01-19-2021 , 01:12 PM
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Quote:We at Tracker Software Products/PDF-XChange Co. are excited to announce the release of Version 9 of the PDF-XChange product line on January 14th, 2021. A range of new features, improvements and bug fixes have been added in this major release of our products. Whether you are a home user or small business looking for an easy-to-use, affordable PDF editor, or a mid-sized to global business looking for an intelligent, robust PDF solution to streamline productivity and automate workflow - there has never been a better time to harness the power of the PDF-XChange family of products:
Quote:V9 PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus
There are many new features and additions, speed improvements and new support of the ARM chipset for most Windows-based hardware in the new release. Two new features in particular deserve special attention:
1: Accessibility - We have added new formatting and functionality options for those with visual impairments and other disabilities. This new functionality conforms to several international standards and governmental requirements, which are addressed comprehensively in the V9 release. We will continue to extend and fine our Accessibility features in future builds.
The PDF/UA (Universal Accessibility) ISO standard is designed to make the viewing and editing of documents easier for users who are visually impaired or otherwise disabled. PDF-XChange Editor is now able to perform an Accessibility Check in order to ensure that documents meet the requirements for this ISO standard. Additionally, the Order and Tags panes have been added to the software in order to meet PDF/UA requirements. Accessibility compliance improvements have also been made, and UI Automation is now available.
Corresponding VPAT documentation will be available in the coming weeks.
2: New and Updated Enhanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Plugin – in version 8.0.333.0 (released April 4th, 2019) we added the optional 'Enhanced OCR' plugin for users who needed to convert image-based content into editable text - and wanted to avail of better quality and more dynamic OCR functionality in comparison to that offered by the free, default OCR functionality included in our FREE software. We initially selected the Leadtools OCR SDK and language sets in order to create the Enhanced OCR plugin, and for many users it performed very well. However, With a limitation of approximately 50 different language packs and restrictions and limitations with some non-English Languages, it was found to be of limited value to a significant proportion of our client base.
Therefore, in Version 9 we decided to replace the LeadTools OCR SDK with the industry-leading OCR library from ABBYY Software. The new OCR recognition is greatly improved and displays a significantly higher level of accuracy for many document types and language sets. Users from eastern Europe and elsewhere who had experienced issues with OCR on Cyrillic text will see significant improvements. Additionally, ABBYY’s OCR SDK extends the number of languages supported from less than 50 to over 150, including ‘RTL’ (right-to-left reading) languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.
Please note that the existing model of purchasing the Enhanced OCR functionality as an optional plugin will cease on release of version 9, and this plugin will no longer be available as a separate item in PDF-XChange Editor or PDF-Tools. The new Enhanced OCR feature set will instead be included in PDF-XChange Editor Plus and the PDF-XChange Pro bundle. Customers with active product maintenance who purchased the V8 Enhanced OCR plugin will receive a free upgrade to the either the V9 Editor Plus or V9 PRO bundle, in order to ensure they have continued access to the features that were available to them before the V9 release.
Please refer to these Knowledgebase articles for more details on free upgrades from V8 product licenses that include the EOCR Plugin to V9 products that include the Improved ECOR feature set and how to Activate your V9 license:
New LicensingImplementes in V9:
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Quote:New Features
A range of additional features to those listed above have been added to PDF-XChange Editor/Editor Plus for the V9 release.
These include:
- The Split Documents by Size feature, which enables the splitting of documents via the specification of a desired output file size.
- The Overlay PDF feature, which makes it possible to overlay document pages with existing files.
- The Recompress Multiple Images feature, which enables the simultaneous recompressing of multiple images.
- Media Box Normalization, which enables the location of the media box to be set to the (0;0) coordinates in order to facilitate simpler content copying and pasting.
- 3D PDF Measurement Tools are also now available, so you can now perform measurements on 3D documents.
- Crop to White Margins functionality.