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.

Solid Framework SDK has been updated.

Feature Update:

Our Windows releases are now compiled with Visual Studio 2022 build tools.

PDF to .DOCX conversion improvements include:

1. Fixed an issue preventing the underline style from applying to all characters of a word in a specific document.  
2. Improved our compliance to the OpenXML standard when handling malformed hyperlinks. 
3. Improved our compliance to the OpenXML standard after text layout improvements. 
4. Improved our detection of list hierarchy. 
5. Resolved a page count issue on macOS caused by the Helvetica font. 
6. Fixed an issue causing a false link to be detected. 
7. Resolved an issue preventing the detection of a page number in the footer on specific layout styles.  
8. Improved inconsistent footer detection on specific layout styles.
9. Improved detection and implementation of inline small graphic groups. 
10. Improved detection of headers and footers located unusually far from the page edge. 
11. Improved detection of underline style for descending letters g, p and y. 
12. Improved detection of different odd and even headers and footers. 
13. Reduced false detections of section title body content as headers. 
14. Improved detection of headers when watermark graphics cross the header content. 
15. Improved detection of borderless tables. 

PDF to PDF/A conversion improvements include:

1. Fixed an issue with annotations and fields preventing verification of compliance with PDF/A-2a and 2b standards. 
2. Resolved an issue preventing conversion with PDF/A-1a standards due to the limit for real values.