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Foxit Announces Launch of PDF SDK for Desktop 10.1.0 and PDF Conversion SDK 2.1.0

by PDF SDK | February 19, 2025

New Software Development Kits (SDKs) Save Developers Time, Reduces Frustration, and Enables Creation of More Efficient, Compliant, and Tailored PDF Solutions to Meet the Demands of Modern Applications

FREMONT, Calif. (February 19, 2025) – Foxit, a leading provider of innovative PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, today announced the launch of Foxit PDF SDK for Desktop 10.1.0 and Foxit PDF Conversion SDK 2.1.0, featuring powerful new tools and enhancements to streamline PDF processing and empower developers. The new updates introduce advanced compliance tools, improved OCR accuracy, faster processing speeds, enhanced conversion workflows, and expanded APIs for greater flexibility and precision in PDF development.

Foxit PDF SDK 10.1.0 New Features and Functionality:

The latest version of Foxit PDF SDK focuses on improving compliance, enhancing conversion workflows, boosting performance, and adding powerful new features. Key highlights include:

  • Compliance & Standards – New preflight functionality ensures document compliance with PDF/E and PDF/X standards
  • DWG2PDF – Improved conversion progress tracking, output log control, and color conversion policies
  • Libre Office2PDF – Multi-threaded conversion capabilities for Linux, driven by a binary engine
  • Enhanced OCR Capabilities – Upgraded OCR features include skew correction, image denoising, and multi-core processing, enabling faster and more accurate image-based text recognition
  • Performance Boosts – Optimization and form file import speeds have been dramatically improved, reducing processing times from minutes or hours to seconds
  • New APIs and Features – Developers can now access regular expression search, advanced image processing, text processing, and more
  • Foxit PDF2Office – Flexible library initialization, driven by a binary engine

Additional New Features:

  • PDF3D – Support for retrieving and presetting 3D views, along with default view resets
  • Annotations – Separate transparency settings for border and fill colors, JavaScript-based sub-actions in link annotations, and retrieval of annotations by unique IDs
  • TextSearch – Enhanced with regular expression support
  • Rendering – Improved support for rendering PDF pages to 1bpp bitmap and Linux PDF print devices

      Foxit PDF Conversion SDK 2.1.0 New Features and Functionality:

      Foxit PDF Conversion SDK 2.1.0 introduces significant enhancements for developers working with complex conversion processes. Key updates include:

      • Foxit Office2PDF – Official integration of Foxit Office2PDF as an add-on, with new features like outline conversion in Word2PDF and workbook conversion options in Excel2PDF.
      • Enhanced Conversion Flexibility – More conversion options, including the ability to remove trailing spaces, insert page breaks, and output images during conversion. It also introduces support for restricted PDF file conversion.
      • New Class and API – ConvertCheckCallback, allowing for more flexible conversion checks.
      • Updated APIs – New APIs for handling PDF-to-Office conversions, such as PDF2Office, PDF2Word, PDF2Excel, and PDF2PowerPoint, now offering more control over conversion processes and better handling of complex layouts and formatting.

      “These new enhancements are a direct result of staying closely connected with developers to truly understand what they need to become even more powerful in their work,” said Jeff Brand, SDK Team Lead, Foxit. “We’re proud to collaborate with developers at many of the leading business and government organizations around the world, whose insights had a direct impact on driving these updates. These capabilities, unmatched by any other solutions on the market, demonstrate Foxit’s commitment to remaining agile and consistently innovating to deliver tools that not only meet but exceed user expectations.”

      Foxit PDF SDK for Desktop 10.1.0 and Foxit PDF Conversion SDK 2.1.0 are now generally available (GA). To learn more, please visit: https://developers.foxit.com/news/latest-release/.

      About Foxit

      Foxit is a leading provider of innovative PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents. Foxit delivers easy-to-use desktop software, mobile apps, and cloud services that allow users to create, edit, fill, and sign documents through their integrated PDF Editor and eSign offerings. Foxit enables software developers to incorporate innovative PDF technology into their applications via powerful, multi-platform Software Developer Kits (SDK).

      Foxit has sold to over 485,000 customers, ranging from SMBs to global enterprises, located in more than 200 countries. The company has offices worldwide, including locations in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and Asia. For more information, please visit https://foxit.com.

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      Nicole Gorman

      Touchdown PR, for Foxit

      508-397-0131

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