We are proud to announce the release of new major version 12.1 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 Imaging .NET SDK 12.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
Refactored the SDK architecture:
Base classes for working with 2D graphics (VintasoftBitmap, VintasoftPoint, VintasoftRect, ...) are moved to the Vintasoft.Shared.dll assembly.
Now Vintasoft.Imaging.dll and other Vintasoft.Imaging.*.dll assemlies have reference to the Vintasoft.Shared.dll assembly.
View images in WinForms and WPF:
Added the ability to display CheckBox or any Control next to the thumbnails in thumbnail viewer.
Fixed several minor bugs.
Web development
Fixed several minor bugs.
See the changes history for plug-ins related with this version of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK following a link below:
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux и macOS.
PDF/A:
Added support for PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e, PDF/A-4f.
Searchable PDF documents:
Added the ability to create editable searchable PDF documents in text over image mode (TextOverImage):
SDK creates fonts based on vector images of recognized text symbols.
Created PDF documents can be edited in image viewer using visual editor of PDF documents.
Added SearchablePdfGenerator class that allows to create searchable PDF documents in ImageOverText and TextOverImage modes.
Edit existing content on PDF page in WPF/WinForms image viewer:
Added the ability to edit any text block on PDF page in image viewer. Previous version has several limitations for editing of text blocks, for example, the editor did not allow to edit text block with unprintable symbols.
Fixed bugs in visual editor of PDF page.
Demo applications:
PDF Editor Demo: Added the ability to add OCR pages in TextOverImage and ImageOverText modes to PDF document.
PDF Editor Demo: Added the ability to convert and verify a PDF document according to PDF/A-4, PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f standards.
Fixed several minor bugs.
What's new in VintaSoft OCR .NET Plug-in 7.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
Added the ability to recognize text in Linux.
Improved the algorithm that detects regions of recognized symbols.
Demo applications:
OCR Demo: Added the ability to create searchable PDF document in text over image mode.
Fixed several minor bugs.
What's new in VintaSoft Office .NET Plug-in 4.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
Added the ability to convert XLS file to the XLSX file.
Added the ability to render XLS documents.
Added support for Arabic text in DOCX and XLSX documents.
Fixed several minor bugs.
What's new in VintaSoft Annotation .NET Plug-in 12.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
Added the ability to disable the annotation selection using mouse or keyboard (see AnnotationData.CanSelect property).
Disabled the usage of System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary.BinaryFormatter class in .NET 7, because BinaryFormatter class cannot be used starting from .NET 7.
Fixed several minor bugs.
What's new in VintaSoft JBIG2 .NET Plug-in 9.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
What's new in VintaSoft JPEG2000 .NET Plug-in 8.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
What's new in VintaSoft Document Cleanup .NET Plug-in 7.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
What's new in VintaSoft DICOM .NET Plug-in 5.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
What's new in VintaSoft Forms processing .NET Plug-in 5.1:
.NET development
Added support for .NET 7.0 rc1 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
Version 12.1.1.1 of VintaSoft Imaging .NET SDK has been released.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft PDF .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Added the multithreading support in Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Processing.PdfDocumentCompressorCommand class.
Added the multithreading support in Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Processing.Images.PdfOptimizeContentImageCommand class.
Added the multithreading support in Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Processing.Images.PdfCompressImageResourcesCommand class.
Improved performance of Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Processing.PdfTreeRemoveDuplicateNodesCommand class for PDF document with a large number of resources.
Improved performance of Vintasoft.Imaging.Pdf.Processing.PdfDocumentCompressorCommand class for PDF document with a large number of resources.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft Office .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Improved the algorithm, which converts DOC document to a DOCX document and now converted DOCX document are better compatible with OpenOffice.
Improved the algorithm that converts XLS document to a XLSX document.
Improved the algorithm that renders XLS document.
Added the support for headers and footers in algorithm that renders XLSX page.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft JPEG2000 .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Improved performance of JPEG2000 encoder.
What's new in this version of VintaSoft OCR .NET Plug-in:
.NET development
Fixed the bug in Vintasoft.Imaging.Ocr.Tesseract.dll assembly. Now assembly can be used on Windows and Linux. The previous version of the assembly could be used on Windows only.