Released: Mar 24, 2021

Updates in V21.3

Features

• Added ECI modes to the Micro PDF417 encoder.
• Added ECI modes to the Micro PDF417 data decoding algorithm.
• Added input stream compaction mode to the Micro PDF417 encoder.
• Added support for UCC/EAN-128 emulation encoding.
• Added support for UCC/EAN-128 emulation decoding.
• Added support for BarcodeControl using new API.
• Removed overload operators from public API.

Released: Feb 20, 2021

Updates in V21.2

Features

• Extended the Macro PDF417 encoder with optional fields.

Fixes

• Barcode is not recognized.

Released: Jan 26, 2021

Updates in V21.1

Features

• Added Structured Append support to the QR encoder.
• Added support for Kanji encoding in the QR encoder.

Fixes

• BarCodeResult.Region.Angle direction not returned properly.
• Zero byte EMF file created in Linux.
• MicroPDF417 hangs in Auto mode.

Released: Dec 30, 2020

Updates in V20.12

Features

• Added additional fields to the Databar section.
• Improved Datamatrix barcodes with support for Macro 5 and 6.

Fixes

• Implement workaround for a GraphicsPath.AddString libgdiplus issue.
• Incorrect code text measurement and DPI scaling on Linux.
• Types2D DecodeType is now required.

Released: Dec 1, 2020

Updates in V20.11

Features

• Added an encodation scheme selector to DataMatrix code text.

Fixes

• Fixed Databar Expanded recognition.
• PDF417 barcode cannot be generated with text having apostrophe.
• Incorrect CodeText size interpolation with low height images.

Released: Oct 31, 2020

Updates in V20.10

Features

• Added new BarWidthReduction parameter for barcode generation.
• Improved BarWidthReduction parameter usability for 2D barcodes.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with DataMatrix encoding.

Released: Sep 29, 2020

Updates in V20.9

Features

• Added support for full ISO/IEC 8859-1 encoding with FNC4 character to Code128 encoder.
• Added support for full ISO/IEC 8859-1 decoding with FNC4 character to Code128 decoder.

Fixes

• Fixed test: Test_MBaseProcessor_FromInternet_ISBN_booklnd2_gif_ISBN.
• Fixed an issue with a huge performance penalty when scanning multiple regions of the same image.
• Fixed an issue where WideNarrowRatio is not supported with Codabar encoding.

Released: Aug 20, 2020

Updates in V20.8

Features

• Added Reader Initialization mode for PDF417 and MacroPDF417 barcode symbologies.

Fixes

• Barcode values were not read correctly.
• Unable to read barcodes in the image.

Released: Jul 24, 2020

Updates in V20.7

Features

• Added check digit calculation for ITF-6 barcodes.
• Added check digit recognition to ITF-6 barcodes.
• Added ECI modes to PDF417 encoder.
• Added input stream compaction mode to PDF417 encoder.
• Added new decoding modes to PDF417 processor.

Released: Jun 30, 2020

Updates in V20.6

Features

• Added the ability to align the names of values in Patch Code barcodes.