ByteScout Updates in Spring 2020 – Fast, Accurate, Efficient

What’s new in ByteScout since the last update in the 2019 year?

PDF.co Web API

• UI for Document Parser was added at https://app.pdf.co/documentparser;
• Now you can upload and edit templated for re-use in /pdf/documentparser API endpoint;
  `profile` parameter (to set custom properties) was added to pdf renderer, barcode reader, barcode SDK endpoints;
  continuous updates to the latest ByteScout engines with bug-fixes and improvements;
  minor bug-fixes and improvements;

PDF Extractor SDK 11.0.0.3805

(February 11, 2020)

• Added support for a new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
• Added ‘LicenseInfo’ property providing detailed information about your license.
• Added ‘Grayscale’ filter to OCRImagePreprocessingFilters.
• Dramatically improved column extraction for multiple tables on a page. Works only in ColumnDetectionMode.Borders mode for tables with borders between columns and rows.
• Greatly improved ColumnDetectionMode.BorderedTables. As in the table detection, it now uses optical recognition to detect bordered tables and their columns on scanned documents.
• Improved ‘InfoExtractor’ to return the encrypted and password-protected states without asking a password or throwing an exception.
• Added document permissions information to ‘InfoExtractor’.
• DocumentSplitter: added zero-padding to page numbers in generated file names.
• Improved extraction of duplicated text (shadow-like effect).
• Improved ‘MultimediaExtractor’.
• Fixed text search issues on some documents.
• Fixed bug that damaged extracted text only during multi-thread processing.
• Fixed crash on subsequent extractions with different OCR modes.
• Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF Renderer SDK 11.0.0.3805

(February 11, 2020)

• Added support for a new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
• Added ‘LicenseInfo’ property providing detailed information about your license.
• Improved rendering of PDF controls.
• Fixed rendering of dynamically visible objects.
• Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF To HTML SDK 11.0.0.3805

(February 11, 2020)

• Added support for a new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
• Added ‘LicenseInfo’ property providing detailed information about your license.
• Improved extraction of duplicated text (shadow-like effect).
• Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF Viewer SDK 11.0.0.3805

(February 11, 2020)

• Added support for a new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
• Added ‘LicenseInfo’ property providing detailed information about your license.
• Fixed text search issues on some documents.
• Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF SDK 2.0.0.384

(February 11, 2020)

• Added support for a new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
• Added ‘LicenseInfo’ property providing detailed information about your license.
• Document.DocumentInformation: added new properties ‘CreationDateISO’, ‘ModificationDateISO’, ‘CustomProperties’.
• Fixed parsing of dates in document information.
• Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF Multitool 11.0.0.3805

(February 11, 2020)

• Added support for a new revision of PDF encryption (ISO 32000-2:2017 compliance).
• Added information about encryption and permissions to document information.
• Improved extraction of duplicated text (shadow-like effect).
• Greatly improved Borders and Bordered Tables column detection modes.
• Improved multimedia extraction.
• Fixed wrong text encoding in a grid in the Preview window.
• Fixed rendering of dynamically visible objects.
• Fixed text search issues on some documents.
• Improved rendering of PDF controls.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

Barcode Reader SDK 11.0.0.1959

(February 11, 2020)

• A raised priority of vertical orientations against diagonal orientations when ALL barcode orientations selected.
• Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
• Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
• Other minor improvements and bugfixes.

Barcode SDK 6.0.0.1099

(February 11, 2020)

• Added support for configuration profiles.
• Added ‘ValueComposer’ class that helps to create barcode values for vCard, e-mail, and SMS messages that should be correctly handled by mobile barcode readers.
• Added ‘Barcode.Options.EANDrawQuietZoneIndicator’ property to enable quiet zone indicator for EAN-2 and EAN-5 barcodes.
• Added property ‘Barcode.Options.PDF417ExtendedFileID’.
• Fixed .NET Core compatibility issue.
• Minor improvements and bugfixes.

Document Parser SDK 2.5.0.344

(February 11, 2020)

• Added CSV output format (for fields only) to API and Template Editor.
• Added table parameter introduction to parsing values from sub-headers as repeating columns.
• Fixed backward compatibility with templates of previous versions.
• Improved PDF extraction and rendering.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

Invoice Parser SDK 2.5.0.344

(February 11, 2020)

• Added CSV output format (for fields only) to API and Template Editor.
• Improved PDF extraction and rendering.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

QR Code SDK 1.1.0.1099

(February 11, 2020)

• Added ‘ValueComposer’ class that helps to create barcode values for vCard, e-mail, and SMS messages that should be correctly handled by mobile barcode readers.
• Minor improvements and bugfixes.

Spreadsheet SDK 3.7.0.1832

(February 11, 2020)

• Improved export to PDF format.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

Text Recognition SDK 1.6.0.216

(January 20, 2020)

• Added ‘ScreenshotMaker’ class allowing to take images from the screen.
• Added ‘Grayscale’ image preprocessing filter.

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