This document describes the change history across releases for supported
versions. For details regarding versioning and support policies, see
Version - Support policy.
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:
Refer to the following table for migrating to PDF Services SDK version
2.1.0, 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.
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)#
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.
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.
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.