Version 11.0 (23 January 2024 released)
- added OnMouseWheel event. You can capture MouseWheel events in your application to change pages or zooming by scrolling mouse wheel and check if the Ctrl,Shift, left/middle/right mouse button was pressed.
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- added Middle Mouse events. MMouseButtonDown, MMouseButtonUp, MMouseButtonDblClk events. e.g. When you double click Middle Mouse button, then you can Print the image.
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- added SetControlFocus method, let the control received the OnMouseWheel event if the control lost the focus.
- added GetCurrentPage method, it will return current page number if you loaded multi-page TIFF file.
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- updated OCR engine. now support more than 50 languages such as Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Indonesian, Hebrew, Russian, Korean, Polish, Thai, Vietnamese.
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- added Page Segmentation mode when OCR. It can improve your OCR Accuracy. In old version, it will OCR page of text .If you’re just seeking to OCR a small region, you can use different Page Segmentation mode.
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- added OCR2SearchablePDFFontFile, OCR2SearchablePDFFontName properties.
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- removed viscomocrconverter.dll, now it use Page Segmentation mode to improve OCR Accuracy.
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- updated VB6, C#2010, VB.NET 2010, VFP OCR, OCRPDF Samples.
- updated VB6, C#2010, VB.NET 2010 General Samples ( change pages by scrolling mouse wheel).
Version 10.0 (3 October 2022 released)
- added IsSaveMultiPage property that allow Enable/Disable saving Single or MultiPage TIF. If you call LoadMultiPage("c:test.tif",2) , you want to save page 2 of TIF file only. you may set IsSaveMultiPage=false before call LoadMultiPage method.
- added three new OCRRecognizeMode (3-5) modes. Clear Text Background Mode, Clear Text Background Plus enhance brightness Mode and Clear Noise Mode. It will improve the OCR quality and increase accuracy.
- added viscomocrconverter.dll
- updated C#2010, VFP, VB6 OCR, OCRPDF samples.
Version 9.0 (22 July 2014 released)
- added support Pre-processing Searchable PDF (For these feature, you need purchased OCR plugin). In past you call OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF, it will directly output searchable PDF file, you have not chance to add , delete or edit the recognized text. Now it added OCR2SearchableTextFile and OCRTextFile2SearchablePDF methods, let you output searchable PDF text file. you have chance change the text before output searchable PDF.You may let the text of Searchable PDF file more accuracy or add hidden text on searchable PDF file.
- added AutoZoom and DrawSelectionRect methods, now you may call DrawSelectionRect, then call AutoZoom, It will auto zoom selection rectangle area.
- added LoadImageFromURLCompleted event, now you may call LoadImageFromURL , It will fired LoadImageFromURLCompleted event when image loaded.
- fixed some bugs.
- added vb6, vb.net 2010, c#2010 , VFP Pre-processing Searchable PDF samples.
- added vb.net 2010 OCR, OCR to Searchable PDF samples.
Version 8.4 (09 December 2012 released)
improved when center the image ( View=12 ), now it can zoom in , zoom out, rotate, flip vertical or flip horizontal.
supported on Window 8.
Version 8.3 (13 December 2011 released)
added digital signed for ocx and exectuable of installer files.
added vb.net 2010 and c# 2010 samples , fixed samples cannot run on 64 bit OS issue.
Version 8.2 (26 May 2011 released)
fixed view the fax documents (TIFF) that display wrong aspect ratio issue.
fixed wrong aspect ratio issue for Save, PrintImage, PrintImage2Printer, OCR2SearchablePDF, OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF methods when open the fax documents.
Version 8.0 (25 March 2011 released)
improved OCR engine. Now OCR processing will more accurate when you call OCRStartScan or OCR2SearchablePDF or OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF methods.
fixed repeat OCR same document, each time OCR text result will different issue.
Version 7.8 (2 Dec 2010 released)
fixed change view property , it have setfocus issue.
fixed the refresh desktop issue when call Zoom to Width, Zoom to Height.
added rotate image at specific angle.
added allow accept drop file from window explorer.
added Blank Page detection, Get the Confidence value of specific page.
added RotateAt, BlankPageIsBlank, BlankPageGetConfidence methods.
added EnableDropFile property.
Version 7.5 (30 June 2009 released)
added support MNG, JNG, Raw image (cr2, nef , crw, mrw, raf, erf, 3fr, dcr, raw, dng, pef, x3f, arw, sr2, mef, prf) image format.
added allow rotate multipage TIFF or PDF or rotate specific page no.
added ClearRotateMultiPageOnly, RotateMultiPage, RotateMultiPageOnly methods.
Version 7.0 (5 Jan 2009 released)
added allow change color resolution.
added CovertTo1bpp, CovertTo4bpp, CovertTo8bpp, CovertTo8bppGrayScale, CovertTo16bppRGB555, CovertTo16bppRGB565, CovertTo24bpp, CovertTo32bpp, CovertTo32bppARGB methods.
added allow center the image. Set the view property to 12, it will center the image.
added TIFMergeMultiFiles method.
added allow output searchable PDF/a file when use OCR Plug-In Module.
added OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF, OCR2SearchablePDF methods with OCR Plug-In Module.
Version 6.5
added OCR plug-in module.
fixed when filename="" unlock issue.
Version 6.2
fixed some TIFF crash issue.
Version 6.1
added support left mouse panning.
Version 6.0
redesign panning, auto zoom, draw selection rectangle features.
added merge, swap, add, delete page of TIFF file without decoding.
improved crop image feature.
Version 5.1
improved read EXIF method.
Version 5.0
added support JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, WBMP, TGA, PGX, RAS, PNM image files
improved Very smooth scrolling when display big image file.
added Create thumbnail image.
Support Capture image from URL.
Support load image from IStream.
Support drag scroll image.
Version 4.5
redesign Read/Write EXIF information method, now it can read all EXIF tags.
redesign printing method.
added photo border.
added alpha value of overlay text.
added overlay image features.
Version 4.0
added Read/Write EXIF information.
added ImportFromPictureBox method.
added Read/Write image to database field.
added mark a selection, crop, zoom in , zoom out on selection.
Version 3.0
added drawtext method and provide over 50 different text styles.
added PasteFromClipboard method.
added support CreateObject instance the ocx.