Extracting Solid Framework for Installations.

Solid Framework is designed to extract its support files to the current users %AppData% directory on load. This is convenient, as there is only one dll to manage in your installer. But sometimes this can cause issues. One issue that can arise is a sporadic issue with overzealous 3rd party malware applications deleting the support files in the %AppData% folder, even though they are signed, strong named and time stamped. To work around this, you can extract the support files beforehand and reference these files in your installer.


To extract the 32 and 64 bit support folders from Solid Framework, you use the ExtractFramework.exe tool. Download the tool and SolidFramework AnyCPU dll into a folder. On the command line, run “ExtractFramework.exe .\SolidFramework.dll <Extraction folder> All”. <Extraction folder> should be replaced with a directory of your choosing. 

The All parameter tells ExtractFramework.exe to extract both the 32 and 64 bit folders. If you are releasing a 32 bit, or 64 bit only application, you can use Win32 or Win64 in place of All. 

We include both Win32 and Win64 folders in our installers. During installation, we detect if the OS is 32 or 64 bit, and install the appropriate folder to the application’s program directory. Do not include the larger SolidFramework AnyCPU dll in your install, because a smaller, 32 or 64 bit version is included in the Win32 or Win64 folders that will be installed in the application’s program directory that satisfies the application’s reference to SolidFramework.dll.

v9.1 build 5015 of Solid Framework Released

We have just released an update to the Solid Framework SDK. A few of the highlights include:

• Improved rendering
• OCR improvements to French, German and Russian language
• Improved OCR support for san-serif high aspect ratio fixed pitch fonts
• Better table detection and conversion
• Improved font scaling
• Improved image processing

The SDK is available from the developer portal.

New release of Solid Framework v9 Available

v9 build 4823 of Solid Framework Released

We have just released a major update to the Solid Framework SDK. A few of the highlights include:

• Multi-processor parallel performance improvements with OCR (scanned PDF to Word, scanned PDF to PDF/A)
• Less complex XML output for .DOCX which improves machine consumption of output and improves editing of Word documents
• Many PDF to Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Excel and text conversion improvements
• Complex table reconstruction improvements
• Data recovery from scanned PDFs into Microsoft Excel

The SDK is available from the developer portal.