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)
