Road Map for Essential Studio® Document SDK
.NET Excel Library
Chart to image conversion
The following chart types will be supported in chart-to-image conversion. This enhancement will ensure these chart types are accurately represented in the resulting images, providing higher fidelity to the original Excel charts.
- Waterfall
- Treemap
- Sunburst
- Box and Whisker
.NET Word Library
Ink objects
This feature supports creating, editing, and converting Ink objects within DOCX documents. It allows freehand drawings, annotations, and stylus-based input to be accurately preserved during PDF and image conversions. Preserving the visual and interactive integrity of ink content will be particularly beneficial for educational, design, and collaborative documents that depend on handwritten or sketch-based elements.
CSS selectors and attributes in HTML to Word conversion
Enhance HTML to Word conversion by supporting the CSS style hierarchy, including element, class, descendant, group selectors, and inline style attributes. This ensures that complex HTML structures retain their original formatting and styling in Word documents, minimizing visual discrepancies and preserving design fidelity.
Enhance Word comparison accuracy
Enhance the accuracy of Word Library’s document comparison by integrating the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. Currently, the comparison logic does not utilize LCS, resulting in differences from Microsoft Word’s comparison output. By adopting the LCS algorithm, the comparison results will closely align with those of Microsoft Word, ensuring more accurate and reliable document diffing.
Word-to-PDF and image conversion enhancements
Advanced chart preservation
The following advanced chart types will be supported in DOCX to PDF and image conversions. This ensures that these chart types are accurately represented in the resulting PDF and images, providing higher fidelity to the original Word document charts.
- Waterfall
- Sunburst
- TreeMap
- Box and Whisker
Resize shape to fit text
AutoShapes such as ovals, triangles, and others will now dynamically resize to accommodate their content during conversion. This ensures that text is not clipped or overflown, preserving readability and layout integrity. For documents with auto-sized elements, this improves visual fidelity in both PDF and image outputs.
Vertical text direction
This feature supports vertical text flow in text boxes, shapes, and tables, enabling accurate layout reproduction for East Asian scripts and specialized formatting. It is particularly valuable for documents that rely on vertical orientation for cultural, academic, or design-specific reasons.
Line borders
This feature supports text borders and a wide range of line border styles across tables, paragraphs, and pages. This ensures that documents with custom or styled borders retain their intended structure and visual emphasis, enhancing the overall fidelity of the converted output.
.NET PDF Library
Linearized PDF creation
This feature lets users create linearized PDF documents optimized for fast web viewing.
Tesseract OCR 5.0 support
This update migrates the OCR engine to Tesseract 5.0, leveraging optimized recognition models and improved training efficiency for enhanced text extraction accuracy.
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