- Major update on Form Technologies
- Template definition step: The User can create and edit form templates for several forms and store them in form template library. Scanned empty or filled form images can be used for template creation using the new Form Template Editor standalone desktop application. LFR module helps the creation phase. The created form templates can be tested by the Form Template Editor. First release of the FTE will be for CSDK developers exclusively.
- Processing step: During form processing OPSDK automatically selects the appropriate template for each scanned image. It matches the selected template on the actual image (form registration), recognizes the form fields, and converts the captured data to the selected output formats.
- Major update on BAR engine.
- Camera Image handling improvements
- Obtaining camera flag from EXIF info
- Automatic resolution (DPI) estimation
- ½ resolution enhancement
- Shading correction
- New binarization method
- Modified workflow for camera images for better OCRing.
- Output file splitter - There will be two new settings. They control the output splitter. One of them specifies the max number of pages in each output. The other one specifies maximum size of each output. If both are given, the splitter splits one of them comes first.
- JBIG2 lossy compression quality improvement and set the default compression to lossless - Developing better shape detection to avoid unnecessary character changes. New default setting for JBIG2 is lossless. User can set it back to lossy
- New ePub output format - Output to ePub format to support ebook applications from Apple, Android, Nook, Sony and Kobo.
- Thai engine integration - Text, XML and searchable PDF output only (Direct TXT).
- MP3 Audio output format - Audio output format is now MP3