Hi everyone,

For the April GdPicture.NET and DocuVieware SDK newsletter, we have quite a lot of improvements in PDF, and especially PDF/A, but also in Office formats, compression, and OCR. We hope you will find them helpful.

See you next month for more news! 

Improved PDF OCG flattening feature.
Improved internal PDF repair engine.
Improved PDF rendering engine.
Improved Handling of some malformed PDFs.
Improved PDF/A converter and validator engines.
Improved PDF annotation flattening feature.
New methods: HasJavaScript() & RemoveAnnotationAction().

Improved Office formats rendering engine.

Fixed a critical issue with XLSX loading in .NET Core edition.

OCR
Improved OCR engine accuracy and speed.

Improved text extraction engine.

Improved MRC engine.

Improved PDF reducer engine.

New native runtime: GdPicture.NET.14.machine.vision(.64).dll
Removed native runtimes: GdPicture.NET.14.ocr.tesseract.3(.64).dll, GdPicture.NET.14.omr(.64).dll and GdPicture.NET.14.document.analyzer(.64).dll. They have been merged into GdPicture.NET.14.machine.vision(.64).dll.

This month, we’ve chosen to share a blog article from our AvePDF website. 

While we mostly post general content there - and this is why we don’t include it in our developer newsletter - we thought you might find this one interesting! It’s about some of the worst redaction fails from these past years and how to avoid them.

Read more at Epic PDF Redaction Fails, A Horror Story.