ByteScout Text Recognition SDK history of changes. Legend: ------------------------- - - bug fixed + - new feature = - changed ! - critical ------------------------- 2.6.1.314 (July 14, 2023) ======================== = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 2.6.0.306 (April 26, 2023) ======================== = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 2.4.0.297 (June 7, 2022) ======================== + Added support for .NET Core 2.1 and later. - Fixed crash on rotated PDF documents. = Improved line removal algorithm. = Suppressed junk console message. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 2.3.0.286 (January 24, 2022) ============================ = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 2.2.0.278 (October 4, 2021) =========================== + Added 'WhiteList' and 'BlackList' properties that allows do define a set of characters allowed or disallowed to be recognized from scanned document. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 2.1.0.263 (May 18, 2021) ======================== = Improved image preprocessing filters API. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 2.0.0.260 (February 8, 2021) ============================ = 'TextRecognizer' now detects the text color. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.9.0.251 (October 26, 2020) ============================ = Improved detection of OCR language file versions. - Fixed thread safety issue. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.8.0.239 (July 1, 2020) ======================== + Added 'Scale' image preprocessing filter. + Added methods 'GetOCRObjectsAsJSON()' and 'GetOCRObjectsAsXML()' that return JSON and XML as string. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.7.1.225 (March 19, 2020) ========================== = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.7.0.220 (February 11, 2020) ============================= + Added support for new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance). + Added 'LicenseInfo' property providing detailed information about your license. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.6.0.216 (January 20, 2020) ============================ + Added 'ScreenshotMaker' class allowing to take images from the screen. + Added 'Grayscale' image preprocessing filter. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.5.1.202 (December 4, 2019) ============================ = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.5.0.198 (November 1, 2019) ============================ - Fixed line removal filters. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.4.0.190 (October 1, 2019) =========================== + Added property `UnwrapParagraphs`. + Added property `TrimLeadingSpaces`. + Added methods to export OCR objects to JSON and XML. = Improved text formatting. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.3.0.186 (September 2, 2019) ============================= = Added methods to get rendered document page with preprocessing filters applied. = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.2.1.177 (August 6, 2019) ========================== = Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.2.0.173 (July 2, 2019) ======================== + Added property `OCRMaximizeCPUUtilization` that allows to improve OCR performance at the cost of maximized CPU utilization. = Improved OCR rotation detection. - Fixed OCR crash on systems with CPU without AVX and AVX2 extensions. - Fixed OCR crash when working under limited system accounts. = Improved PDF documents rendering. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.1.0.167 (April 18, 2019) ========================== = Greatly improved OCR quality. = Improved PDF documents rendering. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.7.160 (March 12, 2019) ========================== = Improved Deskew image preprocessing filter. = Improved PDF rendering. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.6.154 (February 04, 2019) ============================= = Improved PDF rendering. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.5.139 (October 22, 2018) ============================ = Improved PDF rendering. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.4.132 (July 19, 2018) ========================= = Greatly improved the line removing image filters. = Improved PDF rendering. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.3.122 (April 09, 2018) ========================== = Greatly improved Deskew algorithm for rotated scans. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.2.119 (March 20, 2018) ========================= - Fixed EXIF rotation for input images; - Fixed issues with COM interop; = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.1.113 (February 22, 2018) ============================ = Refined documentation. + Added `ComHelpers` class simplifying the use of SDK from VBScript and VB6. = Other minor improvements and bug fixes. 1.0.0.100 (February 12, 2018) ============================ = First public release.