webPDF 8 Innovations: Webservice Toolbox (Part 3)

Part 3 of the webPDF 8 series focuses on webservice innovations, especially in the Toolbox and Converter.

Innovations in the Webservice Toolbox​

With webPDF 8, new operations were added and existing ones were extended.

New operations​

  1. Move: move pages within a document
  2. Outline: create, update, and edit outlines
  3. Redact: clean content and metadata
  4. Portfolio: combine documents into portfolios

Extended Options operation​

  • set page boxes (for example MediaBox, CropBox) precisely
  • add or change background
  • edit headers and footers
  • Bates numbering for page numbering
  • add/remove page transitions

Additional extensions​

  • Extraction: export images from PDFs
  • Attachment: page attachments also without icon
  • Info: output additional metadata, for example annotations, forms, and attachments

New features in OCR and Converter​

OCR​

  • improved automatic alignment of rotated pages

Converter​

  • new Chromium-based HTML engine
  • improved conversion of HTML-based formats (EML, MSG)
  • template engine based on HTML, macros, and variables

Flexible templating with HTML/CSS​

Using Converter, you can:

  • create new PDFs from templates
  • control content dynamically with variables
  • control visual output via HTML/CSS (including page breaks)

Further Converter improvements​

  • mail conversion with templates and variables
  • improved support for MHT files
  • formatted output of text documents
  • source code output with automatic syntax recognition
  • extended attachment modes in mail conversion
  • targeted handling of embedded/external images

Improvements in PDF/A webservice​

  • improved auto-correction for PDF/A compliance
  • support for ZUGFeRD 2.x
  • embedding of XRechnung data directly during PDF/A conversion