Released: Nov 19, 2021
Updates in 5.3 (maintenance release)
Features
- Added support for Microsoft Windows 11.
Released: May 4, 2021
Updates in 5.3
Features
- Optimized PDF resource handling to improve performance for documents with excessive numbers of images, patterns or other resources.
- Security and performance updates of all third-party components.
- Harden processing of damaged and illegal PDF documents by testing the full
Issue Tracker PDF corpus with tens of thousands of stressful PDF files.
- Expanded platform and CPU support including macOS on ARM64 and Linux on ARM64.
- Timeout can be specified to limit processing time for large or...
Released: Jul 25, 2019
Updates in 5.2
Features
- Added support for SharePoint Server 2019.
- Improved table detection with row and column span identification.
- Mark Artifacts (irrelevant text and images) in TETML and the API.
- Extract text and images from annotations and patterns.
- Support for inline images and images in soft masks.
- Security updates for third-party libraries.
- Optionally retrieve Separation and DeviceN text colors in the simpler alternate color space instead of the rather complex native color space.
Released: Jun 1, 2017
Updates in 5.1
Features
- Text in bookmarks, annotations (comments) and form fields are now indexed by default.
- Additional controls for indexing metadata properties.
- Extended samples for custom metadata properties.
- Streamlined output in the Windows event log.
- Auxiliary tool for querying Windows metadata properties.
- Additional predefined properties (XMP and PDF-based).
Released: Nov 9, 2015
Updates in this release
Updates in PDFlib TET 5
- Retrieve fill and stroke color of text.
- Improved page and table layout recognition.
- Support vertical font metrics for CJK text.
- Significantly enhanced merging of fragmented images.
- Extract image masks and soft masks.
- Merge and convert JPEG 2000-compressed images.
- Preserve named spot colors in extracted TIFF images.
- Honor layers and clipping paths.
- Check whether an area on the page is empty, e.g. before placing a stamp or barcode.
- TET's XML output called TETML includes...
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...
