Black Ice Software is proud to announce the release of the Document Imaging SDK 12.80 to process/display legacy Wang annotations and many more.

The Wang annotations can be displayed and then saved in an easy to use XML format in an external file or the TIFF header for further display, processing, or easy conversion to another annotation format.

The Wang annotation was popular with Microsoft “Imaging for Windows” and some third party applications such as Global 360 and Open Text applications.
The Document Imaging SDK’s Wang annotation library functions enable a business to move from their old legacy applications to a portable third party platform such as the Black Ice Tiff Viewer.

The reading and converting of Wang annotations will enable developers to use the Document Imaging SDK to convert millions of documents from Wang annotations to Simple portable XML format.

Wang annotation objects added to the Document Imaging SDK:

• Freehand Line (Implemented)
• Highlighter (Implemented)
• Straight Line (Implemented)
• Hollow Rectangle (Implemented)
• Filled Rectangle (Implemented)
• Typed Text (Implemented)
• Attach-a-note (Implemented)
• Text from a file (Implemented)
• Rubber Stamps (Implemented as a Black Ice Image or Text annotation based on the type)
• Initials (Implemented as a Black Ice Text annotation)
• Hollow Polygon (Implemented)
• Filled Polygon (Implemented)
• Auto Polygon (Implemented as a regular Polygon type)

• Form (Implemented as a regular Image)
• OCR Region (Implemented as a regular Text annotation)
• Hyperlink (NOT Implemented as the hyperlink property)
• Image Reference (NOT Implemented as a regular Image)

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

• Annotation - Added support for reading WANG annotations (#12952)
• Annotation - Added unicode support to Note and Text annotations (#12723)
• Annotation - Stability improvement for copy-pasting annotations (#12471, #9981)
• Annotation - Stability improvement for loading metafile, signature and stamp annotations (#12472)
• Annotation - Stability improvement for undo in the C# and VB.NET samples (#13102)
• OCR - Tesseract release Dec 26 2019 - V4.1.1 (#12712)
• TIFF - Stability improvement for opening certain multi-page JPEG compressed TIFF files (#12719, #12787)
• PDF - Stability improvement for appending pages to existing image PDF documents (#12224)
• PDF - Fixed minor memory leak when loading certain image PDF documents (#12900)
• Minor user interface improvements in the samples (#13103, #13104)
• Updated Manuals

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