Released: Nov 19, 2015
Updates in this release
Updates in Document Engine V19 Major Update
OCR
- 82% speed boost to overall performance of Advantage OCR engine.
- Faster page insertion.
- Improved recognition accuracy.
- Higher accuracy of font-size detection through improved noise removal.
- Enhanced spell checker speed by 100%.
- Optimized memory usage during AutoZone.
- Table detection 50% faster.
PDF
- Parse, edit and save modified PDF forms.
- Read and write PDF Digital Signature.
- Native memory support.
- Memory enhancements when loading large PDF documents.
- Optimized extraction of PDF file information including internal links, bookmarks, etc.
- Speed improvements to loading and saving SVG PDF documents.
- Lower memory consumption when loading raster PDF.
Document Viewer and Converter
- Faster SVG rendering
- Designer support for Leadtools.Controls.Winforms.
- Load and save from SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Docs.
- Native support for MOBI and ePUB format.
- Shape and drawing support for DOC/DOCX.
- Across-the-board improvements to Office, HTML, MOBI and ePUB formats.
- HTML5 / JavaScript Document Viewer demo redesigned to use ASP.NET MVC.
- Converted Document REST service to ASP.NET.
- New .NET WinForms demo for viewing either Raster or SVG.
Annotations
- Dashed line support for HTML5 / JavaScript.
- Region / language support when loading and saving.
- Improved custom annotation pictures.
- Add padding to all sides of an object regardless of alignment.
- Automatically rotate annotation images and text with viewer rotation.
- Load annotations directly from PDF and TIFF files.
- New legacy framework for loading and saving old versions of LEADTOOLS annotations.
- Improved annotation realization (burning) for all platforms.
Additional Document Updates
- New unstructured forms field recognition - Recognize text fields with specific captions even when the filled form doesn't completely match its master form.
- Load XLSX in WinRT.