Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Improvements: 

• [docx]     Improved optical character recognition of black text on a gray background.
• [json]      Support link property in JSON conversion output.
• [json]      Improved the detection of annotation identification.
• [docx]     Improved the forced detection of non-standard encoding of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters of multiple page documents.
• [docx]     Improved the optical character recognition preprocessing of vector text.
• [docx]     Improved detection of paragraph styles.
• [docx/xlsx]     Improved the detection of borderless tables.
• [json]     Improved hyperlink detection.
• [json]     Improved reliability of paragraph coordinates of rotated textboxes.
• [json]     Improved detection of the page rotation angle when autorotate is manually disabled.

Bugfixes: 

• [docx]     Fixed a bug causing an extra line of body text to be detected in the header.
• [json]      Improved the detection of page orientation containing inconsistently orientated text.
• [docx]     Fixed a bug resulting in the partial loss of specific bounding boxes of a document.

Improvements: 

• [docx] Improved the detection of standard office bar charts and variants. 
• [docx] Improved the detection of Chinese language.  
• [docx] Improved the optical character recognition preprocessing of vector text.  
• [docx] Improved the column detection of left to right aligned text.  
• [docx] Improved the stability of graphic color detection.  
• [docx] Improved the detection of header content.  
• [docx] Improved detection of white text located on a dark background.   
• [docx] Improved handling of text where the text and background colour match.  
• [docx] Improved table detection.  
• [docx] Improved the detection of diagrams.  
• [docx] Improved detection of black text located on a grey background.    
• [office] Improved language and page orientation detection. 

Bugfixes: 

• [docx] Fixed an issue causing Latin characters in a Chinese document to be misplaced. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue where a large graphic element caused text recovery failure. 
• [pdf] Fixed an issue preventing the marked property from being retained. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing the detection of the correct bounds of a graphic element. 
• [docx] Fixed a performance issue where dense vector graphics prevented successful optical character recognition of a file. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue causing conversion delay of complex one-page document. 
• [docx] Fixed a bug preventing the rendering of the first page of a detected Table of Contents. 

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Improvements: 

• [Office] Improved algorithms required to layout right to left body paragraph text.  
• [Office] Improvements to right to left text character matching and diacritic handling. 
• [Office] Improved Tatweel (Arabic) language detection. 
• [Office] Optimized detection performance for non-standard encoded characters using Tesseract.  
• [docx] Improved detection of footnote text. 
• [docx] Improved header detection. 
• [docx] Column detection improvements. 
• [Office] Improved rendering of specific Type3 font. 

Bugfixes: 

• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing successful conversion of a file. 

Misc: 

• All projects are now compiled using C++17 language features

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Feature Update: 

• Enable support of a licensed installation of IRIS. 

Bugfixes: 

• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing successful conversion of a file. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing one image of many from being correctly rendered. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing successful conversion of a file on Linux operating systems only. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing the detection of a Table of Contents due to the text order of the file. 
• [pdf] Fixed an issue preventing PDFA-2b validation of a document when certain font combinations are installed.  

Office Fidelity: 

• [docx] Improved detection of breaks on scanned documents containing Arabic text. 
• [office] Streamlined optical character recognition workflow of large documents containing non-standard encoded text. 
• [office] Allowed page snapshot deletion where annotations exist. 
• [office] Improved processing of non-standard encoded characters to unicode. 
• [office] Improved detection of combined characters. 
• [office] Improved detection of Arabic diacritic characters. 
• [office] Improved detection of transparent watermarks over scanned pages. 
• [docx] Improved detection of Table of Contents. 
• [rtf] Improved detection of characters when converting to RTF. 
• [docx] Improved detection of shapes when converting to DOCX. 
• [docx] Improved detection of serial images that contain underlines.  

Security 

• A limited number of third-party libraries have been updated to include the latest security fixes.

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Improvements: 

• Improvements to pdf rendering clipping algorithms: 
  • Added method for detecting a polygon that had degenerated into a polyline. 
  • Added methods for detecting self-intersections of polygon contours. 
  • Added method for automatic error detection in the clipping algorithm. 
  • Added method for changing the direction of a polygon. 
  • Support for winding/alternate rules has been added prior to polygon clipping. 
  • Rewrote the method for finding polygon intersections. 
  • Rewrote the method for adding the found intersections of polygons to the polygon structures. 
  • All clipping algorithm methods have been updated to operate with the same tolerance. 
  • Improved the accuracy of determining the type of vertices found near a polygon. 
  • Improved processing of polygon edges located very close to each other. 

• Header and footer improvements specifically targeting one-page documents: 
  • Improved the exclusion of graphic lines, images and labels. 
  • Improved the exclusion of large tables, images and footnotes. 
  • Improved the exclusion of headings and titles. 
  • Improved the exclusion of images or text located close to other page content. 

Bugfixes: 

• [pdf] Fixed an issue preventing conversion with PDF/A-1a and A-2b standards due to a specific page structure. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue with CAD source content where vertical text around architectural details is displaced. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue resulting in the top of characters in one line of text to be clipped. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue causing five rows of a table to be incorrectly merged. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue causing two columns of a table to be merged into one. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue in the clipping engine preventing successful rendering of a specific pdf. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue causing the last line of a right-to-left direction paragraph to have a hanging indent. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue where right-to-left text was incorrectly left aligned. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue preventing the rendering of leader (tabbing) characters in table of contents containing right-to-left text. 
• [docx] Fixed incorrectly wrapped right-to-left text causing a page overflow issue.  
• [docx] Resolved an indentation and alignment issue at list items in a right-to-left document. .  

Office Fidelity: 

• [docx] Improved table of contents detection by optimizing sections across pages. 
• [office] Improved GNSE detection to independently recognize glyphs and unicodes in separate stages. 
• [office] Improved support for Arabic diacritical marks using analysis of scale and character spacing. 
• [docx] Improved border line termination in specific table cases 
• Improved the left margin alignment of a document. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue causing text misplacement when viewed on Office 2016 only. 
• [docx] Fixed a hybrid table detection issue resulting in two additional columns. 
• [docx] Fixed an issue causing line shapes to be rendered as underlines. 
• [pptx] Fixed an issue resulting in a block of text in a table to be incorrectly divided into six rows. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue that caused one table to be incorrectly split into two tables. 
• [docx] Resolved an issue causing a textbox to be divided in two parts. 
• [docx] Improved Arabic language character unicode detection 
• [docx] Improved alignment and indentation of content with right-to-left text direction.