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What's New in DotImage 10

New WebDocumentViewer for ASP.NET websites. Built on jQuery and modern browser technologies.
Developers can create a full-page document viewer with smooth, flick-style momentum scrolling.  Just a few lines of code are needed and the viewer can be easily embedded into any ASP .NET or ASP .NET MVC website and can be themed.

• Can be easily deployed to websites using ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC
• Can be themed with jQuery UI ThemeRoller
• Shows multiple pages in a scroll viewer
• Uses web handlers for server interaction 

New DotImage OCR Engine: IRIS IDRS
DotImage 10.0 OCR now supports the IRIS IDRS engine.  It currently supports 137 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, etc. languages and add-ons offer recognition of Asian, Hebrew, and Farsi languages. It also offers zonal and page analysis support. Another feature, the I.R.I.S. Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) engine for all Latin based languages, supports spaced and even touching handprint.

• Supports Asian character sets
• Supports ICR 

New Silverlight Imaging SDK that is a subset of DotImage and usable in the client-side of Silverlight applications without elevation.
A large subset of DotImage has been ported to run inside the Silverlight client and other managed environments such as Windows Phone 7, Office 365, and Partial-Trust environments, plug-in and other managed environments such as WinPhone 7, BPOS, and Partial-Trust environments.

• Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
• Many image processing commands including 1-bit 

Silverlight viewer performance enhancements

• Can use local isolated storage for client-side caching.
• Can get pages on demand when in single-page view mode
• Silverlight viewers can use TIFF directly without converting to PNG or JPEG. 

New fully-managed AnyCpu subset of DotImage that can be used in partial-trust environments.

• Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
• Many image processing commands including 1-bit 

New Barcode Reader Symbologies
In addition to Code 39, UPC, PDF417, QR Code, DataMatrix, and the rest of DotImage’s 1D and 2D barcode symbologies, DotImage now supports

• AustraliaPost
• OneCode/Intelligent Mail
• Planet
• RM4SCC 

EZTwainX is included in DotImage Document Imaging and DotTwain
Browser-based scanning has been significantly improved with the addition of ActiveX TWAIN capabilities from the Dosadi acquisition, and included in DotTwain and DotImage Document Imaging.

What's new in DotImage 9.0d

• Added ReferencedImageAnnotationRootPath property to the WebAnnotationViewer to allow caching of ReferencedImageAnnotation images in the browser.
• Added additional Type6 metadata parsing for unknown WANG Type6 data. It is now stored in the ExtraProperties of an annotation.
• .NET 4.0 WPF defaults to low quality instead of high quality for image resizes. We set to high quality by default for our WPF viewers now.
• Added support for reading Wang Link Annotations, whose information is put in Extra Properties
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to render improperly if annotations were loaded in a RemoteInvoke when there were no layers.
• Fixed bug in TileSize for the WebImageViewer.
• We now skip over this tag for Olympus models that have this not to spec MakerNote length, and correctly read all the other tags.
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause TextAnnotations to render thier text farther down the next line even when there was space left.
• Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer that stopped Chrome from working while using ASP.NET MVC.
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would duplicate annotations on PostBack
• Added Silverlight method for opening multiple files at once.
• A bug was fixed in the GifDecoder so that it will partially read some broken GIF files instead of throwing an exception
• PDF Rasterizer bug fixed to rasterize PDF with 4bpp images in them
• Fixed PDF/A compliance issue. endobj needs a newline before it.
• Fixed a rare bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause text fields containing annotation data to be added to the page.
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that did not render annotation edges smoothly.
• Fixed a bug in PDF Annotation exporting when exporting no annotations over a page with annotations, it didn't remove the annotations that were there as expected.
• LevelsCommand support 16bpp Gray images now
• Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer when contained in an UpdatePanel in a TabControl
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to disappear while RemoteInvoking
• TiffDecoder can now deal with more corrupt TIFF files that have their directory offsets set to impossibly large numbers
• Fixed client side support of Annotation.CanSelect
• Improved multiline text rendering on Canvas object
• Fixed a bug saving PDF after removing pages
• Wang saved EmbeddedImageAnnotation functionality improved.
• Fixed a bug in ResampleDocumentCommand with images set to minisblack (using 0 for black, 1 for white)
• Fixed a problem with rendering WebControls inside ASP.NET MVC ViewUserControls.
• Fixed a bug in WebAnnotationViwer -- the annotation was still loading after its AnnotationLoaded event is raised
• Fixed a bug in the PDFEncoder for 1bpp images in the same document as 24bpp images
• PDFAnnotationExporter and Loading Annotations did not take Rotation into consideration
• Handle null destinations in PDF
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would fire AnnotationChanged at the wrong time in some cases.
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would not allow the ToolTip to be set from the client side when creating the annotation programmatically.
• fixed bug in SilverlightImageViewer when 1bpp images are rotated and antialiased. It didn't show it rotated
• Fixed a bug in PDF generation with black outlines not showing up in Acrobat
• Added a GetObjectType() to WebControls, so that customers can inherit from them, but we still know the original type.
• Fixed a bug in the TWAIN ActiveX control to check availability of changing sizes before allowing it.

What's New in DotImage 9.0c

• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would allow annotations to move while the image was centered and the control was being resized
• Added a new OCR Engine, RecoStar, to DotImage OCR
• Added a way to set PixelType in the ActiveX TWAIN control
• Added a way to set FrameSize in the ActiveX TWAIN control
• Fixed a licensing bug with the ActiveX TWAIN control
• Fixed a memory leak in the hole punch removal command
• Added FILEVERSION information to one of the Forms Processing assemblies
• Fixed a case where IE warns of mixed content when using our web control on HTTPS pages
• When 8bpp indexed files are sent to glyphreader, they will be auto-converted to 8bpp gray. If you want different behavior, you can handle the ImageSendOff event. The new image won't appear in translated documents -- it's used for OCR purposes only
• Fixed issue in DocumentAnnotationViewer where annotations could be lost by deselecting the ThumbnailView
• A memory leak was fixed in LineRemovalCommand
• A bug was fixed in the The Toolkit Activation program so that DotImage Photo Free could be activated offline
• Clarified instructions on the Toolkit Activation wizard
• A memory leak was fixed in AutoBorderCropCommand
• RAW was updated to add more cameras
• Fixed a leak in the invert text command
• Fixed a bug in Silverlight not cleaning all cached files
• A bug was fixed in WinForms Annotations -- when an annotation was deselected, it sent a click event with the wrong annotation in it
• Corrected EndEdgePoints of detected barcodes
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would allow annotations to move while the image was centered and the control was being resized

What's New in DotImage 9.0b

• DotImage Photo is now free
• Added a MouseUp and MouseDown event to WPF Controls
• Added support to run the Silverlight viewer out-of-browser.
• Made OMR detect lines and crosses better.
• Added a Save method to the SilverlightImageViewer.
• Added a Print method to the SilverlightImageViewer to simplify printing.
• Updated the RAW codec to support more cameras
• Detect licensing errors better in Silverlight and give better error messages.
• Fixed a bug that didn't allow the creation of named DefaultAnnotations from JavaScript code.
• Fixed a bug with serializing SilverlightInkAnnotation.
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause all properties of a LayerAnnotation to revert back to defaults.
• Fixed a bug where WebViewerControl.RegisterScriptInclude throws FileNotFound when an optional assembly wasn't found.
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would show all layers on the last page, when annotations were added inside a RemoteInvoke.
• Fixed a bug with saving a Silverlight PdfMarkupAnnotation highlighter.
• Fixed an issue with DotTwain locking up some TWAIN 2.x drivers that issue callbacks from a separate thread.
• Support the Web Viewing Suite license in Silverlight.
• Fixed a bug that would cause an error in IE when zooming in on multiple text annotations.
• Fixed the XMPFormatter to deserialize arrays in annotations.
• Added support for printing Silverlight annotations.
• Fixed a bug with deserializing a Silverlight PdfMarkupAnnotation highlighter.
• Twain ActiveX Control updated to resolve installation issues on some machines.  However, users currently experiencing the "repeating install" bug need to manually uninstall.
• Fixed a bug with the Silverlight image processing requests creating an invalid query if a query is already used to access the hosting web page.
• Fixed a bug that didn't allow AnnotationChanging to fire while an annotation was changing in the WebThumbnailViewer.
• Fixed a bug with SilverlightInkAnnotation not serializing correctly if it had not been visible.
• Added AnnotationRequested event for the WebAnnotationViewer.
• Fixed a bug with the Silverlight CompositePrintPageLayout calculations.
• Fixed an issue with the AtalasoftSilverlightExceptionEventArgs.ToString method returning duplicate information.
• Reduced the number of server requests when opening an image in the SilverlightImageViewer.
• Added support for multi-clicking of the Silverlight selection mouse tool.
• Fixed a bug with the ThumbnailView preventing small change Scroll events.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing custom annotations from using protected serialization constructors.

DotImage 9.0a Release Notes

• Added support for ASP.NET MVC
• Added a CreatePdfAnnotationDataExporter event to the DocumentAnnotationViewer so that you can create custom export policies for annotations when they are stored in a PDF.
• Added a LoadAnnotationData method to DocumentAnnotationViewer to allow loading annotations separate from the images.
• Fixed a bug with TwainManager.TwainLibraryLocation returning the wrong location when TWAIN 2.x is on the system.
• Fixed a bug that caused an exception when licensing the FormsProcessing assembly.
• Added the Code39Options property to ReadOpts to enable/disable code 39 semantic analysis.
• Fixed a bug in the WebThumbnailViewer that inhibited it from loading images from an ImageSource.
• Fixed bug in PDF resource handling when fonts have no encoding specified.
• A bug was fixed in Barcode Writer licenses to make them work without DotImage licenses.
• The TGA Decoder's validator was changed to make it faster and less likely to mistake TIFF as TGA.
• Fixed a bug in DocumentAnnotationViewer which was not providing a default layer when loading images with no annotations.
• AtalaImage.ToBitmap() was fixed to work with 48bpp images.
• Fixed a positioning bug with clicking on an annotation to create a new annotation when Zoom is not 1.
• Fixed a NullReferenceException caused when calling ExitCreateMode before the CurrentLayer has been set.
• Fixed a bug in DocumentAnnotationViewer which was throwing an exception when loading an image format other than JPEG, TIFF or PDF.
• InkData was made serializable
• The renderer for Ink annotations was fixed to use a transformation matrix if one is provided.
• Fixed a bug with TwainManager.TwainLibraryLocation returning the wrong location when TWAIN 2.x is on the system.
• PDF parsers were updated to handle files with blank owner passwords
• Added Code39Options to the ReadOpts class. This allows setting DisableFullASCII to turn off escape code processing.

What's new in DotImage 9.0

• Forms Processing add-on
• PDF Bookmarking
• PDF Encryption/Decryption
• PDF Page Manipulation (insert, remove, and rearrange pages)
• WinForms Annotation Document Viewer
• Web Thumbnail control supports AJAX zoom and mouse tools
• Silverlight 4.0 and printing
• Visual Studio 2010 integration

What’s New in DotImage 8.0c

New Features:

• WebImageViewer and WebAnnotationViewer have events that let you cache and stream out your own tiles
• Atalasoft now install Silverlight components into Microsoft Expression Studio
• Added a LinkViewer method to the Silverlight control which allows two controls, one in thumbnail and one in single page layout, will share server-side files and update each other
• Added additional value testing when Silverlight annotation properties are set to prevent possible exceptions

Bug Fixes:

• Added a check to AnnotateViewer.Save to make sure any Text or Callout annotations have exited EditMode before saving
• A bug was fixed in the VB source to the barcode demo that caused it not to find any barcodes
• Fixed a bug where setting the SilverlightImageViewer to a small size would throw an exception when an image is loaded
• Fixed a bug in the Twain Control demo that would cause a "No devices found" message
• Worked around an Internet Explorer bug that incorrectly reported insecure connections for relative paths used in background images
• Fixed a bug with Canvas.DrawText alignment
• AsynchronousException was not always being raised for errors
• Fixed a bug in the VB Twain Control demo
• Fixed an exception thrown with AnnotationController.Paste
• Fixed an issue with FolderThumbnailView where duplicate thumbnails were being created when the total count was greater than 2000
• Fixed a bug that didn't render the script tags from a callback in the header tag.
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that caused problems with IE, when the outline of a TextAnnotation was set to none.
• Fixed a bug with quotation marks in Web Text annotations
• Fixed the Twain Control's configuration file to point to the correct URL
• Updated ISIS documentation for IsisSettings.Brightness to reflect the ISIS specification description
• Fixed an issue where SelectionChanged was not being raised after a call to AnnotationController.Paste
• Fixed a bug in RubberStampAnnotation where some characters would cause artifacts to be left being when resizing
• Fixed a bug with a masked selection in AtalaImageViewer when the Bounds of the selection is set
• Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that did not allow double quote marks in a TextAnnotation
• Fixed an issue where .NET would cause an exception for Grayscale scans
• Fixed an issue where TextFormat.Alignment was being modified by Canvas.CalculateTextSize
• ClearSelectedAnnotations was not setting ActiveAnnotation to null (Nothing in VB)
• Fixed a center of rotation bug when deserializing rotated annotations
• Fixed a bug in AnnotationsController.Paste() that caused it not to work

What’s New in DotImage 8.0b

• Added an option to skip validation of barcodes (SkipAllValidation property on ReadOpts). Makes the reader find barcodes that might be damaged - the data returned should be validated by calling code
• Added support for PixelFormat selection support to the DotTwain ActiveX Control
• ActiveX DotTwain now supports public key licensing
• Silverlight error message was changed to reference a KB article
• Added links inside of the Toolkit Activation to help in choosing an evaluation
• Added a feature to ActiveX Twain to allow saving to a file locally instead of immediately uploading
• Updated Tesseract OCR to v2.04

These are the main additions to DotImage 8.0, though there are some smaller features, and lots of bug fixes - the full release notes explain more on those.

• Barcode writing - There is a new SDK for writing barcodes onto images. It supports many 1-D and 2-D formats, and can work with and without DotImage.
• Web thumbnail drag-drop - Drag and drop thumbnails in the web thumbnail control to reorder them.
•  Web annotations supports comments attached to annotations - There is a new type of annotation that allows you to attach comments to any other annotation. The comments are marked with the user and datestamp, and they allow end-users to discuss any annotation (or add more information to an annotation)
• Store any annotation we support in a PDF as a standard Acrobat supported PDF annotations - Before 8.0, there were special annotations that you had to use if you wanted to store them in a PDF. Now, you can store any annotations as a standard PDF annotation that can be read with Acrobat (or Reader or any PDF compliant viewer)
• New control for DotTwain to make web-scanning very easy - DotTwain includes an ActiveX control that makes scanning from the web very easy. It has a JavaScript API, so that developers don’t need to know ActiveX to use it.  It supports scanning and uploading images to the server. DotTwain is included in DotImage Document Imaging.
• Silverlight controls  - There are now Silverlight controls for viewing images, thumbnails, and for annotating images.
• TWAIN 2.0 support including 64 bit - Atalasoft now support the TWAIN 2.0 specification and have DotTwain builds for x64 machines.

What's New in V7.0
DotImage 7.0 has added support for the additional new features listed below.

New Add-Ons

• PDF Reader is now available with and without Text Extraction

New Features

• AJAX-based vector annotations. You can now author Freehand, Polygon, and Lines annotations in our AJAX Web Annotation control.
• Better authoring of AJAX annotations. A vector rendering is shown during authoring of annotations in the AJAX Web Annotation control. Line annotations have a greatly improved authoring experience.
• DotImage installs web project templates for creating AJAX document viewers quickly.
• Added mouse event support to WebThumbnailViewer.
• Improved PDF zooming on the web. We can now get higher DPI renderings on-the-fly when zooming into a PDF.
• Support for 48 bpp RGB images on the web. We now support 48 bpp images in all of our web controls automatically.
• Improved key event handling and focus methods in the web controls.
• WPF Native Annotation control. Can be used in XAML and is not in the WinControls layer (other elements can be on top of it).
• WPF Annotation control uses same data formats as other DotImage annotation controls. Saved annotations can be shared between the WinForms, WebForms and WPF versions of our annotation control.
• Improved performance of DICOM decoding.
• Support for all DICOM pixel formats in the web controls.
• Support for DICOM window and leveling
• Support for reading DICOM sample values before any transformations have been applied. If you need access to the raw values from the imaging device, you can now access them.
• Improvements in support for DICOM with signed samples
• PdfEncoder can be set to create PDF/A-1b documents.
• PdfTranslator (OCR Searchable PDF creator) can be set to create PDF/A-1b documents
• PdfEncoder can create a PDF that automatically prints when you open it. This is a great way to print from a website – generate a PDF on the fly and set to self printing. The browser will print in automatically after it’s been downloaded.
• Added support for alternate characters in GlyphReader OCR. For each character read, you can see what the other possible characters are.

What’s New in V6.0
DotImage 6.0 has added support for the additional new features listed below.

New Add-Ons

• DotImage ISIS Add-On - Supports ISIS Scanning
• DotImage CAD/CAM Reader - View AutoCad DWG and DXF Drawings
• DotImage OCR Tesseract Engine - Royalty-Free OCR

New Features

• Supportfor x64 architectures (OCR, ISIS, CAD/CAM, and TWAIN currently lack 64-bit support)
• Added support for Visual Studio 2008
• Greatly improved ease of use for viewing multi-page documents and annotations on the web with the AJAX-Enabled controls.
• CAD/CAM Support for AutoCad's DWG and DXF Formats

What's New in DotImage V5.0?

New DotImage Modules

• ASP.NET Web Annotations using AJAX Technology

Improvements to the core DotImage library

• A new TIFF Codec developed from the ground up for improved support and performance
• Tested on the extensive image database of thousands of customer images
• Benchmarked to be generally faster than the old codec based on LibTIFF
• Images with TIFF Tags occupying many megabytes of memory no longer affects decoding performance
• Supports more flavors of TIFF and improved OJPEG decoding
• Now supports writing OJPEG Compression 6 to support legacy TIFF readers
• Optimizations for multi-core processors. Added an interface for multi-threaded image processing commands which will parallelize image processing and improve performance on multi-core machines
• AdaptiveThresholdCommand performance improvement for multi-core processors
• SimpleThresholdCommand performance improvement for multi-core processors
• Improved Memory Management API via a PixelAccessor class. This class raises events when certain memory thresholds are met or exceeded and can track all AtalaImage memory in use
• New event in PDF encoding allowing the selection of compression parameters such as JPEG quality for each encoded page
• Added chroma subsampling support to the JPEG encoder

Improvements to Annotations

• The Annotation features are now only included with DotImage Document Imaging 5.0, and no longer offered to purchase standalone. However Annotations can still be deployed without DotImage dependencies.
• Refactored into a Model - View - Controller pattern for increased extensibility and the ability to use other rendering mechanisms
• Supports full matrix based transformations
• Added Ability to flip Annotations
• Added ability to interactively rotate individual annotations
• Added support for Undo and Redo
• Added a new Callout Annotation
• Added support for custom line endcaps for line, lines, freehand, and callout (arrow, rectangle, ellipse, etc.)
• Improvements to Rubberstamp Annotation
• Custom-designed icons for each annotation type are available as resources in multiple sizes (32x32, 24x24, 16x16).
• Since this was a redesign, there are interface changes from previous versions.
• Added the ability to change the behavior and visibility of individual grips
• Added clipboard support through Cut, Copy and Paste methods
• Added the ability to create annotations on a single click or double click with optional annotation centering
• Improved the annotation security features
• Added nested layer support
• Improved Text Annotation with a fully transparent editor and auto sizing to the text content.
• Now different actions can be set to different mouse buttons

Improvements to ASP.NET WebControls

• Controls can now be placed in an ASP.NET 2.0 MultiView control
• Controls can now be placed in an ASP.NET AJAX (Atlas) UpdatePanel control
• Added support for Atalasoft Web Controls to be included within a parent control that is invisible
• Added getDisplayImageUrl javascript method to provide a URL to the current viewable image in the control
• WebThumbnailControl now supports the ability to select multiple thumbnails at once by holding down the control key while selecting
• Added caption support to individual thumbnails in the WebThumbnail Control supporting custom captions with page number and filename

New AJAX enabled Web Annotations Module

• Extends the AJAX enabled WebImageViewer to add annotations support to the existing image viewing, panning, zooming, and editing control
• Requires no applets or plug-ins
• Supports IE6, IE7, FireFox, and Safari
• Renders annotations stored within an image file or an external file
• Uses same mechanism and data layer as the Windows Forms Annotations module
• Move, resize, and create annotations within the browser
• Annotations are updated from the server once placed, or resized fully enabling the rendering of all built-in annotations as well as any custom annotations
• Supports Layering and changing rendering order (z-order)
• Programmatic access to annotations via server-side code
• A full Javascript API to programmatically access all annotation properties and methods without server postbacks
• Edit text Annotations interactively in the browser

Improvements to DotTwain Scanning Module

• CreateDeviceSession method was added to the Acquisition object to allow a temporary Device object to be created, used and disposed. This is required for some network scanning situations that may change the device identity between sessions

Features:
All features in DotImage Photo Pro and the thin-client image viewer plus:

• Multipage TIFF encode and decode support
• Multipage PDF Encoding Support (embedded images only)
• TWAIN Scanning support with the included DotTwain product
• Advanced Annotations support with the included DotAnnotate product
• TIFF Directory manipulation controls for inserting, removing, and reordering TIFF pages in a multi-page TIFF without re-encoding the entire image
• Advanced TIFF Tag editing support to edit standard and abitrary TIFF Tags
• Optimized Scale to Gray display
• Document Cleanup Functions including:
• Auto-Deskew binary images
• Despeckle binary images
• Remove noise from binary images
• Auto border detection and removal
• Adaptive and Global Thresholding to convert grayscale or color images to binary
• Binary Mophological Filters (Erode, Dilate, Boundary Extraction, Thinning)
• Render FAX images with different X and Y resolutions properly (both WinForm and WebForm controls)

Usage Scenarios:
DotImage Document Imaging can be used in a wide variety of imaging applications and industries. Some sample scenarios include:

• Medical Records Application
• Insurance Document Management Solution
• Mailroom document application
• Check management in financial/banking industries
• Online Mechanical Drawing Viewer

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