Accusoft PDF Xpress™ version 7 is a powerful control that enables the user to build applications supporting PDF file creation, editing, and viewing using licensed Adobe® technology. PDF Xpress is delivered as both a .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) and an ActiveX SDK. It is used to create PDF documents, modify and reorganize existing PDF documents, access metadata, view and create PDF/A documents, and more.
New Features in PDF Xpress Version 7
PDF Xpress Version 7.3 is primarily a service pack release and introduces new improvements in the following areas:
- Updated the internal PDF library to fix a number of rendering issues resulting in improved fidelity.
- Improved the TextFinder accuracy for text positioning.
PDF Xpress Version 7 introduces the following new features:
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Please also refer to the Accusoft.PdfXpress7.Net.Changes.txt file for a description of the enhancements and bug fixes in this release.
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Primary Features
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Functionality
With PDF Xpress you can easily:
- Create new PDF documents.
- Create image-only PDF/A-compliant documents.
- Split, merge, insert, move and delete pages from existing PDF documents.
- Extract text and use PDF Xpress features to return location and context of text search results.
- Read, modify, and delete PDF document metadata, annotations, bookmarks, thumbnails, and watermarks.
- Rapidly display large PDF images such as engineering drawings.
Technical Notes
- Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments through Visual Studio.
- Sample code is included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, VC++, Delphi.
- Deploys within .NET as a managed component and is also fully compliant with .NET.
- Supports user-specified debug logging levels.
- Suitable for Client/Server Web applications.
- Can be used in a multi-threaded environment and perform synchronous thread-safe processing.
- Free full-featured trial version available for download.
PDF Reading Support
- Read all PDF documents, including any version PDF through v1.7.
- Load PDF documents from file or memory.
- Extract text and use PDF Xpress features to return location and context of text search results. (Extract text from Normal or Searchable Image PDFs then identify text matches using any desired technique. PDF Xpress will provide the context and location of the match phrase.)
- Export PDF annotations to XFDF (XML) - This enables PDF Xpress to work with NotateXpress to annotate PDF documents. See samples and demos included in the SDK.
- Access document metadata, bookmarks, and thumbnails.
- Render pages to Bitmap, DIB, EPS, or RAW.
- Specify render options, including portion of page to render, target resolution, and bit depth.
- Render large pages to higher resolution (e.g., for optimized display of large engineering drawings).
- Render copy-protected PDF documents where content copying and extraction is not allowed (commonly produced by legal and financial institutions).
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Copy protected rendering functionality must be used only to view copy protected PDF documents. Do not use it to violate or bypass the PDF file security measures that prevent copying or editing.
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PDF Writing Support
- Create and Save PDF.
- Add images to a PDF page:
- TIFF (CCITT G3 1D, CCITT G3 2D, CCITT G4, LZW)
- JBIG2 (Lossy and Lossless)
- PNG
- JPEG (sequential or progressive)
- JPEG 2000 (Lossy and Lossless)
- GIF
- BMP
- RAW
- Create Searchable Image (Image with Hidden Text) PDF - using OCR Xpress with PDF Xpress sample code (PDF Xpress provides the ability to construct an image-over-text PDF, using text output from OCR Xpress, and the associated image compressed by ImagXpress. This enables the developer to create highly compressed image-over-text PDFs, with searchable text.).
- Add, modify, and delete PDF Bookmarks, linking to pages within the document that can be displayed as an outline in Acrobat Reader.
- Modify and write document metadata.
- Add, replace, or delete thumbnails associated with a page in a PDF document.
- Append, insert, move, or delete pages within a PDF document (e.g., to split one PDF file into multiple files, or merge two PDFs together).
- Import PDF annotations from XFDF (XML) into PDF document. This enables PDF Xpress to work with NotateXpress to annotate PDF documents.
- Save PDF documents to memory or file.
- Save Linearized PDF documents for rapid display.
PDF Xpress Editions
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Reader Edition
The Reader Edition contains a subset of Professional Edition features. This edition allows application developers to:
- Read PDF documents (including the associated annotations and bookmarks)
- Render pages
- Extract content from PDFs
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Professional Edition
In addition to all of the Reader Edition features, this edition also provides application developers the ability to:
- Create PDF documents
- Modify the PDF content,
- Create PDF/A-1b compliant PDF documents
Additional Accusoft Components
Because it is part of a family of document processing tools, PDF Xpress provides easy access to a wide variety of easily-integrated functionality, using separately licensed toolkits such as:
- ImagXpress® to convert file formats, view documents, manipulate images, display thumbnails of PDF pages, and annotate PDF documents
- ISIS® Xpress™ to support ISIS image acquisition
- Barcode Xpress™ to recognize barcodes
- ScanFix Xpress® to clean up images
- FormFix® for form ID, dropout, and OMR
- NotateXpress™ for adding image annotations
- SmartZone ICR / OCR™ for character recognition
- ImageGear for .NET for fully managed code to create cutting edge imaging applications
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