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureText() + 1 overload.
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureValidationMark().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureTimestampInfo().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method SetSignatureHash().
  • GdPicturePDF: new method ApplySignature() + 1 overload.
  • GDPicture : new public Enum PdfSignatureHash.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.23 (October 06th 2017)

  • GdPictureImaging: new method FxBitonalDespeckleAdvanced()
  • new enumeration DespeckleType
  • GdViewer Winform: improved zooming and panning, especially in multiple page view mode.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.22 (October 03rd 2017)

  • Improved PDF parser speed.
  • Improved 1D & 2D barcode reading accuracy and speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.20 (September 21st 2017)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.19 (September 15th 2017)

  • Improved Punch hole removal filter accuracy.
  • Improved blank page detection engine accuracy.
  • Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved DataMatrix barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved PDF417 barcode reader accuracy.
  • Improved PDF packing speed.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.18 (August 31st 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.17 (August 19th 2017)

  • OCR: Fixed issues with reading Japanese vertical text.
  • OCR: Fixed issues with reading mix of Hebrew and English text (heb+eng).
  • OCR: Fixed issues with reading Arabic text (ara).
  • OCR: Fixed issues with reading English vertical text.
  • OCR: Fixed an issue causing characters to be replaced with the rejection character.
  • OCR: Improved memory handling and speed.
  • OCR: Fixed memory allocation failures management.
  • OCR: 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.16 (August 10th 2017)

  • GdPicturePDF: added opentype font support to AddTrueTypeFontFromFile(), AddTrueTypeFont(), AddTrueTypeFontU() and AddTrueTypeFontFromFileU() methods.
  • New IsBlank() overload to specify if punch holes must be taken into account.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.15 (August 04th 2017)

  • Improved blank page detection accuracy.
  • Added support for region of interest to the blank page detection algorithm.
  • Improved speed of the PDF rasterizer for jbig2 bitmap.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.14 (July 28th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.13 (July 23rd 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.12 (July 17th 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).
  • battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.11 (July 11th 2017)

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

GdPicture.NET 14.0.10 (July 07th 2017)

  • GdPicturePDF: added support form CMYK JPEG file to the AddJpegImageFromFile() & AddJpegImageFromStream() method.
  • 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
  • Battery of other minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.9 (June 27th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.8 (June 19th 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.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.7 (June 16th 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.6 (June 2nd 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.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.5 (May 24th 2017)

  • 1D barcode reader: Improved the accuracy when the image contains several barcodes.
  • GdViewer (winform) fixed an annotation flickering issue.
  • GdPicturePDF: new overload SaveToStream() to specify linearization.
  • GdPicturePDF: New overload method NewPDF() to specify PDF conformance to use (any PDF/A is supported).
  • DOCX renderer: Added support for images encoded by the mean of legacy format Vector Markup Language (VML).

GdPicture.NET 14.0.4 (May 19th 2017)

  • Docx rasterizer: Improved the rendition of tables.
  • Improved the PDF rasterizer.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 14.0.3 (May 12th 2017)

  • GdViewer (WinForm): new event: RegionMovedByUser.
  • GdViewer (WinForm): new event: RegionResizedByUser.
  • Improved blank page detection filter.
  • Improved docx rasterizer.
  • Fixed a bug with some PDF generated with annotations causing an error message on Adobe reader at opening.
  • Battery of other minor bug fixes and minor improvements.

Previous change log can be found on our community forum into the announcement section