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JPedal’s Latest Update: Improved PDF Inspection and Key Performance Fixes

JPedal’s latest release boosts PDF inspection tools, enhances extraction of tagged content, and supports compressed PDFs better. It also resolves form rendering issues and aligns HTML output with the PDF Association’s guidelines.
Founded in 1999, IDRsolutions is a small, dynamic UK based company which specialises in software to solve PDF problems for other developers in their own applications. We develop JPedal (convert … Read more
JPedal’s Latest Update: Improved PDF Inspection and Key Performance Fixes
IDRsolutions
February 25, 2025

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JPedal’s Latest Update: Improved PDF Inspection and Key Performance Fixes

IDRsolutions
February 25, 2025

Member News



JPedal’s newest release brings superior PDF inspection tools, improved tagged content extraction, and better support for compressed PDFs. These updates enhance PDF rendering, debugging, and content processing, making it easier for developers to work with complex documents.

Key Enhancements

  • Revamped Objects Viewer now supports compressed PDFs and provides a more accurate COS tree.
  • Improved extraction of marked content (tagged PDFs) for better accessibility and structured data handling.
  • Updated HTML output to align with PDF Association’s guidelines.
  • New tutorial on retrieving page coordinates from mouse interactions.
  • Enhanced image extraction from tagged PDFs.

Shows before and after screens for JPEDAL object viewer

The New Object Viewer has:

  • More accurate COS tree structure
  • Non-dictionary values appear in the tree as well
  • Entire window is now dynamic and can be resized (including middle divider)
  • types and keys are more accurate

Fixes & Performance Improvements

  • Resolved multiple form rendering issues, including duplicate components and missing flattened forms.
  • Fixed clipping issues for XObjects with zero dimensions.
  • Increased XRef stream size limit to handle larger PDFs efficiently.
  • Updated LogWriter to use Java’s Logger for improved debugging.

These updates further strengthen JPedal’s capabilities for high-performance PDF rendering and analysis. Explore our latest tutorials and Release Notes to see what’s new!


Founded in 1999, IDRsolutions is a small, dynamic UK based company which specialises in software to solve PDF problems for other developers in their own applications. We develop JPedal (convert PDF to image or view PDF files in Java Applications), BuildVu (view or parse PDF as HTML5/SVG), FormVu (convert PDF…

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