This section contains information on new features and improvements for each release.
FormAssist v6.0 for .NET
6.0 Product Updates for FormAssist
- Added OCR language support for:
- Central European languages, which includes Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, and Sorbian. See the topic OCR Property Details for more information.
- Cyrillic languages, which includes Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian. See the topic OCR Property Details for more information.
- Baltic languages, which includes Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian. See the topic OCR Property Details for more information.
- Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Basque, Catalan, Faroese, Frisian, Greek, Guarani, Hani, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Kirundi, Latin, Luxembourgian, Malay, Quechua, RhaetoRomanic, Rwanda, Shona, Somali, Swahili, Tajik, Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek, Wolof, Xhosa, and Zulu languages. See the topic OCR Property Details for more information.
- Asian languages, which includes Traditional Chinese, Traditional Hong Kong Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and Vietnamese. See the topic OCR Property Details for more information.
- FormDirector is fully licensed. There is no need to request an evaluation license or purchase a license for FormDirector.
- Upgraded:
- Added Visual Studio 2019 projects to build Forms API and demos from source; Visual Studio projects older than 2015 have been removed.
- Instead of a Windows installer, we now offer a ZIP file for FormAssist, as well as NuGet packages for all sub-components.
- The included source for FormAssist now uses NuGet packages for dependencies on other Accusoft products.
6.0 Breaking Changes for FormAssist
- Removed support for barcode field type and the barcode tool
since Barcode Xpress is not sold with FormSuite for Structured Forms.
- Barcode fields in existing form templates are now displayed with the
icon. Only general settings for these fields can be edited.
- Existing form sets with barcode fields are still accepted for processing, but field results for barcode fields will be empty.
- Removed the major version number from the assembly names to make future upgrades easier. The following project references must be updated to use the new assemblies:
- The FormsAPI assembly filename has been renamed from Accusoft.Forms1.dll to Accusoft.FormsAPI.Net.dll.
- The FormFix assembly filename has been renamed from Accusoft.FormFix5.Net.dll to Accusoft.FormFix.Net.dll.
- The FormDirector assembly filename has been renamed from Accusoft.FormDirector3.Net.dll to Accusoft.FormDirector.Net.dll.
- The ScanFix assembly filename has been renamed from Accusoft.ScanFix8.Net.dll to Accusoft.ScanFix.Net.dll.
- The SmartZone ICR assembly filename has been renamed from Accusoft.SmartZoneICR5.Net.dll to Accusoft.SmartZoneICR.Net.dll.
- The SmartZone OCR assembly filename has been renamed from Accusoft.SmartZoneOCR5.Net.dll to Accusoft.SmartZoneOCR.Net.dll.
- The following components are no longer shipped with FormSuite:
- Barcode Xpress
- ISIS Xpress
- PrintPRO
- ThumbnailXpress
- TwainPRO
- We no longer offer the Standard edition for the FormFix, ScanFix Xpress, or SmartZone components.
- Since FormDirector is fully licensed, it's not required to install license on your system or call FormDirector licensing API in your application.
- FormFix no longer unpacks Tensorflow.dll into a temporary location at runtime. It now requires Tensorflow.dll to be distributed alongside Accusoft.FormFix.Net.dll.
- Dropped support for Operating Systems that are no longer supported by Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2. See System Requirements for details.
- Although it may run, it is not supported on previous Windows versions (for example, Windows 7).
- The following SmartZone OCR class properties are deprecated and have been marked obsolete. These class properties no longer affect operation and will be ignored during forms processing if they exist in a Form Set created from a current or previous version of FormAssist. The corresponding FormAssist UI controls for these properties, previously located in the OCR Properties tab, have been removed:
- Segmentation.MaximumBlobSize property.
- Segmentation.MinimumTextLineHeight property.
- Segmentation.SplitOverlappingChars property.
- Segmentation.SplitMergedChars property.
- SmartZoneOCR.FastLoading property.
6.0 Documentation Updates
- 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.
- Updated Building FormAssist From Source with information on:
- our NuGet Package Dependencies.
- PDF Xpress Evaluation Licenses.
- Removed documentation discussing:
- Deprecated SmartZone OCR properties, listed in Breaking Changes.
- Use of removed Barcode Xpress tooling.
