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GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.75
- Improved automatic page orientation detection engine
- Improved OCR segmentation engine
- Improved PDF rendering engine
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.74
- GdPictureImaging: new overload: TagGetValueString() to favor ASCII representation of undefined tag types
- Improved PDF/A converter engine
- Improved PDF rendering engine
- Improved Office formats rendering engine
- Improved image loading speed
- GdPicturePDF: new method UnembedFont()
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.73
- Improved MRC engine accuracy speed
- Improved 1D barcode recognition engine
- Improved Office formats rasterizer
- DocuVieware: added multi-line text search support
- DocuVieware: improved accessibility support based on WAI-ARIA specifications
- GdPicturePDF: new method IsTagged()
- Improved PDF text extraction engine
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.72
- Improved MRC engine accuracy
- Improved 1D & 2D barcode reader accuracy
- Improved Office formats rasterizer
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript API: RegisterOnDocumentSigned()
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript API SelectAnnot()
- GdPicturePDF: new method RemovePageBox()
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.71
- AnnotationPolyRuler & AnnotationRuler annotations: new property Value
- AnnotationManager: new method RenderAnnotation()
- Improved 1D & 2D barcode recognition engines
- Improved office formats rasterizer
- Improved PDF format rasterizer
- Improved PDF parser to handle / recover more malformed documents
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetPageAnnotCount()
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetPageAnnotId()
- DocuVieware: added support for impersonation level management
- DocuVieware: improved UI about annotation manipulations
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.70
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved MRC engine accuracy
- Improved PDF/A converter engine
- Improved office formats rasterizer engine
- DocuVieware: improved UI
- Added Content and Password properties in GdViewer.WPF in order to set the content from the ViewModel in a MVVM fashion
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.69
- GdPicturePDF: new overload SearchText() to enable text search of strings across multiple lines
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved Office formats rasterizer engine
- Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy
- Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.67
- GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new method IsImageFormat()
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved PDF redaction engine
- Improved accuracy of 1D barcode recognition engine
- Improved accuracy of DataMatrix barcode recognition engine
- Improved accuracy of OCR engine
- Added new OCR engine producing fast & accurate recognition on single line of numeric characters
- OCRSpecialContext: new enumeration member: SingleLineNumerics
- GdPictureDocumentConverter: new properties: Author, Title, Subject, Producer, Metadata, Keywords
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.66
- Global performance improvements (memory & CPU usage)
- Improved MRC engine
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved Office formats rasterizer engine
- ThumbnailEx: new method UnselectAllItems()
- ThumbnailEx: new method LoadAllItems()
- ThumbnailEx: new porperty DefaultItemCheckState
- ThumbnailEx: DefaultItemTextPrefixe property renamed to DefaultItemTextPrefix
- PDFReducerImageQuality: new enumeration member ImageQualityVeryVeryHigh
- DocuVieware: new method AddCustomToolbarButton()
- Improved PDF/A converter engine
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.65
- Improved text extraction engine
- Improved Office formats rasterizer
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.64
- Improved Office formats rasterizer
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function SetAnnotationsInteractionState()
- DocuVieware: improved TWAIN scanning speed
- Improved text extraction engine
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.63
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function UnselectAllAnnotations()
- DocuVieware: several UI improvements
- DocuVieware: fixed SVG file loading issue
- Improved OCR accuracy
- Improved margins detection filter
- Improved office formats rasterizer
- AnnotationEmbeddedImage: new property KeepAspectRatio
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.62
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved Office formats rasterizer engine
- DocuVieware: improved touch support
- DocuVieware: added overload of LoadFromUri() taking ICredential parameters
- DocuVieware: added new JavaScript API: RegisterOnViewerScroll()
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.61
Improved:
- MRC engine
- OCR engine
- Office formats rasterizer engine
- PDF/A converter engine

DocuVieware:
- improved UI responsivness
- added zooming support using crtl+whell
- added pinch zoom support
- added support for adding image annotation from the JavaScript API AddAnnot(). See reference guide for an example of usage

- GdViewer (WinForms & WPF): new method ApplyAllRedactions()
- Battery of minor bug fixes.


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.60
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved Office formats rasterizer engine
- Annotation: new public property ClientTag
- GdViewer: new event AnnotationTextBoxKeyDown()
- GdViewer: new event AnnotationTextBoxLostFocus()
- GdPicturePDF: New method ClonePages()
- GdPicturePDF: Improved Redaction Engine
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript functions: SetAnnotClientTag(), GetAnnotClientTag(), UpdateAnnotById(), GetAnnotProperties()
- DocuVieware: new server-side property: LinkAnnotationClickBehaviour
- DocuVieware: added zoom preview support (by maintaining pressed zoom-in and zoom-out buttons)


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.59
- Fixed a critical bug preventing usage of the WFP controls within the .NET Core edition
- PDFReducerPDFVersion enumeration: added enumeration members PdfVersionA1a, PdfVersionA1b, PdfVersionA2a, PdfVersionA2b
- Improved internal PDF/A editor engine


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.58
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved office formats rasterizer engine
- Improved OCR engine
- Improved automatic page orientation detection engine
- Improved PDF text extraction engine
- TextExtractionOptions enumeration: added new member PreserveLayout
- GdPicturePDF: new event BeforePrintPage
- GdPicturePDF: new event AfterPrintPage
- GdPicturePDF: Improved timestamp server compatibility for digital signatures
- DocuVieware: improved UI responsiveness
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.57
- Improved office formats rasterizer engine
- Improved links support for built-in PDF merger engine
- Improved MRC engine accuracy
- Improved OCR accuracy
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- GdPicturePDF: New method RemoveTextArea()
- GdPicturePDF: New overload GetPageTextWithCoords() to specify which information should be included in the output
- GdPicturePDF: GetPageTextWithCoordsEx method marked as deprecated
- New enumeration TextExtractionOutputInfo
- DocuVieware: Various UI Improvements
- DocuVieware: Improved support with stylus devices
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.56
- Improved MRC engine accuracy
- Improved PDF/A converter engine
- Improved office formats rasterizer engine
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved PDF/OCR accuracy
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.55
GdPicturePDF:
- New method RemoveAllText()
- New method SetTextDecorationStyle()
- New method SetTextUnderlineStyle()
- New method SetTextUnderlineWidth()
- New method SetTextUnderlineColor()
- New method SetTextUnderlineDistance()
- new overload SetSignatureText() to specify text decoration style of the text
- DrawTextUnderline methods marked as deprecated

- New enumeration PdfTextDecorationStyle
- New enumeration PdfTextUnderlineStyle
- Automatic conversion of Interleaved2Of5 barcode value to Febraban digital line
- Improved PPTX and DOCX rasterizer engines
- Added special context support into the OCR engine
- GdPictureOCR: new overloaded method RunOCR() to specify a special context
- New OCRSpecialContext enumeration
- Improved MRC engine accuracy
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.54
- Improved PDF text extraction engine
- Improved PPTX rasterizer engine
- Improced OCR engine accuracy
- PDFReducerConfiguration: New configuration option member RemovePagePieceInfo
- GdPicturePDF: New method DeletePagePieceInfo()
- GdPicturePDF: New method HasInvisibleText()
- ThumbnailEx: New method SetItemToolTipText()
- Improved JPEG2000 image decoder
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function GetAnnotBBoxOnViewer()
- DocuVieware: new digital signature snap-in
- DocuVieware: new property ShowDigitalSignatureSnapIn


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.53
- Implemented support for PPTX (Preview)
- Improved XLSX rasterizer engine
- Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed
- Improved 1D & 2D barcode reader accuracy
- Improved OCR automatic orientation detection
- Improved TWAIN support with memory transfer mode
- GdPicturePDF: new overload AddRedactionRegion() to specify transparency value of the region color
- GdPicturePDF: Improved Redaction Engine
- GdPicturePDF: Improved form fields Unicode support
- GdPicturePDF: Improved font substitution for CJK text rendering
- DocuVieware: Improved annotation rendering support
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function: RegisterOnAnnotationMoved()
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.52
- Improved tiff codec to decode some malformed documents
- Improved support for large linearized PDF creation (more than 2GB files)
- Improved PDF & Office format rasterizers
- Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy
- Improved OCR automatic orientation detection
- Improved OCR accuracy
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.51
- DocuVieware class: new method GetDocuViewareControl()
- DocuVieware & DocuViewareControl classes: new method RegisterCertificate()
- DocuVieware & DocuViewareControl classes: new method ResetCertificates()
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function SetAnnotationsVisibility()
- GdPicturePDF: Fixed minor issues in parsing engine
- Improved PDF & Office format rasterizers
- GdViewer: dramatically improved text selection and extraction for right-to-left text based documents
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.50
- GdPicturePDF & DocuVieware: Improved redaction precision for text objects
- DocuVieware: New JavaScript function: ResetSelectedTextContextMenu
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved .NET Core editions interfaces
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.49
- Improved PDF/OCR generation
- Improved office format rendering engines
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.48
- Improved PDF rasterizer engine
- Improved PDF generator engine
- Improved office formats rasterizer engine
- Improved loading speed of large office files
- Improved support for more than 4 GB PDF files
- GdPictureSegmenter: new method SetROI()
- GdPictureSegmenter: new method ResetROI()
- GdPicturePDF: Improved resource optimization in RemoveUnusedResources method
- GdPicturePDF: Improved text extraction and search for right-to-left text based documents
- DocuVieware: Improved performances with large documents
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.47
- Improved office formats rasterizer engine
- GdPicturePDF: Improved redaction precision on text objects
- Improved OCR accuracy and speed
- DocuVieware: New JavaScript function SelectRedactionSnapIn()
- DocuVieware: New JavaScript function RegisterOnRedactionMarksApplied()
- DocuVieware: New JavaScript function HasPendingRedactionMark()
- DocuVieware: New javaScript function ExitAnnotationDrawingMode()
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.46
- Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed
- Dramatically improved RTL text support in office format rasterizers
- General improvements on office format rasterizers
- DocuVieware: Added redaction support. (New redaction snap-in + set of features / API)
- DocuVieware: new .NET property ShowRedactionSnapIn
- DocuVieware: new .NET method ApplyAllRedactions()
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function RedactSelectedText()
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function ApplyAllRedactions()
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function AddRedactionMarkAnnotInteractive()
- GdPicturePDF: Improved redaction precission
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.45
- Dramatically improved OCR accuracy
- GdPicturePDF: new overload AddRedactionRegion() to specify color for each added region
- GdPicturePDF: Fixed minor issues in Annotation Flattening for FreeText Annotations
- GdPicturePDF: Improved Redaction Engine
- GdPicturePDF: Improved PDF/A converter engine
- Improved Office formats rasterizer engine
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.44
This is mostly an emergency update causing regressions:
- Bad assembly version
- Adding item to ThumbnailEx control was not working anymore
- OCR with automatic page orientation was raising exception in particular situations

Enhancements:
- Improved PDF rendering
- DocuVieware: Improved displaying of document having different page sizes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.43
- Improved MRC accuracy
- Improved OCR accuracy
- Improved QrCode reader accuracy
- Improved memory management
- Improved office formats rasterizer engine
- Improved PDF/A converter engine
- GdPictureDocumentUtilities: new overload GetDocumentPreview to specify if thumbnail must be generated without any margin
- GdPicturePDF: new method RemoveHiddenText()
- GdPicturePDF: new method ClearCachedResources()
- GdViewer (WinForms & WPF): new method AddRedactionAnnotInteractive()
- DocuVieware: reduced memory usage
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.42
- Added new annotation type: AnnotationRedactio
- AnnotationManager: new method AddRedactionAnnot()
- GdPicturePDF: new method Repair()
- DocuVieware: improved TWAIN scanning support
- Improved MRC engine
- Improved MRC engine accuracy and speed
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.41
- GdPictureOCR: new method GetPageRotation()
- GdPictureOCR: new method GetPageSkewAngle()
- GdPictureOCR: new mehod GetBlockOrientation()
- Improved MRC engine accuracy
- Improved OCR engine accuracy
- DocuVieware: improved page transfer speed
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.40
- Added PDF redaction support
- Dramatically improved OCR engine accuracy
- Improved MRC engine accuracy & speed
- Improved OMR engine accuracy
- Improved SVG rendering engine
- GdPictureOCR: new property EnablePreprocessing
- GdPictureOCR: new method GetWordConfidence()
- GdPictureOCR: new method GetSerializedResult()
- GdPicturePDF: new method SetOcrPageOrientationDetection()
- GdPicturePDF: new method AddRedactionRegion()
- GdPicturePDF: new method ApplyRedaction()
- GdPicturePDF: new method ClearRedactionRegions()
- New enumeration OCRBlockOrientation
- DocuVieware: new property ImageQuality
- Improved rendering speed
- Improved font substitution mechanism for all formats
- Battery of minor bug fixes


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.39
- Improved MRC engine
- Improved OMR engine speed and accuracy
- Dramatically improved PDF/OCR generation
- Improved SVG rendering engine
- Improved patch code reader accuracy
- Added support for external OCR engine usage during PDF/OCR generation
- DocuVieware: new property DisableAnnotationPrinting
- GdPicturePDF: new method MergePages()
- GdPicturePDF: new method SetOverrideOcrEngine()
- GdPicturePDF: new method GetOverrideOcrEngine()
- GdPicturePDF: new event ExternalOcrPageRequest
- New class added: PdfOcrOptions


GdPicture.NET SDK 14.1.38
- Improved SVG rendering engine
- Improved digital signing support with the .NET core edition
- Dramatically Improved MRC engine: accuracy, speed and produced document quality
- Dramatically improved OCR speed and accuracy
- Improved .NET Core 3 edition. (now based on the final .NET core 3.0 release)
- DocuVieware: new JavaScript function LoadFromBase64()
- Battery of minor bug fixes