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PDF Studio receives SourceForge Winter 2022 Category Leader Award, awarded to select products that have attained the highest levels of praise from user reviews on SourceForge. It is a huge achievement that PDF Studio has been chosen as best-in-class from over 60,000 products on SourceForge. SourceForge receives nearly 30 million visitors per month looking for business software and solutions so it is a great honor that PDF Studio has stood out amongst so many other reputable products.
Qoppa Software, a top-tier producer of PDF solutions, released the latest version of its Java PDF development tools and components. Qoppa’s PDF processing and conversion SDK offers out-of-the-box features to create, view, edit, print or sign PDF documents, enabling companies in all industries to simply incorporate PDF functionality to their web, server or desktop applications and to their organization’s workflows.
List of features added in the latest version:
Full Support for Java 17 including 4k support. Our PDF SDK is still compiled in Java 8 in order to guarantee back compatibility as many companies are still running in Java 8, Java 11 or Java 16.
Enhanced support for LTV enabled and PAdES signatures. A new public API was implemented to verify digital signature information in order to apply B-LT and B-LTA signatures. PAdES Information (Signature Created by and PAdES Level) is now added to signature details so digital signatures can be recognized as PAdES.
Many improvements to Qoppa’s Microsoft Office to PDF conversion engine for Word to PDF, Excel to PDF and PowerPoint to PDF conversions. We are now packaging with replacement fonts for the most common Microsoft Office fonts so that correct font matching occurs even on the Linux platform. Selecting or extracting Arabic text from converted PDF documents is now possible due to the added support for Arabic Unicode Mapping. Tables with auto-size layout are now converted with better accuracy.
In Preflight, added PDF-X1 and PDF/X3 conversion as well as multiple validation profiles (PDF/X-1a:2001, PDF/X-1a:2003, PDF/X-3:2002, PDF/X-3:2003)
A new friendly and combined demo/sample application allows customers to evaluate all the functionality available in our PDF libraries and components in one place.
Enhanced PDF components with faster multi-threaded rendering and improvements to the functionality and to the user interface. New option to enhance thin lines allowing for better rendering of architectural plans and construction drawings at various zoom levels. A new permissions pane on the left side displays document security and restrictions. Colorful items in the comments list allows to easily distinguish various annotations. Improved bookmarks rendering and manipulation.
Automatically detect and apply page rotation when performing OCR to straighten up rotated documents while recognizing the text content.
Along with these wide-range of improvements and enhancements, the new upgrade of the PDF toolkit also contains a significant boost in performance.
For a complete list of enhancements and bug fixes in this version, refer to the Java PDF API 2022 Release Notes in Qoppa’s developer knowledge base.
Qoppa’s Java PDF SDK can be deployed on Windows, Linux or Unix web servers. To sample the functionality offered, developers or product managers may download free PDF SDK demo application that has no expiration but does apply a watermark to the documents.
Pricing for Java PDF SDK is based on each customer’s deployment scenario with options for OEM or CPU licensing. Quotes can be requested here: https://www.qoppa.com/pricing-request/
Specialized in Java and PDF software, Qoppa Software has developed and refined a robust PDF rendering and conversion technology over the last 18 years. Qoppa produces server software for enterprise automation, easy-to-use desktop and mobile apps for end-users as well as libraries for developers to integrate into applications. Built on an integrated code base, Qoppa’s software solutions are stable, offer deeper feature support as well as high performance and responsiveness. They have been integrated in hundreds of enterprise tools, in various industries, and distributed to hundreds of thousands of end-users.
Qoppa Software, a leading provider of PDF solutions, is pleased to announce the latest version of PDF Automation Server, its flagship document workflow and processing server.
With the new version, organizations can now integrate PDF Automation Server’s REST API with their own authentication systems using the new Pluggable Authenticator Module through a simple callback interface mechanism. The Workflow Module was enhanced with additional nodes offering even more functions to process and manipulate documents on the server side. Many functions were added such as the ability to perform an XSLT transformation, merge PDFs, extract a table from a PDF, convert various formats to PDFs, and more.
The latest version also comes with major improvements to Qoppa’s proprietary Microsoft Office to PDF conversion engine, including a new PowerPoint to PDF conversion, and many more features. See the detailed list below.
List of Major Features:
New Comments Pane in Qoppa’s Web PDF Viewer / Annotator & Form Filler
Pluggable Authenticator Module for REST API
New Workflow Module Nodes: XSLT Transformation, Edit PDF Document Properties, Merge PDFs, Convert Any to PDF (Convert Excel, Word, Images, Text & PowerPoint to PDF), Advanced PDF Text Extraction, PDF Table Extraction, PowerPoint to PDF Conversion
Web PDF Viewer & Editor: New Comment & File Attachment Panes
Support for OAuth Authentication for Microsoft Office365 Email
Many enhancements to Word to PDF & Excel to PDF Conversions
Replacement fonts for Microsoft Office fonts on the Linux platform
Additional preflight verification profiles for PDF/X4 and PDF/X5
All Improvements added to Qoppa’s underlying Java PDF SDK
PDF Automation Server is an essential tool for organizations to automate business and document workflows. The multi-platform server product can be deployed on Windows, Linux, Unix, z/OS, Heroku, and others. The PDF Workflow module allows to design and build flowcharts that integrate with 3rd party services using a friendly user graphical interface. It offers hundreds of nodes to work with PDF documents including to create, edit, split, merge, extract data, secure, optimize, sign and convert PDFs. PDF Automation Server also provides a set of REST API endpoints that developers can use to integrate PDF functionality into their own web or mobile applications. The API can be accessed via a RESTful web service, which means that it can be called from any programming language that can send HTTP requests and parse JSON or XML responses (such as Java C#, Python, PHP and JavaScript). The client-side PDF Web Viewer Module is HTML-based and zero-footprint, allowing to display and annotate PDF documents or fill interactive PDF forms from any browser and any platform.
Specialized in Java and PDF software, Qoppa Software has developed and refined a robust PDF rendering and conversion technology over the last 20 years. Qoppa produces server software for enterprise automation, easy-to-use desktop applications for end-users, and a PDF SDK for developers to integrate PDF functionality into applications. Built on an integrated code base, Qoppa’s software solutions are stable, offer deeper feature support as well as high performance, and responsiveness. They have been integrated into hundreds of enterprise tools, in various industries, and distributed to hundreds of thousands of end-users.
There are plenty of PDF editors for Windows but PDF editors that support the macOS platform are hard to come by. PDFPen, now acquired by Nitro, is one of the most such PDF editor available for Mac users. It’s a PDF solution that contains features such as the following:
Create or scan to PDF
Add markups and annotations to PDF documents
OCR scanned documents
Redact text
Add and edit text in the same format
Sign and fill forms
Create interactive form fields
Convert files such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to PDFs
Compress or reduce file size
Batch process multiple PDFs
Combine or split PDF documents
PDF Studio is a reliable alternative to PDFPen for mac. It’s a complete, full-featured PDF application that is also very user friendly and intuitive.
PDF Studio is more cost-effective than PDFPen:
PDFPen Essentials is priced at $129.99PDF Studio Standard is priced at $99.00
PDFPen’s premium version is also more expensive than PDF Studios. PDFPen Pro is close to $180, while PDF Studio Pro is only $129.
PDF Studio offers all the features found in PDF Pen plus many more:
Fast Sign (Easily apply electronic signature stamps)
Loupe, Pan, Zoom, Rulers, etc…
Overlay Compare PDFs
Automate PDF Task using Action Wizard Tool
Document Session Manager
Convert PDFs to Microsoft Word documents
Convert PDFs to HTML
Text-to-Speech (Read Out Loud)
Accessibility Color Options
Monochrome (Dark) Mode
and more..
Another advantage of PDF Studio compared to PDFPen, is that it is also supports Windows and Linux, and since many users may have a second machine running a different operating system, they can use the same license key to register that other machine.
Qoppa Software is offering a back to school discount on PDF Studio 2022, our advanced PDF editing application. All students, educators, and school staff members can receive 50% off PDF Studio when they use the promo code ACADEMIA during check out. Click on the image below to buy PDF Studio now!
Qoppa Software, a leading PDF software company based in Atlanta, announces version 2022 of PDF Studio, their powerful, intuitive PDF Editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. The latest version is packed with tools to enhance work productivity for our most advanced and professional users. PDF Studio 2022 provides a powerful, smooth and unified solution to help accomplish almost any task involving PDF documents across various platforms, all within the same application.
Here are some of the new exciting features included in this version:
PDF Studio 2022 provides a new Action Wizard to easily automate repetitive tasks required to be performed on PDF documents on a regular basis. Users create their own custom actions by selecting however many commands or functions they need and by pre-setting them with specific options. Saved actions can then be started with a single click to apply all the recorded steps to either a single document or a chosen set of documents, saving users time and keystrokes.
Creating an Action to OCR and Optimize PDF Files using PDF Studio Action Wizard
Another feature that should enhance productivity is the new Session Manager. This feature allows users to save the full list of documents opened in the application as a session, and reopen all of them later with a single click, restoring the various frames and documents within the same frames and in the same document tabs. For ease of convenience, sessions can be named, searched and deleted. For convenience, PDF Studio will also automatically save your last session each time the application is exited. Professionals whose workflow entails sets of documents should find this feature very helpful such as a lawyer who could possibly save a session per active case, an accountant per tax customer, a doctor per patient, and so forth…
PDF Studio new Session Manager under File > Open. Save new sessions, view, search, delete existing sessions
Book and magazine publishers will be delighted with the new Automatic Table of ContentsGeneration dialog that allows users to build a table of content directly from the bookmark tree contained in a PDF document with a single click. Users can choose among multiple customization options including fonts, format and margins in order to customize the resulting output to their exact liking and requirements. Page labels are supported when present in the document in lieu of page numbers.
Converting PDF to Word is now possible on all platforms including macOS and Linux, without the need of having Microsoft Word installed on the machine. PDF Studio 2022 offers 2-way conversion (from PDF to Word and from Word to PDF) so users can transform their documents to make specific edits in the more reflowable Word format and then conveniently convert them back to the more sharable PDF format. Like the majority of functions in PDF Studio, the new PDF to Word conversion was developed by our own team of experts using our extensive knowledge of both the PDF and the Word formats. This feature is marked as beta, as we continue to publish improvements to the new conversion engine over the next few months. The text with its various fonts and styling as well as images in a Word document are pretty straight forward to interpret and convert but it will require a few iterations to perfect the layout of documents for elements such as as paragraphs, tables and columns.
Additional Prepress and Print Production functions were included in PDF Studio 2022, among them Color Separation in Output Preview, PDF/X Conversion, and a new option to customize the PDF/A Mode, i.e., the way the application behaves when opening PDF/A documents marked for archiving.
Version 2022 also comes with an abundance of performance and usability enhancements to the existing features including comments pane improvements, an additional customization option for theme and icon colors, easier tools to add pdf contents onto pages, PDF stamps with data capture, a preference to add comments summary when printing, updated document storage API, PDF to RTF conversion, etc… See the full list of PDF Studio 2022 features.
Overall, PDF Studio Version 2022 continues to simplify our users’ experience when they perform complicated tasks on PDF documents, by providing more powerful and sophisticated tools to work in-depth with documents. As usual, all new features are available on all platforms, Windows 10 & Windows 11, macOS 12 Monterey, and various Linux distros (Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Mint)! Download PDF Studio 2022 Now!
About Qoppa Software:
Qoppa Software produces cross-platform PDF software for end-users, developers and integrators. Our PDF tools and libraries cover every aspect of PDF processes and help automate document workflows. Qoppa Software was founded in 2002 and is located in the vibrant city of Atlanta, GA.
Qoppa Software is proud to be a winner of the Leader award from SourceForge, the world’s largest software reviews and comparison website.
April 26, 2022, Qoppa Software, a software solutions company based in Atlanta, today announced that Qoppa’s PDF editor, PDF Studio, has been awarded a Spring 2022 Leader Award by SourceForge, the world’s largest software review and comparison website. This award recognizes exceptional companies and products with outstanding user reviews that puts them in the top fifth percentile of highly reviewed products on SourceForge.
CEO Gerald Holmann of Qoppa Software stated his appreciation, “At Qoppa, we’re excited to accept the SourceForge Spring 2022 Leader Award. We do our best to provide a best-in-class product, and we’re happy to see our users rewarding us with good reviews. We’re grateful to be valued by our customers and to be recognized by SourceForge.” He also expressed his team’s goal, “our small team’s goal has always been to produce the best value PDF software on the market. Every year, we’re publishing better and better versions of PDF Studio which can not only compete in features and performance with the most recognized applications, run on most platforms including Windows, mac and Linux but are also offered at an unbeatable price. We’re the PDF experts and it shows!”
To win the Spring 2022 Leader award, each winner had to receive enough high-rated user reviews to place the winning product in the top 5% of favorably reviewed products on SourceForge, which demonstrates the utmost quality that Qoppa Software delivers to customers.
“We’re happy to announce this year’s remarkable Spring 2022 Leaders” said SourceForge President, Logan Abbott. “PDF Studio showed that it is beloved by its users, as evidenced by the large quantity of outstanding user reviews.”
About Qoppa Software
Qoppa Software is located in Atlanta, GA and develops PDF solutions to help customers improve and automate document processes. Our products, which include server software, desktop applications and a developer SDK, are carefully designed to deliver the highest level of performance and reliability, and to integrate seamlessly into document workflows.
About SourceForge
SourceForge.net is the world’s largest software comparison directory, serving nearly 30 million users every month and featuring user reviews, product comparisons, software guides, and more. SourceForge’s mission is to help businesses find the best software to fit their needs and their budget. There are a variety of software tools available to businesses, and there are tools in almost every category and niche, each serving a slightly different purpose. SourceForge also powers the Slashdot.org/software/ business software and services directory.
There is no denying how crucial documents are to running a company. We use documents for sundry use cases—contracts, agreements, expense reports, accounting records, and so on. Accordingly, the way a business manages its documents will have a direct effect on the success of the organization. That’s why tools like document management software come in very handy in organizational operations.
What Is Document Management Software?
Document management systems, also known as DMS, refer to any computer software that keeps, handles, maintains, and manages electronic documents. These are acquired through the use of a scanner or any app that you can use to convert files and documents to the format that you need.
You can think of it as online or electronic boxes or cabinets where you keep your organization’s valuable data. Using a document management software makes files secure and accessible for the employees. Having clear document workflow solutions and effective file management workflow help make a significant portion of operations more seamless, bringing all kinds of advantages to the organization.
Why Use Document Management Software?
The document management software market could reach $6.78 billion by 2023, reflecting its central role in keeping businesses and organizations humming. Its benefits are well known.
When shifting to paperless operations, employing the help of document management software is the only way to go through the process. The pandemic has taught organizations to be ready for worst-case scenarios. While there are many factors to consider in making companies and organizations pandemic-proof, using document management software is one of them. Here are some of the reasons you should use document management software.
Saves the company resources
Companies grow and improve through various means, and maximizing existing company resources is one of them. Company resources are not just limited to electricity, water and manpower. It also refers to workspaces and office supplies. Imagine having more spaces for your teams and employees because you can free up a room previously used for filing cabinets. Think about buying lesser paper and other office supplies because your files are already in the document management software. Then there is e-signature technology that helps companies save up to $20 per document.
There are many ways that document management software can help save money. By doing so, you can allocate them to something that would grow the company’s mission, values and culture and empower employees.
Speeds up the approval process
Some factors that slow down administrative processes within an organization are the unavailability of approving bodies or sometimes just the tedious processes that no longer work for dynamic organizations. Up to 21% of company productivity loss connects to poor document management practices. But with document management software, companies can get signatures electronically, speeding up the approval on expense requests, client onboarding, and anything that needs the clearance of a manager.
This is most beneficial for acquiring and onboarding new clients because partnerships no longer have to take too long to materialize. With the right document management software, you can automate document workflow and acquire a more efficient approval process.
Builds security
Using document management software is much safer than simply emailing a PDF for signing. Using document management software increases your business’ security. It also improves your partners’ or clients’ confidence in you.
Some transactions in the company need another layer of security and protection due to the confidential information some documents have. This benefit applies to financial documents, client data forms, confidential agreements, and many more others.
Tips on Making Document Processing Easier and More Seamless
More and more companies and employees are now learning how to be more agile and adaptive when it comes to changes in the organization. But people are generally resistant to change. Integrating a new system like document management software that would help automate document workflow will still prove to be difficult to some, even most employees and key members.
When document processing becomes more seamless, the whole company, its employees, key players, partners and clients will benefit from it. Here are seven tips on making the processing of documents easier and more seamless.
Assign a team in charge of the process
Integrating a new document management software requires a specific team to champion and focus on it. Ineffective integrations of new systems or processes in companies are often due to a lack of proper planning and execution. That is why even something as simple as having document management software requires a team to implement it in the organization.
Use automation
One useful strategy in integrating document management software is to make it user-friendly to everyone by using automation. Automations help users navigate through the document management software with ease and without being overwhelmed by too many details.
Save a template for each document needed
Using templates for common documents that companies use is a good way of making the processes of documents easier. Because companies already have identified which kinds of documents they need in every transaction, whether that is client acquisition, client onboarding, or approving expense requests, they can already provide templates for every document they need.
Most likely, you’ll encounter an issue with a file type in your document repository. Thankfully, some document management tools come with a PDF editor so you don’t have to worry about making changes to the templates.
Store all documents in an online repository
Having an online repository for all your past documents vastly improves your files’ accessibility. Doing this also decreases the chances of losing important documents needed by the company. Also, in the event of worst-case scenarios like fires or earthquakes, your company’s files, data, and important information are safe and retrievable because most digital document repositories get stored in the cloud.
Integrate your document management software with other business software
Setting up integrations in your company’s document management systems will help speed up various parts of your operations. For example, integrating a document management software with some examples of accounting software can remove friction when getting expense requests signed by the appropriate managers.
You can also build out these automated workflows with other kinds of business software. Some companies integrate client onboarding software with document management systems to automatically file client information and store them in a secure database.
Control document access
Regardless of the size of a company, there is still a need to control the people who have access to certain documents. Your file management workflow must be both seamless
Here is the short list of the top 5 best professional PDF editors on the market which support all features needed by professionals to create, convert and manipulate PDF documents.
When trying to evaluate a PDF application, it can be an overwhelming task to try and compare pdf functionality & features across different pdf applications. Our team at Qoppa Software lives and breathes PDF and we know our competitors very well. So we decided to create our own top 5 PDF editors short list.
Please note: None of these links are sponsored. We were in no way paid or given favors to feature these products. We do list our own application as we believe that it deserves to be there.
Adobe Acrobat Pro
The original PDF editor and most likely well-known, Adobe Acrobat Pro has been the leader in the market for many years.
Adobe Acrobat’s major downfall to most users is its price, it usually costs 3x more than the average PDF editor. Also some tools such as preflight and text extraction have been purchased from other vendors and are not always well functioning or integrated correctly.
Supported Platforms: macOS, Windows
Annual Subscription: $179.88
Number of Computers per License: 2 Computers
Foxit PDF Editor Pro (Previously Phantom)
Foxit Phantom has become a major player in the market.
A couple of Foxit Phantom Pro editor major cons are that its interface is a bit crowded, and it only supports Windows platform. Also, the company publishing this application, Fujian Foxit Software, is based in China.
Supported Platforms: Windows
One-time Fee: $179.00 Annual Subscription: $99.00
Number of Computer per License: 1 Computer
PDF Studio Pro
One of the most affordable PDF editors and the only cross-platform in this list, PDF Studio Pro works on Windows, macOS and Linux.
One downfall of PDF Studio Pro is that since it supports many different platforms, the look and feel is not as modern.
Supported Platforms: Windows, macOS, Linux
One-Time Fee: $139.00
Number of Computers per License: 2 Computers
PDF-XChange Editor Plus
PDF-Xchange Editor Plus is one of the most affordable editors. It offers lots of features and options to customize the user interface. One downfall is that the company does not offer refunds and the website and offerings are a bit confusing.
Supported Platforms: Windows
One-Time Fee: Starting at $59
Number of Computers per License: 1 Computer, No Refund
Kofax Power PDF Advanced
Kofax Power PDF Advanced editor offers a very clean, customizable interface and many features. The macOS platform is only available in Standard and lacks features.
Power PDF was recently acquired by Kofax, previously it was owned by Nuance.
Supported Platforms: Windows, Mac (Standard only, limited)