PDFlib TET adds performance enhancements

Released: Aug 19, 2010

Updates in this release

Updates in V4.0

New features in PDFlib TET 4.0:

  • Performance enhancements: faster for many classes of documents
  • Higher speed and smaller memory consumption for very large documents up to hundreds of thousands of pages
  • Extract right-to-left and bidirectional text for Arabic, Hebrew, etc.
  • Unicode post-processing:
  • Foldings preserve, remove or replace characters
  • Decompositions replace a character with an equivalent sequence, e.g. replace narrow or vertical Japanese characters with their standard counterparts.
  • Text can be converted to all four Unicode normalization forms, e.g. emit NFC form to meet the requirements for Web text or a database.
  • Improved shadow removal, word boundary detection, and dehyphenation
  • Improved super and subscript detection
  • Workarounds for non-conforming PDF documents to enhance robustness
  • Enhanced repair mode for successfully extracting text from damaged PDF
  • More information in TET's XML output (TETML), e.g. dehyphenation, dropcap, shadow, and super/subscript
  • Improved C++ and Perl language bindings

New features in PDFlib TET PDF IFilter 4.0:

  • Takes advantage of the improved TET 4.0 kernel
  • Automatic language detection for improved search results (find word stems, partial matches, etc.)
  • Support for SharePoint 2010