New Java Library to Convert PDF to HTML & New HTML5 PDF Viewer !

Qoppa Software is happy to announce the availability of jPDFWeb, a Java class library that can convert PDF documents to SVG & HTML5.

For companies needing to publish PDF documents on the internet, this is good news, as the library can be easily integrated to create a zero footprint HTML5 PDF viewer that works on all browsers and all client platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux, IOS or Android.

On the server-side, jPDFWeb is used to convert on-demand and at high speed PDF documents to SVG. SVG format is a vector graphics format, developed by the World Wide Web, which supports most of the sophisticated features of the PDF format and is resolution independent for high quality viewing. Java is the de-facto programming language for web servers, and a pure Java library such as jPDFWeb, guarantees stability and ease of integration with any J2EE server (such as Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, Weblogic, Websphere, Glassfish) and on any server platform: Windows, Linux or Unix.

On the client-side, SVG / HTML5 is supported by all browsers and platforms so there is no need for platform specific PDF plug-ins or viewers. A zero foot-print HTML5 PDF Viewer, which demonstrates how to communicate with the server to serve – page by page – the converted SVG / HTML5 files is provided by Qoppa Software. The source code is also made available so developers can customize the viewer visually or functionally to the specific needs of their website or application.

jPDFWeb is based on Qoppa Software’s robust Java PDF parsing and rendering technology, which has been developed and refined over the last 12 years.

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Embeddable PDF HTML5 Viewer - COnvert PDFs to SVG on the Server

Zero Footprint PDF HTML5 Viewer

This is exciting! We now have a live demo of Qoppa’s new HTML5 PDF viewer! It is a zero footprint, high-fidelity PDF viewer that can be integrated into any website or web application, without requiring any client-side plugin:

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It’s not officially released yet, but it is already pretty good! Why so? Because this viewer uses what Qoppa Software is best at: Java and PDF rendering! So it is not surprising that the first version of our viewer is already superior to many HTML PDF viewers available on the market.

How does it work? PDFs documents are converted dynamically to SVG on the server, then served to any browser supporting HTML5.

The beauty of this new viewer is that:

on the client side, the viewer works everywhere, without requiring any plugin or certificate, because all platforms these days – Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, iOS, Android, etc… – have a browser that supports HTML5.
and on the server side, Qoppa’s libraries are 100% Java so any J2EE server will do (Tomcat, JBoss, Glassfish, Websphere, Weblogic), on any operating system, be it Windows, Linux or Unix.

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New Java library to optimize PDF documents and reduce file size

Qoppa Software’s line of products was expanded to add jPDFOptimizer, a java library allowing to optimize PDF documents in order to shrink the size of PDF files.

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jPDFOptimizer Demo Application – Optimizing Options Dialog

jPDFOptimizer offers flexible, powerful optimization options and outputs smaller, faster rendering PDFs.

Images in a PDF document are made smaller, more efficient by modifying image compression, color space and resolution.

PDF content is reduced by compressing streams, removing unused objects as well as performing other advanced optimization functions.

As a 100% Java library, jPDFOptimizer can be run in any Java enabled platform, where the typical deployment use case is a J2EE servers on Windows, Linux or Unix.

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Qoppa is sponsoring educational day organized by PDF Association

Qoppa Software, a company focused on producing high-end Java PDF library products and applications, has become a member of the non-profit PDF Association and is a sponsor at PDF Day, a live, non-commercial, educational event organized by the PDF Association.

With two tracks of engaging and informative sessions, PDF Day offers IT decision-makers the opportunity to better understand the technology that’s already replaced paper in so many business processes. Top developers in the PDF industry will provide CIOs, IT executives, content strategists and document management vendors with the big picture on PDF technology.

PDF Day Washington DC (Government focus)
Wednesday, December 10th Marriott Washington Georgetown
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PDF Day New York City (Financial Services & Legal focus)
Thursday, December 11th Convene at 32 Old Slip
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PDF Day sessions cover many areas of interest, including ECM integration, digital signatures, regulatory compliance, collaboration, archiving, redaction, the significance and value of standards-based technology, and much more.

Join a dozen experts in PDF technology as they discuss the opportunities for cost-savings and new business-process paradigms that come from enhancing electronic document workflows via the sophisticated use of PDF.

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software specializes in Java PDF library products for developers to integrate into their own Java or web applications. Qoppa Software also offers a fully-featured PDF end-user application, a PDF server, and Android PDF apps, all developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology. Our PDF solutions are cross-platform and work on any operating system supporting Java, including Windows, Mac and Linux / Unix.

Qoppa Software at JavaOne 2014: What’s new since last year?

Susan Sims at Booth #5110 at JavaOne 2014

Atlanta-based Qoppa Software was present, this year again, at Oracle® JavaOne conference, in San Francisco, from September 28 to October 2 2014. For the 4th year in a row, both Gerald Holmann, Qoppa’s founder and president, and Susan Sims, Qoppa’s marketing director, were available at Qoppa’s booth to speak with Java developers.

Gerald and Susan offered live demonstrations of the PDF rendering and manipulation capabilities available in Qoppa’s Java PDF library products, PDF visual components, Android PDF toolkit, PDF desktop application and PDF workflow server.

Since last year’s JavaOne conference, Qoppa Software has added many enhancements to its Java PDF library products and visual components with the objective to continue to provide the most solid and comprehensive PDF technology available in Java.

v2014R1 release delivered improvements in rendering, security, annotations and interactive forms. As usage of PDF increases, the documents encountered are getting bigger and more sophisticated, pushing the limits of the features defined in the PDF format. The performance of Qoppa’s PDF engine is constantly enhanced to keep up with customers needs.

Qoppa’s line of products was expanded to add jPDFOptimizer, a java library allowing to optimize PDF documents, that offers flexible, powerful optimization options and outputs smaller, faster rendering PDFs. Images in a PDF document are made smaller, more efficient by modifying image compression, color space and resolution. PDF content is reduced by compressing streams, removing unused objects as well as performing other advanced optimization functions.

Version 9 of PDF Studio, Qoppa’s powerful, easy to use PDF editing software, added an interactive form designer, an advanced redaction feature, conversion to PDF/A and numerous digital signatures and annotations enhancements. This user-friendly, affordable application is fast becoming a favorite alternative to other costly PDF solutions for users in all industries and on all platforms.

Moreover, two new cutting-edge java libraries were developed in 2014 and are planned to be released before the end of the year: a PDF to SVG conversion library and PDF/A verification and conversion library.

Gerald Holmann discussing with a customer at JavaOne 2014

Gerald Holmann demonstrating Qoppa’s PDF products capabilities to a customer at JavaOne 2014

Summer release of Java PDF library adds rendering, security and interactive features enhancements

Atlanta, GA June 30 2014 – Qoppa Software’s summer release of Java® PDF component and library products delivers many rendering, security, annotations and interactive forms improvements.

“We’ve worked on hundreds of items for this release, refining and enhancing our existing features, in order to maintain our lead in providing the most solid and comprehensive PDF libraries and visual components available in Java.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software President.

As usage of PDF increases, the documents encountered are getting bigger and more sophisticated, pushing the limits of the features defined in the PDF format. Customers need to rely on PDF solutions that are able to process all documents.

Qoppa has implemented new processing of JPEG images (not relying on imageio), making it possible to read and display “infinite size” JPEGs within PDF documents, without any memory limitation.

When it comes to security, PDF documents have also become more sophisticated. The new permissions manager supports and enforces the 3 levels of security defined in the PDF format, in an abstracted, simplified way, making it easy to work with encrypted documents (password permissions), certified documents (DocMDP permissions), and reader-enabled documents (Usage Rights permissions).

Rendering and interactive tools were refined in Qoppa’s Java PDF visual components. It is easier than ever to markup documents and fill interactive forms in the components’ intuitive and user-friendly interface. Thanks to new on-demand loading of annotations, the first page of PDF documents is rendered fast, even when documents contain a large number of comments. New quick properties and alignment toolbars are available for fast editing and positioning of annotations. The new undo function helps users reverse any mistake. A smoothing algorithm was implemented to draw even, regular curves and lines when handwriting with the pencil annotation. Finally, form filling was improved with support for additional JavaScript functions and improvements in form field editing.

For more details about all the enhancements and fixes added in this release, please visit the links below:

Full Release Notes for Qoppa’s Java PDF Component 2014R1

Full Release Notes for Qoppa’s Java PDF Libraries 2014R1

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Qoppa Software announces PDF Studio 9 with Interactive Form Designer, Advanced Redaction and PDF/A Conversion

May 2 2014 – Qoppa Software, a leading producer of PDF software, announces version 9 of PDF Studio, their powerful, easy to use PDF editing software for Windows, Mac and Linux. PDF Studio 9 adds an interactive form designer, an advanced redaction feature, conversion to PDF/A and numerous digital signatures and annotations enhancements.

“PDF Studio 9 adds many advanced features for business users.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software President. “The enhancements in version 9 make PDF Studio ready to deploy to the enterprise and integrate into document workflows, from creation to archiving, through revision and approval process. Our goal is to provide an all-in-one, affordable PDF solution for all businesses and organizations, whether they are running Windows, Mac or Linux.”

The new form designer in PDF Studio 9 allows users to create sophisticated interactive PDF forms. Businesses of all sizes can streamline paper-based workflows by using PDF forms to receive electronic data from partners, customers and employees. JavaScript is supported for form fields formatting, validation and calculations.

The advanced redaction function helps remove sensitive information from PDF documents prior to publication or release. Redaction annotations are first added to cover confidential areas on page, then applied as a second step, or “burnt-in” into the document, to permanently delete the underlying text, images or shapes.

For long-term storage and archival of documents, governments, publishers and bigger organizations are converting PDF files to PDF/A. It is a strict subset of the PDF format which helps ensure that documents will render the same in the future as when they were saved. PDF Studio 9 provides PDF/A compliance verification as well as the ability to convert existing files to PDF/A format.

PDF Studio 9 adds various enhancements around digital signatures with new support for certifying signatures, time-stamps, Windows and Mac certificate managers, the latest AES 256 encryption, and other security features such as enforcing and clearing usage right enablement, and accessing server protected textbooks.

With version 9, it is also easier than ever to review and comment PDF documents using PDF Studio 9’s new quick properties and alignment toolbars, and user-friendly color picker.

About Qoppa Software:

Qoppa Software produces cross-platform PDF software for end-users and developers. Our PDF tools and libraries cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document workflows. Qoppa Software was founded in 2002 and is located in Atlanta, GA.

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Qoppa Software at JavaOne 2013: What’s new since last year?

Atlanta -based Qoppa Software will be present this year again at Oracle® JavaOne conference, in San Francisco, from September 22 to 25 2013. Since last year’s conference, Qoppa Software has added many exciting features and new products to complement Oracle products and technology.

Qoppa’s Java PDF engine was enhanced with JavaScript support and many digital signature features, including the latest AES 256 (R=6) encryption and server timestamps. An all-integrated Java PDF OCR library sdk was released, based on Qoppa’s advanced PDF rendering and editing technology and the well-known open-source Tesseract engine for OCR recognition.

Qoppa’s line of Java PDF components was expanded to add jPDFEditor, a comprehensive PDF component that goes beyond viewing, annotating and form filling to also allow editing and redacting content from PDF documents. This is the most advanced PDF component available in Java.

Qoppa Software Booth at JavaOne 2013

A new document viewer application that connects directly to Oracle Webcenter Content Imaging® repository was added to Qoppa’s line of end-user products. Qoppa IPM Desktop provides users with an efficient, feature rich experience to display and review PDF documents stored on the server, improving document workflow productivity within organizations.

Qoppa has continued to perfect PDF Studio, its advanced desktop PDF editor, which is developed entirely in Java and available on Windows®, Mac OS X®, Linux®, and UNIX®. This user-friendly, affordable application is fast becoming a favorite alternative to other costly PDF solutions for users in all industries and on all platforms.

View our kiosk slides for an easy introduction to our company and products.

To learn more our Qoppa’s Java PDF solutions, Java developers and integrators are invited to stop by Qoppa’s booth 5606 at JavaOne 2013, meet president and founder Gerald Holmann and see live product demonstrations. More information is available on Qoppa’s website at https://www.qoppa.com.

Summer release of Java PDF library adds PDF OCR, digital signature enhancements including latest AES 256 encryption

Atlanta, GA August 12 2013 – Qoppa Software’s summer release of Java® PDF component and library products delivers a new OCR module, digital signature enhancements including latest AES 256 algorithm and many other improvements.

Qoppa Software is pleased to announce a new Java PDF OCR library sdk which supports all Latin-based languages including English, German, French, and Spanish and is available for Windows®, Mac OS X® and Linux®, in 32 and 64 bit. This is a clean, production-level Java integration of the well-known Tesseract engine and Qoppa’s own PDF rendering and editing technology.

This release also contains many digital signature enhancements including PDF certifying signatures, often used in document workflows to approve documents before publication. A certifying signature is the first digital signature applied to a PDF document and allows specifying what subsequent changes may be made to the certified document.

Appearance of digital signatures was improved to allow validation of multiple signatures. Since the PDF format does not inherently support multiple digital signatures, Qoppa’s PDF engine is parsing for the content added after a signature and identifying which changes are acceptable and which changes invalidate the signature.

The new AES 256 encryption algorithm (R=6) has been implemented and allows encrypting or decrypting PDF documents with the highest level of security available. This algorithm is defined in the upcoming PDF 2.0 specifications and is compatible with Adobe® Acrobat® X, XI and above.

Finally, our PDF viewing components now offer a flexible navigation API, allowing developers to customize navigation within a PDF document or across PDF documents to fit their document workflow.

“Our goal is to continue to offer the most comprehensive PDF technology available in Java. We are excited to present our new PDF OCR solution. This is an affordable, integrated solution to recognize text in PDF documents from Java applications on Windows, Mac and Linux, in a J2EE server environment, or on the client side.” says Gerald Holmann, Qoppa Software President.

The new release adds many other improvements and internal fixes. For more details, please visit the links below:

Full Release Notes for Qoppa’s Java PDF Component 2013R2

Full Release Notes for Qoppa’s Java PDF Libraries 2013R2

About Qoppa Software:
Qoppa Software specializes in Java PDF library products – pure Java as well as Android Java – for developers to integrate into their own Java or web applications. Qoppa Software also offers a fully-featured PDF end-user application, a PDF server, and Android PDF apps developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology.

Android qPDF Notes v3.1 delivers new file browser with cloud access and improved form filling

ATLANTA – June 2013 – Qoppa Software, Atlanta-based producer of PDF solutions for end-users, developers and integrators on all platforms, is happy to announce release 3.1 of its Android PDF apps, qPDF Notes – Android PDF Reader Pro and qPDF Viewer – Android PDF Reader. This release includes a redesigned file browser tightly integrated with Box, Dropbox, and Google Drive as well as an improved form filling mode.

New File Browser with Box, DropBox, Drive Access

New file browser with Box, Dropbox, Drive integration

qPDF’s redesigned file browser is a powerful tool to find and organize PDF documents on the go. Files can be opened directly from Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, edited on the device and then saved back to the cloud, in a single tap. It is now as easy to work with cloud files as it is with local files and users have the freedom to choose their preferred cloud storage. The redesign also adds the ability to delete, rename, or mark files as favorites, and new views were created to list recently opened documents, user favorites, and all PDF documents on the device. The recent files list can now be cleared.

Form Fill View Mode: Intuitive, Per Page

Form Fill View: intuitive, per page

The Fill Form view has been totally redesigned to make filling PDF forms on the go as user-friendly as possible. Form fields are now organized by page, making it easy to jump to any page and fill in form data. More JavaScript support has been added, as well as the ability to reset fields to their default values.

Advanced Search Now Open on Phones in Navigation Pane

Search pane now available on phones

The bookmarks pane, allowing navigation within PDF documents using bookmarks, outlines, comments, and search results, was made expandable so the lists can be viewed in full screen. This intuitive tablet interface was also copied over to phones so that all users would now have the benefit of the search pane as well as easier access to bookmarks, outline, and comments tabs.

As usual, the newly implemented features have a consistent, streamlined look that closely follows the Holo design principles. qPDF Notes and qPDF Viewer are tablet-optimized so they look great on all size devices, from small phones to large tablets.

Finally, all labels have been internationalized in German, so the app is now available in 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Qoppa’s Android products are available for all Android phones and tablets 2.1 or higher including: Nexus 4, Nexus 7, Nexus 10, Samsung Galaxy S2, S3, and S4, Asus Transformer Prime, Acer Iconia, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy Note 10.1, Motorola XOOM, Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry 10 devices (Z10, Q10, Q5).

The PDF technology found in Qoppa’s Android apps is available in an Android PDF SDK for Android developers to integrate into their own apps.

Qoppa Software specializes in the development of high-end libraries and applications to work with PDF documents. Qoppa Software offers a suite of highly portable products that cover every aspect of PDF processes and integrate seamlessly into document work flows, including end-user, server and PDF library products. Qoppa’s products are carefully designed and developed on Qoppa’s own robust PDF technology to provide the highest level of performance and reliability.

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Qoppa Software also offers a PDF editor for Mac, Windows, and Linux. Try the free demo version.

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News about Qoppa's PDF Applications & PDF Library Products

New Java Library to Convert PDF to HTML & New HTML5 PDF Viewer !

Try live demo of Qoppa’s new embeddable HTML5 PDF viewer

New Java library to optimize PDF documents and reduce file size

Qoppa is sponsoring educational day organized by PDF Association

Qoppa Software at JavaOne 2014: What’s new since last year?

Summer release of Java PDF library adds rendering, security and interactive features enhancements

Qoppa Software announces PDF Studio 9 with Interactive Form Designer, Advanced Redaction and PDF/A Conversion

Qoppa Software at JavaOne 2013: What’s new since last year?

Summer release of Java PDF library adds PDF OCR, digital signature enhancements including latest AES 256 encryption

Android qPDF Notes v3.1 delivers new file browser with cloud access and improved form filling