Features

• A new property called EdgeThreshold has been added. This improves performance of large color images, especially for DataMatrix recognition. To retain 100% compatibility with previous versions this property should be set to 0.
• Added method called GetRawBarStringBytes to SoftekBarcodeNet.dll
• Added new advanced property called Show2DCornersInResults.
• Added new flag to PdfImageRasterOptiuons: 64 means only use Debenu direct access.
• Auto detection of UTF-8, Kanji, Big5 and GBK improved for Qr Codes with the default for QRCodeByteMode changed from 1 to 2 to better conform with the ISO specification for QRCode. Big5 and GBK characters will only be interpreted when QRCodeByteMode is set to the correct value.
• Barcodes with an extra vertical bar before the final large bar can now be decoded using default settings.
• Error correction has been improved where the data includes padding code words.
• If the DataBarOptions mask includes the value 256 then the full Databar type for the bar code is returned by GetBarStringType.
• Improvement to recognition of black and white skewed QrCodes.
• Improvements have been made to Code 93 recognition.
• Improvements to PDF417 detection:
• Improvements to PDF-417 recognition: The wide bars in guard patterns can now be processed even when they are split. Left hand guard patterns with smaller than normal wide bars can now be processed.
• Improvements to the handling of EAN13 Supplemental barcodes.
• Performance improvement for images with certain types of repeated pattern.
• SoftekBarcodeCOM converted from multi-byte to Unicode
• SoftekBarcodeNet now works consistently with Unicode characters on both Unicode and Ansi systems.
• Support for dot pattern Data Matrix has been improved with the addition of the new property called DotDataMatrixSupport.
• The calculation of the number of columns has been improved.
• The Debenu PDF Library has been updated from version 1611 to 1613.
• The Foxit/Debenu Quick PDF Library has been upgraded to version 1611
• The general speed of Data Matrix recognition has been improved.
• The leading byte in a Kanji byte pair must now be in the range 0x80 to 0x9F unless QRCodeByteMode has been set to a value of 6 (Kanji only mode).
• The software is now built using ZLib version 2.11.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with loading certain PDF documents on Windows 10 systems has been fixed.
• Fixed false positive results for Code 25 bar codes in some documents containing tables with borders.
• Fixed an issue with incorrect coordinates of Codabar barcodes.
• Fixed the handling of the Datamatrix upper shift character.
• Fixed false positive EAN-13 Supplemental barcodes (when a UPC-E barcode is adjacent to an EAN-13 barcode and also at the edge of an image).
• Fixed random barcode coordinates when MultipleRead is not enabled.
• Fixed recognition of Kanji characters using the Kanji byte compaction scheme and addition of the QRCodeByteMode property to handle the ambiguity inherent in the QRCode specification and optional support for the Big5 and Gbk character sets through the QRCodeByteMode property.
• Fixed some Codabar false positive readings.
• Fixed bug that could make recognition of some PDF417 barcodes inconsistent.
• Fixed floating point exception in Windows XP systems when decoding DataMatrix barcodes.
• Fixed potential crash problem if a system or process runs out of memory.
• Fixed potential memory overrun when the ReportUnreadBarcodes mask contains 1.
• Fixed small memory leak when detecting Code 25 barcodes.