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.

Eating our own dog food ...

Eating your own dog food, also called dogfooding, is slang used to reference a scenario in which a company uses its own technology to demonstrate the quality and capabilities of the product.

All our v8 applications are built using Solid Framework.

The v8 rewrite was a conscious shift back to our core features: a focus on document reconstruction functionality. The rewrite was required to take advantage of 64-bit architectures and multi-core processors. A rewrite using Microsoft .NET was required so that we could engineer the product using our own Solid Framework SDK (unlike the older products which were based on legacy architecture).

We have confidence that our .NET Solid Framework SDK is the best document reconstruction SDK available on the market. We have built our latest desktop and batch solutions using this technology.

You can use Solid Framework with confidence too. Create a developer portal account and get started today.

Solid Framework 8.2.4053 Available

New release of Solid Framework SDK is available from the developer portal.

Solid Framework 8.1.3544

Solid Framework Update available: 8.1.3544.

Access dlls from the developer portal.

7.3 of Solid Framework Released

7.3 of Solid Framework Released

Solid OCR (Optical Character Recognition) has been improved:
8 languages now supported (English, Dutch, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish).
Improved text recognitions. OCR allows you to apply a searchable text layer when scanning or easily add a text layer to an existing scanned PDF file.

Other v7.3 improvements include:

• PDF to Word: heading/style detection, table of contents reconstruction, hierarchical list reconstruction
• Complete rework of PDF to PowerPoint reconstruction including transitions, master slides and PowerPoint specific layout engine
• Great improvements to PDF to HTML conversion to take advantage of table of contents reconstruction and style detection. Single page output with navigation frame or multiple linked HTML pages for navigation.
• PagesModel and Thumbnail Controls to allow construction of PDF page manipulation applications complete with User Interface.

Trial developer licenses and SDK available from the Developer Portal at soliddocuments.com.

How to change the configuration in your project to 64 bits

This example uses Visual Studio 2010.

1. Open your project in Visual Studio.  From the Build menu select Configuration Manager...

2. From the Active solution configuration menu select Debug or Release depending on what are you want to set up.

Then from the Active solution platform menu select New...

 



3. Select x64 (the Create new project platforms is checked by default).

4. Change the Copy settings from option to  Empty then click OK.

Code Samples and Video Tutorials

Did you know we now have Solid Framework video tutorials available from our website?

You can find them here under our documentation page.

Email us at support@soliddocuments.com to request other code samples.