i-net PDFC

Overview

Java version 14 supported
Web API added for Backup/Restore in maintenance
Web API core plugin added. It provides a GUI for that a permission is necessary
Translations plugin added. With this plugin it is possible to translate labels and messages of the GUI in an additional language
The minimum supported Windows version is Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012
Plugin reporting (file reporting.zip) added. It is required because it contains the base product
Confirm verified differences to hide them in all output formats. The confirmation is valid until the documents are changed

Security

Fixed XXE vulnerability for authenticated users with privileges to ad-hoc reporting or remote designer
Fixed multiple XSS vulnerabilities (login was not required).
Fixed a path traversal vulnerability which allowed access to files within the installation folder and its sub-folders

Login of Members of Windows group Guest is possible
Private Cloud License added
New collector option “Cross compare all files per folder” added to the TaskPlanner batch comparison to cross compare each file in a folder with each reference file in another folder

PDF export optimized to reduce average size by 10 to 50%
Overhauled 'invisible objects' filter to compute the actual visibility of all elements in the document
New filter added to use the (optional) PDF structure information to improve the comparison result
Handling for stacked sdt* elements in docx improved
Multi-Column filter improved
- Detection of outlined tables and recognition of columns by embedded images
- Column mapping for shapes and images in multi column layout
- Column detection near very large text chunks
Bug in ASCII stream decode. The memory consumption of SMasks was optimized
Optimized Ascent calculation for TT-Fonts in PDF files
Support for languages with word breaks in non latin text improved, for example Chinese
Password protected PDF files: Support for PDF 1.7-extended and PDF 2.0 decryption algorithms added
The differences for image detail comparison improved
Optimized Ascent calculation for TT-Fonts
Improved block recognition and ordering in rotated text sequences

StackOverflowError with DOCX documents occurred
Invsible paragraphs in table cells occurred where the 'framePr' property was set
Wrong location and clipping of annotations in PDF documents
Referring to file locations in web API calls is limited to administrators
OCR (tesseract) does not work on Debian

Drag&Drop document to the view area to compare them (in addition to the header buttons)
New control to show a list of all differences with the option to confirm & hide certain differences
Preview of the first page of selected documents
Annotations sometimes not transparent

New collector option in the TaskPlanner batch comparison to compare each file with each reference file