New properties and methods have been added to the WiaDevice, EsclDevice, and SaneLocalDevice classes.
A console and desktop demo application (WinForms, WPF, GTK#) called ImageScanningDemo has been created. It uses a universal and simplified interface for acquiring images from TWAIN, WIA, SANE and eSCL image scanners on Windows and Linux.
The VintaSoft Web TWAIN service installer for Linux has been improved.
The work of VintaSoft Web TWAIN service has been successfully tested in Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu 26.04/24.04/22.04, Debian 13/12/11, and Fedora Workstation 44/43.
Created the decoder for CAD (DXF, DWG) files. Added the support for PPTX documents.
Added the ability to render SmartArt-objects in DOCX, XLSX, PPTX document.
Improved the rendering of DOCX and XLSX documents.
Added the ability to set the Unicode-table for PDF font.
Created the helper-class that simplifies the PDF document signing process with a digital signature.
Added the ability to restore the text encoding of font in PDF document.
All rectangle and line based annotations can now display text.
Updated the used Tesseract OCR engine.
Added the ability to use a neural network (AI) to detect regions of 1D and 2D barcodes, that significantly increased the performance of barcode recognition on medium and large images.
Added the ability to recognize and generate DMRE barcodes.
Added the ability to recognize IATA barcodes.
1D and 2D barcode print quality test algorithms updated to latest ISO specifications.
Added the abilitiy to simultaneously recognize barcodes with non-inverted and inverted colors.
Improved the algorithm that recognizes QR Code barcodes with print defects.
Added support for .NET 10 in Windows, Linux and macOS.
Created the UI-control "Document editor" for visual editing of DOCX document in WinForms/WPF/Web application.
Created the demo application "Document Editor Demo" that demonstrates how to visually edit a DOCX document in a WinForms/WPF/Web application.
"Spreadsheet" edition of VintaSoft Office .NET Plug-in has been replaced by "Visual Editor" edition and now includes UI-controls for visual editing of DOCX and XLSX documents.
Added many fixes to DOCX and XLSX decoder.
Added the ability to display and navigate the undo history for annotations and image processing operations.