ImageGear .NET v23.5

ImageGear .NET v23.5 introduces advanced compression and new licensing choices.

• PDF advanced compression improvements that prevent file growth to unchanged PDFs.
• Check out the improved PDF Compression web demo! Test the powerful ImageGear .NET PDF compression capabilities.
• Introduced short-term licenses that expire after a year!

ImageGear .NET v23.4

ImageGear .NET v23.4 introduces digital signatures for PDF documents.

• Added new API to support digitally signing a PDF document with approval signatures.

• Supports verifying signed PDF documents with certification and approval signatures.

ImageGear .NET v23.3

ImageGear .NET v23.3 introduces improvements to PDF functionality and LibreOffice.

• New simplified API for adding images to the PDF with a few lines of code.
• Added options to control PDF compression for JPEG, JPEG2000, and JBIG2; downsampling high-resolution images and removal of thumbnails and/or metadata from PDFs.
• New simplified Acroforms API interface which is easier to use for quickly integrating PDF form support into your solutions.

• Now supports loading and displaying legacy binary office files (.doc, .xls, .ppt).
• Improved Microsoft Office conversion performance.
• Simplified and reduced the required deployment size for ImageGear.

ImageGear .NET v23.2

ImageGear .NET v23.2 introduces Acroforms widget annotation customization, PDF compression features, Visual Studio 2017 samples support and overall improvements.

• Improved Acroforms widget annotation support by adding appearance customization, such as colors and borders, as well as improved creating, adding, and removing widgets.
• Added compression abilities for PDF documents that reduce file size. See the SaveCompressedPDF sample for information on how to save a compressed PDF document.
• Added Visual Studio 2017 support for the samples.
• Added Windows Server 2016 support.
• Fixed usability bugs and made other improvements.

ImageGear .NET v23.1

ImageGear .NET v23.1 introduces Office improvements.

Office

ImageGear .NET v23.1 introduces LibreOffice support to ImageGear.Formats.Office namespace, which provides the following enhancements to Office:

• Updated the Office engine with LibreOffice, providing the following improvements:
  • Convert single page Word document to PDF or SVG
  • Convert a multi-page Word document to PDF
  • Extract text from a PowerPoint document
  • Extract text from a Word document
• Improved pagination office files
• Convert Office files to BMP
• Improved overall fidelity, with many bug fixes
• LibreOffice Instance Manager
• Overhauled the Office help section:
  • Added a new Getting Started with Office tutorial
  • Re-organized content to improve readability
  • Added/updated the code snippets throughout the section

See the new CovertOfficeToPDF sample for information about working with Office and converting documents to PDF.

ImageGear .NET v23.0

PDF

ImageGear .NET v23 introduces Acroforms support and improvements to PDF/A.

Acroforms Support

With ImageGear’s Acroforms support, you can add the following capabilities to your imaging application:

• Create, delete, and save PDF forms
• Update an existing PDF form
• Load and write data for form fields
• Add form fields to a PDF
  • Checkbox
  • Text Field
  • List Box
  • Combo Box
  • Radio Box
• Find the location of a field in the form (page and coordinates)
• Allow access to low-level PDF Acroform structures

See the ManipulatePDFAcroForms sample and the How to topics for more information about working with Acroforms.

PDF/A

In ImageGear .NET v23, we’ve improved both the conversion to PDF/A and the compliance check of PDF/A conversions.

OCR

ImageGear .NET v23 provides the following enhancements to OCR:

• Updated the OCR engine, providing the following performance improvements:
  • Zoning order
  • Western OCR layout, accuracy of zone creation, and resulting OCR
  • Asian OCR engine speed and accuracy
• Added support for writing to PDF output with Asian language characters for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
• Added auto-language detection setting
• Overhauled the OCR help section:
  • Added a new Getting Started with OCR tutorial
  • Simplified the structure of the content
  • Added/updated the code snippets throughout the section

See the new OCRUsingZones and OCRLanguageSelection samples for information about working with OCR.