First of all, we hope that you are all safe and well.
We have quite a few new features and improvements to show you since our last newsletter, and we hope you will enjoy them.

Our toolkit is steadily growing with the weekly releases (see GdPicture & DocuVieware version history), using a lot of fuzzy logic and AI, with a strong focus on PDF, OCR, and hyper-compression.

New features and improvements

PDF

Improvements of the rasterizer and PDF/A converter engines and of the parser to handle/recover more malformed documents.

New methods to enable text search of strings across multiple lines and to remove page box.

Enhancement of the text extraction engine.

Enhancement of the PDF redaction engine.

Enhancement of the PDF reducer engine.

OCR

New OCR engine for special context producing outstanding recognition on a single line of numeric characters.

Major speed & accuracy improvements of the OCR engine.

Hyper-compression

Improved MRC engine (speed, accuracy & produced document quality).

New enumeration member for the image quality in PDF Reducer (ImageQualityVeryVeryHigh).

Office formats

Improved Office formats rasterizer engine dramatically improved.

Annotations

Improvements of the ruler and polyruler annotations.

New methods and properties: RenderAnnotation() & KeepAspectRatio.

Barcode

Improved 1D & 2D barcode recognition engines. Now powered with unrivaled speed and accuracy, especially on very altered symbols.

Viewer

New Content and Password properties in WPF (MVVM fashion).

WinForms & WPF: new redaction method

Other

Global performance improvements (memory & CPU usage).

New thumbnail methods.

Improvement of the margins detection filter.

New properties of the document converter engine: Author, Title, Subject, Producer, Metadata, Keywords.

More than 100 reported bug fixes.

DocuVieware

UI improvements: responsiveness and annotation manipulation.

Enhancement of the zooming and touch support.

added support for adding image annotation from the JavaScript API

Better performances of the TWAIN scanning module, mostly about speed and transfer rate (2x to 10x faster).

Many new JavaScript functions and APIs for the annotations.

New support for impersonation level management.

New: PassportPDF

Unified API & Apps for all platforms

Tutorials

API reference

SDK libraries

Download the SDK

Survey time! Vote for enhancements & new features

Our annual survey is here! What can we do for you?

Help us to define our next 2020 Q3 roadmap! For this survey, we’ve made it quick and simple for you, with a single question only.

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ORPALIS Joins the PDF Association Board of Directors

Elodie Tellier, COO of ORPALIS (the company behind GdPicture & DocuVieware), has been elected to the PDF Association Board of Directors. The PDF Association is an international standards development organization promoting awareness and adoption of open standards in digital document applications using PDF technology. The management board includes industry leaders, and members come from over 150 organizations and numerous individual subject-matter experts from more than 35 countries.