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Erzeugt mehrseitige PDF-Dokumente direkt beim Scannen; unterstützt handelsübliche TWAIN oder WIA kompatible Einzugs- oder Flachbettscanner; bietet Farbmarker, Bilddrehung und nachträgliches Umsortieren.

Changelog

Image processing update

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https://www.horland.de/scan2pdf.html

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NAPS2 is a document scanning application with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Scan your documents from WIA- and TWAIN-compatible scanners, organize the pages as you like, and save them as PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and other file formats. Requires .NET Framework 4.0 or higher.

License: Open Source

Changelog

    Windows: Added ESCL Driver option:

    This allows using most network scanners without needing to install a separate driver
    PDF saving is much faster in some cases
    Imported PDFs now render forms and annotations
    Added Hindi language
    Bug fixes
    NAPS2.Sdk is now available on Nuget

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http://sourceforge.net/projects/naps2/

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CubePDF Utility allows you to intuitively perform editing tasks such as merging, extracting, splitting, deleting, reordering, and rotating PDF pages via thumbnails. In addition to PDF files, image files such as PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, etc. can also be merged as PDF pages. Moreover, various PDF metadata and security settings can be configured for the edited PDF file.

License : Open Source

Whats new:>>

    Fix sub-windows to be resizable.
    Improve implementation for copying and moving files.
    Update iText to 8.0.1.
    Update PDFium to Chromium 116 compatible.

https://cube-soft.jp/en/cubepdfutility/

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PDF-XChange Editor is a feature-rich PDF viewer and editor with a tabbed interface. The program includes edition of text-based PDFs, OCR of image based/scanned PDF's to fully text-searchable PDFs, full document spellchecking, rotate/crop documents, add comments/annotations to any PDF file, QR codes, and more. You can apply custom stamps from any image/PDF file/Windows clipboard, mark-up pages with text and objects, and add/edit hyperlinks.

The program supports export to text or image (BMP/JPEG/TIFF/PNG etc.).

Note: The free PDF-XChange Editor lacks some features present in the registered version (payware). Some "Pro" features noted with with a shopping cart icon can be used, but add a watermark upon saving.

Changelog

    PDF-XChange Editor:

    NEW Added the ability to reverse sub-paths.
    NEW Updated the 'Replace Pages' page range options to use a new page range style.
    In the "Replace pages" dialog, a selection of pages has been added from the following options: current page, selected pages and manually specified pages.
    NEW Added an option to fix invalid 'ToUnicode' maps for embedded fonts.
    Fix fonts with incorrect unicodes. To use this feature, select a single text element in the Content panel and use "Repair ToUnicode CMap" from the context menu
    NEW Added an option to use 'bottom-up Y-axis' in the Transform tool.
    This option provide to reverse the coordinate system in the transform tool. While we know that the PDF Standard uses bottom up. It is not intuitive to users to have to reverse the ruler, an option for the Transform Tool to use "Bottom Up Y Axis" would make it much easier for users to use this tool.
    NEW Added an 'Audit Space Usage' command in the DocumentInfo location and the File menu.
    Also was created new "Audit Space Usage" command, which can be added in any ribbon panel by "Customise Toolbars"
    NEW Added a feature to merge selected layers. (T# 6326)
    NEW Added an option to paste copied PDF content as stamp. (T# 6485) (40351)
    NEW Added a “Filling Rule” property for path content items.
    A property of a “Path” object, the Filling Rule provides some control over how a fill is defines and displayed.
    NEW Added an option to apply redaction to the contents of form fields (40683)

    Bugfixes and Improvements:

    Fixed a potential crash when switching to a document opened from a disconnected external driver.
    Updated built-in support for CJK encodings (T# 6502).
    Fixed the Move Pages (and page range) caret "^" so that page numbering starts from '1' (T# 6555).
    Fixed an issue in the "Change Zoom" feature that was changing the X/Y value of some bookmarks to 'Inherit'. (T#6433) (40156)
    Fixed an issue that was present when saving document navigation points while keys, mouse buttons or 'touch' controls are in use (being held down). (T# 6345)
    Fixed possible issues when pasting images from the Windows 10 Snipping Tool.
    Improved how we handle broken files. (T# 6561).
    The 'Clear Signature' tool can now clear signatures created using a certificate from a file.
    Shell extensions - the property handler now has an 'attachment' property for PDF files. (171133, 171133)
    Changed the manner in which 'flip' options are used in the Transform tool. View screenshot
    Added "Open in Window" options for the "Go to a Page in Embedded Document" feature. (T# 5932) View screenshot
    Added the ability to manage page ranges in the "Build Table of Contents from Bookmarks" feature. (T# 4959) View screenshot
    Added a feature that disables 'Alt shortcuts' if Ctrl is pressed immediately after Alt. This provides an additional key order option for enabling Ctrl+Alt shortcut combinations. (T# 5991) (38470)
    Added the ability to create "presets" for paper sizes in the "Create New Document" and "Insert Empty Pages" dialogues. (T#6438)
    Added an option to "drag and drop" files into the Create Custom Stamp dialog box.
    Added a right click context menu for options in the 'Recent Files' list. (T# 6508) (40463)
    Added an option to use sequential numbers in macro functions in the 'Add Text to Bookmark Titles' feature. (T# 5776) (36804)
    Made improvements to the identification of form fields.

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Xelitan PDF Reader is a small and fast PDF viewer. It lets users export embedded images, extract pages to PDF, remove pages from PDF documents and convert to PNG images. .

Freeware

http://xelitan.com/app/xelitan-pdf-reader

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doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the "Print" command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files. doPDF is a free PDF converter, it is not a PDF viewer. To view PDF files you will need the free Adobe Reader.

doPDF installs itself as a virtual PDF printer driver so after a successful installation will appear in your Printers and Faxes list. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to doPDF, the free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Freemium

Whats new:>>

Fixed: Corrections for printing some PDF files

http://www.dopdf.com/

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Foxit PDF Reader is a reader for PDF (eBook) documents. You can view and print PDF documents with it.

Changelog

New Features and Improvements in Foxit PDF Editor 13.0.0.21632

    New capabilities with bookmarks

        Provide the ability to automatically create bookmarks from text content by specifying text styles or search strings and presetting the properties for the created bookmarks. (Pro only)

        Delete pages by deleting the associated bookmarks.

    Enhancements for Action Wizard (Pro only)

        Create a custom command from an existing command and add the custom command to an action to run your document-related workflow efficiently.

        Add an option to check whether a document conforms to PDF/UA and fix issues if any to make documents accessible.

    Customizable skin and the refreshed look of the title bar

        Support the customization of the skin color to suit your preferences.

        Thicken the title bar (sits at the top of the window) and adjust the positions of the items (such as the Search box and File Name) displayed on it, to provide a familiar and intuitive user interface similar to the style of Microsoft 365.

    Split one page into multiple pages.

    Modify calculator tapes that have been attached to the PDF page by importing the tape content into the tape editor to recalculate. (Pro only)

    Allow you to recognize part of the PDF page rather than the whole page/document with the enhanced OCR feature. (Pro only)

    Use Microsoft Edge WebView2 to better display embedded web pages in the application.

    Improve the Fill & Sign feature by allowing customizing the color of drawn/typed signatures and symbols (i.e., checkmarks/cross marks/dots).

Issues Addressed in Foxit PDF Editor 13.0.0.21632

    Fixed an issue where the application could respond slowly when splitting some certain documents by File Size.

    Fixed an issue where the uploading of the .admx and .adml files on Intune failed.

    Fixed an issue where the application crash could occur when opening a digitally signed document from File Explorer with a PDF already open in the application.

    Fixed an issue where opening a certain file encrypted by File Open would result in an error prompt.

    Fixed an issue where the properties of a form field could not be copied when copying the form field.

    Fixed an issue where the filled-in text was compressed and justified left when users filled in form fields in a certain PDF.

    Fixed some security and stability issues. Click here for details.

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Changelog

    New Features and Improvements in Foxit PDF Reader 2023.2.0.21408:

    Integration with ChatGPT to make end users more productive:

    Document Summaries - The OpenAI Summary service uses artificial intelligence to generate a concise and accurate summary of a given text input. It analyzes the content of the text and identifies the most important information to include in the summary, using natural language processing and machine learning algorithms.
    Document Re-write - The OpenAI rewrite service uses machine learning to automatically paraphrase or rewrite text while maintaining its original meaning. This service is designed to help users generate new content from existing text, such as for content marketing, SEO, or simply to improve the clarity and readability of writing. This service is free up to 100 pages per user per month.
    AI Chatbot– The OpenAI chatbot service uses natural language processing (NLP) to provide users with detailed responses to their questions in real-time. This service is free up to 50 prompts/questions per user per day.

    Customizable skin and the refreshed look of the title bar:

    Support the customization of the skin color to suit your preferences.
    Thicken the title bar (sits at the top of the window) and adjust the positions of the items (such as the Search box and File Name) displayed on it, to provide a familiar and intuitive user interface similar to the style of Microsoft 365.
    Improve the Fill & Sign feature by allowing customizing the color of drawn/typed signatures and symbols (i.e., checkmarks/cross marks/dots).

    Bookmark enhancements:

    Search for bookmarks in PDFs using keywords to quickly find and navigate to the specific section.
    Set the default zoom level for pages when creating bookmarks in PDFs.
    Set and modify the appearances and actions of bookmarks in batch.
    Provide the “Level Up” and “Level Down” options to move bookmarks one level up or down exactly, to avoid the clumsy manual dragging.

    Easier work with comments:

    Paste a comment at the same position on a different page as it is originally cut or copied from.
    Add more options in the Commenting preferences and optimize the display scheme for the floating toolbar and pop-up note, to help users work easier with comments.
    Rotate comments added by the Drawing tools at any angle.
    Measure the area of circular objects in PDF files.
    Use Microsoft Edge WebView2 to better display embedded web pages in the application.

    Issues Addressed in Foxit PDF Reader 2023.2.0.21408:

    Fixed an issue where the uploading of the .admx and .adml files on Intune failed.
    Fixed an issue where the application crash could occur when opening a digitally signed document from File Explorer with a PDF already open in the application.
    Fixed an issue where opening a certain file encrypted by File Open would result in an error prompt.
    Fixed an issue where the filled-in text was compressed and justified left when users filled in form fields in a certain PDF.
    Fixed some security and stability issues. Click here for details.

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Release Notes

 Highlights in this release include:

    The old, PostScript based PDF interpreter has been removed, it is no longer available.

    We've continued to improve the performance of the PDF interpreter written in C and improve it's behaviour in edge and out-of-specification cases.

    Our efforts in code hygiene and maintainability continue, with a particular focus on fuzz testing.

    The usual round of bug fixes, compatibility changes, and incremental improvements.

    (9.53.0) We have added the capability to build with the Tesseract OCR engine. In such a build, new devices are available (pdfocr8/pdfocr24/pdfocr32) which render the output file to an image, OCR that image, and output the image "wrapped" up as a PDF file, with the OCR generated text information included as "invisible" text (in PDF terms, text rendering mode 3).

    Mainly due to time constraints, we only support including Tesseract from source included in our release packages, and not linking to Tesseract/Leptonica shared libraries. Whether we add this capability will be largely dependent on community demand for the feature.

    See Enabling OCR for more details.

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http://ghostscript.com/

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Kleines Scan-Tool, das die über das Programm eingescannten Dokumente direkt in PDF-Dateien umwandelt

Freeware

What's new: >>

• Verbesserungen in der WinScan2PDF- und Twain-Unterstützung!
• Kleine Feinabstimmung und allgemeine Optimierung.
• Aktualisierung der Sprachdateien in WinScan2PDF.

http://www.softwareok.de/?seite=Microsoft/WinScan2PDF

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PDF Shaper is a free PDF converter and extractor with easy-to-use user interface and many useful features such as multipage and batch PDF conversion, tab formatting, extraction of specified elements.

Features:

Convert PDF documents to MS Word format
Extract specified PDF elements (text, tables, images)
Format output documents
Batch conversion of PDF documents
Converts tables and tabbed columns
Detects numbered and bulleted lists
Recognizes several types of font encoding

Freemium

Changelog

Enhancements

• Improved PDF scanning tool.
• Improved DOC to PDF conversion:
- Improved support for font files.
- Improved support for picture cropping.
- Improved support for list formatting.
- Improved support for text line spacing.
• Improved XMP information extraction.

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Changelog

    NEW:

    Added Group Policy features to allow/prevent opening specific URLs inside PDF files.
    Added Group Policy options to control which actions are available for serial key lists.
    Implemented a richMediaAnnot.callAS method. (40494)

    Bugfixes and Improvements:

    Changed how we handle showing "Places". Previously adding a "Place" via registry keys resulted in repeated instances of that "Place" appearing in the UI after an application restart. We now handle such "Places" correctly, and show them only once. (37327)
    Fixed an issue with highlighting search results inside the Search Pane. (40723)
    Fixed an issue with a 'ghost' text box that may appear inside the Comments Pane when users click repeatedly on the page using the TextBox/Typewriter tools. (40728)
    Fixed a rare issue with UI automation that could cause a desynchronization between the application's UI and an external screen reader app.
    Fixed an issue with saving settings when the 'New Document' option is used from the right-click context menu in Windows Explorer. (40744)
    Fixed several issues and a potential crash related to using 'Drag and Drop' on document tabs when moving them between different main windows.
    Made a minor fix to enable image options in the context menu of the 'Edit Objects' tool in cases where the tool is activated immediately after the image is selected using the 'Select Text' tool.
    Handled a special case observed when a user changed the layout of the monitors in a way that resulted in the main window opening outside of the existing monitors. (There had been a monitor at that location, but it was taken away, or repositioned in the monitor layout). Now the position of the main window has been corrected to guarantee visibility in all cases.
    Improved navigation via the 'Tab' key in the Preferences, DocumentProps, and DocumentMetadata dialog boxes, and fixed a minor bug with handling the 'Tab' key inside the ribbon UI's 'File' menu.
    Fixed an issue when applying OCR to scanned documents when the pages contain special monochrome and lightweight mask-images.
    Fixed an issue with copying text from content when it has 't'(0x0A) symbols. Now PDF-XChange Editor replaces them all with whitespaces. (T# 6602).
    Fixed an issue with login requests being prompted every time a file is opened from Dropbox.
    Fixed an issue that prevented adding multiple Dropbox accounts.
    Increased the maximum page size limit from 200 to 300 inches. (38830)
    Increased the contrast between the highlight color and grayed text inside the Quick Launch dropdown list. (40727)

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SepPDF is a tiny PDF file splitter with drag-and-drop support.

License: Freeware

Whats new:>>

Fixed some bugs.

http://www.ne.jp/asahi/foresth/home/indexe.htm

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What's new: >>

• Optionale Deinstallation über das Optionen-Menü
• Verbesserungen bei der Erkennung von diversen Scannern
• Kleine Korrekturen in Scan zu PDF für Windows
• Aktualisierung der Sprachdateien in Win-Scan-to-PDF

http://www.softwareok.de/?seite=Microsoft/WinScan2PDF

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Der PDF24 Creator ist ein Programm zum Erstellen von PDF Dateien aus (fast) jeder Anwendung heraus.

Mit dem PDF Creator verwandeln Sie ganz einfach gängige Dokumentformate in PDF Dateien. Der PDF Creator agiert als PDF Drucker, um PDF Dokumente aus jedem beliebigen Dokument zu erstellen. Diese PDF Software ist vollkommen kostenfrei.

Changelog

Toolbox: Fixed problem starting Output Profile Manager

Fixed an issue launching the Output Profile Manager from the Toolbox. After closing the profile manager, the toolbox could crash.

Toolbox: Many improvements to RTL layouts

RTL stands for Right-To-Left. These layouts are used for Arabic and Hebrew languages. Several bugs have been fixed and many things have been improved to improve the user experience when using Arabic and Hebrew.

Toolbox: New drag and drop implementation

The drag-and-drop implementation is used to sort files and pages in some tools. The older implementation had problems with RTL layouts, so it had to be replaced. With the new version these problems have been fixed.

Toolbox: Mouse Over Info on added pages in the PDF merge tool

In page mode in the PDF merge tool, the user can add individual pages to a new PDF. These pages have now been given a mouse over overlay so that the user can now see better which page it is.

Toolbox: Page preview for added pages in the PDF merge tool

The PDF page preview icon now also works for added pages in the PDF Merge tool. Previously, the magnification icon was visible, but the magnification did not open. This issue has been resolved.

Toolbox: Improved tooltips of some UIs

Tooltips could overlap dropdown UI elements, which should not be covered. This has been improved.

Creator: New background for the page preview elements

Since the preview elements are square, the new hatched background makes it easier to see whether a page has horizontal or vertical orientation.

Creator: Show and hide file explorer via new icon

There is a new icon in the open files toolbar. With this icon you can quickly turn the file explorer on and off. Without File Explorer, more pages are visible, making it easier to assemble files.

Creator: Another size for the page preview

There is now another size for the page preview. The new level scales the suggestion elements to half the window height. This means that exactly two documents are visible one below the other in the window. On larger monitors it is easier to see the content of the pages without opening the larger preview by double-clicking.

OCR: Language selection field improved

The language selection field was sometimes displayed incorrectly and has therefore been improved. The display of the language selection should now be problem-free.

Reader: Info icon was not visible

The info icon in the notification area was not visible. The name for this icon was incorrect and could not be loaded.

Reader: Text selection has been improved

The new text selection has become much better. Several problems have been solved with the new implementation. Text in columns can now be selected without selecting text in an adjacent column. Cross-page text selection has also been improved. Overall, text selection also runs a bit smoother.

Reader: PDFium updated to the latest version

Many improvements and fixes have been added to the PDFium project, which now benefit PDF24 Reader as well.

Reader: Use the spacebar to scroll down the view

Pressing the spacebar will now scroll the current view down to reveal the next invisible part.

Common: Ghostscript implementation of watermarks and page numbers available again

Ghostscript implementation of watermarks and page numbers has been added back as an option as this is required for the 9.x versions. At the same time, a problem was also fixed so that adding watermarks and page numbers now works again in the 9.4.0 version.

Common: All language files updated and new ones added

All language files have been updated so that all missing elements are now translated. 13 new language files have also been added. There are now 51 language files available.

Common: Ghostscript updated to version 10.02.0
Common: QPDF updated to version 11.6.1
Common: JRE updated to version 17.0.8.1
Common: Webview2 update to version 117.0.2045.31

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