The Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX 12.74 from Black Ice Software has been released containing new Barcode Annotation objects! The new Barcode Annotation objects will allow users to add barcodes to their images and documents as Annotations, when creating fillable Forms.

The new Barcode Annotation supports all popular 2D Barcodes, such as QR, PDF417 and DataMatrix and also supports 1D barcodes, including Codabar, Code 11, Code 3 of 9 (Code 39), Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 from 5, Matrix 2 of 5, Plessey, Code 128, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E And more.

The latest release of Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX comes with major improvements for scanning documents directly into memory, and also contains stability improvements for duplex scanning and for several other scanning functionalities.

The new Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX version includes further stability improvements for loading truncated TIFF files, certain image PDF files and 1 bit images.

Improved annotation object types including Highlight, Stamp, Textbox, Multiline-Textbox and Hyperlink.

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

• Annotation - Added Barcode annotation type (#11419)
• Annotation - Stability improvement for drawing Highlight annotations (#11501)
• Annotation - Stability improvement for drawing color stamps to 1 bit bitmaps (#11502)
• TIFF - Stability improvement for loading certain truncated TIFF files (#11435)
• PDF - Stability improvement for loading certain image PDF files (#10315, #10983, #11532)
• OCR - Stability improvement for handling 1 bit images on some systems (#11533)
• Scanning - Stability improvements for batch scanning with some multi-function scanners (#11711)
• Scanning - Added debug logging to BiTwain.dll (#11717)
• Updated Manuals

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