We are proud to announce the release of new major version 11.0 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK and the related Annotation, PDF,
JBIG2, JPEG2000, Document Cleanup, OCR, DICOM, Forms Processing and Office Plug-ins.
What's new in VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in 8.0:
.NET development
Edit existing content on PDF page in WPF/WinForms image viewer
Added the ability to edit content (graphics, images, forms, text, clip region) of PDF page:
change object size
move object
rotate object
delete, copy, insert object
set clip path (using graphics path) for object
edit image
change image/form to the image or form
Change text on PDF page in image viewer
Added the ability to edit text on PDF page using rich-text editor:
change text
change text properties: font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, horizontal scale, character spacing
change horizontal text alignment: left, right, center, width
change paragraph indent
change line spacing
create numbered list
Draw graphics figures on PDF page
Added new graphics figure - OfficeDocumentFigure, which allows to display page of DOCX document.
Added the ability to edit text of OfficeDocumentFigure using rich-text editor:
change text
change text properties: font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, horizontal scale, character spacing
change horizontal text alignment: left, right, center, width
change paragraph indent
change line spacing
create numbered list
Annotate PDF document
Added new annotation - PdfOfficeDocumentAnnotation, which allows to display page of DOCX document.
Added the ability to edit text of PdfOfficeDocumentAnnotation using rich-text editor:
change text
change text properties: font, size, color, bold, italic, underline, superscript, subscript, horizontal scale, character spacing
change horizontal text alignment: left, right, center, width
change paragraph indent
change line spacing
create numbered list
Demo applications
Added new functionality to PdfEditorDemo/WpfPdfEditorDemo application:
Added the ability to edit content (graphics, images, forms, text, clip region) of PDF page.
Added the ability to edit text on PDF page using rich-text editor.
Added the ability to add Office annotation to PDF page.
Added the ability to draw graphics figure OfficeDocumentFigure on PDF page.
Added new functionality to ReportGeneratorDemo application:
Added example that demonstrates how to edit data of diagram in DOCX document.
Added examples, which demonstrate how to edit properties of text and paragraphs in DOCX document.
Created the following .NET assemblies:
Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Office.dll
Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Office.UI.dll
Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Office.Wpf.UI.dll
Fixed many minor bugs.
What's new in VintaSoft Office .NET Plug-in 3.0:
.NET development
Added the ability to render DOC documents.
Added the ability to convert DOC document to a DOCX or PDF document.
Added the ability to render diagrams in DOCX and XLSX documents.
Added many improvements to the algorithm that renders DOCX and XLSX documents.
Extended the functionality for editing of DOCX documents using DocxDocumentEditor class:
Added the ability to edit diagrams.
Extended the support for editing text properties.
Extended the support for editing paragraph properties.
Created the following .NET assemblies:
Vintasoft.Imaging.Office.UI.dll
Vintasoft.Imaging.Office.Wpf.UI.dll
Fixed many minor bugs.
What's new in VintaSoft Annotation .NET Plug-in 11.0:
.NET development
Added new annotation - OfficeAnnotation, which allows to display page of DOCX document.
Added the ability to edit text of OfficeAnnotation using rich-text editor.
Demo applications
Added new functionality to the AnnotationDemo/WpfAnnotationDemo and DocumentViewerDemo/WpfDocumentViewerDemo applications:
Added the ability to add the Office annotation to an image.
Added the ability to edit data of chart in the Office annotation.
What's new in VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK 11.0:
.NET development
Fixed a battery of minor bugs.
Demo applications
Added new functionality to the ImageConverterDemo application:
Added the ability to convert DOC document to a DOCX, PDF, SVG or TIFF document.
What's new in VintaSoft DICOM .NET Plug-in 4.0:
.NET development
Demo applications
Created new demo application DicomMprViewerDemo/WpfDicomMprViewerDemo, which demonstrates how to view DICOM MPR.
Created new demo application DicomMetadataEditorDemo, which demonstrates how to edit metadata of DICOM file.
Created new demo application DicomDirectoryDemo, which demonstrates how to browse the DICOM directory.
Version 11.0.2.1 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK has been released.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft OCR .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
The used Tesseract OCR engine has been updated to version 5.0. Our tests have shown that Tesseract OCR 5 and Tesseract OCR 4 provide similar text recognition results but Tesseract OCR 5 is up to 2 times faster than Tesseract OCR 4.
Added the ability to convert OcrPage object to a TextRegion object (OcrDocument.Create and OcrPage.Create methods).
Demo applications:
Added new functionality to the OCR Demo application:
Added the ability to load OCR results as text from PDF document.
Fixed several minor bugs.
Web development
Demo applications:
Improved code of ASP.NET OCR Demo (ASP.NET Core Angular OCR Demo, ASP.NET MVC OCR Demo, ASP.NET WebForms OCR Demo) and now the demo allows to:
view document before text recognition
preprocess document pages before text recognition
recognize text from the whole document, separate page or page region.
Fixed several minor bugs in OCR web service.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Added the ability to edit properties (fill color, stroke color, alpha constant, pen width, color blending mode, text output mode) of PDF content using PDF Visual Editor.
Improved the performance and optimized the memory usage when working with Type0 fonts.
Optimized the algorithm that decodes images in CalRGB color space
Demo applications:
Added new functionality to the PDF Editor Demo application:
Added the ability to edit properties (fill color, stroke color, alpha constant, pen width, color blending mode, text output mode) of PDF content.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK:
.NET development
Improved the code of ImageViewer and ThumbnailViewer classes for better compatibility with WinForms designer of Visual Studio.
Web development
Improved performance and stability of web image viewer and web thumbnail viewer.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Office .NET Plug-in:
Version 11.0.4.1 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK has been released.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK:
.NET development
Now the distributive package of SDK contains precompiled demo applications for .NET 6 in folder "[SdkInstallPath]\VintaSoft\Imaging .NET v11.0\Bin\DotNet6\AnyCPU\". The demo applications can be used if .NET 6 is installed on computer.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft OCR .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Now the OCR engine can determine page orientation before text recognition. This mode can be enabled by using new text recognition region type RecognitionRegionType.RecognizePageWithPageSegmentationAndOrientationDetection.
Now the OCR engine can determine the page orientation only. Page orientation detection works much faster than text recognition. This mode can be enabled by using new text recognition region type RecognitionRegionType.DetectPageOrientation.
Renamed elements in Vintasoft.Imaging.Ocr.RecognitionRegionType enumeration.
Created new image processing commands - GetTesseractOcrTextOrientationCommand and AutoTesseractOcrTextOrientationCommand, which allow to determine orientation of document image using Tesseract OCR.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Improved the algorithm that converts textual PDF content to DOCX content.
Improved the compatibility of PDF document parser with PDF documents, which are not compatible with PDF standard.
Version 11.0.8.1 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK has been released.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Added the ability to replace text on PDF page using PdfPage.ReplaceText method.
Optimized the memory usage in algorithm that decodes RLE data.
Improved the algorithm that parses TTF fonts.
Fixed the bug in algorithm that decodes CCITT4 data.
Fixed the bug in algorithm that packs PDF document. The bug occurred if PDF document contained document information that did not correspond to PDF specification.
Fixed the bug in algorithm that gets image information for rotated image-only PDF page.
Fixed the bug in algorithm that parses information about an interactive field.
Fixed the bug in algorithm that copies data of embedded file with ZIP compression to another stream.