As always ByteScout is sharing the freshest updates with its users. We love developers. Our goal is to improve and optimize our main tools monthly to facilitate your daily work routine.
ByteScout team released Cloud API server! It is based on PDF.co Web API.
It helps you simply integrate any functions to your web applications or existing servers. Cloud API server includes multiple PDF and barcode functionalities (generating, converting, reading, etc).
Currently, we’re working on the cutting edge RPA tools: the final version will be released in a few days. Stay tuned!
Besides, ByteScout launched its own Academy for those who’d like to learn programming languages. We offer a set of simple and interesting instructional video lessons for beginners and advanced developers. You can check more information here.
Take a look at our SDK versions updates:
- The general syntax was improved with macros implemented to simplify the writing of search expressions.
- PDF extraction and rendering, as well as OCR performance and stability, were improved.
- Template Editor improvements: added navigation hotkeys, implemented detection of basic fields, improved Test Template dialog.
- Now you can edit the template text directly and add lists of recently used templates.
- OCR performance was greatly improved at the cost of maximized CPU utilization. OCR rotation detection was also improved.
- Extraction from cropped PDF pages was updated.
- The extraction of embedded images and multimedia files was improved.
- The decoding of UTF-8 encoded text objects was fixed.
- Japanese fonts’ decoding was greatly improved.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
PDF Multitool 10.3.0.3566 (July 2, 2019)
- The overall performance and OCR rotation detection were significantly improved.
- Improved the detection of the visibility of text objects when they are hidden by an overlying opaque vector object.
- Improved extraction from cropped PDF pages and its rendering.
- Fixed decoding of UTF-8 encoded text objects.
- Improved Japanese fonts decoding.
- Ctrl-Shift-O hotkey was added to open a recent document.
- HTML, multimedia, and embedded images extraction were improved.
- Other minor fixes and improvements were done.
- Rendering of cropped PDF pages and Japanese fonts was moved to another level.
- Rendering of UTF-8 encoded text was fixed.
- Improved rendering of Japanese fonts.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
PDF SDK 1.9.4.317 (July 2, 2019)
- The overall parsing of PDF documents was greatly improved.
- Improved the detection of the visibility of text objects when they are hidden by an overlying opaque vector object.
- Improved extraction from cropped PDF pages.
- Fixed decoding of UTF-8 encoded text objects.
- Improved Japanese fonts decoding.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
- Rendering of cropped PDF pages and Japanese fonts was significantly improved.
- Fixed rendering of UTF-8 encoded text.
- OCR rotation detection and OCR performance at the cost of maximized CPU utilization were greatly improved.
- Different OCR crashes on systems were fixed.
- PDF document rendering is now at a new level.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes.
QR Code SDK 1.0.2.1044 (July 1, 2019)
- Minor improvements and bugfixes.
- Parsing of spreadsheets containing very large named ranges was improved and updated.
- Other important fixes at a lower level.
- The handling of PDF documents is working better now.
- Small fixes and improvements.
- Improved Optical Marks Recognition (OMR): circles and rectangles with checkmarks protruding beyond the boundaries of the object.
- The decoding of PDF417 barcodes was significantly improved.
- Recognition of Code 39 barcodes drawn by fonts was updated to a better level.
- The overall processing of PDF documents is working better now
Our team keeps working on new tools and updates. Stay tuned!
The article was written by Daria Kizilova, freelance marketing expert and writer of https://tourexotico.com/en/
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