Released: Apr 19, 2026

Updates in V26.4

Features

• Added 'AllowShortBarcodes' to BarcodeReader.
• Improved Postal barcodes recognition engine.

Released: Mar 23, 2026

Updates in V26.3

Features

• Added an option to BarCodeReader to recognize only the required barcode types.

Fixes

• Reading barcodes from PDF - Barcode is not recognized.
• Recognition of EAN barcodes while barcode read type is set to UPC.
• Reader detects fragments of Code39Extended instead of VIN.

Released: Feb 21, 2026

Updates in V26.2

Features

• Added the ability to detect Unicode charsets in 2D barcodes.

Fixes

• Fixed ExtendedCodetext mode in QR encoder.

Released: Jan 22, 2026

Updates in V26.1

Features

• Removed the EnableEscape property.
• Exposed BarCodeReader.GetBarCodeDecodeType() as a public method.

Released: Dec 23, 2025

Updates in V25.12

Features

• Added .NET 10 support.
• Added support for new QualitySettings structure to MicroQR engine.
• Added support for new QualitySettings structure to Pdf417 and MicroPdf417 barcode engines.
• Added support for new QualitySettings structure to MaxiCode barcode engine.
• Optimized Han Xin recognition speed.
• Reviewed and updated API.

Released: Nov 20, 2025

Updates in V25.11

Features

• Implemented support for US Driving License format.

Released: Nov 18, 2025

Updates in V25.10

Features

• Improved recognition performance of inverted barcodes.

Released: Sep 19, 2025

Updates in V25.9

Features

• Improved Aztec recognition performance on mobile devices.
• Optimized 2D barcode recognition and changed the recognition algorithm of GS1CompositeBar.

Released: Aug 19, 2025

Updates in V25.8

Features

• Improved Pdf417 recognition performance on mobile devices.
• Optimized Han Xin recognition speed.

Released: Jul 19, 2025

Updates in V25.7

Features

• Added ability to save text as a graphic path when exporting to PDF format. This allows barcode text to be rendered as vector shapes, which improves compatibility with systems that do not embed fonts.
• Improved 'MBaseProcessor' recognition performance on mobile devices.
• Improved Interleaved2of5 recognition performance on mobile devices.
• Refined list of 'MostCommonTypes' and set as default.

Fixes

• Unable to recognize Code39 barcode.
• Barcode recognition performance slowdown between 23.9 and...