2026.01 Release Notes

Release date: 21st January 2026

Next release: 4th March 2026

Announcements

• New and updated tutorials:
  • The PDF Manipulator has some new features (listed below)
  • Apply image scale to structured text figures output
• New blog posts:
  • How to crop a PDF file
  • Mastering server side PDF processing
  • How to remove annotations from PDF files
  • How to manipulate PDF files from the JPedal Viewer
  • New options for our PDF Merger
  • How to add a table of contents to a PDF

Key features at a glance

• Image scaling support when extracting structured text/marked content
• Move and reorder pages with the PDF Manipulator

New Features

• JPED-1105 Added the ability to reorder pages using the PDF Manipulator
• JPED-1111 Added the ability to detect and remove blank pages using the PDF Manipulator
• CORE-4160 Added an image scaling option to the marked content extraction

Enhancements

• JPED-1112 Added add image, move page, remove annotations, and reverse page functions to the JPedal Viewer’s tools menu
• JPED-1108 You can now choose whether to automatically reset the PDF Manipulator after applying the current queue
• CORE-4152 Improved the error tolerance of the CCITT decoder
• CORE-4171 Improved the speed of checking for fully transparent images

Fixes

• JPED-1110 Fixed a bug where some pages would be rendered blank when switching between stream and byte array inputs
• CORE-4146 Fixed an issue where fonts were occasionally not rendered correctly in XObjects
• CORE-4151 Fixed a bug where removed masks were still being processed
• CORE-4154 Fixed a bug where incorrectly sized indexed colour spaces were not handled gracefully
• CORE-4163 Fixed a bug where missing annotation icons were not handled gracefully
• CORE-4168 Fixed a rare race condition which would cause a crash when opening linearized files

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