Foxit develops PDF and eSignature products and services. Ever since they signed on a PR person who knows me, I’ve been fed a steady stream of updates. I’m using Foxit as my main PDF reader/editor. So far, I’m happy using it. I like the interface and speed.
The upgraded Software Development Kits (SDKs) are said to save developer time, reduce frustration, and enable creation of more efficient, compliant, and tailored PDF solutions. These new products are Foxit PDF SDK for Desktop 10.1.0 and Foxit PDF Conversion SDK 2.1.0.
Foxit PDF SDK 10.1.0 features and functionality:
- Compliance & Standards – New preflight functionality ensures document compliance with PDF/E and PDF/X standards
- DWG2PDF – Improved conversion progress tracking, output log control, and color conversion policies
- Libre Office2PDF – Multi-threaded conversion capabilities for Linux, driven by a binary engine
- Enhanced OCR Capabilities – Upgraded OCR features include skew correction, image denoising, and multi-core processing, enabling faster and more accurate image-based text recognition
- Performance Boosts – Optimization and form file import speeds have been dramatically improved, reducing processing times from minutes or hours to seconds
- New APIs and Features – Developers can now access regular expression search, advanced image processing, text processing, and more
- Foxit PDF2Office – Flexible library initialization, driven by a binary engine
- PDF3D – Support for retrieving and presetting 3D views, along with default view resets
- Annotations – Separate transparency settings for border and fill colors, JavaScript-based sub-actions in link annotations, and retrieval of annotations by unique IDs
- TextSearch – Enhanced with regular expression support
- Rendering – Improved support for rendering PDF pages to 1bpp bitmap and Linux PDF print devices
Foxit PDF Conversion SDK 2.1.0 New Features and Functionality:
- Foxit Office2PDF – Official integration of Foxit Office2PDF as an add-on, with new features like outline conversion in Word2PDF and workbook conversion options in Excel2PDF.
- Enhanced Conversion Flexibility – More conversion options, including the ability to remove trailing spaces, insert page breaks, and output images during conversion. It also introduces support for restricted PDF file conversion.
- New Class and API – ConvertCheckCallback, allowing for more flexible conversion checks.
- Updated APIs – New APIs for handling PDF-to-Office conversions, such as PDF2Office, PDF2Word, PDF2Excel, and PDF2PowerPoint, now offering more control over conversion processes and better handling of complex layouts and formatting.
“These new enhancements are a direct result of staying closely connected with developers to truly understand what they need to become even more powerful in their work,” said Jeff Brand, SDK Team Lead, Foxit. “We’re proud to collaborate with developers at many of the leading business and government organizations around the world, whose insights had a direct impact on driving these updates. These capabilities, unmatched by any other solutions on the market, demonstrate Foxit’s commitment to remaining agile and consistently innovating to deliver tools that not only meet but exceed user expectations.”
