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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:

  1. Go to the GIT repo.
  2. Select Releases.
  3. 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.

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:
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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.
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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
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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
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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:

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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:
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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:
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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).

Change history

3.5.1 (December, 2023: patch release)

ChangeLanguageDescription
Changed
Java
Dependent library upgrades and fixed compatibility issues with Spring Boot v3.x.

3.5.0 (October, 2023: minor release)

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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)

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

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

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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)

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Changed
NodeJS
Restructured the internals for improved organization.

3.4.1 (July, 2023, minor release)

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Changed
NodeJS
Fixed links in README.md file.

3.4.0 (June, 2023; minor release)

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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)

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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)

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New
API
Added support for External Storage in Document Generation API.

3.3.0 (May, 2023; minor release)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

ChangeLanguageDescription
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)

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

3.0.0 (September, 2022; major release)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Changed
All
Bug fixes and stability improvements.

2.2.2 (May, 2022; patch release)

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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)

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Changed
All
Enhanced support for leveraging embedded TrueType fonts.

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

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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)

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

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

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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)

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Changed
Java
Dependent library upgrades.

2.2.1 (January, 2022; patch release)

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

2.2.0 (January, 2022; minor release)

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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)

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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)

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New
All
Adding support for additional tags (<strong> and <em>) in styling and formatting feature.
New
All

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

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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)

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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)

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

2.1.0 (September, 2021; minor release)

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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)

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Changed
All
PDF Extract API bug fixes and stability release

2.0.0 (May, 2021; major release)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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.
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