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PDFTron Blog

2020

SS&C Intralinks and PDFTron Partner to Innovate in Secure Web-Based Redaction

Redaction failures cost organizations dearly in terms of expensive litigation, punitive regulatory fines, and damaged reputations. And despite the stakes, these errors happen yearly, impacting even…

Sept 14 2020

Web App Accessibility: 5 Step Checklist

When a website or application has good accessibility (or a11y for short), it is built with everyone in mind. Users with varying ability levels can navigate your page with ease using their screen readers…

Sept 1 2020

Success Story: Encode Uses PDFTron to Create Competitive Advantage for its Marketing Productivity Platform

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Odense, Denmark, Encode is a worldwide marketing productivity software provider. Its innovative, adaptable platform solves various commercial and content challenges, to…

Aug 26 2020

New User Interface, Threaded WebAssembly, Text Compare, Custom PDF Stamps and More in WebViewer 7.0

We are excited to announce version 7.0 of WebViewer, our pure client-side JavaScript and WebAssembly-powered PDF SDK. This release introduces a new customizable user interface, helping you go-to-market…

Aug 24 2020

New Android PDF and Office Viewer User Interface (Beta) with Android 7.1.5

We are very excited to announce version 7.1.5 of PDFTron's Android PDF SDK. This release includes a brand new highly customizable user interface for the Android PDF and Office viewer, which will help you…

Aug 18 2020

How To Search Multiple Word & PDF Documents Using JavaScript

In most document management systems, searches only use the title or metadata of documents. But the title and metadata do not always reflect what's inside. As a result, users must open and scan documents…

Jul 27 2020

How to Add a PDF & MS Office Viewer to a Mac Catalyst App

In this article we describe how to use the PDFTron Mac Catalyst PDF SDK for adding a PDF and MS Office document viewer to your iOS and Mac app using Mac Catalyst, Apple's cross-platform technology…

Jul 22 2020

Lasso PDF Annotation Selection Tool and New Digital Signature UI with PDFTron 7.1.4 for Android

Today we are very excited to introduce version 7.1.4 of PDFTron's Android PDF SDK. This release includes a lasso PDF annotation selection tool, new signature UI, improved Hindi Free Text Appearance, and…

Jul 13 2020

How to Automate Face Redaction of PDFs With JavaScript

In this article (a six-minute read), you’ll learn how to automatically detect faces in a PDF document using the open-source face-api.js and permanently redact them using PDFTron WebViewer, a JavaScript PDF…

Jul 3 2020

PDFTron Acquires ActivePDF, a Leading Provider of PDF Technology to the Enterprise Market

Acquisition advances PDFTron’s position as a leading document technology platform powering digital transformation Vancouver, British Columbia, June 23, 2020 – PDFTron Systems Inc., a global leader and…

Jun 23 2020

React Native Document Collaboration with PDFTron 7.1.3 for iOS

Today we are excited to announce version 7.1.3 of the PDFTron iOS SDK. This release adds many new features to our React Native library to support real-time document collaboration and more extensive UI…

Jun 16 2020

New User Interface (Beta), Rich Text PDF Annotation, @ User Mentions, and More in WebViewer 6.3

We are excited to announce version 6.3 of WebViewer, our pure client-side JavaScript and WebAssembly-powered PDF SDK. This release introduces a new customizable user interface (beta), helping you go-to…

Jun 15 2020

Real-time Document Collaboration for React Native With PDFTron 7.1.3 for Android

Today we are very excited to introduce version 7.1.3 of PDFTron's Android PDF SDK which includes a number of new features for our React Native Library, such as plug & play real-time document collaboration…

Jun 10 2020

Success Story: How Uniscope used PDFTron to Power Collaboration on Aviation Manuals

In addition to the flight crews, the work of ensuring commercial aircraft take off and land safely falls to a support cast of professionals. These staff, including crews on the tarmac and those in the…

May 19 2020

PDF Callout Annotation Tool, Text Annotation Custom Fonts, Sepia Mode, and More in PDFTron SDK for iOS 7.1.2

We are pleased to announce version 7.1.2 of PDFTron's iOS SDK. In this release we've added a new callout annotation tool, support for custom fonts in text annotations and reflow mode, a new sepia viewing…

May 11 2020

Search and Redact PDFs With PDFTron 7.1.2 for Android

Today we are very excited to introduce version 7.1.2 of PDFTron's Android PDF SDK. This release adds new ways to redact PDF documents, new rectangular area PDF measurement tool, new rubber stamp presets…

May 6 2020

Powering Digital Transformation During COVID-19

At PDFTron, the safety of our employees and our ability to support our customers are our top focus. As a result, early on, we were actively monitoring the COVID-19 situation, and we implemented every…

May 1 2020

How to Generate PDFs or Convert DOCX to PDF with Node.js

Express or Express.js is described as a flexible framework for building web apps and APIs, as well as the de facto standard server framework for Node.js. Leveraging Express and Node.js enables devs to add…

Apr 24 2020

Success Story: Spielberg Delivers World-class ECM with PDFTron SDK

Spielberg Solutions GmbH has invested over fifty years into building and maintaining Enterprise Electronic Content Management systems. During that time, the German market leader has stayed at the forefront…

Apr 15 2020

Multiple saved signatures, freehand highlighter and more...

We are pleased to announce versions 7.1.0 and 7.1.1 of PDFTron's iOS SDK. In these releases we've added support for multiple saved signatures, a freehand highlighter tool, viewer-optimized PDFs, a new…

Apr 7 2020

Annotation Review Status for Collaboration With PDFTron 7.1.1 for Android

Today we are very excited to introduce version 7.1.1 of PDFTron's Android PDF SDK. This release includes annotation review status for real-time document collaboration, a new stroke eraser for ink…

Mar 31 2020

File Attachment Annotations, More PDF Measurement Tools, and Easier Polygon Creation with WebViewer 6.2

We are excited to announce version 6.2 of WebViewer, our pure client-side JavaScript and WebAssembly-powered PDF SDK. This release introduces a new file attachment annotation, allowing your users to embed…

Mar 31 2020

PDFTron Acquires BCL Technologies

Acquisition strengthens PDFTron’s market-leading position with enhanced document conversion capabilities. Vancouver, British Columbia, March 3, 2020 – PDFTron Systems, a leading provider of document…

Mar 3 2020

How to Edit & Manipulate PDFs With React

In this post, we’ll walk you through how to create a simple web app that will let users download a PDF and reorganize its pages. Here’s what it looks like: The toolkit we’re using includes a handful of…

Feb 27 2020

Fill & Sign PDF Forms Faster With PDFTron 7.1.0 for Android

Today we are very excited to introduce version 7.1.0 of PDFTron's Android PDF SDK. This release adds new fill & sign toolbar, support for PPT files and much more. This blog post will go through the major…

Feb 26 2020

WebViewer Server 1.5.0 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of WebViewer Server 1.5.0. This release includes some new features, bug fixes and general improvements. You can learn more about these changes in the full changelog…

Feb 26 2020

Signature improvements, rubber stamp and link tools With WebViewer 6.1

We are excited to announce version 6.1 of WebViewer, our pure client-side JavaScript and WebAssembly-powered PDF SDK. This release now allows your users to create a signature by typing their name or by…

Feb 24 2020

Higher-fidelity MS Office Support, With PDFTron SDK 7.1

We are pleased to announce the release of PDFTron SDK 7.1. In keeping with our commitment to quality, robustness, and performance this release features more than 100 new improvements and fixes to the core…

Feb 18 2020

Automating Document Redaction in a Web App using JavaScript

As a commercial PDF SDK vendor, we work with many customers who seek to replace outdated manual redaction methods by streamlining redaction within a PDF-based review & approval or virtual data room app…

Feb 12 2020

Introducing WebViewer React Toolkit

A year and a half ago, PDFTron open-sourced our WebViewer UI, a React app for building world-class PDF and document experiences inside web apps. And today we’ve taken the natural next step towards…

Feb 7 2020

Pressure Sensitive Ink Annotations and Image Support in Reflow With PDFTron 7.0.5 for Android

Today we are very excited to introduce version 7.0.5 of PDFTron's Android PDF SDK. This release includes pressure support for Ink annotations, reflow with images, support for Android 10, and much more…

Feb 3 2020

PDF Merging, Blank Page Templates, and More With PDFTron 7.0.5 for iOS

We are excited to announce version 7.0.5 of PDFTron's iOS SDK. This release adds PDF merging, annotation copy/paste, blank page templates for AEC, image cropping, and more. Adding PDF Pages PDFs can now be…

Jan 31 2020

Undo/Redo and other API improvements With WebViewer 6.0

With WebViewer 6 we've added built in support for undo/redo, annotation status and improved several APIs (among other things). If you're loading CoreControls.js directly it also no longer depends on jQuery…

Jan 28 2020

2019 at PDFTron: a Year in Review

2019 was an incredible and busy year at PDFTron. The PDFTron team worked tirelessly to help our customers bring innovative PDF, CAD, and MS Office capabilities to their software and to improve the…

Jan 24 2020

Results: PDFTron Holiday Donation Poll

This past holiday season, the PDFTron team decided to donate to charity as a way of paying it forward from our customers for a spectacular 2019 of company growth and accomplishments. So we brainstormed and…

Jan 16 2020

PDFTron Appoints Chris Hecht to Board of Directors

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, January 14, 2020 — PDFTron, a leading provider of document processing tools for software developers, announced today the appointment of Chris Hecht to its board of directors…

Jan 14 2020

PDFTron Selected as Canada’s Best Employers for Recent Graduates 2020

PDFTron is once again proud to announce that it has been selected among Canada’s best employers for recent graduates with its addition to the 2020 Career Directory™, a division of Canada’s Top 10…

Jan 8 2020

PDFTron among Top Five BC Financings for 2019

Last May, Silversmith Capital Partners led a CAD$95 million investment into PDFTron. And the growth equity deal continues to make waves here in our backyard of Vancouver, BC, having placed fifth on an…

Jan 3 2020

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