What's New in Essential Studio^® PDF Viewer SDK

Web PDF Viewer (Javascript, Angular, React, Vue, ASP.NET Core & MVC)

Redaction

This feature allows users to mark text, regions, or entire pages for redaction, customize the overlay appearance, and permanently apply all redactions in a single step.

Key Features

• Add redaction annotations: Mark text or regions for redaction before applying changes.
• Delete redaction annotations: Remove unnecessary or incorrect redaction marks easily.
• Redact entire pages: Quickly redact full pages containing confidential content.
• Apply redaction: Permanently remove marked content from the document in one click.
• Comment: Add comments to redaction annotations for better collaboration and review.
• Redaction property panel: Customize overlay text, font style, color, and appearance for redacted areas.

Extract PDF Pages

Extract pages from a PDF, and merge them into a new file or save each page as an individual PDF, with the option to delete the pages after extraction.

Blazor PDF Viewer

Organize PDF pages

This feature allows users to organize pages by rotating, reordering, inserting, deleting, copying, and importing them. Adjust thumbnail zoom, view real-time updates, and save as a new PDF or reload changes in the PDF Viewer.

Key Features

• Add/Delete: Insert new pages at any position or remove selected pages effortlessly.
• Rearrange: Drag and drop pages to reorder them, with multi-select support for batch operations.
• Rotate: Correct page orientation by rotating selected pages clockwise or counterclockwise.
• Copy: Duplicate selected thumbnails; copies are placed adjacent to the originals.
• Import: Insert pages from another PDF. If a thumbnail is selected, pages are added next to it; otherwise, they appear at the beginning of the document.
• Select all: Apply bulk operations to all pages for quick adjustments.
• Undo/Redo: Revert or reapply actions within the Organize Pages dialog.
• Save/Save as: Commit changes to the current document or download a modified copy for future use.

.NET MAUI PDF Viewer

Redaction

This feature allows you to mark text, regions, or entire pages for redaction, customize the overlay appearance, and permanently apply all redactions in a single step. It is used to sanitize sensitive information (such as names, addresses, and other contact details) in professional PDF reports before sharing them with others.

Annotated comment list

This feature allows you to add, edit, reply to, and delete threaded annotated comments with quick navigation. It is used for collaboration, review with discussion history, and personal note-taking.

Visual Studio Extension

Syncfusion PDF Viewer SDK Extension

The PDF Viewer SDK Extension for Visual Studio enables developers to build applications across Blazor, .NET MAUI, WPF, and Windows Forms using Syncfusion PDF Viewer SDK components. It includes a Blazor code generator, which inserts component code directly into Razor files; WPF and WinForms item templates that allow easy integration of PDF Viewer components into existing projects; a reference manager that simplifies adding PDF Viewer SDK assemblies to projects; and a .NET MAUI toolbox for dragging and dropping components into XAML files that automatically adds required namespaces and NuGet packages.