Version 21.5 (15 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.
  • added Middle Mouse events. MMouseButtonDown, MMouseButtonUp, MMouseButtonDblClk events. e.g. When you double click Middle Mouse button, then you can Print the image.
  • 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 PDF or TIFF file.
  • updated VB6, C#2010, C#2019, VB.NET 2010, VB.NET 2019 Samples ( change pages by scrolling mouse wheel).  
  • Version 21.0 (28 September 2023 released)

  • fixed memory issue and cannot display the pdf when load about 30 pdf files. (for  Advanced PDF Viewer and PDF Edit Plug-in)
  • updated OCR engine. now support more than 50 languages such as Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese, Indonesian, Hebrew, Russian, Korean, Polish, Thai, Vietnamese.
  • 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.
  • added OCRPDFAFileCompleted  event , you can checking created the PDF/A file whether success or failed when use OCR2SearchablePDF or OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF method with asynchronous mode.  
  • updated OCR2SearchablePDF or OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF method with blocking mode.  it will return true if create PDF/A file successful, otherwise return false.
  • fixed sometime cannot create PDF/A file when use OCR2SearchablePDF or OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF method with asynchronous mode. 
  • added OCR2SearchablePDFFontFile, OCR2SearchablePDFFontName properties.
  • removed viscomocrconverter.dll, now it use Page Segmentation mode to improve OCR Accuracy.
  • updated VB6, C#2010, C#2019, VB.NET 2010, VB.NET 2019, VFP OCR, OCRPDF Samples.

  • Version 20.0 (13 May 2023 released)

  • added PDFWriter features, you can create a PDF from scratch, create a new page to the document, add text, add image, add line, add rectangle, add Ellipse to document.Use this new features you can generate PDF Invoice, PDF Receipt, PDF Quotation, PDF Report etc. PDFWriter features included in Advanced PDF Viewer, PDF Edit plugin. Please see this screenshot http://www.viscomsoft.com/doc/create-pdf-invoice.jpg
  • improved draw transparent PNG quality in DrawImage, DrawImageEx,DrawImageHBITMAP methods. Please see this screenshot http://www.viscomsoft.com/doc/compare-issue.jpg
  • improved the convert speed of ConvertTo1bpp,  ConvertTo4bpp ,ConvertTo8bpp, ConvertTo8bppGrayScale , ConvertTo16bppRGB555, ConvertTo16bppRGB565, ConvertTo24bpp, ConvertTo32bpp , ConvertTo32bppARGB methods.
  • added PDFWriterAddPage, PDFWriterCreatePDF, PDFWriterDrawText, PDFWriterDrawImage, PDFWriterDrawEllipse, PDFWriterDrawLine, PDFWriterDrawRectangle, PDFWriterClearAll methods.
  • added MS Access 2016, C# 2010, C# 2019, VB6, VB.NET 2010, VB.NET 2019 PDFWriter Sample. This sample show you How to use PDFWriter features to generate PDF Invoice.

  • Version 19.5 (24 January 2023 released)

  • Fixed cannot load the Big Page (e.g. 84.25 x 60.04 or 10784x7684 page size) of PDF file, it will display blank page .
  • updated FileName, LoadMultiPage, PrintImage, PrintImage2Printer Rotate90, Rotate180, Rotate270, Rotate methods for load the BIG page of PDF file.
  • updated PrintImage method, it can set PrintCopies, PrintOrientation PrintScale properties programmatically.e.g. When Print Dialog display, if you may set PrintCopies =2 , then user click print. It will print the image two times automatically.
  • Version 19.0 (19 May 2022 released)

  • updated Advanced PDF Viewer , fixed cannot display texts on some PDF version 1.6 or 1.7 files and some text fields cannot display in Fillable PDF file. It is Big Update.
  • fixed use Advanced PDF Viewer load the PDF file, then call Save or SaveBySize or PrintImage method. It will locked the PDF file
  • fixed output PDF file cannot open when call OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF or OCR2SearchablePDF method.
  • updated the OCR engine. Now it is more easy to use and install. support English, German, Fraktur, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese,Spanish language dictionary only. Now output searchable PDF file will increase accuracy.
  • updated output PDF image quality when you input PDF file and call OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF or OCR2SearchablePDF 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.
  • removed OCR2SearchablePDFFontFile, OCR2SearchablePDFFontName properties.
  • fixed OCR2SearchableMultipagePDF or OCR2SearchablePDF method, it cannot OCR last character of image.
  • added viscomocrconverter.dll.
  • updated MS Access 2016, VB.NET 2010, VB.NET 2019, C#2010, C#2019, VB6, VFP OCR,OCRPDF samples.
  • Version 18.0 (20 October 2021 released)

  • fixed BarCodeReadFullPage , BarCodeReadByZone methods cannot scan multiple barcode and cannot detect some QR Code.
  • fixed inserted texts vertically flipped or mirror issue when use PDFEditAddWatermarkText1 and PDFEditAddWatermarkText2 methods.
  • fixed inserted image vertically flipped or mirror issue when use PDFEditAddWatermarkImage methods.
  • updated PDFEditDeletePage method , after deleted the page, it will reduce PDF file size.
  • updated PDFEditSplit method , after split the PDF files.it will reduce the both PDF files size (In old version, if PDF file size is 100MB, after split PDF into two PDF files. The file size remain 100MB for Each PDF file.)
  • updated PDFEditMergeEx method, It will reduces the size of a Merged PDF file for selected the start page and end page.
  • updated PDFEditAddPage method, it will reduce the output PDF files size. The old verson will double the output PDF file size.
  • added PrintImage and PrintImage2Printer methods support display the text in multiple pages if inserted text using DrawText for multiple pages.
  • updated VB.NET 2010, VB.NET 2019 PDFEdit samples.
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