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OCRKit Changelog

What's new in OCRKit 20

Jan 8, 2020
  • Up to 8-times higher speed conversion on latest Mac
  • Improved auto-rotation for high-resolution documents
  • Highly Compressed PDF - file size reduction
  • Improved recognition accuracy and stability
  • Improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • Many other improvements

New in OCRKit 19.10.28 (Oct 28, 2019)

  • initial support for macOS 10.15 "Catalina"
  • various fixes and improvements

New in OCRKit 19.2.15 (Feb 19, 2019)

  • Improved support for retaining more PDF images
  • Improved support for rare PNG variants
  • Various other fixes and improvements

New in OCRKit 18.7.15 (Jul 16, 2018)

  • Changes:
  • improved support for retaining more PDF images
  • improved support for rare PNG variants
  • various other fixes and improvements

New in OCRKit 18.4.19 (Apr 20, 2018)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in OCRKit 17.9 (Dec 1, 2017)

  • Improved OCR recognition accuracy and performance
  • Fixed processing certain PDF files
  • Various other improvements

New in OCRKit 17.6.1 (Jun 10, 2017)

  • Various fixes and improvements.

New in OCRKit 17.5.13 (May 13, 2017)

  • Improved recently re-architected PDF import.

New in OCRKit 17.5.9 (May 9, 2017)

  • added compatibility with certain PDF
  • improved performance of rare compression methods
  • various other improvements

New in OCRKit 17.4 (Apr 24, 2017)

  • Improved PDF compatibility and recognition.

New in OCRKit 16.12.1 (Dec 1, 2016)

  • added compatibility with latest PDF standards
  • fixed certain PDFs showing too bright in some PDF viewers
  • various other improvements

New in OCRKit 16.11.3 (Nov 5, 2016)

  • Improved compatibility with macOS Sierra
  • Fixed processing certain JPEG files
  • Various other improvements

New in OCRKit 16.10 (Oct 19, 2016)

  • improved recognition
  • improved processing certain PDF files
  • improved and new command-line batch processing options

New in OCRKit 16.9.21 (Sep 21, 2016)

  • Improved PDF compatibility
  • Improved batch processing

New in OCRKit 16.8.25 (Aug 28, 2016)

  • improved compatibility with certain PDFs
  • improved processing defect or non-stamdard PDFs
  • improved batch proc

New in OCRKit 16.8.10 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • fixed regression introduced by latest PDF compatibility changes
  • improved performance of some PDF compression a little

New in OCRKit 16.8.4 (Aug 4, 2016)

  • Improved and optimized PDF compatibility.

New in OCRKit 16.7.21 (Jul 21, 2016)

  • improved and optimized PDF compatibility
  • improved recognition accuracy

New in OCRKit 16.5.18 (May 19, 2016)

  • Changes:
  • Improved recognition and performance

New in OCRKit 16.2.23 (Apr 8, 2016)

  • Improved PDF compatibility and performance.

New in OCRKit 16.2 (Feb 26, 2016)

  • Improved PDF compatibility
  • Improved recognition accuracy and performance

New in OCRKit 15.12 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • improved retaining certain PDF images.

New in OCRKit 15.11 (Dec 20, 2015)

  • adapted for validation of Apple's latest App Store certificates
  • improved compatibility with certain PDF files
  • improved recognition accuracy and stability

New in OCRKit 2.14 (Aug 16, 2015)

  • Changes:
  • improved direct PDF image extraction
  • fixed reading of resolution in certain rare JPEG files

New in OCRKit 2.13.1 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • improved direct PDF image extraction
  • fixed reading of resolution in certain rare JPEG files

New in OCRKit 2.13 (Mar 24, 2015)

  • Further optimized PDF reading and image extraction

New in OCRKit 2.12.1 (Feb 23, 2015)

  • Fixed support for some special PDF compression

New in OCRKit 2.12 (Feb 16, 2015)

  • Fixed support for some special PDF compression.

New in OCRKit 2.11 (Feb 13, 2015)

  • Fixed processing certain TIFF images.

New in OCRKit 2.10 (Jan 27, 2015)

  • improved performance processing some PDF files
  • improved handling some error conditions

New in OCRKit 2.9 (Nov 1, 2014)

  • improved Mac OS X Yosemite compatibility
  • fixed some PDFs to become inverted

New in OCRKit 2.8.2 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Various improvements and bug fixes.

New in OCRKit 2.8.1 (Sep 9, 2014)

  • various improvements and bug-fixes
  • updated UI translations

New in OCRKit 2.8 (Sep 1, 2014)

  • added support for dropping files onto the application window
  • improved recognition accuracy

New in OCRKit 2.7.1 (Aug 13, 2014)

  • fixed certain PDF files to be inverted

New in OCRKit 2.7 (Aug 5, 2014)

  • improved recognition and accuracy
  • improved stably mass converting huge files
  • various other improvements and bug fixes

New in OCRKit 2.6.1 (Jul 3, 2014)

  • Improved new direct image retaining details

New in OCRKit 2.6 (May 26, 2014)

  • improved PDF compatiblility

New in OCRKit 2.5.1 (May 20, 2014)

  • Improved PDF compatibility

New in OCRKit 2.5 (Apr 11, 2014)

  • improved PDF compression
  • improved recognition and stability

New in OCRKit 2.4.1 (Feb 21, 2014)

  • added support for processing files via command line arguments
  • improved recognition and stability

New in OCRKit 2.4 (Jan 29, 2014)

  • improved recognition performance and accuracy
  • improved layout recognition and retention

New in OCRKit 2.3 (Nov 18, 2013)

  • improved recognition performance and accuracy
  • improved layout recognition and retention
  • preserve some more meta data and tags

New in OCRKit 2.2 (Jul 20, 2013)

  • improved recognition performance and accuracy
  • improved layout recognition and retention

New in OCRKit 2.1 (Apr 12, 2013)

  • improved user interface
  • various other improvements

New in OCRKit 2.0 (Mar 26, 2013)

  • added option to save Highly Compressed PDF
  • vastly improved performance on multi-core Macs
  • improved auto-rotate performance for high-resolution scans
  • improved recognition performance, accuracy and stability

New in OCRKit 1.13.2 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • improved auto-rotate performance for high-resolution scans
  • code-sign for Mac OS X 10.7 and 10.8
  • improved compatibility with Mac OS X pre-10.6

New in OCRKit 1.13.1 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • improved PDF compression
  • improved recognition performance, accuracy and stability
  • updated user interface translations

New in OCRKit 1.13 (Mar 6, 2013)

  • vastly improved performance on multi-core Macs

New in OCRKit 1.12 (Aug 22, 2012)

  • Improved recognition and performance

New in OCRKit 1.11 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • improved recognition, stability and performance

New in OCRKit 1.10.5 (Jun 19, 2012)

  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved PDF compression
  • improved stability
  • improved usability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.10.4 (May 21, 2012)

  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved PDF compression
  • improved stability
  • improved usability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.10.3 (May 7, 2012)

  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved PDF compression
  • improved stability
  • improved usability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.10.1 (Apr 28, 2012)

  • improved recognition of Typewriter text
  • improved retention of certain font families in PDF and HTML
  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved automatic rotation
  • improved stability
  • improved usability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.9.6 (Mar 17, 2012)

  • improved auto-rotation speed and accuracy for certain color schemes
  • improved recognition accuracy, speed & stability
  • improved user-interface translations

New in OCRKit 1.9.5 (Mar 17, 2012)

  • improved recognition of Typewriter text
  • improved retention of certain font families in PDF and HTML
  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved automatic rotation
  • improved stability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.9.4 (Feb 3, 2012)

  • improved recognition of Typewriter text
  • improved retention of certain font families in PDF and HTML
  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved stability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.9.3 (Jan 11, 2012)

  • improved recognition of Typewriter text
  • improved retention of certain font families in PDF and HTML
  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved stability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.9.2 (Dec 21, 2011)

  • Improved recognition and stability

New in OCRKit 1.9.1 (Dec 16, 2011)

  • improved recognition of Typewriter text
  • improved retention of certain font families in PDF and HTML
  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved stability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.9 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • improved recognition of Typewriter text
  • improved retention of certain font families in PDF and HTML
  • improved text positioning accuracy in PDF
  • improved stability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.8.3 (Nov 15, 2011)

  • added new option to rotate based on page content
  • improved recognition and stability
  • improved stability for parallel processing of multiple files
  • improved compression of black & white PDF files
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.8.2 (Oct 26, 2011)

  • added new option to rotate based on page content
  • improved recognition and stability
  • improved stability for parallel processing of multiple files
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.8.1 (Oct 13, 2011)

  • added new option to rotate based on page content
  • improved recognition and stability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.8 (Aug 17, 2011)

  • added new option to rotate based on page content
  • improved recognition and stability
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.7.3 (Jun 4, 2011)

  • mproved user-interface
  • improved recognition
  • improved recognition of low resolution images
  • added option to replace the original file, move it to Trash
  • added option to merge all input files
  • fixed converting certain bitmap files
  • fixed some status information to appear
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.7.1 (May 19, 2011)

  • improved user-interface
  • improved recognition
  • fixed converting certain bitmap files
  • fixed some status information to appear
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.7 (May 5, 2011)

  • improved user-interface
  • improved recognition
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.6.9 (Apr 20, 2011)

  • added new OCR language
  • added support to process multiple files concurrently
  • new option to control dictionary based correction
  • improved recognition
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.6.3 (Dec 15, 2010)

  • added 11 new OCR languages
  • improved recognition
  • improved layout recognition for writing RTF, HTML and TXT files
  • fixed some translations to appear correctly
  • fixed support for Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.6.2 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • added 11 new OCR languages
  • improved recognition
  • improved layout recognition for writing RTF, HTML and TXT files
  • fixed some translations to appear correctly
  • fixed support for Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.5 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • added support to save HTML - HyperText Markup Language
  • added support to save RTF - Rich Text Format
  • added support to save TXT - UTF-8 encoded plain text
  • improved recognition and stability
  • updated user-interface translations
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.4.2 (Aug 5, 2010)

  • improved precision of PDF text glyphs for improved search and cut'n paste results
  • improved certain combinations of de-screen and color detection
  • improved recognition
  • improved processing performance
  • improved stability

New in OCRKit 1.4.1 (Jul 20, 2010)

  • improved certain combinations of de-screen and color detection
  • improved recognition
  • improved processing performance
  • improved stability

New in OCRKit 1.4 (Jul 8, 2010)

  • improved recognition
  • improved processing performance
  • improved stability

New in OCRKit 1.3 (Jun 12, 2010)

  • Added new option to rotate the document
  • Improved recognition of certain color schemes
  • Improved taking certain EXIF orientations into account

New in OCRKit 1.2 (May 6, 2010)

  • added new de-screen filter to remove coarse print raster
  • improved recognition
  • improved stability and performance
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.1 (Feb 24, 2010)

  • added new OCR languages: Polish, Russian, Turkish
  • added control for color detection
  • improved automatic color detection
  • improved embedding of certain image filess
  • many other improvements

New in OCRKit 1.0.2 (Feb 2, 2010)

  • Added control over compression quality.
  • Added document preview to save as dialog, file name editing.
  • Added support for AppleScript.
  • Improved recognition for certain document layouts.
  • Improved compression for certain kind of document colors.
  • Fixed certain kind of images to appear inverted.