Features

• Added 'ImGearPDF.NumericToDouble' static method. This helper function analyzes the type of numeric object and converts it from either an integer or real into a double.
• Added new sample OCR image PDF that illustrates how to recognize image PDFs and save them as a PDF File with image over text.
• Added a PDFToText sample that shows how to extract text from any PDF file.
• Added a new "Is this page helpful?" question to the bottom of each page, allowing you to send "Yes" or "No" feedback with a single click.
• Added error handling when importing art pages with unnamed groups.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where loading a password-protected PDF requested the password more than once.
• Fixed an issue with black pixels being discarded when the ImGearProcessing.Resize method is called using the default interpolation options for PRESERVE_BLACK.
• Fixed an issue where calls to ImGearOcrImage.Preprocess could modify the original image (instead of the internal copy) in some circumstances.
• Fixed an issue that occurred when loading a TIFF file with incorrect resolution units.
• Fixed an issue that caused certain non-displayable characters (for example, carriage returns) to display as missing glyphs in multiline AcroForm text fields.
• Updated an internal OCR library to fix an issue where attempting to recognize very large raster images resulted in an exception. This update also improves whitespace detection to address an issue where spaces were incorrectly inserted or ignored.

Features

• Split installation packages into separate versions for x86 and x64 to reduce the size of the download.
• Added a FontAttribute property to the ImGearOCRLetter class which provides style information about the recognized character.
• Added CapitalLetterHeight and FontSize attributes to the ImGearOCRLetter class to provide more detailed information about text size and positioning.
• The ImGearOCRPage.CreatePDFPage method now attempts to reproduce monospace, sans serif, italic and bold text when those properties are detected on the input image.
• When using ImGearOCRDirectTextFormat.XmlWithCoordinates, the ImGearOCR.WriteDirectText method now includes boolean “italic” and/or “bold” attributes on word elements detected as being italic or bold, as well as “fontSize” and “baseLine” attributes for each word.

Features

• Added a new overload for the ImGearPDF.Initialize method, allowing the developer to select which folder the PostScript library uses to store temporary files.
• The OCR API now uses new underlying technology to improve customer experience.
• An evaluation license is now embedded in the ImageGear.Core assembly.
• Accusoft.ImageGear NuGet packages now work independently without performing any additional licensing.