Fixes

• Removed the Newtonsoft.JSON dependency from the product to prevent version conflicts with customers using the same library.
• Removed the MSXML dependency from the product to address security concerns.
• Fixed an issue with displaying multi-page xlsx files using Windows Presentation Foundation.

Features

• Enabled MAT module in ImageGear.NET Recognition component.
  • Specifies the MAT matrix matching module. This module is useful for recognizing text in the OCR-A and OCR-B font, using the ImGearRecFillingMethod.OCRA and ImGearRecFillingMethod.OCRB filling methods.
• Improved samples for optimized usability experience.
• Implemented API that allows users to control the recognition timeout.
• Adds support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with truncation of large files for WEB downloading.
• Fixed an issue with the table of contents being moved to the next page for some Microsoft Word documents. Detection of Microsoft Office files are updated with password protected file detection. Loading of password protected Microsoft Office files results in an error message that such formats are not supported.
• Fixed an issue with the Office component consuming CPU while idle.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing an expected exception from being thrown when ImGearPage did not have a valid type while adding/inserting that page to the ImGearDocumentPageArray.
• Fixed an issue where loading the image in WPF sample caused a failure. Added a new dialog option to the AnnotateImageAndPDF_WPF sample that demonstrates how to scale the raster size and set bit-depth when converting a PDF page to a raster image.
• Fixed an issue with losing consistency when adding and removing PDF pages.
• Fixed an issue with the PDF to SVG conversion of nested contours in graphic paths.
• Fixed an issue with PDF to SVG conversion that caused negative space to be filled in for certain Japanese fonts.
• Fixed an issue with viewing PDF images in SVG mode.
• Fixed an issue with “SOF segment is not present” exception being thrown when using the default JPEG filter.
• Fixed an issue with loading of JPEG files containing 20481 tags in EXIF metadata with null length.
• Fixed an issue with JPEG to TIFF conversion that caused some files to be saved with misleading metadata.
• Fixed an issue with AcroForm flattening that caused certain radio buttons to lose their custom appearance.
• Fixed a crash when small images with indexed colorspace are displayed in interpolation mode.
• Fixed an issue where some images with non-uniform grayscale indexed palettes rendered incorrectly.

Features

• Samples: Support added for Visual Studio 2019.
• Improved PDF native annotation support:
  • Native PDF annotations are no longer modified when saved unless explicitly modified through user interaction or the API.
  • Native PDF annotation attributes that can not currently be modified through user interaction or the API are no longer removed from modified annotations when saved.
• Updated the internal PDF Library to fix a number of rendering issues.
• Improved and restructured the Runtime Licensing section in the online help.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Web ISIS component to return incorrect image width for scanned images.
• Fixed an issue where IGNET would crash under certain situations while performing OCR operations.
• Fixed an issue where mouse interaction with text annotation worked inaccurately when the background image was zoomed.
• Fixed an issue of incorrectly reading JPEG files when XMP metadata was placed in the sequence of APP1 segments.
• Fixed an issue with loading 8-bit grayscale PNG images with Alpha channel.
• Fixed an issue where images saved with the JPEG filter were occasionally losing DPI resolution metadata.
• Fixed an issue where OCR text is positioned incorrectly after recognizing and populating a PDF page having non-zero rotation.
• Fixed an issue with an error when adding the recognition component to a 64-bit web application.
• Fixed an issue with placing a compressed image in the page tree of PDF document. Now the algorithm goes through page hierarchy to up and find first existing resource dictionary where the compressed image will be placed.
• Fixed an issue where working with the font handler in a PDF Document caused a difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit version of the CreatePDFForm Sample's result.

Features

• Added the ability to convert between different versions of Office files:
  • Word - .DOC and .DOCX
  • Excel - .XLS and .XLSX
  • PowerPoint - .PPT and .PPTX
• Improved OfficeCore multi-threading and stability.
• Additional customer requested enhancements.

Features

• Added a new option to specify which annotations are included during PDF to SVG conversion.
• New viewing sessions samples added to HTML5 viewer documentation.
• Additional customer requested enhancements.

Features

• Excel Processing Improvements:
  • Improved rendering in the DisplayUsingWinForms sample.
  • Improved rendering of large worksheets for Excel workbooks.
  • Improved the accuracy of print area re-pagination.
  • Added an option to render hidden worksheets.
  • Added an option to load a spreadsheet as a single page.