Changes in 8.5.1:

• Windows: Fixed an issue with Smart App Control blocking naps2_jpeg.dll

Changes in 8.5.0:

• Added "Auto-Crop" feature (for scanning varying-size items like receipts, photos, etc.)
  • Click the button in the Crop window
  • Or check "Auto-crop scanned pages" in your Advanced profile settings
• Significant PDF compression improvements
  • JPEG images are now encoded with Jpegli (~25% smaller)
  • Black and white images now use JBIG2 compression (~30% smaller)
  • OCR adds less size (~80% less overhead)
  • Fixed an issue where edited images are saved at the wrong quality level
• New "Compress" window (under the Image menu)
  • Allows changing an image's resolution, dimensions, color depth, and quality
• Better OCR text alignment (now more like Tesseract)
• Added "Fix white balance and remove noise" to advanced profile settings
  • This is equivalent to "Document Correction" under the Image menu
  • Also made some improvements and speedups to Document Correction
• New profiles now default to the page size for your locale (Letter or A4)
  • This can be overridden in appsettings.xml (the base value is now SystemDefault instead of Letter)
• Mac: Fixed an issue with the SANE driver
• Escl: Fixed resolution being lost from some devices
• Escl: Fixed some devices (e.g. Kyocera) staying busy after a scan
• Sdk: Fixed a duplicate WIA page start event

Changes in 8.4.1:

• Linux: Fixed a crash when "Show Profiles Toolbar" is enabled
• Mac: Fixed a scanning issue with Samsung scanners and Apple Driver
• Escl: Fixed an issue connecting to the wrong IP with mDNS responders

Changes in 8.4.0:

• Added "Manual Duplex" (under "Reorder") as a clearer way to combine front and back sides scanned separately
  • This is meant to replace the "Interleave" buttons, which will be removed in a future version
  • Checking "Reverse back sides" is equivalent to using "Alternative Interleave"
  • Unchecking "Always show preview" will add a separate button for one-click actions like before
  • Admins can use "HideManualDuplex"/"HideInterleave" to control visibility
• Crop: Added a middle handle for moving the whole selection
• Crop/Split/Combine: Added arrow key controls
• Added help text to some image forms
• Linux: Added a "Theme" setting to manually switch between Light and Dark mode
• Mac: Custom page sizes are no longer shown for feeders with the Apple driver (as they don't work)
• Mac: Fixed keyboard shortcuts for non-QWERTY keyboard layouts
• Mac: Fixed flatbed/feeder detection with the Apple driver
• Fixed the "Maximum quality" option not being retained after cropping
• Fixed the "Black and White" keyboard shortcut not being editable in Keyboard Shortcuts
• Fixed an issue with email attachments not working when Thunderbird is already open
• Console: The --device option can now match the device ID as well as the name
• Sane: KeyValueOptions set in profile XML now support true/false and are retained when editing a profile
• Escl: Fixed a misspelled feeder status value and added an admin page for better compatibility
• Sdk: Added MetadataCaps.ProtocolVersion

Changes in 8.3.2:

• The first page scanned is now auto-selected
• Mac: Fixed error with save/import
• Linux: Fixed error with invalid cwd

Changes in 8.3.1:

• Windows: Fixed a crash with dark mode enabled
• Mac: Fixed an error with some scanners
• Sane: Fixed an error with some scanner options

Changes in 8.3.0:

• Image windows can now be maximized
• Fixed an error with "Open With"
• Fixed some debug logging being enabled unexpectedly
• Sane: Fixed some duplex compability issues
• Escl: Fixed an issue with CORS config
• Dependency updates, including:
  • .NET 10
  • Flatpak runtime 25.08
  • SANE 1.4.0
  • Pdfium
• Added Bengali language

Changes in 8.2.1:

• Added a review prompt in the Microsoft Store version after a month's use
• Windows: Added TWAIN support to arm64 installer
• Windows: Fixed some OCR compatibility issues
• Windows: Fixed preview window being cut off
• Mac: Fixed SANE crash
• Escl: Fixed some compatibility issues
• Sane: Fixed some duplex compability issues
• Linux: Fixed Gmail/Outlook Web options not showing
• Linux: Fixed hidden buttons after disabling PDF encryption
• Sdk: Fixed extraneous error log

Changes in 8.2.0:

• NAPS2 is now available on the Microsoft Store
  • It costs a small fee to support the developer and provide automatic updates
  • NAPS2 will continue to be freely available at www.naps2.com
• Added "Edit with" under the "Image" menu for using an external image editor
• Added "Share even when NAPS2 is closed" option for Scanner Sharing
  • This will show a system tray icon and restart on login
• Imported file names are now used as the default file name when saving
• The "Apply to all selected" checkbox now stays checked
• Escl: Increased maximum time searching for devices from 5s to 60s
• Escl: Scanner IPs are now cached for faster and more reliable scanning
• Windows: Added an arm64 installer
• Windows: Replaced the "No friendly name" device name from some drivers with "Unknown Scanner"
• Mac: Fixed an issue where saved files didn't always have the right extension
• Mac: Disabled the "Apple Mail" email provider when not the default email reader
• Mac: Updated icons for Split/Combine
• Linux: Fixed issues with the Save dialog

Changes in 8.1.4:

• Windows: Added a "Theme" setting to switch between Light and Dark mode
• Linux: Fixed OCR on older Linux versions (e.g. Ubuntu 20.04)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 is no longer supported (use NAPS2 7.5.3 if needed)

Changes in 8.1.3:

• Twain: Fixed issues with Kyocera Ecosys scanners
• Sane: Fixed duplex with some scanners
• Windows: Fixed issues with multiple monitors with different DPI

Changes in 8.1.2:

• Added "Apply to all selected" for Split action
• Fixed "unsaved changes" prompt after auto saving
• Fixed issues with Placeholders in Default File Path
• Windows: Fixed OCR errors on some systems
• Windows: Fixed crash with right-to-left languages

Changes in 8.1.1:

• Fixed an issue with dpi selection

Changes in 8.1.0:

• Added the ability to pick a custom resolution
• Added email provider for "New Outlook"
• Improved "Keyboard Shortcuts" interface
• Fixed an issue with shared TWAIN scanners
• Fixed missing screen reader text for some buttons
• Fixed excessive Flatpak size

Fix certificate loading

Changes in 8.0b3:

• Added "Keyboard Shortcuts" settings
• Added "--waitscan" and "--firstnow" console options
• Added support for importing zip files
• Upgraded Tesseract from 5.3.4 to 5.5.0 for OCR
• Fixed an issue with antivirus false positives
• Bug fixes

Changes in 8.0b2:

• Fixes from 7.5.3
• Fixed WIA scanning
• Fixed drag and drop on Windows
• Fixed notifications on Linux
• Fixed sidebar settings being shown with "Use native UI" selected
• Linux flatpak runtime has been upgraded to 24.08