Black Ice Software has released version 12.57 of the Document Imaging Tools for developers. The latest release includes major new capabilities to support 3-bit, 16-bit and Tiled TIFF Images, greatly expanding the number of supported TIFF documents.

The latest Document Imaging version 12.57 also includes major improvements for annotations. The new Document Imaging version has the capability to save multiple selected annotations using the "Save selected annotation(s)" menu option. Additional improvements to annotations include improvements to annotation positioning, when copying and pasting annotations.

The Document Imaging version 12.57 also includes support for opening Image PDF files generated by eFax and certain HP printers.

This release also has dozens of improvements for Optical Character Recognition, Scanning, and for the Sample Applications.

The complete list of improvements in the latest Document Imaging includes the following:

• TIFF - Added support for opening 16 bit TIFF files
• TIFF - Added support for loading 3 bpp TIFF documents
• TIFF - Added support for Tiled TIFF images to BiTIFF.dll
• OCR - Improved BiOCR
• Imaging - Stability improvement for the RotateDIB, RotateDIB90, RotateDIB180 and RotateDIB270 functions
• Imaging - Stability improvement for the Deskew functions
• Scanning - Stability improvement for scanning using BiTwain.dll with certain drivers
• Annotation - When pasting annotations using the right-click menu, the annotations are placed under the mouse cursor, otherwise their original position is kept
• Annotation - The relative position of the annotations is kept when copy-pasting
• Annotation - Added the ability to save multiple selected annotations using the "Save selected annotation(s)" menu option
• Annotation - Added option to load annotations from a file without deleting the existing annotations on the page
• PDF - Stability improvement for opening Image PDF Files generated by eFax
• PDF - Stability improvement for opening Image PDF Files saved by some HP printers
• Samples - Upgraded the sample executable (exe) files from .NET Framework version 2.0 to 4.0
• Samples - Added Visual Studio 2015 sample projects
• Samples - Minor improvements in the samples

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