Features Added in Version 8
The following features were added in Version 8 of PDF-Tools:
Version 8.0.330.0
•The Enhanced OCR module - an optional extra in PDF-XChange Editor that is much faster, provides better quality, recognizes text styles and tables, supports creating PDF files with editable text and images, and more. This feature is detailed here and you can read more about it here.
•The Convert Colors tool/action, as detailed here and here respectively.
•The Filter Pages action, as detailed here.
•The Filter Documents action, as detailed here.
•The Filter Files action, as detailed here.
Version 8.0.332.0
•Functionality added that enables the creation and usage of File Lists in the Choose Input Files dialog box, as detailed here.
•Functionality added that enables the use of Files Lists located in Places such as Box.com, Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or Sharepoint.
•The 'PDF to Audio' tool/action, which reads text from documents and saves it as a WAV or MP3 audio file, as detailed here and here respectively.
•The Sanitize Document tool/action, which removes hidden data from documents, as detailed here and here respectively.
•Functionality added that enables additional actions to be added to the Tool Actions Sequence after the Print Documents and Send Mail actions.
Version 8.0.334.0
•The 'Find and Redact' tool/action, which finds text that matches user-specified criteria and then either marks it for redaction or redacts it immediately, as detailed here and here respectively.
•The 'Find and Replace Bookmark Text' tool/action, which finds and replaces text in bookmark titles, as detailed here and here respectively.
Version 8.0.335.0
•New feature added to the administrative template: an option to hide the hint about license expiration.
Version 8.0.337.0
•The 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' option for tools, which enables multi-core processing of input documents.
Version 8.0.340.0
•'Copy with Rename' action added for form fields in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action, as detailed here.
Version 8.0.342.0
•'Insert Blank Page' option added for the 'Split/Merge Documents' action. This feature enables the insertion of a blank page at the end of documents with even/odd page counts when documents are merged, as detailed here.