The latest Document Imaging SDK includes major usability improvements to the Text, Note, and Comment annotations along with added support for reading and writing IBM IOCA and MO:DCA images.

The improvements to the Text, Note, and Comment annotations help to streamline the process of annotating documents, making the user experience that much better. A full list of changes to the annotations can be found below.

The added support for legacy IBM IOCA and MO:DCA output formats now allows developers to support a larger range of legacy file formats within their application, preventing users from having to convert documents or manage multiple viewing solutions. The IBM IOCA and MO:DCA API library supports 1 bit black and white color depth with IBM MMR compression, 8 bit grayscale with JPEG compression, and 24 bit color with JPEG compression.

The MO:DCA format supports single-page and multi-page documents.

For developers that offer solutions to the medical field, where HIPAA compliance is critical to their application, we added a feature to create, read, and write IBM IOCA and MO:DCA only in memory.

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

DATE: 05-12-2022
Version: 12.98 (revision: 927)

• Annotation - Text, Comment and Note annotations that do not contain any text are automatically removed when deselected (#15070, #15122)
• Annotation - Fixed redrawing lines leading to the Editing Window after moving or hiding comment annotations (#15097, #15098, #15099)
• Annotation - Fixed drawing Comment annotation selection boxes (#15100)
• Annotation - Fixed typing into Note annotations after deselecting a Comment annotation (#15138)
• Annotation - Fixed not being able to select multiple Comment and Note annotations (#15115)

DATE: 04-28-2022
Version: 12.97 (revision: 924)

• Added support to writing IBM IOCA and MO:DCA images (#15014)
• Annotation - Fixed flickering when drawing new annotations (#14987)
• Annotation - Added new functions to BiAnno.dll for burning in annotations (#14956)
• Annotation - Added a new function to BiAnno.ocx for burning in annotations directly, without creating a new DIB (#14957)
• Annotation - Added new functions for attaching existing handles and creating new ones to BiAnno.ocx (#14964)
• Annotation - Added XML annotation support to AnnoLoadFromAnnoFile (#14725)
• Annotation - Fixed Comment annotation editor dialog staying open after deselecting the annotation (#15069)
• Annotation - Fixed an issue where typing specific letters in the Text and Note annotations also pasted text from the clipboard (#15083)
• Annotation - Fixed a crash when deleting Highlight annotations (#15094)
• Annotation - Added new functions for quickly saving a list of pages (#15054)
• DIB - Fixed a crash in the Convert8To24 function when used with larger images (#15091)
• Added version number and copyright information to the samples (#14976)

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