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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;

(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(February 11, 2020)
- Improved export to PDF format.
- Other minor fixes and improvements.
(January 20, 2020)
- Added ‘ScreenshotMaker’ class allowing to take images from the screen.
- Added ‘Grayscale’ image preprocessing filter.
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