ImageGear .NET v24.14

ImageGear .NET v24.14 introduces the following features and improvements:

Product Fixes

• Removed the Newtonsoft.JSON dependency from the product to prevent version conflicts with customers using the same library.
• Removed the MSXML dependency from the product to address security concerns.
• Fixed an issue with displaying multi-page xlsx files using Windows Presentation Foundation.

ImageGear .NET v24.13

ImageGear .NET v24.13 introduces the following features and improvements:

New Features

• Added a new licensing option - Metered Licensing.

Product Fixes

• Fixed an issue where several sample projects generated temporary files that were not deleted if the window was closed by the user.
• Fixed an issue where XMP metadata in an unexpected format could cause a NullReferenceException.
• Fixed an issue with the ImGearThumbnailList control that caused exceptions to be thrown when the size of a thumbnail became zero.
• Fixed an issue with some PDF samples that prevented temp files from being deleted when the sample application was closed.

ImageGear .NET v24.12

ImageGear .NET v24.12 introduces the following features and improvements:

• Enabled MAT module in IG.NET Recognition component.
• Improved the samples for better usability experience.

Product Fixes

• Implemented API that allows users to control the recognition timeout.
• Fixed an issue with truncation of large files for WEB downloading.
• Fixed an issue with the table of contents being moved to the next page for some Microsoft Word documents.
• Detection of Microsoft Office files are updated with password protected file detection. Loading of password protected Microsoft Office files results in an error message that such formats are not supported.
• Fixed an issue with the Office component consuming CPU while idle.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing an expected exception from being thrown when ImGearPage did not have a valid type while adding/inserting that page to the ImGearDocumentPageArray.
• Fixed an issue where loading the image in WPF sample caused a failure.
• Added a new dialog option to the AnnotateImageAndPDF_WPF sample that demonstrates how to scale the raster size and set bit-depth when converting a PDF page to a raster image.
• Fixed an issue with losing consistency when adding and removing PDF pages.
• Fixed an issue with the PDF to SVG conversion of nested contours in graphic paths.
• Fixed an issue with PDF to SVG conversion that caused negative space to be filled in for certain Japanese fonts.
• Fixed an issue with viewing PDF images in SVG mode.
• Fixed an issue with "SOF segment is not present" exception being thrown when using the default JPEG filter.
• Fixed an issue with loading of JPEG files containing 20481 tags in EXIF metadata with null length.
• Fixed an issue with JPEG to TIFF conversion that caused some files to be saved with misleading metadata.
• Fixed an issue with AcroForm flattening that caused certain radio buttons to lose their custom appearance.
• Fixed a crash when small images with indexed colorspace are displayed in interpolation mode.
• Fixed an issue where some images with non-uniform grayscale indexed palettes rendered incorrectly.

ImageGear .NET v24.11

ImageGear .NET v24.11 introduces the following improvements:

Samples:

• Support for Visual Studio 2019. See Samples.

PDF:

• Improved PDF native annotation support.
  • Native PDF annotations are no longer modified when saved unless explicitly modified through user interaction or the API.
  • Native PDF annotation attributes that can not currently be modified through user interaction or the API are no longer removed from modified annotations when saved.
• Updated the internal PDF Library to fix a number of rendering issues.

Documentation:

• Improved and restructured the Runtime Licensing section in the online help.

Product Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused Web ISIS component to return incorrect image width for scanned images.
• Fixed an issue where IGNET would crash under certain situations while performing OCR operations.
• Fixed an issue where mouse interaction with text annotation worked inaccurately when the background image was zoomed.
• Fixed an issue of incorrectly reading JPEG files when XMP metadata was placed in the sequence of APP1 segments.
• Fixed an issue with loading 8-bit grayscale PNG images with Alpha channel.
• Fixed an issue where images saved with the JPEG filter were occasionally losing DPI resolution metadata.
• Fixed an issue where OCR text is positioned incorrectly after recognizing and populating a PDF page having non-zero rotation.
• Fixed an issue with an error when adding the recognition component to a 64-bit web application.
• Fixed an issue with placing a compressed image in the page tree of PDF document. Now the algorithm goes through page hierarchy to up and find first existing resource dictionary where the compressed image will be placed.
• Fixed an issue where working with the font handler in a PDF Document caused a difference between the 32-bit and 64-bit version of the CreatePDFForm Sample's result.

ImageGear .NET v24.10

ImageGear .NET v24.10 introduces a new feature and improvements:

• Added the ability to convert between different versions of Office files:
  • Word
    • .DOC and .DOCX
  • Excel
    • .XLS and .XLSX
  • PowerPoint
    • .PPT and .PPTX.
• Improved OfficeCore multi-threading and stability.

Product Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused a PDF_FAILURE when saving an encrypted PDF using ImGearPDFDocument.Save().
• Fixed an issue with producing non-searchable and non-selectable text using ImGearRecPage.CreatePDFPage with PDF/A compatibility turned on.
• Fixed an issue that caused a specific Office document to load slowly and an "Error 6" to be thrown when loading the document a second time.
• Fixed an issue that prevented an Office document with a date picker field from rendering correctly when converting the document to PDF.
• Fixed an issue where PDFs with embedded text were rendering the text upon conversion to SVG format, even when the text was marked as invisible.
• Fixed an issue that caused wide deflate-encoded TIFF files to load as black or corrupted.

ImageGear .NET v24.9

ImageGear .NET v24.9 introduces a new option and improvements to the HTML5 Viewer Sample:

PDF Annotations to ARTMark for HTML5 Viewer

• Added an option to specify which annotations are converted during the PDF to SVG conversion.

Documentation

• Added Viewing Sessions to the HTML5 section.

Stability Improvements and Bug Fixes

• Improvements to HTML5 Viewer.
• Improvements to PDF.

ImageGear .NET v24.8

ImageGear .NET v24.8 introduces some improvements:

Excel Processing Improvements

• Improved rendering in the DisplayUsingWinForms sample.
• Improved rendering of large worksheets for Excel workbooks.
• Improved the accuracy of print area re-pagination.
• Added an option to render hidden worksheets.
• Added an option to load a spreadsheet as a single page.

ImageGear .NET v24.7

ImageGear .NET v24.7 introduces some improvements:

Client-Side Text Search GUI

• Added new GUI element to the HTML5Viewer sample to demonstrate client-side PDF text search.

Documentation

• Updated the list of dependencies in Manually Packaging OCR Dependencies.

ImageGear .NET v24.6

ImageGear .NET v24.6 introduces new features and improvements in the following areas:

HTML5 Viewer

• Added PDF text search feature to the HTML5 Viewer.
• Updated HTML5Viewer sample to demonstrate how to implement the concept of Viewer Sessions.
• Replaced the ASP.NET tutorial with a new tutorial, Create HTML5 Viewer and Deploy with IIS, in the documentation.

PDF

• Added improved XFA Forms support - methods to detect XFA content, determine the type of XFA content, and remove XFA content.
• Updated the internal PDF library to resolve some rendering issues.

ImageGear .NET v24.5

ImageGear .NET v24.5 introduces new features and improvements in the following areas:

PDF

• Added support for viewing native PDF annotations in the HTML5 Viewer.
• Updated the internal PDF Library to fix a number of rendering issues.
• Improved document compression with a property to flatten AcroForm fields.
• Added limited support for PDF documents containing XFA forms. Also, many Annotations, PDF, OCR, and Viewing samples now support opening PDF documents containing XFA forms by default.

CAD

• Added support for rendering CAD in our WPF library.

Samples and Documentation

• Added a new sample, OEMLicensing, that demonstrates how to apply an OEM license using ImageGear .NET API.
• Improved and simplified the ISIS scanning sample, IsisScanningUsingASP.NET. The sample no longer uses the legacy ASP.NET components, so it is easier to understand how to utilize our ISIS web feature.
• Added documentation for auto-language detection with OCR.
• Added a new sample, DisplayUsingWPF, that demonstrates ImageGear .NET’s ability to display documents and images using Windows Presentation Foundation controls.

ImageGear .NET v24.4

ImageGear .NET v24.4 introduces new features and improvements in the following areas:

HTML5 Viewer (ImageGear.Web)

• Added annotation support to the HTML5 viewer for the following types:
  • Text
  • Rectangle
  • Ellipse
  • Line
  • Polyline
  • Polygon
• Added a Markup Layer Interface to associate multiple annotation files with a single document.
• Removed legacy ASP.NET samples.

PDF

• Improved flattened form field positioning.

ImageGear .NET v24.3

ImageGear .NET v24.3 introduces new features and improvements in the following areas:

Comparison API

• Added a new namespace, ImageGear.Comparison, that compares PDF documents for text and image differences.
• The API can detect whether two documents have different text or image content, and can create a PDF document that reports insertions and deletions between the documents.
• See Comparing Documents for more information and code examples.

PDF

• Added a simplified API to extract images from PDFs with ImGearPDFImageFinder.
• Added a new PDF AcroForms sample, ExtractFormFieldData, that demonstrates how to extract form data from a filled PDF document and save it to a text file.
• Added support to flatten form fields by removing its interactive representation and making it static.

OCR

• Improved the MRC sample (ImageOCRtoFile) and renamed it to OCRandMRC.

HTML5 Viewer

• Implemented minor fixes and improvements affecting thumbnail display, zoom events, and resource usage.

ImageGear .NET v24.2

ImageGear .NET v24.2 introduces new features and improvements in the following areas:

HTML5 Viewer

• Introduced an HTML5 Viewer as an ASP.NET sample/framework for viewing over 45 file formats (including Office, PDF, PS, CAD, JPEG 2000, RAW, JPG, PNG, Medical (DICOM), etc.) through your web browser.

CAD

• Added support for:
  • creating blank DXG/DXF and
  • writing to DWG/DXF.
• CADEntities (Annotations)
  • Added the ability to create, manipulate, and save CADEntities (Text, Line, Ruler, and basic shapes) in DWG/DXF files.
  • See the new CreateCADEntity sample.
• CAD DirectX Support
  • Added the ability to render DWG/DXF and DGN files with Direct3D and
    • View in WinForms and WPF applications.
    • Rasterize to any raster format supported by ImageGear .NET.

PDF

• Added the AddAndVerifyPDFSignatures sample to demonstrate PDF digital signatures.
• MRC PDF Compression (Mixed Raster Content)
  • Added the MRC PDF compression option to create smaller, searchable PDF files from OCR results. See additions to the OCRandMRC sample.
  • Added OutputManager formats for PDF output.

Documentation

• Revised the main User Guide page for ease of navigation and clarity.

ImageGear .NET v24.1

ImageGear .NET v24.1 introduces new features and improvements in the following areas:

PDF

• Added a command line sample, CreatePDFForms, to demonstrate creating a PDF with AcroForms.
• Improved visual appearance of PDF form field borders and text layout.

TWAIN 2.0

• Added support for TWAIN 2.4.
• Added support for TWAIN in 64-bit applications (TWAIN 2.0+ only).
• Improved TWAIN API usability.
• Improved TWAIN Scanning sample.
• Improved documentation.

Cloud Scanning / Web-Based Scanning Usability

• Upgraded Cloud Scanning API.
• Improved documentation.

ImageGear .NET v24.0

ImageGear .NET v24.0 introduces new features and improvements in the following areas.

• Product Fixes
• Product Fixes
• Product Fixes
• PDF AcroForms
• Office
• CAD
• Installer
• Deprecated

PDF AcroForms

ImageGear .NET v24 introduces the following AcroForms improvements:

• Added support for displaying digital signature fields.
• Added support to sort ListBox and ComboBox fields.
• Text fields used for passwords can now be masked to users when entering them into a form.
• Added support for Push Buttons, including appearance customization.
• Added support for text justification to TextFields, ListBoxes, ComboBoxes, and PushButtons.
• Added automatic spacing for text fields (COMB flag) for optimal display.
• Improved API programmatic navigation for objects, specifically between widgets and fields.

Office

In ImageGear .NET v24, we added several improvements to our Microsoft Office support for more stability.

CAD

ImageGear .NET v24 includes the following CAD improvements:

• Upgraded to a more robust, flexible, and easy-to-use API design.
• Improved CAD rendering fidelity, and added powerful export capabilities to other document and image formats.
• Added code samples to demonstrate rendering, content manipulation, and export to other formats.
• Added support for:
  • AutoCad 2018
  • Lighting control
  • Camera control
  • Customized color palette for document background and CAD objects
  • Text extraction for individual layouts
  • Export to PDF and 3D PDF (including custom view and light sources)
  • Export to stacked SVG (multi-layered SVG file that corresponds to the layers in the CAD file)
  • Password protected DWG and DXF files
• Overhauled CAD documentation section:
  • Added a new Getting Started with CAD tutorial.
  • Added code snippets throughout the section.
  • Re-organized content to improve overall usability.

See the CADViewer and ConvertCADtoPDF samples for information about working with CAD.

Installer

In ImageGear .NET v24, we have:

• Reduced installer total package size.
• Reduced installation time.
• Included both x86 and x64 binaries.

Deprecated

Barcode

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