Roadmap for Syncfusion^® Document SDK

.NET PDF Library

Linearized PDF creation

This feature lets users create linearized PDF documents optimized for fast web viewing.

Barcode form fields

Creates and embeds barcode-enabled form fields in PDF documents to capture data efficiently and process information automatically with standard barcode scanners.

Replace text in PDF

Users can search for and replace text in PDF documents while preserving the original layout and formatting, simplifying document updates and content corrections.

Enhanced PDF compression

Improves PDF file size reduction by providing advanced image compression capabilities, including image resolution reduction and JPEG 2000 encoding support, helping users optimize documents for storage and distribution with minimal quality loss.

HTML to PDF conversion enhancements

Updates the HTML-to-PDF converter’s Blink rendering binaries to the latest stable version, ensuring improved web page compatibility, enhanced rendering fidelity, better performance, and continued support for modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features.

PDF to PCL and PCL to PDF conversion

Converts PDF documents to PCL (Printer Command Language) format and converts PCL files back to PDF, helping streamline document workflows across printing, archiving, and document management systems.

JavaScript PDF Library

Actions

Allows adding interactive actions to PDF documents. It supports actions such as JavaScript, URI, go to, remote go to, launch, named, sound, submit, and reset, and enables actions to be associated with form fields, bookmarks, and existing PDF documents. Additionally, document-level JavaScript actions can be added, retrieved, and removed to automate document behavior and enhance user interaction.

Compression

Users can reduce PDF file sizes using advanced compression techniques, helping optimize documents for storage, transmission, and web delivery while preserving document quality.

File attachment

Enables embedding and managing external files as attachments in PDF documents, making it easier to package and distribute supporting content with PDFs.

Barcode creation

Enables creating and embedding 1D and 2D barcode symbologies directly in PDF documents, including Code 39, Code 128, Codabar, EAN, UPC, QR Code, Data Matrix, and PDF417.

Barcode form fields

Enables the creation of barcode-enabled form fields in PDF documents, allowing form data to be encoded as machine-readable barcodes for efficient data capture and processing.

Enhanced PDF encryption options

Users can apply different PDF encryption modes when securing documents, including encrypting all document contents, encrypting all contents except metadata, and encrypting only file attachments while leaving the rest of the document content accessible.

Shape pagination

Allows large graphical shapes and drawing elements to automatically flow across multiple PDF pages, ensuring seamless rendering of content that exceeds a single page boundary.

Linearized PDF

Enables creating linearized PDF documents optimized for fast web viewing, allowing content to be displayed progressively before the entire document is downloaded.

OpenType font

This feature supports OpenType fonts, enabling users to leverage advanced typographic capabilities and access a broader range of font resources when generating PDF documents.

Complex script

Enables accurate rendering of complex scripts and multilingual text, including Indian languages, Arabic, Thai, and other languages that require advanced text shaping, glyph substitution, and character positioning.

Java PDF Library

Java PDF Library for document creation and processing

Enables the creation, editing, merging, securing, and processing of PDF documents natively within Java applications. It provides comprehensive PDF generation and document processing capabilities through a Java-centric API designed for cross-platform development.

.NET Word Library

HTML to PDF conversion enhancements

Significantly improves HTML-to-PDF conversion capabilities by expanding support for modern web and document content, including SVG graphics, form elements, and MHTML/MHT documents. It delivers higher rendering accuracy, improved layout consistency, enhanced CSS compatibility, and better preservation of graphical and interactive content during conversion. These ensure high-fidelity PDF output that closely matches the source document while maintaining visual quality, document structure, and content integrity across a wide range of HTML-based workflows.

Preserve digital signatures

Preserves the appearance of digital signature lines and signature images during Word-to-PDF conversion, ensuring accurate representation in the resulting PDF.

JavaScript Word Library

Charts in Word document

Supports creating, reading, and preserving chart elements in Word documents. Various chart types, including bar, line, pie, area, and other commonly used charts, will be maintained with their structure and formatting, enabling applications to generate and process data-driven documents while preserving visual fidelity and document consistency.

HTML format document

Import, export, and preserve HTML content in Word documents. HTML elements such as text formatting, lists, tables, hyperlinks, and images will be accurately represented, enabling seamless content exchange between web applications and Word document workflows while preserving document structure and formatting.

Break, form field, and picture hyperlink

Supports creating, reading, and preserving document break elements, form fields, and image hyperlinks. Content such as breaks, text form fields, check boxes, dropdowns, and picture hyperlinks will be maintained during document processing, ensuring that document functionality, navigation, and user interaction are preserved.

DOM element cloning

Enables cloning of document object model (DOM) elements within Word documents, allowing sections, tables, rows, paragraphs, styles, and other elements to be duplicated programmatically. This capability simplifies document generation by enabling efficient reuse of existing document structures and content templates.

Execute mail merge

The mail merge functionality enables the generation of personalized documents by merging template documents with data sources. Dynamically populate fields with business data to create customized letters, reports, invoices, labels, and other document types, improving productivity and automating document generation workflows.

Update fields in Word document

Updates document fields programmatically, ensuring that field results remain synchronized with their underlying content. Common Word fields, such as document properties, dates, references, formulas, and merge fields, can be refreshed automatically, helping maintain accurate and up-to-date document information.

Preserve revisions on Word documents

Preserves tracked changes across all supported document entities. Insertions, deletions, formatting changes, and other revision information will be retained during document loading, editing, and saving, enabling seamless collaboration workflows while maintaining a complete change-tracking history and review information.

Java Word Library

Word to PDF conversion

Enables high-fidelity Word-to-PDF conversion in Java, preserving document layout, formatting, images, tables, and other content for accurate, reliable PDF output.

.NET Excel Library

Macro support in XLSB

Enables creation, reading, modification, and preservation of VBA macros in Excel Binary Workbook (XLSB) files. It allows developers to automate Excel workflows while benefiting from the performance and reduced file size of the XLSB format.

Manual layout for data labels

Ensures that manually positioned chart data labels are accurately preserved during chart-to-image conversion. Preserves custom data label placement and ensures that generated images closely match the original Excel chart’s appearance.

Leader lines for data labels

When converting charts to images, leader lines connect data labels to their associated data points, improving readability and preserving fidelity between Excel charts and exported images.

Callout data labels

During chart-to-image conversion, callout labels provide enhanced data point annotation, helping create more informative and visually appealing chart images.

Pivot table slicer

Allows creating, managing, and interacting with Pivot Table slicers programmatically. Slicers provide intuitive visual filtering, enabling users to analyze large datasets through dynamic, interactive Pivot Table filtering.

Digital signature in Excel documents

Enables users to digitally sign Excel documents and validate existing signatures. Digital signatures help ensure document authenticity, data integrity, and compliance with security and regulatory requirements.

JavaScript Excel Library

Charts

This enhancement adds support for additional Excel chart types in the EJ2 Excel Library, including Map, Stock, Surface, Contour, Radar, Statistical, and Combination charts. It enables users to create, edit, and preserve a broader range of chart visualizations while improving compatibility with Microsoft Excel workbooks and advanced reporting scenarios.

Formula calculation

The built-in calculation capabilities in the EJ2 Excel Library help evaluate formulas, recalculate dependent cells, and perform spreadsheet computations directly within JavaScript applications without relying on Microsoft Excel.

Encryption and decryption

Enables encrypting Excel workbooks with passwords and decrypting protected files during processing. It helps secure sensitive spreadsheet data and supports protected workbook workflows within web applications.

Pivot table

Allows the creation, reading, editing, and preserving of Pivot Tables in Excel workbooks. It simplifies multidimensional data analysis and reporting directly from JavaScript applications.

Sparklines

Enables the creation and manipulation of Sparklines in Excel worksheets. Sparklines provide compact, in-cell visualizations of data trends, helping quickly identify patterns and performance indicators.

OLE object

Embed, extract, and preserve OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) objects within Excel workbooks. It supports scenarios in which documents, presentations, and other external objects need to be integrated into spreadsheets.

Picture-in-cell

Enables users to insert and manage images directly within worksheet cells while preserving Excel’s Picture-in-Cell behavior. It simplifies image-based reporting, inventory management, and data visualization.

CSV export

Allows the export of workbook and worksheet data to CSV format. It enables seamless data exchange with external systems, databases, and applications that support comma-separated values files.

.NET PowerPoint Library

Utilize embedded fonts during PowerPoint-to-PDF and image conversion

Improve rendering fidelity by automatically leveraging fonts embedded in PowerPoint presentations during PDF and image conversions. This enhancement ensures consistent visual output across different environments, even when the original fonts are not installed on the system.

Modern comments

Enable adding, editing, and managing modern comments within PowerPoint presentations. This preserves collaboration data and streamlines workflows involving review, feedback, and presentation collaboration.

JavaScript PowerPoint Library

Chart, SmartArt, and table creation

Introducing comprehensive APIs for creating, customizing, and managing charts, SmartArt graphics, and tables in PowerPoint presentations. The presentation generation library will also be enhanced to improve performance, scalability, maintainability, and extensibility, enabling more robust and efficient document-creation workflows.

Comments, document properties, animations, and transitions

Provides APIs for creating, editing, loading, and managing presentation comments, document properties, animations, and slide transitions. These capabilities will enable richer presentation authoring experiences and improve compatibility and fidelity with Microsoft PowerPoint documents.

Find, replace, clone, and presentation merge

Advanced content manipulation APIs enable developers to search and replace text, clone slides and presentation elements, and merge multiple presentations programmatically. These features will streamline document automation scenarios and significantly accelerate presentation generation and customization workflows.

.NET Data Extraction Library

PDF-to-Excel conversion

Enables users to convert PDF documents into Excel format, transforming PDF content into editable documents while preserving text, tables, and images. This makes content reuse, accessibility, and business process integration easier.

PDF-to-PowerPoint conversion

Enables users to convert PDF documents into PowerPoint format, transforming PDF content into editable documents while preserving layouts, tables, images, and formatting. This makes content reuse, accessibility, and business process integration easier.

Key-value pair

Enables automatic extraction of key-value pairs from PDF documents, converting form fields and business data into a structured format while maintaining the relationship between keys and their corresponding values. This improves data usability, search support, and integration with business systems.

Chart detection and recognition

Enables users to automatically detect and extract chart elements from PDF documents, including bar, line, and pie charts, as well as other graphical data visualizations. The extracted chart data can be converted into a structured format, improving data accessibility, search support, and integration with business systems.

Data accuracy improvement

Enhances the data extractor by delivering up to 99% extraction accuracy across complex, varied document layouts, resulting in more reliable, efficient document processing.