What's New in Essential Studio^® Document SDK

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JavaScript PDF Library (Preview)

Introducing a feature-rich, high-performance PDF library for JavaScript. This non-UI library enables seamless integration of robust PDF functionalities into any JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular, React, Vue, ASP.NET Core, and ASP.NET MVC applications, allowing users to read, create, and manipulate PDF documents without relying on Adobe Acrobat.

Key features:

• Create PDF files from scratch
• Load and manipulate existing PDFs
• Decrypt PDF files
• Add text, images, shapes, and more
• Work with interactive elements like bookmarks, annotations, and form fields
• Flatten annotations and form fields
• Import and export annotations and form fields
• Merge and split PDF files
• Add watermarks (text, images, and more)
• Use hyperlink and document navigation
• Add, modify, flatten, and remove layers
• Work with PDF templates
• Extract text and images
• Redact text and shapes
• Digitally sign PDF files

For more details, refer to the documentation.

.NET Excel Library

Chart to image conversion

The Syncfusion® Excel library supports the following chart types in chart-to-image conversion. This enhancement ensures that these charts are accurately preserved during Excel-to-PDF and Excel-to-image conversions, maintaining visual fidelity and data clarity.

• Waterfall
• Treemap
• Box and Whisker
• Sunburst
• Pie of Pie

.NET Word Library

CSS selectors in HTML to Word conversion

This feature supports the CSS style hierarchy, including element, ID, class, descendant, and group and compound selectors. This ensures complex HTML structures retain their original formatting and styling in Word documents, minimizing visual discrepancies and preserving design fidelity.

Enhanced Word comparison accuracy

Document comparison accuracy has now been improved by integrating the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. This enhancement aligns comparison results more closely with those of Microsoft Word, delivering a more accurate and reliable document diffing experience.

Advanced Chart Preservation

DOCX-to-PDF and image conversions now support additional advanced chart types, ensuring precise formatting and visual fidelity to the original Word document. Newly supported chart types include:

• Waterfall
• Sunburst
• TreeMap
• Box and Whisker
• Pie of Pie

Enhanced Fallback Font Support

This feature now includes 38 additional scripts, covering complex scripts, Latin scripts, and symbols. It ensures accurate rendering of characters and symbols during DOCX-to-PDF and image conversions when the specified font does not contain the required glyphs.

.NET PowerPoint Library

Advanced Chart Preservation

PPTX-to-PDF and image conversions now support additional advanced chart types, ensuring precise formatting and visual fidelity to the original Word document. Newly supported chart types include:

• Waterfall
• Sunburst
• TreeMap
• Box and Whisker
• Pie of Pie

Enhanced Fallback Font Support

This feature now includes 38 additional scripts, covering complex scripts, Latin scripts, and symbols. It ensures accurate rendering of characters and symbols during PPTX-to-PDF and image conversions when the specified font does not contain the required glyphs.

.NET PDF Library

PDF/X-1a:2001-compliant document creation

Support for creating PDF/X-1a:2001-compliant documents has been added for cross-platform applications. This enhancement ensures reliable output for print workflows and meets industry-standard publishing requirements for high-quality, consistent results.

OCR enhancements

The following enhancements have been added to the OCR engine to improve the accuracy and performance of text recognition.

Upgrade to Tesseract 5

The OCR processor supports the latest Tesseract 5 engine, offering superior recognition accuracy and faster processing. This upgrade ensures improved handling of complex layouts, multilingual content, and documents with challenging text structures.

Integrated image preprocessing

An advanced image preprocessor is built into the OCR workflow to prepare images for optimal recognition. This reduces errors and improves clarity before text extraction. The preprocessor includes:

• Grayscale conversion: Removes color data to simplify text detection.
• Deskew: Corrects tilted or rotated text for proper alignment.
• Denoise: Eliminates speckles and artifacts that interfere with recognition.
• Contrast adjustment: Enhances text visibility against backgrounds.
• Binarization: Converts images to sharp black-and-white using advanced thresholding for clearer text edges.

Java Word Library

Enhanced Word comparison accuracy

Document comparison accuracy has now been improved by integrating the Longest Common Subsequence (LCS) algorithm. This enhancement aligns comparison results more closely with those of Microsoft Word, delivering a more accurate and reliable document diffing experience.

Visual Studio Extension

Syncfusion Document SDK Extension

Syncfusion has introduced the Document SDK Extension, enabling developers to build Blazor applications using powerful document processing components for PDF, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint without relying on Microsoft Office or Adobe tools. With ready-to-use project templates and a Blazor Document SDK code generator, developers can quickly configure projects and insert Document SDK component code directly into Razor files, making it an ideal solution for getting new users to get start with predefined document processing components.