PDF Automation Server adds Web PDF Redaction, Interactive Form Filling to Web Document Viewer and Excel to PDF Conversion

The latest version of Qoppa’s PDF Automation Server (PAS) v2017R1 was released with major enhancements to its Web PDF Viewer Module, its Workflow Module and its REST API Module.

PAS Web PDF Viewer & Markup Module, Qoppa’s cross-platform solution to display and annotate PDF documents in a web browser, was significantly enhanced with new annotating and editing functions this version:

• Permanently redact PDFs to remove sensitive information
• Fill interactive form fields
• Rearrange PDF pages through thumbnail drag and drop
• Markup up text with text highlight, cross-out, underline annotations
• Rubber stamps to mark documents as Approved, Confidential, Paid, etc…

In addition to PDF documents, PAS Web Viewer can render many documents formats by converting them on the fly to HTML 5 / SVG including Image files, Word documents and now Excel spreadsheets.

PAS Workflow Module and PAS REST API Module were also improved to include the following PDF features:

• PDF/A-1b, PDF/A-2b, & PDF/A-3b conversion
• PDF/A and PDF/X validation
• Excel to PDF conversion
• PAdES digital signatures

PDF Automation Server is an essential tool to streamline PDF processing, document workflows and web service orchestration in an organization.  The multi-platform  server product can be deployed on Windows, Linux, Unix (AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, etc), z/OS, Mac OS X and others…  The client-side Web Viewer Module is HTML-based and zero footprint, allowing to read and manipulate documents from any browser (Chrome, Mozilla, Edge, Opera, Safari) and any platform, including desktop, tablet and mobile (Windows, Mac OS X, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS).

Specialized in Java and PDF software, Qoppa Software has developed and refined a robust PDF rendering and conversion technology over the last 12 years. Qoppa produces server software for enterprise automation, easy-to-use desktop and mobile apps for end-users as well as libraries for developers to integrate into applications. Built on an integrated code base, Qoppa’s software solutions are stable, offer deeper feature support as well as high performance and responsiveness.  They have been integrated in hundreds of enterprise tools, in various industries, and distributed to hundreds of thousands of end-users.