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Here’s the list of updated SDK for developers and business apps for end-users.

All the updates above are available in PDF.co Web API (cloud) and API Server (on-prem version of Web API).

PDF Extractor SDK 13.0.0.4253 (October 4, 2021)

• New column detection mode ‘ColumnDetectionMode.ContentGroupsAI’ that works better on tables without borders and on pages with multiple tables.
• Greatly improved tables detection in ‘TableDetector2’.
• Improved filtering of shadow-like text (‘ExtractShadowLikeText’ option).
• Improved the ‘LineGroupingMode.JoinOrphanedRows’.
• ‘DocumentMerger’: Improved merging of PDF forms. Now it can link fields with matching names or rename them to avoid unwanted linking. See the property ‘RenameMatchingFieldsDuringMerge’.
• ‘JSONExtractor’ and ‘XMLExtractor’ now output the page size for each page.
• All extractor classes now support the extraction of page ranges.
• Added properties ‘DetectUnderlineTextStyle’ and ‘DetectStrikeoutTextStyle’ to ‘CSVExtractor’ and ‘XLSExtractor’. They help to prevent underlined text affecting the line grouping in table cells.
• Improved background color detection for the option ‘ConsiderBackgroundColors’.
• Added property ‘NormalizeText’ to all extractors. It replaced Unicode spaces and hyphens in the extracted text with normal ‘ ‘ and ‘-‘ characters.
• ‘Remover2’: fixed handling of PDF page rotation.
• ‘Remover2’: making unsearchable now performed only for editing pages.
• ‘XMLExtractor’: Added property ‘IndentedXML’ to control indentation.
• ‘JSONExtractor’: Added property ‘IndentedJSON’ to control indentation.
• ‘Stamper’: fixed stamping of rotated pages.
• Added new OCR mode – ‘OCRMode.AutoRepairFonts’. It automatically tries to detect PDF documents with corrupted text and forces OCR font repair for them. Works only for English texts.
• Added property ‘PageSeparator’ to CSV and XLS extractors.
• ‘XLSExtractor’: improved negative numbers detection.
• ‘TextExtractor.FindAll()’ method was ignoring the case sensitivity option. Fixed now.
• Added property ‘OCRDetectLines’ that helps to detect table structure in scanned documents.
• ‘JSONExtractor’ and ‘XMLExtractor’ now outputs the number of pages in the result and the number of pages for which OCR was performed.
• Added property ‘OCRPageCount’ to extractors that contains the number of pages for which OCR was performed during the last extraction.
• ‘JSONExtractor’: Added property ‘OutputStructure’ that allows selecting a structure of output JSON.
• ‘JSONExtractor’: Added property ‘OutputTransformation’ that allows applying the JSONPath expression to the output JSON.
• Performance improvements.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF Multitool 13.0.0.4253 (October 4, 2021)

• Made PDF Multitool DPI-aware. Now it looks better on high-resolution displays.
• Added row numbers to the grid in the extraction preview window.
• Added ‘All Option’ tab to all tools.
• Added ‘Classifier test tool’.
• ‘OCR Analyzer’: Added button to copy analysis results to extractors.
• Performance improvements.
• Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

Document Parser SDK 6.0.0.521 (October 4, 2021)

• Fixed crash in CSV export on malformed regex table without columns.
• Added ‘globalTextFilters’ parameter in the template options. It allows removing some text from extracted document text before parsing.
• Added new macros: ‘{{Email}}’, ‘{{ITIN}}’, ‘{{SSN}}’.
• Template Editor: fixed crash on adding objects if the recent template file was deleted before the app started.
• Implemented key-value regex fields.
• DocumentParser: Added support for page ranges.
• Improved ‘Classifier’.
• Improved DMY dates detection.
• Fixed false-positives of ‘{{Money}}’ macro.
• Improved PDF extraction and rendering.
• Other minor bug fixes and improvements.

PDF Renderer SDK 13.0.0.4253 (October 4, 2021)

• Improved rendering of PDF form fields.
• DocumentPrinter: suppressed possible printing progress dialogs.
• Performance improvements.
• Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF SDK 3.1.0.535 (October 4, 2021)

• Improved merging of PDF documents with fillable forms. New method ‘Document.MergeDocuments()’ and property ‘Document.RenameMatchingFieldsDuringMerge’ allow to control linking of form fields during the merge.
• Improved flattening.
• Fixed filling of combo boxes with compound items (label-value pairs).
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF To HTML SDK 13.0.0.4253 (October 4, 2021)

• Added support for page ranges. See overloads of methods ‘GetHTML’ and ‘SaveHtml*’.
• Added page numbers in the ‘page start’ and ‘page end’ HTML comments.
• Performance improvements.
• Improved parsing of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

PDF Viewer SDK 13.0.0.4253 (October 4, 2021)

• Added ‘DisplayAttachments’ property that allows showing/hide the floating “attachments” button.
• Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

Spreadsheet SDK 4.3.0.1981 (October 4, 2021)

• Fixed ISO-8601 date parsing.
• Fixed formula parsing.
• Fixed handling of shared formulas.
• Fixed black charts background in XLS format.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

Barcode Reader SDK 11.6.0.2041 (October 4, 2021)

• Fixed unhandled exception on decoding timeout.
• Fixed barcode rectangle adjustment after applying scaling filters.
• Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Barcode SDK 7.3.0.1177 (October 4, 2021)

• Implemented round dots appearance for QR Code, DataMatrix, and Aztec. See ‘Barcode.RoundDots’ property.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes.

QR Code SDK 1.7.0.1178 (October 4, 2021)

• Implemented round dots appearance for QR Code. See ‘QRCode.RoundDots’ property.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes.

Text Recognition SDK 2.2.0.278 (October 4, 2021)

• Added ‘WhiteList’ and ‘BlackList’ properties that allow doing define a set of characters allowed or disallowed to be recognized from a scanned document.
• Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

BarCode Generator Freeware 7.3.0.1177 (October 4, 2021)

• Added ‘Round Dots’ advanced option for QR Code, DataMatrix, and Aztec.
• Minor improvements and bug fixes.

Barcode Reader Freeware 11.6.0.2041 (October 4, 2021)

• Fixed barcode rectangle adjustment after applying scaling filters.
• Improved parsing and rendering of PDF documents.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes.

XLS Viewer Freeware 4.3.0.1981 (October 4, 2021)

• Fixed ISO-8601 date parsing.
• Fixed formula parsing.
• Fixed handling of shared formulas.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.

   

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