ImageGear for .NET version 21.0 includes the following new or enhanced functionality:

Recognition Features

• Added OCR capabilities to the 64-bit ImageGear for .NET Toolkit.
• Improved the OCR capabilities in the 32-bit ImageGear for .NET Toolkit.

ASP.NET Control Improvements

• Improved ASP.NET handling of Office files with SVG rendering.
• Improved rendering of annotations in Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10 browsers.

PDF Improvements

• Updated PDF and PS libraries to support new PDF and PS files.

Microsoft Office Enhancements

• Improved rendering of Microsoft Office Open XML PowerPoint Files to support:
  • Line charts
  • Line charts with markers
  • Scatter charts with straight lines and markers
  • Global background pictures
  • New PowerPoint shapes
• Added support for loading and rendering macro-enabled Office formats.
• Improved memory use and performance optimization for loading and releasing Office documents.
• Added miscellaneous enhancements for rendering content of Microsoft Office Open XML Word and Excel files.

Annotation Enhancements

• Optimized the API for adding annotation marks to a page for better speed and memory consumption.
• Added API for scaling annotation marks for better use with PDF documents and raster images with different resolution.

DICOM Improvements

• Extended DICOM metadata API to decode string values specified in the following encodings:
  • ISO 8859-1 Latin 1; Western European (ISO)
  • ISO 8859-2 Central European; Central European (ISO)
  • ISO 8859-3 Latin 3
  • ISO 8859-4 Baltic
  • ISO 8859-5 Cyrillic
  • ISO 8859-6 Arabic
  • ISO 8859-7 Greek
  • ISO 8859-8 Hebrew
  • ISO 8859-9 Turkish
  • JIS X 0201 (Japanese, Shift JIS)
  • TIS 620-2533 (Thai)
  • Unicode (UTF-8)
  • Chinese (Simplified)