Released: Oct 21, 2025
Updates in 2026
Features
- Support for OCR processing of PDF files
- MapForce includes the powerful PDF Extractor that lets you visually define the structure of a PDF document to efficiently extract its data for use in a data mapping project. The PDF Extractor is a highly flexible tool that allows you to extract only portions of text instead of the whole document, mix and match pieces of information from different pages of the same PDF file, split tables into rows, and arrange data into groups.
- While this...
Released: Mar 25, 2025
Updates in 2025 Release 2
Features
- Support for Shopify and GraphQL - New support for Shopify (as well as for generic GraphQL calls used by other services) in MapForce makes it easy to integrate Shopify data with other data formats such as XML, JSON, and databases. MapForce supports calls to Shopify/GraphQL APIs as the source or target of any data mapping project. This can be used to, for instance, write Shopify sales data to a backend database or to import real-time data from an inventory system to a Shopify store...
Released: Oct 22, 2024
Updates in 2025
Features
- Support for Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB - MapForce supports mapping data to and from the most prevalent relational and NoSQL database types. MapForce 2025 adds support for Cosmos DB, a NoSQL database offered by Microsoft and used by default on the Azure platform.
- PDF Extractor: support for text search - The MapForce PDF Extractor now includes the ability to search for text in a document and define rules for processing data relative to the text.
- This is especially useful in large PDF...
Released: Jun 25, 2024
Updates in 2024 Release 2 SP1
Fixes
- Fixed in All/Multiple Products Libraries:
- Update Python library to 3.11.8 or newer to mitigate OpenSSL vulnerabilities prior to 3.0.13.
- Update libpng16.dll to a version newer than 1.6.38 to mitigate an alleged vulnerability.
- Upgrade Visual Studio files to avoid loss of Microsoft support on July 11 2024.
Released: Apr 23, 2024
Updates in 2024 Release 2
Features
- Support for FORTRAS EDI messages - MapForce supports EDI messages for numerous industry standards as the source or target of any data transformation process. Support has been added for FORTRAS EDI in this release. FORTRAS EDI messages are used to exchange information among freight hauling companies.
- Option to share database connection among components - In some data mapping applications, a project may connect to the same database twice. Now, in these cases it is easy for database...
Released: Oct 24, 2023
Updates in 2024
Features
- MapForce PDF Extractor - Added support for PDF input. The new MapForce PDF Extractor makes business data locked in PDFs available for data mapping, data integration, and ETL processes.
- The MapForce PDF Extractor is an easy-to-use utility that allows you to quickly define the structure of a PDF document and extract data from it. Then, that PDF data can be accessed for further transformation and conversion to other formats such as XML, JSON, databases, Excel, and so on, in MapForce.
- You...
Released: Sep 8, 2023
Updates in Altova MapForce Enterprise Edition
Features
MapForce is now AI-ready - Since many AI systems, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, are available via API, it is immediately possible to integrate their functionality in data transformation projects in MapForce. Using built-in, no-code tools to define web service requests in MapForce, it’s easy to set up calls to an API, including the OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI API or AWS AI Services, to enable AI-powered data processing in any data mapping project.
Applications for AI-powered MapForce data...
Released: Apr 12, 2023
Updates in 2023 Release 2
Features
- Support for VDA EDI messages - VDA stands for Verband der Automobilindustrie, the German Automotive Industry Association. VDA EDI messages are used for sending planning schedule information between customers and suppliers. Though this legacy format is no longer being maintained by a standards body, many companies in the automotive industry still use the messages for information exchange. MapForce users may need to map and convert between VDA messages and other EDI formats, XML...
Released: Dec 12, 2022
Updates in 2023 SP1
Fixes
Excel file functionality
- MapForce crashes updating customer Excel file.
Code Generation
- Executing generated C# code is much slower than the Output view of MapForce - mapping specific.
IDE GUI
- Text can be overdrawn repeatedly in certain dialogs using Light or Dark Theme.
Released: Oct 19, 2022
Updates in 2023
Features
- Altova XML Schema Manager
- Provides a centralized way to install and manage standard XML Schemas for use with MapForce and all Altova XML-enabled applications.
- Automatically select any required dependencies.
- Once a schema is installed, it’s available for use with any Altova XML-enabled product (MapForce, MapForce Server, XMLSpy, RaptorXML Server, etc.).
- You can also open the XML Schema Manager to browse the schemas already installed on your system.
- Altova will update available schema...