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Softek Barcode Toolkit PDF Extension v9.4.1Major versionJul 14, 2025
Features
Important Changes:
License keys with previous versions of the SDK are not compatible with this version.
MaxBarcodesPerPage now defaults to 1.
Improvement in SDK speed.
FilePathEncoding (Windows only) now defaults to 1 (UTF-8 encoding). This means that all file paths passed into the DLL functions in Windows will now be handled as UTF-8 rather than ASCII unless the value of FilePathEncoding is set to 0.
New function mtScanBarCodeW added to the Windows DLL interface. This function takes a wide string for the file path.
New function mtGetBarStringW added to the Windows DLL interface. This function returns a wide string and is useful when handling Unicode characters in 2-D barcodes.
Addition of a property called Contrast to allow adjustment of contrast in grayscale and color image. Note this is currently set using LoadXMLSettings.
Addition of properties BlueChannel, GreenChannel and RedChannel to allow adjustment of the color channels in color images. Note these are currently set using LoadXMLSettings.
Improvement to the recognition of barcodes at multiple angles on the same page.
The Windows version of the SDK now has native builds for ARM64.
Fixes
Correction to the use of MaxLength when Show2DCornersInResults is set to true. Maxlength now only applies to the length of the barcode component of the result.
Fix for a potential situation where by a false positive 1-D barcode inside the region of a 2-D barcode is reported instead of the 2-D barcode.