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PhantomPDF 9.7 Includes Numerous Enhancements Along with Certification as a UiPath Technology Partner – Bringing the Automation of High-Volume, Repeatable Tasks to PDF Processing.

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Dual Lab is proud to announce the new release of the web application ngPDF that demonstrates the use of Tagged PDF documents in the Open Web world. The application demonstrates the implementation of the derivation algorithm developed by the PDF Association. The new version includes a number of significant improvements: improved compliance of the Derivation algorithm implementation possibility … Read more

We’re pleased to announce iText 7.1.8, our latest quarterly release. Despite the minor release number, we think it counts as a pretty significant update as in addition to various improvements and bug fixes in our kernel and layout modules, iText 7.1.8 adds support for XFDF, the XML Forms Data Format. XFDF (like its older sibling FDF) is a … Read more

Earlier versions of the iText PDF library were already able to render Chinese, Japanese and Korean glyphs in PDF documents, but to correctly display right-to-left scripts like Hebrew and Arabic, we needed the information provided by OpenType fonts to help with handling the complexities of all the world’s writing systems. So, for iText 7 we went … Read more

The most notable feature of our PDF Alchemist scriptable server tool and SDK has always been its ability to intelligently extract text and images from PDFs.  With our earliest product releases, we employed sophisticated techniques to automatically identify and reconstruct “text flows” in non-structured PDFs, but we initially offered limited customization features to focus the … Read more

Dominos falling.

As of October 7, 2019, websites and mobile applications in the U.S. will be assessed as “public accommodations”, and the Americans with Disabilities Act will apply.

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These vulnerabilities require an attacker to modify an encrypted PDF file, potentially leading to the exfiltration of the document’s contents to an external server. This class of problem is not specific to PDF per se, but is applicable to most formats that support encryption.

We all want our PDFs to work smarter and help us achieve our business goals. But in order to do that, it’s important to understand what solutions we’re able to tap into using PDF’s many capabilities. Redaction, extraction, and optimization are a few of the most important capabilities that can help us achieve an array … Read more

Animals in a boat.

In der biblischen Geschichte haben Noah, seine Familie und viele Tiere eine große Flut überlebt. Paarweise hatte Noah die einzelnen Arten an Bord geholt. Doch ist ein solcher Ansatz, alle Arten von Datei- und Dokumenten-Formaten zusammenzutragen, auch für die Archivierung geeignet? Viele Anbieter von Systemen für Enterprise Content Management (ECM) scheinen jedenfalls auf diese Methode … Read more

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