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Version History
- General
- Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit Editions are now UAC Compliant.
- JavaScript and IE Sample Applications have been added.
- The responsiveness of Link Runtime has been improved.
- Help system is now Web based.
- Importing an xml string into a data table is supported when using .NET v4.0.
- Scanning
- OMR web scanning with XML and JSON output is now supported
- Real time printing and stacking is supported
- Support for scanning without a ScanTools application definition file.
- Default Installation
path has been changed from “Pearson NCS” to “Scantron”.
- Removed
- Terminal Server/Citrix® environment is no longer supported. Contact Support at
1.800.SCANTRON for a new License key.
- The VB 6.0 Sample application has been removed.
- The VC++ v6.0 Sample application has been removed.
- The VB.NET Scanning Configuration Utility Sample has been removed.
- Synchronous scanning is no longer supported.
- OMR Web scanning applications
- IE 7 or later only is required. Ensure JavaScript and ActiveX is not disabled.
- The OPLOLEDB provider cannot update data files with .NET version 2.0 and later when
the CommandBuilder is used to build update queries on behalf of the DataAdapter.
Workaround: Do NOT use the CommandBuilder. You need to write your own SQL
update queries.
- iNAME and iNAME Merge do not support grayboxes defined with absolute units of
measurement (.001in and .01mm).
- User Exit programs are not supported when applications are using absolute units of
measurement.
- Link applications developed with earlier versions of ScanTools II Link SDK need to be
migrated to ScanTools Plus Link SDK.See Upgrading from SFWLink Toolkit or II Legacy Link Application Programs.
- The behavior of the “SetClientWindowHandle” has been modified. The error dialog now remains on top of the application window.
- When using an iNSIGHT scanner, a “read check error” may appear when the stop
button is pressed on the scanner (refer to ScanTools Plus online help for details).
- Asynchronous scanning is recommended, synchronous scanning is no longer supported.
There are a couple of minor differences in the behavior of synchronous scanning in
ScanTools Plus Link SDK as compared to ScanTools II Link SDK.
In ScanTools II Link SDK, the initial call to Scan() caused the sheet to move to the print
station and when the call completed, the SheetOutput object was available. The first call to
BlockForScannerEvent did nothing.
In ScanTools Plus Link SDK, the initial call to Scan doesn't cause anything visible to happen
(Ping() returns L_STATE_SCANNING); on the first call to BlockForScannerEvent, the
sheet moves to the print station and SheetOutput becomes available.
- ScanTools Plus Link objects are not thread safe. Multi-threaded Link programs must ensure
that the creation and manipulation of "ScanTools Plus Link" objects are restricted to a single
thread. While this thread is alive, no other thread in the program may create instances of
"ScanTools Plus Link" objects.
- Archive Image Scaling is not supported in ScanTools Plus Link SDK.
- Installation procedures for your solution program have changed from ScanTools II Link
SDK. Refer to online help “Installing and Removing your Application.”
- The SessionInfo class now supports URLs. See SessionInfo Object Summary for details.
- Caveats
- ScanTools Plus Link SDK applications do not support ScanTools applications which use
RealTime Character Recognition utilizing NestorReader™ v1.0 with ICR/OCR grayboxes defined with absolute units of measurement (.001in and .01mm).
- Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system is now supported.
- The iNSIGHT 2/4 USB driver is no longer installed with ScanTools Link Runtime. The iNSIGHT 2/4 USB driver must be installed prior to installing ScanTools Link Runtime.
- Exception error will no longer be thrown when auto configuring an OpScan 4 scanner at 115200 baud rate.
- General
- Product has been re-branded asScantron Corporation.
- Windows 2000 is no longer supported
- Support for the iNSIGHT 30 scanner has been added. Supported forms colors are
documented in the Help system.
- The Help system has been updated.
- Scanning Services
- A SelfScore error message no longer appears every time you scan with a SelfScore scanner.
- A Page margin invalid error will no longer occur when clipping from a single sided sheet.
- A GPF error that can occur when the program handles scanning errors has been resolved (reported only in the Delphi programming language).
- A memory leak in OPLOLEDB provider has been resolved.
- When using a 5000i, iNSIGHT 150, iNSIGHT 70, iNSIGHT 30, OpScan 21, OpScan 15, or
OpScan 10 scanner, and you are handling the ScanError Event, refer to the Help topic
“Handle Scanner Errors.”
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