The Document Imaging SDK/OCX 12.65 from Black Ice Software has been released for developers.

The latest release contains fundamental improvements to the Annotation SDK by changing the internal annotation format to XML.

The previously proprietary annotation format is now open to the public which enables developers to export annotations into third party applications or import third party annotations into the Document Imaging SDK.

The Annotations can be saved as an external XML file or the annotations can also be stored in the TIFF header in XML format. The Annotation API makes loading and saving of annotations transparent and fully backward compatible. The Annotation XML format is well documented and easy to parse or convert, opening the possibility of adding additional annotation objects, such as for form processing.

Additional Improvements:

• Updated OCR - Tesseract release June 19 2018 - V3.05.02
• Stability improvement for Black Border Removal
• PNG - Added support for PNG format for the SaveDIBInImageFormat and SaveDIBInImageFormatExt functions
• Samples - Added support for comment annotation type to the Annotation C++ samples

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