Year 2012 Docotic.Pdf notices

Updated on December 31, 2012

This page contains all Docotic.Pdf release notices for year 2012.

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Docotic.Pdf 3.6. Two times faster and uses much less memory.

October 20, 2012

We have released a new version of the Docotic.Pdf library. Most of the changes in this version are likely to benefit every customer.

We greatly optimized the code of the library and now Docotic.Pdf takes two times less time and in many cases two times less memory to complete a task. We published separate post about results of our optimizations. You can read it here.

We added the ability to check if a PDF document is a PDF/A compliant one. Please have a look at the Check if a PDF document is a PDF/A compliant one sample.

We also added a new compression option. It's called PdfSaveOptions.OptimizeIndirectObjects property. This option is turned on by default and you can turn it off if you want files to be saved faster.

Another improvement is the ability to specify resolution for images produced while drawing pages.

We also improved processing of TIFF images and extraction of text and images from PDF documents.

Docotic.Pdf 3.5. Even better than before

July 31, 2012

We have released a new version of the Docotic.Pdf library. The new version brings improvements in text and image extraction, as well as in other areas.

We added the ability to check if an image is painted transformed and the ability to save such an image as painted, i.e. taking into account rotation, scaling and other transformations that might be applied to the image. Another new feature is the ability to save PDF pages as TIFF images.

The new version of Docotic.Pdf library adds support for PDF form XObjects. Such objects are often used for watermarks, backgrounds and repeatable objects. XObjects can be created from scratch or from existing pages (from current or other document). Using XObjects created from pages, you can impose (combine) PDF pages onto larger (or same size) sheets to make books, booklets, or special arrangements. Please have a look at new samples that show how to create and use PDF form XObjects.

As with every release of the library, we also fixed some bugs. This version fixes bugs related to the opening of existing PDF documents with forms, reading document permissions, and processing of fonts and images.

Improved extraction of text and images, PDF rasterizer and other improvements in Docotic.Pdf 3.4

April 27, 2012

We released a new version of Docotic.Pdf library.

The version 3.4 adds new major feature: PDF rasterizer. Now the library can be used to draw and print PDF documents. And of course you can save images of document pages in PNG and JPEG format. Take a look at PdfPage.Save and PdfPage.Draw methods. You might find the new group of samples interesting too.

This version also features improved support for the extraction of text and images. You can now extract text as a collection of words (with their bounding rectangles) and even individual characters. We added the new Extract text by words sample that demonstrates how to do this.

From now on, the library might be used to extract page objects. I.e. you can get a collection of text and image objects to perform a sophisticated analysis of what's drawn on a page. Take a look at the Extract text and images sample to get an idea of what information could be retrieved.

The new version adds support for extraction of previously unsupported image types. You might also be interested in the new ability to scale and resize existing images in PDF documents. This ability is useful for optimization of existing documents.

As with any release of Docotic.Pdf, we also fixed some bugs. This version fixes bugs related to the opening of existing PDF documents and processing of fonts and images. We also made library to use less time and memory for opening of existing PDFs.

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