Released: Nov 19, 2015

Updates in this release

Updates in Document Engine V19 Major Update

OCR

• 82% speed boost to overall performance of Advantage OCR engine.
• Faster page insertion.
• Improved recognition accuracy.
• Higher accuracy of font-size detection through improved noise removal.
• Enhanced spell checker speed by 100%.
• Optimized memory usage during AutoZone.
• Table detection 50% faster.

PDF

• Parse, edit and save modified PDF forms.
• Read and write PDF Digital Signature.
• Native memory support.
• Memory enhancements when loading large PDF documents.
• Optimized extraction of PDF file information including internal links, bookmarks, etc.
• Speed improvements to loading and saving SVG PDF documents.
• Lower memory consumption when loading raster PDF.

Document Viewer and Converter

• Faster SVG rendering
• Designer support for Leadtools.Controls.Winforms.
• Load and save from SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Docs.
• Native support for MOBI and ePUB format.
• Shape and drawing support for DOC/DOCX.
• Across-the-board improvements to Office, HTML, MOBI and ePUB formats.
• HTML5 / JavaScript Document Viewer demo redesigned to use ASP.NET MVC.
• Converted Document REST service to ASP.NET.
• New .NET WinForms demo for viewing either Raster or SVG.

Annotations

• Dashed line support for HTML5 / JavaScript.
• Region / language support when loading and saving.
• Improved custom annotation pictures.
• Add padding to all sides of an object regardless of alignment.
• Automatically rotate annotation images and text with viewer rotation.
• Load annotations directly from PDF and TIFF files.
• New legacy framework for loading and saving old versions of LEADTOOLS annotations.
• Improved annotation realization (burning) for all platforms.

Additional Document Updates

• New unstructured forms field recognition - Recognize text fields with specific captions even when the filled form doesn't completely match its master form.
• Load XLSX in WinRT.