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Semantic content recognition is the ability to identify components of a document by their “class” – that is if any particular content constitutes a title, subtitle, section, paragraph, word, figure…
Jan 7 2016
pdf.js is a well known project for rendering PDF documents directly in the browser. In that sense, it is similar to our recently announced PDFNetJS . While pdf.js is interesting project, and may be a…
Nov 24 2015
View and Convert Microsoft Word Documents Anywhere We’re very pleased to announce the launch of the newest addition to PDFNet SDK: built-in Word conversion. Now you can go straight from .docx to .pdf…
Sept 8 2015
PDFTron was pleased to present at the PDF Association ‘s recently held PDFDay conference in Washington, DC and New York City. James Borthwick, a member of our development team, presented a talk on…
Mar 16 2015
In a previous post we announced the availability of PDFNet in Nuge t, and also discussed how we made PDFNet work with the AnyCPU configuration. Feedback for the AnyCPU setup has been great, but our…
Dec 1 2014
PDFNet is easy to use with a Swift project. This post will show how to set up a new Swift project and display a PDF. This post will show you the basics of starting a new Swift project that uses PDFNet. For…
Sept 22 2014
We have received lots of interest in our new PDF to HTML/EPUB conversion since it was released in PDFNet 6.0 . With this interest we have also gotten questions on customizing the output. So today I’ll…
May 25 2014
Intro Why is PDF so popular and what is its Achilles’ foot? How difficult is it to extract a table from PDF? What is the best tool to extract structure from PDF? PDF Liberation Hackathon PDFGenie…
Mar 2 2014
PDFTron open sources PDFNet language bindings for PHP, Python, and Ruby. We are happy to announce that the source code for the PHP, Python, and Ruby bindings for PDFNet are now open source . This is in…
Feb 28 2014
The rise of mobile platforms, each with its own native programming language and API, has created new demand for cross-platform development tools and SDKs. To display a PDF, most cross-platform toolkits…
Feb 3 2014
Starting with PDFNet SDK 6.2.0-BETA for Windows Store apps, it is now possible to get more useful error messages when PDFNet throws exceptions. Due to limitations of the COM API boundary, only System…
Want to create high quality, fixed layout EPUBs from a PDF? Or simply want to show a PDF file in the browser, taking full advantage of the power of HTML and the browser? Or maybe you just want a simple way…
Nov 15 2013
RichMedia annotations can be used to embed videos and sound files in PDF documents. When opened in a compliant reader, the user can play them back directly as part of the page content, usually by just…
Sept 11 2013
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to view a remote PDF the same way as one can view an online video? By this we mean you can see the beginning of the content almost immediately, and if you move to the middle…
Aug 24 2013
HTML5 apps offer many of advantages over native ones. Web apps are Naturally cross-platform: develop once, run on iOS, Android, Windows Phone and everything else. Easy to update the app for everyone…
Aug 8 2013
A common question we receive from our customers is how do I create thumbnails of a PDF document? The best class to use for this is PDFDraw, which rasterizes* PDF pages one at a time, and provides methods…
Jul 20 2013
Introduction PDFNet makes sharing annotations easy by offering an simple way to import and export annotations. The annotations are saved in a standardized XML format, XFDF . This makes the annotations…
Jul 19 2013
