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Release notes

v9.0.0 (July 2026)​

Smarter, More Reliable Document Scanning​

  • Document Straighten (NEW): Automatically fix distorted scans caused by real-world issues like curved book spines, folded or wrinkled papers, and captures shot on curved surfaces with our new document straightening. The moment a page is curved or creased, the text on it curves too, and that impacts the accuracy of a scan. Straightening restores straight text lines and recovers much of the lost accuracy, turning documents that would have been rejected into captures the pipeline can process on its own. This functionality works out of the box with no extra setup.
  • Color Document Shadow Removal Filter (NEW): Even out uneven lighting with Scanbot's shadow removal filter so text stays legible in cases where poor lighting, like shadows from a hand or phone, fall across the page and flatten the contrast between text and background that OCR relies on to read it. This turns captures into backend-ready scans, extending reliable capture to the real-world conditions where customers struggle most all while preserving full-color fidelity for clean, professional-looking scans.
  • Updated Document Quality Analyzer Classification: Rate documents as Acceptable, Unacceptable, and Uncertain with the new simplified classification system that makes downstream processing more reliable. This is a breaking change from the previous algorithm that rated documents as Excellent, Good, Reasonable, Poor, and Very Poor.
  • Cropped and Partial Document Detection: Detect documents that don't have all four corners using Scanbot's cropped and partial document detection; this functionality is ideal for real-world capture conditions.

Faster, More Accurate Barcode Scanning​

  • Improved Performance of 1D Product Barcodes: Boost scanning speed, accuracy and recall rate of small distant or blurry EAN and UPC barcodes with the 1D Blur Scanner. This is now enabled by default.
  • Improved Data Matrix Detection: Experience better results on curved surfaces and partially obstructed codes.

Expanded Data Capture & OCR​

  • More ID Cards Supported: Extract data from additional European IDs, including Italy, Poland, Romania, and Turkey, to be on par with existing German ID workflows.
  • Improved Global Character Support: Enhanced OCR now supports Latin-1 Supplement and Latin Extended-A, enabling more accurate recognition across languages and special characters. Newly supported languages include Turkish, Italian, Polish, and Romanian.

Full changelogs​

You can find the full changelogs per platform below:

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