Hello everyone,

It's time for our July GdPicture.NET and DocuVieware newsletter.

As usual, we brought many improvements in all domains, especially in PDF & PDF/A support and format rendering & conversion, in both SDKs.

In other news, the agenda for the PDF Days Europe in Berlin in September is now available!

Come and meet us in Berlin or online, as the event will be hybrid.

If you're a PDF Association member, you will find a promotion code for this event in your member area on pdfa.org. 

Improved PDF/A converter and validation engines.
New method SearchAndHighlight().
Improved AutoCropPage functionality.
Improved embedded file handling.
Improved RegEx text search.

Improved PDF rendering speed.

Improved Office formats rendering engine.
New support to convert any document to SVG.
New GdPictureDocumentConverter method SaveAsSVG().
New GdPictureDocumentConverter overloaded method CombineToPDF() taking an array of stream.

Improved image rendering speed.

OCR
Improved OCR accuracy.
New property MaxThreadCount.

Improved QR code reader accuracy.
Improved 1D barcode reader accuracy.
New overload Barcode1DReaderGetBarcodeValue() to specify if Febraban digital line should be computed.
New GdPictureStatus enumeration member BarcodePDF417InvalidDataCount.

DocuVieware
Improved UX.
New DocuViewareManager methods SetEncryptionMode() and AbandonSessions().
New enumeration DocuViewareFilesEncryptionMode.
Improved page generation speed.
New Event BeforeRequest.
New properties EnableThumbnailRotateButtons and EnableThumbnailDeleteButton.

2021 presents special challenges but the PDF Association is very excited to offer PDF Days Europe 2021 in-person & online!
"Technical Days" Monday, September 27 and  Tuesday, September 28 - in-person in Berlin at the SI Hotel and streamed worldwide.
"Solution Day" Wednesday, September 29 - online only, and FREE!

PDF/A Conversion and Validation Challenges
This presentation will discuss some of the challenges in PDF to PDF/A conversion and PDF/A validation and how to overcome them.

Speakers: Matus Pizur & Elodie Tellier - ORPALIS

Speaker: Elodie Tellier - ORPALIS

The Low Code Revolution and PDF
What does it mean for PDF Developers and PDF Technology Companies?

Speaker: Neil Pitman - Aquaforest

Speaker: Neil Pitman - Aquaforest