Gnostice Document Studio Java 2015
Next-generation multi-format document-processing component suite for Java SE/EE developers

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Gnostice Free Document Viewer Eclipse Plugin

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Features

Gnostice Document Studio Java supports the following features. (For system requirements, click here.)

Features By Category
Components
Document Viewer
Document Printer
Document Converter
PDF-Specific Features
Components	Ultimate	Free
Document Viewer Document Printer Document Converter		Swing viewer is free. Rest of the components will generate trial marks.
Document Viewer	Ultimate	Free
Supported formats Documents - PDF, DOCX Images - BMP, PNG, JPEG, JPEG2000*, and (single-page and multi-page) TIFF*
Navigate pages using scroll bars, mouse and keyboard
Rotate individual or all pages
Load from files
Load from streams
Document Printer	Ultimate	Free
High-resolution printing		Available with trial marks
Formats supported: Documents - PDF, DOCX Images - BMP, PNG, JPEG, JPEG2000*, and (single-page and multi-page) TIFF*		Available with trial marks
Images - BMP, PNG, JPEG, WMF, EMF, and (single-page and multi-page) TIFF		Available with trial marks
Page Positioning - Centered, Original		Available with trial marks
Page Orientation - Portrait, Landscape		Available with trial marks
Page Auto Rotation		Available with trial marks
Load from File		Available with trial marks
Load from stream		Available with trial marks
Document Converter	Ultimate	Free
Convert from DOCX to PDF, image and text formats		Available with trial marks
Convert from PDF to image formats		Available with trial marks
Convert from images to PDF and other image formats		Available with trial marks
Perform OCR text recognition on raster image data when converting to PDF		Available with trial marks
Combine any DOCX, PDF, image or other file to a PDF portfolio		Available with trial marks
Load from files		Available with trial marks
Load from streams		Available with trial marks
PDF-specific features	Ultimate	Free
Merging PDFs		Available with trial marks
Splitting PDFs		Available with trial marks
Encrypting PDFs		Available with trial marks
Redacting text in PDFs		Available with trial marks

* - Some image formats require Java Advanced Imaging library.

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Minimum Software Requirements

• Oracle JDK 1.6 or above (~ Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris)

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History

Version 2015 R13 - July 8, 2015

• Enhanced
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing
    • Added BeanInfo class for DocumentViewer component to show the properties of the component in the Properties window of the Visual Editor.
  • Multi-Format Document Conversion
    • Conversion of scanned documents to searchable PDF now supports all languages supported by Tesseract along with support for multiple languages in a single document.
    • Added setSkewCorrectionEnabled and getSkewCorrectionEnabled methods in DigitizerSettings to specify whether skew correction should be turned on or off when digitizing a scanned document.
    • Added beginDigitizePage(ConverterBeginDigitizePageEvent) and endDigitizePage(ConverterEndDigitizePageEvent) events in ConverterListener to notify before and after digitization.
    • The ConverterEndDigitizePageEvent event argument of endDigitizePage event includes getDigitizedPage method which returns IDigitizedPage type to get the digitized/recognized elements.
    • The confidence value in percentage for the complete page and/or a word can be retrieved using IDigitizedPage.getConfidenceValue() and IDigitizedText.getConfidenceValue() (contained in IDigitizedPage) respectively.
• Changed
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing, Printing & Conversion
    • setImageSmoothingAlgorithm and getImageSmoothingAlgorithm methods of Preferences » RenderingSettings » ImageRenderingSettings accepts and returns respectively the type ImageSmoothingAlgorithm enum instead one of int.
  • Multi-Format Document Conversion
    • setDocumentLanguage and getDocumentLanguage methods of ConverterPreferences » DigitizerSettings » OCRSettings accepts and returns respectively the type String instead one of DocumentLanguage enum.
    • skipDocument property of ConverterBeginInputPageEvent is renamed to skipCurrentAndRemainingPages.
    • skipDocument property of ConverterEndInputPageEvent and ConverterOutputPageReadyEvent are renamed to skipRemainingPages.

Version 2015 R12 - June 19, 2015

• Fixed
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing
    • Conversion of scanned documents to searchable PDF throws "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no opencv_java245 in java.library.path" when image enhancement techniques are applied in the digitizerSettings of DocumentConverter preferences.
  • PDF Processing
    • EmptyStackException thrown by PdfDocument.getPageAsBufferedImage() methods if PDFOne jar files are used along with backport-util-concurrent library in a JBoss web application.
    • PDFException "Improper PDF object Label for object number:: n" thrown if the offset of a PDF object number is 0 in the XRef table or stream.

Version 2015 R11 - June 5, 2015

• Enhanced
  • General
    • All JAR files are digitally signed.
  • Multi-Format Document Conversion
    • DOCX conversion begins processing pages as soon as they are available and does not wait for all pages to be parsed.
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing
    • DocumentViewer.loadDocument(InputStream inputStream, String password) throws FormatNotSupportedException.

Version 2015 R10 - May 22, 2015

• Enhanced
  • Multi-Format Document Processing
    • Support for loading documents asynchronously while viewing and converting documents.
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • Text redaction leaves page with errors in Adobe Reader if the content stream of the redacted pages contain artifacts operand shared with a neighboring content stream.
    • Issues in decompressing Flate-encoded streams with different predictor values.
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Incorrect positioning of text elements if their position values are specified in certain unusual ways in the document.

Version 2015 R9 - May 8, 2015

• Introduced
  • Multi-Format Document Conversion
    • Improved accuracy of OCR by pre-processing input images to enhance recognition.
    • Introduced ImageEnhancementSettings property under DigitizerSettings to configure enhancement techniques and modes to pre-process the image before digitization.
      • Enhancement modes
        • USE_SPECIFIED_TECHNIQUES - Applies a specified list of image-processing techniques before digitization.
        • AUTO - Automatically determines the combination of image-processing technique(s) that would produce the highest accuracy.
        • OFF - Does not use any image-processing technique before digitization.
      • Enhancement techniques
        • Scaling - Scales the image dimensions to specified magnification factor.
        • Skew Correction - Detects the skew angle of the image and uses the skew-corrected image for digitization.
        • Binarization - Applies binarization.
        • Graying - Grayscales the image.
        • Sharpening - Sharpens the image to increase the crispness of the image elements.
    • Added outputPageReady event in ConverterListener to notify user classes after every input page is converted.
• Changed
  • com.gnostice.core.dom.IPage.getPageSize method returns a com.gnostice.core.PageSize instance instead one of com.gnostice.core.graphics.Size.
  • PageSize class has been moved from com.gnostice.documents package to com.gnostice.core.
  • PaperSize enum has been moved from com.gnostice.documents.enums package to com.gnostice.core.enums.
  • IPage methods getPageWidth(), getPageHeight() and getMeasurementUnit() have been deprecated.
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Issue in decompressing Flate-compressed streams when its DecodeParams is specified as array object in the document.

Version 2015 R8 - April 24, 2015

• Enhanced
  • Multi-Format Document Viewing & Printing
    • Added support for 1-bpc Type-1 images "decode" array.
• Fixed
  • Multi-Format Document Conversion
    • USE_DEVICE or USE_SPECIFIED_DPI values (com.gnostice.core.enums.ResolutionMode) for ConverterPreferences are not applied when converting documents to images (with ImageEncoderSettings set to PageSizingMode.USE_SOURCE and PageScalingMode.NONE).
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Errors in decompressing Flate-encoded streams with predictor value of 12.

Version 2015 R7 - April 10, 2015

• Introduced
  • DocumentConverter
    • Added multiple options to separate, merge, and embed documents with new convertToFile and convertToStream overloaded methods. The methods use the new ConversionMode enumeration parameter:
      • CONVERT_TO_SINGLE_FILE - Converted documents are merged into a single file.
      • CONVERT_TO_SEPARATE_FILES - Documents are converted to separate output documents.
      • CONVERT_FIRST_FILE_AND_ATTACH_REST_AS_ORIGINAL - Only the first document is converted and the rest of the documents are embedded in it as attachments.
      • CREATE_NEW_FILE_AND_ATTACH_ALL_AS_ORIGINAL - A new blank document is created and all documents are embedded as attachments in it.
      Existing convertToFile and convertToStream methods that accept mergeAfterConvert boolean parameter are deprecated.
    • Added support for creating PDF portfolios using new PDFPortfolioSettings parameter type in PDFEncoderSettings. Specify
      • When to create portfolio using new PortfolioCreationMode enumeration.
      • How documents are laid out using new PortfolioLayoutMode.
• Enhanced
  • Multi-Format Document Rendering
    • Introduced new ResolutionMode enumeration for use with RenderingSettings.ResolutionSettings class to specify whether to use device DPI, source DPI (default) or a custom code-specified DPI when viewing, printing and converting input documents.
    • Viewer, printer and converter components determines the physical size of the output page using the ResolutionMode specified in RenderingSettings.ResolutionSettings.
• Fixed
  • Multi-Format Document Rendering
    • Viewer, printer and converter components do not consider input image resolution when calculating the size of the input page.
    • Colorspace-processing issue with operands for "k" and "scn" operators when only a few valid colors are specified in the colorspace dictionary.
    • ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException is encountered in CCITT image-processing when image stream contained EOF marker.
    • Alignment for page contents is not considered when DocumentPrinter.getPrintSettings().getPageScaling() is set to PageScaling.FIT_TO_PRINTER_MARGINS or PageScaling.REDUCE_TO_PRINTER_MARGINS.

Version 2015 R6 - March 30, 2015

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Added support for Type-1 8-bpc grayscale images with "decode" array.
    • Optimized decoding of Type-1 8-bpc RGB images.
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • IllegalArgumentException is encountered when dash pattern operator contains unusual operand values.
    • ClassCast exception is encountered sometimes when image dictionary attributes are referred using "IndirectReference" objects.
    • Type-1 images with ImageMask are not rendered.
    • JPX images are not rendered when colorspace information was in ICC colorspace dictionary.

Version 2015 R5 - March 13, 2015

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Added support for JPEG images with JFIF and EXIF data - requires JAI.
    • Added support for handling Type-1 images as SMask masking.
  • PDF Processing
    • Added PDF.addNeedSplitFileNameListener(PDFNeedSplitFileNameListener) method to register a listener for supplying filenames to document split methods. PDF.setOnNeedFileName(PdfNeedFileNameHandler) has been deprecated.
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • IndexOutOfBoundsException encountered when redacting text - caused by artifacts in content stream.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • com.sun.image.codec.jpeg.ImageFormatException caused by newline characters at the beginning of image stream.
    • Colors of images with SMask masking (other than Type-1) are rendered incorrectly.

Version 2015 R4 - February 27, 2015

• Introduced
  • Multi-format Document Conversion
    • Support for converting rasterized PDFs and DOCX to searchable PDF (available only on Windows - as a separate Java wrapper of a Windows native library).
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Rendering issues with Type-1 4-bpc Indexed DeviceRGB images.
    • Rendering issues with Type-1 1-bpc DeviceGray images.
    • Rendering issues with DCT images with 1-bpc DeviceGray masking.

Version 2015 R3 - February 13, 2015

• Introduced
  • Multi-format Document Conversion
    • Support for converting scanned images to searchable PDF (available only on Windows and uses Windows native library). In future, this feature will be expanded to support other input formats such as PDF and DOCX.
    • New DigitizerSettings class to specify settings for converting input documents.
    • DigitizationMode to decide whether to digitize content from input documents.
    • RecognizeElementTypes to specify page elements in the input document that need to be digitized (currently only text elements are supported).
    • OCRSettings to specify input language (currently English is the only language that is supported).
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Added support for CCITT images with "Indexed RGB" colorspace.

Version 2015 R2 - January 30, 2015

• Enhanced
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Added support for images using "Separation" colorpace with alternate "Lab" colorspace and tint-transform functions.
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing & Printing
    • Some shape elements that are a combination of curves and rectangles are not rendered in full.
    • Some text elements are not rendered when whitespace characters precede their encoding in the PDF.
    • Some images with "Separation" colorspace with "Decode Array" information are rendered inverted.
  • PDF Processing
    • PdfBadFileException ("Compressed data format is invalid. Can't use Flate filter") encountered with some encrypted documents.

Version 2015 R1 - January 19, 2015

• Enhanced
  Document Conversion
  • New ImageEncoderSettings options to specify output image size, and scaling and positioning of source image needs on the output image canvas.
• Fixed
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Some text elements are not displayed if their font resources are marked as "null" in the document. Now, a Helvetica substitute will be used for such elements.
  • PDF Processing
    • Search methods do not find text occurrences that are broken up over two pages where there is a blank page between them.

Version 2014 R3 - December 24, 2014

• Enhanced
  • Document Viewing
    • PDF
      • Support for inverted DeviceCMYK images (with "Decode Array" information).
      • Optimized rendering of images with DeviceCMYK colorspace.
  • Other features
    • Redaction
      • PDF
        • New overloaded redactText() method also supports search text that may have broken up over two lines or pages.
        • Optimized redaction performance of redactText() methods.
        • New options in redactText() methods for specifying
          • whether associated annotations need to be removed - RedactionSettings.setRemoveAssociatedAnnotations(boolean).
          • which additional items such as document properties, bookmarks, bookmark actions, annotations, and annotation actions on which redaction should be performed - RedactionSettings.setIncludeAdditionalItems(IncludeAdditionalItems)
          • how items that are found empty after redaction need to be handled RedactionSettings.setCleanUpOptions(CleanUpOptions).
• Fixed
  • Document Viewing
    • DOCX
      • Issues in rendering table columns - some columns are repeated or dropped.

Version 2014 R2 - December 5, 2014

• Introduced
  • Document Converter
    • Support for converting paragraphs in PDF and DOCX to formatted text.
    • Option to specify the file encoding (such as UTF-8) of the output text file using TextEncoderSettings.setFileEncoding().
    • Option to specify whether BOM (Byte Order Mark) needs to be set.
    • Options to specify whether to add breaks such as line feed, paragraph break (double line feeds), form feed and file-separator character (0x1C).
    • Option to specify whether to add a page break marker (by default, set to "-- End of Page --").
  • Document Rendering
    • PDF
      • Optimized 4-bpc and 8-bpc IndexedRGB image processing.
      • Support for 8-bpc Type1 images with ColorKeyMasking.
• Fixed
  • PDF Rendering
    • Support for Type1 ICCBased images with DeviceRGB colorspace and CCITT images for masking.
    • Transparent objects appear more transparent than required - alpha values were doubled.
  • PDF Processing
    • Issues in parsing "Name" objects when their names contain hex characters prefixed with '#'.
    • ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception encountered when parsing cross-reference table of some documents.

Version 2014 R1 - October 1, 2014

• Introduced
  • Document viewing
    • Supported formats
      • PDF
      • DOCX
      • Image formats supported by Java framework
        • BMP
        • PNG
        • JPEG
        • GIF
      • Image formats supported by Java Advanced Imaging API
        • TIFF
        • JPEG2000
    • Viewing preferences
      • Adjust page magnification and rotation
      • Adjust page layout - Single-Page Continuous, Side-By-Side Continuous, Single-Page Non-Continuous, Side-By-Side Non-Continuous, Auto Fit Columns, and user-defined number of columns
  • Document printing
    • Supported formats
      • PDF
      • DOCX
      • Image formats supported by Java framework
        • BMP
        • PNG
        • JPEG
        • GIF
      • Image formats supported by Java Advanced Imaging API
        • TIFF
        • JPEG2000
    • Printing preferences
      • Specify print range
      • Auto-rotation
      • Page position the pages in printing surface of physical printer
      • Page scaling including auto-fitting to printer margins
  • Document conversion
    • Convert multiple documents to a single output file.
    • Convert from a list of streams or a list of files to a single output stream or file
    • Format-specific conversion settings
    • Events to
      • cancel or skip individual documents or pages
      • keep track of conversion jobs
      • supply a password when an encrypted document is encountered
    • Supported formats
      • Input formats
        • PDF
        • DOCX
        • Image formats supported by Java framework
          • BMP
          • PNG
          • JPEG
          • GIF
        • Image formats supported by Java Advanced Imaging API
          • TIFF
          • JPEG2000
      • Output formats
        • PDF
        • DOCX
        • Image formats supported by Java framework
          • BMP
          • PNG
          • JPEG
          • GIF
        • Image formats supported by Java Advanced Imaging API
          • TIFF
          • JPEG2000
  • Other features
    • PDF
      • Merging
      • Splitting
      • Encrypting
      • Redaction

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