Dynamic Web TWAIN Releases

Released: Nov 1, 2017

Updates in 13.2

Fixes

  • [HTML5 for All] Fixed a memory leak where the scanning service didn't release memory after transferring image data to web browsers.
  • [HTML5 for Mac] Fixed a bug where sometimes the web twain service didn't get shut down properly.
  • [ActiveX] Fixed a bug where a base64 string ended with "==" could not be decoded by using the SetCustomDSDataEx method.
  • [ActiveX] Fixed a bug where the Dynamsoft.WebTwainEnv.Load method didn't work after calling the Dynamsoft.WebTwainEnv.Unload method.
  • [ActiveX...

Released: Aug 22, 2017

Updates in 13.1

Features

  • [HTML5 Only] Added ConvertToBlob API to return the Blob of specified indices in the designated file type.
  • [HTML5 Only] Improved the SetHTTPFormField API to be able to set Blobs in HTTP Forms aside from strings.
  • [HTML5 Only] Improved the HTTPUpload API to be able to upload binary data set by the SetHTTPFormField.
  • [HTML5 Only] Improved the SetHTTPHeader API to support HTTPDownload(Ex) methods.
  • [HTML5 Only] Added prefix to all names used in CSS to avoid possible conflicts.
  • [HTML5 Only...

Released: Jun 21, 2017

Updates in 13

Features

  • [HTML5 Only] Replaced Dynamic Web TWAIN service with the unified Dynamsoft Service. This is a new design for the structure of the SDK.
    • A new version can be installed alongside an old version. Both versions can coexist. Thus, there is no need to uninstall the old version.
    • Starting from this version, the Dynamsoft Service will be the centerpiece. It’ll only handle the most basic and core functions and will be relatively stable. Therefore, there will be seldom or no need to upgrade it once...

Released: Apr 5, 2017

Updates in 12.3

Features

  • Updated the certificates used by Dynamic Web TWAIN service to handle the updates introduced in Chrome 58+ (HTML5 Only).
  • Updated the key exchange as well as the cipher in the Dynamic Web TWAIN service for secure connections (HTML5 Only).

Released: Jan 10, 2017

Updates in 12.2

Features

  • Improved SSL certificates by updating the signature algorithm to SHA256 (HTML5 only).
  • Improved Web TWAIN service to handle the new certificates (HTML5 only).

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where scanning might fail if the user doesn't register the event OnPostTransfer.
  • Fixed a bug where CreateDWTObject still tries to connect to non-SSL ports even when the page is running in HTTPS.

Released: Nov 3, 2016

Updates in 12.1

Features

  • Added Linux Edition that supports Firefox and Chrome on 64bit Linux Operating Systems.
  • [HTML5 Only] Added a new method which can be used to set the threshold for segmented uploads as well as the size of each segment.
  • [HTML5 Only] Improved the CreateDWTObject method to allow listening on multiple IPs.
  • Improved how the SDK works in Edge. Now you can run local pages directly in Edge.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where CurrentImageIndexInBuffer and HowManyImagesInBuffer return wrong values in the...

Released: Sep 22, 2016

Updates in 12

Features

  • Added a new method HTTPUpload which supports uploading files as binary as well as base64 string. The method also supports segmented uploading when handling big files. HTML5 edition only
  • Added a new method ConvertToBase64 which supports converting one or more images to a base64 string. HTML5 edition only
  • Added a new method SetHTTPHeader which supports adding a header to a HTTP Upload Post request. HTML5 edition only
  • Added a new method GetImageURL which returns the direct URL of an image...

Released: Jul 5, 2016

Updates in 11.3.2

Features

  • New OCR Add-on - A fast and robust optical character recognition (OCR) library for your web application. You can use the OCR library to extract text from scanned images in your Web application with a couple of lines of code.
  • Automatically create a dump file for debugging purposes when the scanning service crashes.
  • Optimized the scanning performance by reducing unnecessary web socket messages
  • Optimized the compatibility of the accompanying JS files so that they can work with different...

Released: Mar 1, 2016

Updates in 11.3

  • Added "IsTextBasedPDF" API to the PDF rasterizer to determine whether a PDF is text-based.
  • Added support for reading binary barcodes and returning results as a base64 strings.
  • Updated barcode reader library with an improved positioning algorithm that can better identify and locate DataMatrix barcodes.
  • Improved the AcquireImage API to set two callback functions to check its status - HTML5 edition only.
  • Fixed bugs related to asynchronous APIs such as the bug where the image index is not updated...

Released: Nov 24, 2015

Updates in 11.2

  • Added PDF Rasterizer Add-on to convert PDF text files to images.
  • Added DataMatrix Reader add-on to read DataMatrix barcodes from an image.
  • Added PDF417 reader add-on to read PDF417 barcodes from an image.
  • Added CloseWorkingProcess method to close the current HTML5 scanning process.
  • Improved and optimized scanning process.
  • Improved Print method to support printing images via the Windows native print program.