Solid Framework 9.2.8284.1 Released

The latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 9.2.8284.

MAIN FEATURES

IMPROVED HANDLING OF SHADING

The rendering and conversion of Type 3 and Type 7 shading has been significantly improved.

RED NUMBERS ARE NO LONGER CONSIDERED TO ALWAYS BE NEGATIVE WHEN CONVERTING TO EXCEL

Previously red numeric text was always considered to represent negative numbers. It is now considered to be negative only if it is preceded by a “-” sign.

FURTHER OCR IMPROVEMENTS

SolidOCR continues to improve, and this release contains further refinements. In this release we have made improvements in the recognition of bold text within documents as well as specific improvements within the 32 bit version of the Framework.

SUPPORT FOR REMOVING TAGS FROM A PDF DOCUMENT

Solid Framework has supported tags within PDF documents for many years. Tags are used to guide the reconstruction process, which can result in visually similar PDFs being reconstructed differently depending on whether or not they are tagged.

We have now added functionality to allow tags to be removed if required.

Solid Framework 9.2.8186.1 Released

The latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 9.2.8186.

Main Features

Better handling of PDF -> PDF/A Conversion

The content of some form fields and some badly encoded images were being lost when converting to PDF/A. This data is now retained.

Improved handling of annotations when converting to PowerPoint

Annotations in some PDF files were being reconstructed in the wrong location when converting from PDF to PowerPoint. This is now fixed.

Further OCR improvements

SolidOCR continues to improve, and this release contains further refinements.

Layout Information available for text within the source document

Solid Framework has been able to provide layout information for text within the reconstructed document for some time. We have now also provided access to the location of text in the original  document.

The two location values may differ slightly if the original document contains fonts or scaling, etc. that are not supported by the reconstructed document format.

Solid Framework 9.2.8150.1 Released

The latest public release of Solid Framework SDK is now available for download from the developer portal at www.solidframework.net. This is version 9.2.8150.

Main Features

Faster Detection of Language within OCR’d files

Solid Framework can detect the language of a scanned document which helps to improve OCR accuracy. For files that contained ambiguous language this could be slow.

We have modified the mechanism to significantly faster with these files.

Modified mechanism for specifying the location of Tesseract “traineddata” files

Solid Framework performs OCR for Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Greek language documents using Tesseract. For this to work it is necessary to specify the location of the folder than contains the “traineddata” files for the specific language.

The mechanism for doing this has been modified with the creation of a read/write property   TesseractDataDirectoryLocation. This replaces the method SetTesseractDataDirectory.

For further information see Performing OCR using Tesseract.

Further OCR improvements

SolidOCR continues to improve, and this release contains further refinements.