2025.05 Release Notes

Release date: 14th May 2025

Next release: 25th June 2025

Announcements

• New tutorials:
  • Create and manipulate PDF files
  • Merge PDF files (feature preview)
  • Extract structured text as YAML
• New blog posts:
  • How to extract text from a PDF as JSON
  • How to convert PDF files to ePUB
  • How to extract text from a PDF as YAML
  • How to merge two PDF files
  • New PDF Manipulator class
• Did you know we have a PDF inspector with single-step debugging?

Key features at a glance

• New PdfManipulator class which can be used to edit and create documents
• New PDF merge feature preview which can be used to merge two documents together
• General bug fixes

New Features

• JPED-893 Added a PDF merge feature preview
• JPED-962 Added a new PDF Manipulator class
• JPED-974 Added validation to the JPedal Viewer properties
• JPED-975 Added the ability to extract structured text as YAML

Fixes

• JPED-951 Fixed an issue where the save file chooser dialog would not appear
• JPED-952 Fixed an issue on macOS where files could not be dragged onto the JPedal Viewer
• JPED-954 Improved the extraction of figures from marked content streams that have negative bounding boxes
• JPED-955 Fixed an issue where ePUB files built on Windows would use the wrong path separator
• JPED-958 Improved the detection of linearized files
• JPED-960 Fixed an issue where opening a file from a URL containing parameters of fragments would not open
• JPED-963 Fixed an issue where some PDF files could not be decoded due to odd trailer placement
• CORE-4086 Fixed an issue where PDF files with empty cmap tables were not rendered

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