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Version 20.x

20.4.2 – November 5, 2020​

Download setup 20.4.2

Changes​

  • New: Recognition of ZUGFeRD files and sorting of these files into a separate directory. Standard edition and higher
  • Improved: Additional temporary scan files that interfere with processing are excluded.
  • Improved: Compression now creates even smaller output documents.
  • Changed: The PDF structure tree is recreated for saved files to fix compatibility issues with OmniPage.
  • Fixed: Error in the .bat sample script.
  • Fixed: Display error in the user interface.

20.4.1 – October 27, 2020​

Download setup 20.4.1

Changes​

  • New: Sample .bat file for the "per input file" interface.
  • Improved: Blank page detection now also checks the page for vectorized content.
  • Fixed: When migrating the settings to the new version, no new languages were set (in this case, German and English are recognized).
  • Fixed: The "per input file" interface did not pass the source parameter.
  • Fixed: The array of the "per input file" interface was not escaped correctly.

20.3.2 – September 29, 2020​

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In this version, we made major changes to the processing of PDF files and to text recognition. After installing, check whether your previous settings were applied correctly.

Download setup 20.3.2

Changes​

  • Improved: Recognition problems with Interleaved 2of5 barcodes were fixed.
  • Improved: Recognition of DataMatrix barcodes and QR codes.
  • Improved: Processing of PDF documents.
  • Improved: Saving and compression of PDF files.
  • Changed: BarcodeOCR can wait longer than 3 minutes for exclusive write access to the input file (the option is set in the configuration file).
  • Changed: BarcodeOCR now requires .NET Framework 4.7.2.
  • Fixed: Error in the user interface.

20.3.1 – September 2, 2020​

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In this version, we made major changes to the processing of PDF files and to text recognition. After installing, check whether your previous settings were applied correctly.

Internal release.

Changes​

  • New: Configurations can be disabled.
  • New: "Text recognition only" configurations: no barcode search and no splitting.
  • New: Regular expressions used as filters are checked for correct syntax before they are applied.
  • New: Conversion to grayscale.
  • New: Text recognition supports more languages.
  • New: Support for JPEG+ZIP, JPEG2000, and JBIG2 compression – significantly smaller documents.
  • New: Adjustment of document resolution with thresholds and a target resolution per color space (color, gray, b/w).
  • New: Scanned pages can be optimized: correct inversion, remove color noise, despeckle, remove punch holes, optimize page borders, straighten pages.
  • New: Rotating pages and removing blank pages no longer require text recognition.
  • New: Pages can be appended to existing PDF documents. Small Business Plus edition and higher
  • New: Support for the PDF/A standard "3B".
  • New: More PowerShell sample scripts in the "Script Samples" folder in the installation folder.
  • Improved: PDF processing was completely optimized for faster processing and better support of various PDF formats.
  • Improved: Text recognition converts image pages only (other pages can also be optimized with an option).
  • Improved: Recognition of 1D and 2D barcodes.
  • Changed: Documents are saved with the PDF version number of the source document.
  • Changed: Existing PDF signatures are removed from documents if previous signatures were defined based on the byte code.
  • Changed: PDF signatures are now embedded instead of PDF certifications.
  • Changed: Various changes in the user interface.
  • Changed: Password-protected PDF pages from input folders are moved to the error folder.
  • Fixed: An expired Windows password caused an error message the first time BarcodeOCR was started.
  • Fixed: Setup now also closes the desktop application during an update.
  • Fixed: Read errors with certain DataMatrix barcodes.