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