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Foxit Conversion SDK 3.0.0

Release date: July 31, 2025

Migration notes

When upgrading to v3.0, note:

  • Minimum supported Linux GCC changes from 4.9.4 to 5.4
  • The SDK Node.js library no longer supports Node.js v8 and v9.

New features and enhancements

PDF2Office

Language support

  • Go:
    • PDF2Office adds Go support on Linux 32/64-bit
  • Python compatibility
    • The Python library supports ABI3; ensure your Python version supports ABI3 if you use this feature.

Engine enhancements

  • PDF2Office: better paragraph recognition, fewer text boxes in output
  • PDF2Office: improved conversion stability and result standardization
  • PDF2Office: improved borderless table recognition
  • PDF2Word: better nested table appearance
  • PDF2Word: better typical header/footer recognition
  • PDF2Word: improved heading recognition
  • PDF2Excel: improved table output quality

Office2PDF

Linux platform

  • Office2PDF adds Linux support.

Engine enhancements

  • Office2PDF: optimized font loading for faster conversion
  • Word2PDF: Drawing and Paragraph nesting for complex Word layouts
  • Word2PDF: vertical layout for Drawing paragraph objects
  • Word2PDF: fixed multi-layer Drawing overlay display
  • PPT2PDF: PowerPoint page-level jump support

Online demo application

  • The live conversion demo now supports configuring multiple parameters. Supported options:

PDF2Office

ModuleSetting
PDF to Wordenable_retain_page_layout
PDF to Excelworkbook_settings
Common Optionsenable_ml_recognition
Common Optionspage_range
Common Optionsinclude_pdf_comments
Common Optionsinclude_images

Office2PDF

ModuleSetting
Word to PDFis_generate_bookmark
Excel to PDFis_output_hidden_worksheets
Excel to PDFworksheet_names
Common Optionsis_embed_font

Bug fixes

PDF2Office

  • Fixed Word output that could not be edited after conversion
  • Fixed crash in Foxit PDF SDK 10.0 Java Linux PDF2Word stress tests
  • Fixed PDF2Word hangs with no output
  • Fixed extra gray background block in PDF2PPT conversion

Office2PDF

  • Fixed incorrect conversion of complex Word layouts with nested Drawing and Paragraph
  • Fixed incorrect vertical layout rendering for Drawing paragraphs
  • Fixed incorrect multi-layer Drawing overlay display
  • Fixed missing PowerPoint page-level jump support