Release Notes

This document describes the change history across releases for supported versions. For details regarding versioning and support policies, see Version - Support policy.

Supported versions

This document as well as the URLs on Adobe's website and other documentation link to the latest product version.

Note: Links to repository assets (e.g. GIT, Maven, etc.) direct to the top level directory. To download assets that match the documentation, navigate to the correct version. For example, When using the 1.0.0 Java documentation, you can find the 1.0.0 samples in the GIT repo as follows:

Go to the GIT repo.
Select Releases.
Select and download the needed release.

Previous Release tags with release notes and links to the assets

Migration Guide to PDF Services SDK

Refer to the following table for migrating to PDF Services SDK version 3.4.0, you can also refer our Samples( Java, Node JS, .NET). for the latest release.

The 1.X.X versions of PDF Tools SDK will be reaching End of Life in May 2022. Once a version reaches its end of life, functionality may be deprecated and stop working. Please upgrade to use our latest SDK version.

Java changes

artifactId changed from pdftools-sdk to pdfservices-sdk
Replace the <properties> tag and SDK <dependency> tag in your project’s pom.xml file with the following:

<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    <pdfservices.sdk.version>3.5.1</pdfservices.sdk.version>
    <pdfservices.sdk.samples.version>3.5.1</pdfservices.sdk.samples.version>
</properties>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.adobe.documentservices</groupId>
    <artifactId>pdfservices-sdk</artifactId>
    <version>${pdfservices.sdk.version}</version>
</dependency>
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<properties>
    <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    <maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
    <maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
    <pdfservices.sdk.version>3.5.1</pdfservices.sdk.version>
    <pdfservices.sdk.samples.version>3.5.1</pdfservices.sdk.samples.version>
</properties>

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.adobe.documentservices</groupId>
    <artifactId>pdfservices-sdk</artifactId>
    <version>${pdfservices.sdk.version}</version>
</dependency>

Update import statements as per new Package structure. For e.g.

import com.adobe.pdfservices.operation.ExecutionContext; 
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import com.adobe.pdfservices.operation.ExecutionContext;

Node JS changes

NPM package name changed from @adobe/documentservices-pdftools-node-sdk to @adobe/pdfservices-node-sdk
Update the latest SDK dependency in package.json file of your project

"@adobe/pdfservices-node-sdk": "3.4.2"
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"@adobe/pdfservices-node-sdk": "3.4.2"

Require the @adobe/pdfservices-node-sdk in the Sample file to access the SDK interface

const PDFServicesSdk = require('@adobe/pdfservices-node-sdk'); 
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const PDFServicesSdk = require('@adobe/pdfservices-node-sdk');

For HTML to PDF Conversions, the PageLayout object is moved inside html object. To access the PageLayout interface use the following code:

const pageLayout = new PDFServicesSdk.CreatePDF.options.html.PageLayout(); 
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const pageLayout = new PDFServicesSdk.CreatePDF.options.html.PageLayout();

.NET changes

Nuget package name changed from Adobe.DocumentServices.PDFTools to Adobe.PDFServicesSDK
Update the SDK dependency in your project’s .csproj file with the following:

<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="log4net" Version="2.0.12" />
    <PackageReference Include="Adobe.PDFServicesSDK" Version="3.4.0" />
</ItemGroup> 
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<ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="log4net" Version="2.0.12" />
    <PackageReference Include="Adobe.PDFServicesSDK" Version="3.4.0" />
</ItemGroup>

Update the namespaces accordingly in your .cs file as per the new dependency:

using Adobe.PDFServicesSDK;
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using Adobe.PDFServicesSDK;

Archived Documentation

The last major version of our documentation may be found here.

Change types

Change types include the following:

New: Features or implementation changes added in the current release.
Changed: Modified code that changes a feature or implementation detail.x
Security: A patch or bug fixed released in an out-of-band patch.
Deprecated: Existing functionality for which support is ending (or ended).

Minor and Patch releases are backward compatible with the previous release. Upgrading to the latest SDK should not break existing applications.

Change history

3.5.1 (December, 2023: patch release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	Java	Dependent library upgrades and fixed compatibility issues with Spring Boot v3.x.

3.5.0 (October, 2023: minor release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	Java	Added support for document level permissions and trusted timestamping (using supported TSAs) in java sdk for PDF Electronic Seal API.

Adobe Document Generation Server Side Release (October, 2023; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Performance Improvements - Available in REST API and SDK(s) v3.0.0 and above.

Server Side Release (August, 2023; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
New	API	Added support for document level permissions and trusted timestamping (using supported TSAs) in PDF Electronic Seal API.
New	API	Added support for External Storage in all the operations except Extract PDF, Split PDF, PDF Electronic Seal and Auto-Tag PDF.

3.4.2 (August, 2023, minor release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	NodeJS	Restructured the internals for improved organization.

3.4.1 (July, 2023, minor release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	NodeJS	Fixed links in README.md file.

3.4.0 (June, 2023; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	Java,NodeJS,.NET	PDF Electronic Seal operation is now available for all the users in PDF Services SDKs and REST APIs.
New	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Added support for OAuth based Server to Server credentials in PDF Services SDKs.
Changed	Java,NodeJS,.NET	JWT based service account credentials and corresponding SDK interfaces are now deprecated.

Python SDK 2.3.0 (June, 2023; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	Python	Added support for OAuth based Server to Server credentials in PDF Services SDKs.
Changed	Python	JWT based service account credentials and corresponding SDK interfaces are now deprecated.

Adobe Document Generation Server Side Release (June, 2023; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
New	API	Added support for External Storage in Document Generation API.

3.3.0 (May, 2023; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	Java,NodeJS,.NET	PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag operation is now available for all the users in PDF Services SDKs and REST APIs.
New	Java	Added the support of Basic Authentication for the Proxy Server configuration. Proxy server settings will now be specified via "proxyServerConfig" in the client config.
Changed	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Upgraded third party libraries to fix recently discovered vulnerabilities.

Python SDK 2.2.0 (May, 2023; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	Python	PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag operation is now available for all the users in PDF Services SDKs and REST APIs.

Extract PDF Server Side Release (06 March, 2023; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Adding support for larger PDF document processing. The new supported limits are 400 pages for non-scanned and 150 for scanned PDF documents.

2.3.0 (February, 2023, minor release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	NodeJS	Fixed the response failures with `400` HTTP statusCode and `UNKNOWN` errorCode for NodeJS SDK(s) v2.2.3 and below.

Adobe Document Generation Server Side Release (January, 2023, server side release)

Change	Language	Description
New	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Adding support for inline images feature.
New	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Adding support for additional constructs in fragments.
Changed	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Adding support for prefix in text tags.

Python SDK 2.1.2 (January, 2023, minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	Python	Added configuration for SDKs to process the documents in the specified region.
Changed	Python	Upgraded libraries to fix recently discovered vulnerability.

3.4.0 (January, 2023; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Added configuration for SDKs to process the documents in the specified region.
Changed	NodeJS	Upgraded libraries to fix recently discovered vulnerability..

Python SDK 2.0.0 (December, 2022, major release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	Python	Released SDK v2.0.0 for Python, based out of the new PDF Services APIs.

3.0.0 (September, 2022; major release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Released SDK v3.0.0, based out of the new PDF Services APIs.
Changed	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Added the support of OCR locale for Export PDF operation.
Changed	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Updated PDF Properties operation to return PDFProperties object. Discontinued the support of returning FileRef and JSON Object.
Changed	Java,NodeJS,.NET	Image formats(JPEG and PNG) for Export PDF have been moved from Export PDF operation to ExportPDFToImages operation.
New	Java	PDF Electronic Seal operation is now available in Beta PDF Services SDKs.

2.2.3 (July, 2022; patch release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	NodeJS	Fixed the issue of sending UNKNOWN error code for extract operation.

PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag Release - Available under Early Access Program (21 June, 2022)

Change	Language	Description
New	Java, Python	PDF Accessibility Auto-Tag operation is now available in Beta PDF Services SDKs

Extract PDF Server Side Release (21 June, 2022; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Enhanced error messages by adding more sub error codes
Changed	All	Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Extract PDF Server Side Release (16 May, 2022; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Bug fixes and stability improvements.

2.2.2 (May, 2022; patch release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	Java, NodeJS	Dependent library upgrades to address vulnerabilities reported in NPM and Maven.

Create PDF Server Side Release (6 April, 2022; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Enhanced support for leveraging embedded TrueType fonts.

Extract PDF Server Side Release (05 April, 2022; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Improved handling of bad PDFs with 50% reduction in frequency of bad PDF errors and improved successful conversion rate.
Changed	All	Bug fixes and stability improvements.

2.2.1 (March, 2022; patch release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	.NET	Dependent library upgrades and SDK internal additional validation checks.

Extract PDF Server Side Release (22 February, 2022; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Adding support for identification of scanned pages with "is_scanned" field in Extract output.
Changed	All	Bug fixes and stability improvements.

2.2.1 (February, 2022; patch release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	Java	Dependent library upgrades.

2.2.1 (January, 2022; patch release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	Node JS	Enhanced Document Generation interface to support Json Object and Json array as Fragments data.

2.2.0 (January, 2022; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Adding support for fragments feature.
Changed	Java	Java SDK is enabled to connect to Internet through Proxy where proxy server settings can be set via client config.
Changed	All	PDF Extract API bug fixes and stability release.

Adobe Document Generation Server Side Release (10 January, 2022; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Adding support for fragments feature.
Changed	All	Adding support to add images (only base64 encoded image data was supported initially) through publicly accessible URLs.
Changed	All	Adding support for primitive type list

Adobe Document Generation Server Side Release (14 December, 2021; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Adding support for additional tags (<strong> and <em>) in styling and formatting feature.
New	All	Support for dynamic table constructs.

Extract PDF Server Side Release (15 November, 2021; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	The option to include styling information is generally available.
Changed	All	Identification of scanned content is now performed at the page level rather than per document.
Changed	All	Bug fixes and stability improvements.

Adobe Document Generation Server Side Release (20 October, 2021; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	HTML styling and formatting support in json data.
New	All	Support for horizontal tables.
New	All	Support for SVG images.

Extract PDF Server Side Release (29 September, 2021; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	Support for more descriptive error messages and PDF Extract API bug fixes.

2.1.0 (September, 2021; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	.NET	Extract operation is now available in .NET SDK as part of Adobe.PDFServicesSDK.
New	Java, Node JS, .NET	Support for fetching the properties of a PDF file - metadata including page count, PDF version, file size, compliance levels, font info, permissions and more.
New	Java, Node JS, .NET	Support for returning the list of images besides returning ZIP of all image files.
New	Java, Node JS, .NET	Support for converting the content hosted on a URL to PDF files.
New	Java, Node JS, .NET	Support for converting an HTML file containing inline CSS to PDF files.

Extract PDF Server Side Release (26 Aug, 2021; server side release)

Change	Language	Description
Changed	All	PDF Extract API bug fixes and stability release

2.0.0 (May, 2021; major release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Extract operation released as part of pdfservices-sdk
Changed	Java	artifactId changed from pdftools-sdk to pdfservices-sdk
Changed	Node JS	NPM package name changed from @adobe/documentservices-pdftools-node-sdk to @adobe/pdfservices-node-sdk
Changed	Node JS	For HTML to PDF Conversions, the PageLayout object interface is moved inside html object.
Changed	.NET	Nuget package name changed from Adobe.DocumentServices.PDFTools to Adobe.PDFServicesSDK
New	Python	Python SDK “pdfservices-sdk” v1.0 is released for ML Services which consists of ExtractPDFOperation currently.

1.3.0 (March, 2021; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Added a feature to the create PDF operation to specify the document language of input file.
New	All	Added Document Merge Operation that merges a Word based document template with the input JSON data to generate the output document in either Word or PDF format.
New	All	Added support to get the developer error codes in exceptions.
New	All	Added a feature to the compress PDF operation to reduce the file size based on compression level.

1.2.0 (September, 2020; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Added more features to the password-protect operation to secure a PDF with an owner password and to enable users to restrict features like printing, editing and copying.
New	All	Added an operation for removing password protection from a PDF.
New	All	Added a split PDF operation that splits a PDF document into multiple smaller documents by simply specifying either the number of files, pages per file, or page ranges.

1.1.0 (June, 2020; minor release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Added a password-protect operation to securely open a PDF.
New	All	Added an operation for inserting a PDF file into an existing PDF.
New	All	Added a replace file operation which replaces a PDF with another.
New	All	Added an operation for deleting pages from a PDF.
New	All	Added a rotate page(s) operation for rotating one or more pages in a PDF.
New	All	Added reorder page(s) operation to support rearranging page(s) in a PDF.
New	All	Added a compress PDF operation to reduce a PDF file size.
New	All	Added a linearize operation to convert a PDF file into a web optimized PDF file for incremental access in network environments.
Changed	All	Changed the combine file limit from 12 to 20.

1.0.0 (March, 2020; First major release)

Change	Language	Description
New	All	Added create PDF operation to create PDF from Office formats, image formats and HTML (doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, txt, rtf, bmp, gif, tiff, jpeg, png).
New	All	Added export PDF operation to export PDF to Office formats and image formats (doc, docx, pptx, rtf, xlsx, jpeg, png).
New	All	Added combine PDF files operation.
New	All	Added an OCR operation to convert PDF files into a searchable PDF.

PDF Electronic Seal API

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