Black Ice Software's latest release of the Printer Driver Version 16.95 includes significant improvements including an updated Tesseract OCR, Windows 11 MSIX applications stability improvement as well as improved Event Logging for simplified troubleshooting.

• Updated Tesseract OCR engine to version 5.1, which provides more accurate recognition of OCR data on documents and faster performance. In addition, the updated Tesseract OCR engine includes countless bug fixes.
• Fixed issues where Windows 11 MSIX applications and some more advanced features in the Printer Driver were not working. Windows 11 comes with new MSIX package applications such as Notepad and Paint that are executed in an isolated “sandbox.” This had previously created problems when using some of the features of the black ice printer such as Start Application", "Save As", or uploading to Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles, and SharePoint. This has all been resolved in the latest release.
• Added additional Event Logging to simplify troubleshooting for circumstances that involve the Email Sender or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles, or SharePoint uploader.
  The Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles, or SharePoint uploader is available only in the X1 virtual printer drivers.

The complete list of improvements in the latest Printer Driver includes the following:

DATE : 06-07-2022
Version : 16.95 (revision: 2838)

• The Printer Driver writes an error to the Event Log, if a temporary font cannot be registered (#15248)

DATE: 05-31-2022
Version: 16.94 (revision: 2836)

• Previous SharePoint password is cleared correctly if a profile is loaded which does not include a SharePoint password (#15215)

DATE: 05-26-2022
Version: 16.93 (revision: 2834)

• Changed default log directory for the email sender and all uploader uilities to the "C:\ProgramData\Black Ice Software LLC\\Logs" folder (#15202)
• Changed "Register with different serial" button to "Register with a serial number" on license error dialogs (#15205)

DATE: 05-20-2022
Version: 16.92 (revision: 2831)

• Stability improvement for closing the "Database Variables" window in the Printer Manager Upload To Database tab (#15142)
• Stability improvement for Uploading to Database, when the "Disable Output File" option is enabled (#15180, #15201)
• Stability improvement for printing documents from Windows Service (SESSION 0) or to a Shared Printer, and Email Sending or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles, SharePoint uploader is enabled (#15181, #15182, #15183, #15184, #15185)
• The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to start the Email Sender or the Database, FTP, HTTPS, MFiles or SharePoint uploader utilities (#15150)
• The printer driver writes an error to the Event Log, if it is unable to write the group file or the temorary group file for any of the utilities (#15157)
• Improved OCR, Updated BiOCR.dll to version 12.98.926, Tesseract version 5.1.0 (#14990)
• Changed "Register with different serial" button to "Register with a serial number" on license error dialogs (#15205)
• Fixed links on the Printer Manager General tab (#15190, #15192)
• Improved Agent Printer related error messages in the Printer Manager (#14886)
• Fix for the OCR feature getting disabled if a profile file from a 32-bit system is imported to the 64-bit driver or vice versa (#15206)

DATE: 05-04-2022
Version: 16.91 (revision: 2817)

• Stability improvement for the "Start Application", "Save As" and other printer features when printing from applications installed from MSIX packages on Windows 11. E.g.: Notepad, Paint (#15028)

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