PDF2XL Enterprise Version history

Version 5.0 (current) Released on Wed, 07 Nov 2012 12:01:27

• Brand new user interface – easily access all PDF2XL features from a state-of-the-art UI
• Flexible layout assignment – different pages in the same document can have a different table layouts, enabling the conversion of complex documents. Define recurring layouts for quick conversion of long documents with recurring table structures
• Document Pages Panel – navigate your PDF document through the new pages panel
• Updadted and improved Help
• The latest OCR engine for improved conversion of scanned documents

Version 4.14 Released on Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:00:19

This new release of PDF2XL Enterprise features changes and improvements sent to us by you our beloved users! Besides small tweaks and squeaks, here are some of the new changes:

• Search text in single and multi-layout modes
• Automatic recognition of marked elements – table or field – now you don’t have to figure out what mode you should use!
• User-defined colors for table and field elements – for those complex layouts
• Smaller installation
• We’ve added French, German and Dutch language support (in addition to Portuguese, Spanish and Italian – and English – which were already available in previous versions)
• OCR background operation – now you can search text in more than a single page in Scanned PDFs, Images, etc…
• Portuguese OCR capability added (for free!)

Version 4.12 Released on Mon, 10 Oct 2011 01:00:37

• New conversion formats!!!
  • Convert to HTML
  • Convert to Word 2007 (.docx)
  • Convert to PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx)
• Easier and faster navigation in scanned documents using background OCR processing mechanism
• Better headers detection capabilities
• Intuitive and visible tables and fields selection
• Option to use the PDF file details such as File Name, Creation Time, and Modification Time as output built-in fields
• Installer and application now available in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian as well as English

Version 4.10 Released on Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:00:52

• Added the ability to convert PDF tables to an existing Excel file.
• Added the ability to convert long PDF tables to the same spreadsheet by breaking the table to multiple sheets.
• Added the ability to navigate between cells in Validation mode.

Version 4.8 Released on Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:00:57

This new release from Cogniview upgrades various internal components of PDF2XL Enterprise:

• Revamped the layout display and editing
• Simplified the layout creation process
• Images are now considered a conversion format rather then a special field option. This means that you can convert table columns as images, which is useful (for example) in catalog table conversion
• Fixed support for PDF files that could not be opened before
• New (and better!) OCR Engine, with much better support for color and higher DPI scanned PDF files

In addition, new and exciting functionality has been added:

• PDF2XL Enterprise now supports scanning documents directly from the application, and converting without putting them into a PDF files.
• You can now convert images files directly from PDF2XL Enterprise. Supported formats include, among others, Bitmaps (.bmp), TIFF (.tif) and PNG (.png)

Finally, you can now add a post-conversion Excel Macro to the conversion layout. PDF2XL Enterprise will run it after the conversion; it’s very useful for extra manipulation after the main conversion work is done

Version 4.6 Released on Sun, 17 May 2009 01:00:23

This version includes some major improvements for our PDF to Excel converter.

For starters, it now supports conversion into OpenOffice! PDF2XL can now convert directly to .ODS files so that you can load them in OpenOffice Calc, or your other favourite office suite.

Also, PDF2XL can now keep the indentation of text in columns, as well as text-wrapping inside table cells, so you have the option to keep the original text flow in addition to the original formatting.

One more important thing to note is the addition of support for 64-bit platforms. The previous versions of the virtual printer driver were not compatible with such systems, but the new version is!

Here is the snippet of change-log from our developers:

• Added PDF conversion to OpenDocument Spreadsheet
• Added support for 64-bit operating system
• Added an option to combine cells automatically
• Added an option to keep text indentation and/or wrapping
• Added fields output editing (reordering, hiding fields, dragging fields into tables)
• Added support for non standard operating system fonts
• Fully updated and tested for Windows 7
• Fully tested for Office 2010

Version 4.4 Released on Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:00:40

• Advanced Row and Cell editing – Removed the selection mode (Column, Row, Cell) and added a simple and easy user interface, that allows more flexibility in selecting the data for manipulation (very similar to the Excel data selection interface)
• Added the option to convert Image as a field
• Added the option to Edit the output (allows reorder and toggle of tables and columns)
• Increased maximum number of tables per page to 63
• Now allows opening a layout file from the open file menu
• Added option to show formatting (font size and color) in preview
• Added superscript support

Version 4.2 Released on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:00:20

• Added header auto detection capability
• Added conversion to PowerPoint
• Added optional finding of table according to header location
• Added option to associate field with a specific table
• Added optional automatic calculation of table height
• Added OCR learning to the OCR process
• Added OCR enhancements – OCR accuracy, Despeckle, better monochrome transformation
• Added advanced OCR settings
• Updated IRIS scanning engine to latest release
• Added option to convert to the old Excel format when Excel 2007 is installed

Version 4.0 Released on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:00:56

• Added automatic table detection
• Added copy and paste table option
• Added convert table option
• Combine two different tables on same page
• Added an option to transpose table (columns and rows)
• Added keep leading zeros option
• Added same rows height option
• Added Hide empty line option
• Added terminal server support
• Added keyboard navigation (up/ down/ page up/ page down)
• Added mouse wheel support for OCR view
• Updated IRIS scanning engine to latest release available
• Added Previous and next table buttons

Version 3.6 Released on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:00:12

• Added multiple table option
• Added naming a table option
• Added option to convert to multiple sheets
• Improved conversion speed
• Updated IRIS scanning engine to latest release available

Version 3.4 Released on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:00:35

• Added Vista support
• Added “Split here” option
• Added upgrade option

Version 3.2 Released on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:00:53

Initial Release, based on PDF2XL