v4.2.0
4.2.0

Version 4.2.0

2026-09-20

New Features

・Added PDF-to-Markdown conversion and an online example; supports OCR, page ranges, images, annotations, formula-to-image conversion, per-page output, and AI-based layout analysis.

・Added examples for standards-compliant PDF conversion; supports standards such as PDF/A, PDF/X, PDF/E, and PDF/UA.

 

Enhanced Features

・Added an AI layout analysis option to PDF conversion features.

・Added documentation for the watermark layering parameter, allowing control over whether the watermark appears above or below the page content.

・Upgraded the conversion library to version 4.2.0.

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4.1.0

Version 4.1.0

2026-07-31

New Features

・Introduced ComPDF Web, allowing users to process PDF documents, Office files, and images directly from a browser.

・Introduced the Dashboard for monitoring service usage and managing deployment settings.

・Added PDF merge, split, extract, insert, delete, rotate, and compress tools.

・Added watermark, encryption, and decryption tools for PDF documents.

・Added conversion between PDF and Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, JSON, OFD, and searchable PDF.

・Added conversion from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, and images to PDF.

・Added image conversion to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, JSON, and PDF.

・Added configurable conversion options, including OCR language, page range, image handling, layout mode, and output quality.

・Added Dashboard for API Key display and API usage monitoring.

・Added request statistics for the last 24 hours, last week, and last month, including success status and average processing time.

・Added searchable operation logs with detailed event information and CSV export.

・Added account management for username, password, and profile avatar.

・Added brand settings for site name, logo, and theme color.

・Added one-command Docker Compose deployment for private environments.

・Added synchronous processing and asynchronous task workflows for application integration.

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3.2.0

Version 3.2.0

2025-08-13

Enhanced Features

1. PDF to Word

・Upgraded the Fixed layout to a Hybrid layout (combining Fixed and Flow layouts), significantly improving the editability of Word documents. The AI-powered hybrid layout ensures that over 80% of the resulting documents retain 100% of the original PDF layout.

・Added support for converting objects like tables of contents, ordered lists, and unordered lists. When these objects are detected and successfully recognized, the layout of the converted Word document will be significantly improved.

・Added support for converting header and footer objects. When headers and footers are detected, regardless of whether their content is text or images, they can be accurately converted into page elements.

・Added support for converting rotated text in PDF documents.

2. PDF to Excel

・Enhanced the structural restoration of complex tables using AI layout analysis technology, significantly improving table readability.

・Added support for applying different text styles within a cell in the resulting Excel document.

・Added support for inserting images into tables in the resulting Excel document.

・Enhanced the accuracy of text alignment within table cells in the resulting Excel document.

・Fixed issues related to incorrect table order.

3. PDF to Slide

・Added support for table conversion.

・Added support for converting ordered lists.

4. PDF to HTML

・Added support for Flow layout.

5. PDF to Image

・Added support for TIFF format. ・Added options to configure color modes (color, black & white, grayscale). ・Introduced a new Path enhancement option that improves the display of Path elements in PDF documents (increasing path width and color saturation).

6. PDF to Text

・Added support for preserving table styles.

7. PDF to RTF

・Added support for table conversion.

8. PDF to JSON

・Added support for preserving text content attributes and page number fields in the resulting JSON document.

9. PDF to Searchable PDF

・Added support for converting TIFF format images to PDF.

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3.0.0

Version 3.0.0

2024-08-30

New Features

1. PDF to JSON adds version 2, 11 new recognition tags.

・Text: Ordinary text type object, including text content.

・Text: Ordinary text type object, including text content.

・Image: Image type object, including the path of the image.

・Table and UnstdTable Table type object, including the content and structure of the table.

・Catalogue Catalogue type object, including the content of the catalogue.

・List and UnorderedList List type object, including the content of the list.

・Formula Formula type object, including the content of the formula.

・Header Header type object, including the content of the header.

・Footer Footer type object, including the content of the footer.

・PageNumber Page number type object, including the content of the page number.

・FigureTitle Figure title type object, including the content of the figure title.

・FigureCaption Figure caption type object, including the content of the figure caption.

2. PDF to TXT adds version 2, supports text style retention.

3. DocumentAI layout analysis adds 11 new recognition tags, refer to the above PDF to JSON new tags.

4. DocumentAI supports GPU operation.

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2.2.2

Version 2.2.2

2024-06-06

New Features

・Extract images (JPG, JPEG, BMP, PNG) into Json interface (needs to be based on OCR).

 

Issues Addressed

・The problem of converting scanned PDF files into editable PDFs and occupying source file resources is not released.

・Some special hyperlink types document crash problem.

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2.2.1

Version 2.2.1

2024-03-28

New Features

・PDF and image conversion, support setting OCR recognition language

 

Issues Addressed

・Reduce the misrecognition rate of forms

・Optimize the problem of image layer loss

・Fixed a small probability of blank table overwriting problem

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2.1.0

Version 2.1.0

2024-03-20

New Features

・Supported creating, editing, deleting replies, and setting status for PDF annotations.

 

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2.0.0

Version 2.0.0

2024-03-04

New Features

・Added support for converting scanned PDF files to searchable PDF files.

・Added support for converting images to Word, Excel, Slide, HTML, TXT, CSV, and RTF.

・Added support for table recognition in the flowing text layout when converting PDF to Word.

 

Issues Addressed

・Optimized the conversion effect when converting PDF to Excel and outputting the entire PDF document content in one worksheet.

・Fixed the issue of conversion failure when the incoming file path contains the '%' symbol.

・Updated the error codes of the underlying library when converting files.

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1.4.0

Version 1.4.0

2024-01-16

New Features

・Added support for automatic update of License permissions, features, and validity periods without stopping the project.

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1.3.0

Version 1.3.0

2023-12-29

New Features

・Added support for automatically releasing the memory of the container via asynchronous API requests.

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1.2.0

Version 1.2.0

2023-12-01

New Features

・Added support for extracting the tables from PDFs to JSON.

・Added support for extracting the text from PDFs to JSON.

・Added support for OCR when converting PDFs to Word, Excel, PPT, HTML, RTF, TXT, and JSON.

・Added support for keeping the PDF annotations like highlight, underline, strikeout, and squiggly when converting PDF to Word, PPT, and HTML.

・Added support for keeping the hyperlinks in PDFs when converting PDF to Word, PPT, and HTML.

・Added support for keeping the PDF annotations like underline and strikeout when converting PDF to Excel (Only takes effect in extracting text).

・Added support for the features of Document AI: OCR, layout analysis, table recognition, image sharpening enhancement, trim correction, and stamp inspection.

・Added support for processing PDFs:

Merge and split PDF files.

Insert, extract, delete, and rotate PDF pages.

Add and delete PDF watermarks.

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1.1.0

Version 1.1.0

2023-11-06

New Features


Viewer

・Added support for multiple display modes, such as single page, double page, and cover mode.

・Added support for multiple navigation modes, such as thumbnails, outlines, and bookmarks.

・Added support for text search & selection. Support for full-text search in PDF documents, easy to get search results and navigate.

・Added support for page resizing, allowing you to choose from 10% to 1000% of the zoom ratio to display the page, or through the "zoom in" and "zoom out" buttons to change the document zoom ratio. Supports full-screen mode to view page content.

・Added support for switching between different themes, including light mode and dark mode.

・Added support for vertical scrolling and horizontal scrolling to view page content.

・Added support for downloading, printing, and saving as flattened PDF.


Annotations

・Added support for adding, editing, and deleting all types of PDF annotations, including Note, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, Strikeout, Ink, FreeText, and so on.

・Added support for importing and exporting annotations to/from XFDF.

・Added support for using the annotation list to view all the annotated content of the document.


Forms

・Added support for creating, filling, and editing forms, including Text Fields, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, List boxes, Combo boxes, Push buttons, and so on.

・Added support for setting the form properties, including the name, the visibility, the text style, the appearance, the check style, and so on.


Signatures

・Added support for multiple signatures, such as drawn signatures, typed signatures, and image signatures.

・Added support for setting signature properties, such as the color and line width for drawn signatures, and the font style and color for font-based signatures.


Security

・Added support for encrypting and decrypting PDFs, allowing you to set passwords and permission to protect your documents.


Document Comparison

・Added support for document comparison — Overlay Comparison. Allow setting the color, transparency, blending mode, etc. for document comparison.

・Added support for viewing document comparison results by categories, such as viewing the same content of the document, and the content added, replaced, or deleted in the document.

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1.0.0

Version 1.0.0

2023-10-20

ComPDF for Linux is an SDK for generating, annotating, redacting, and converting PDFs. It provides developers with a rich set of APIs that can quickly add PDF functionalities to any Linux application. It can be deployed to your local server, the user's cloud server, etc., and users can realize PDF functions through HTTP requests.

 

Developers can easily access and integrate this API using various programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, PHP, .NET, etc. No need to worry about the compatibility between the programming language with the API. PDF SDK private deployment has higher data security and stronger controllability, but it also makes PDF document conversion more efficient.

 

ComPDF for Linux V1.0.0 supports the function points of PDF conversion and Office conversion, the specific file conversion formats are as follows:

・PDF to Word: Convert PDF files to Word (.docx) documents.

・PDF to Excel: Convert PDF files to Excel (.xlsx) documents.

・PDF to PPT: Convert PDF files to PowerPoint (.pptx) documents.

・PDF to HTML: Convert PDF files to HTML (.zip) documents.

・PDF to Image: Convert PDF files to Image (.zip) documents.

・PDF to TXT: Convert PDF files to TXT (.txt) documents.

・PDF to CSV: Convert PDF files to CSV (.zip or .csv) documents.

・PDF to RTF: Convert PDF files to RTF (.RTF) documents.

・Word to PDF: Convert Word (.doc or .docx) files to PDF documents.

・Excel to PDF: Convert Excel (.xls or .xlsx) files to PDF documents.

・PPT to PDF: Convert PPT (.ppt or .pptx) files to PDF documents.

・Image to PDF: Convert Image (.png) files to PDF documents.

・TXT to PDF: Convert TXT (.txt) files to PDF documents.

・HTML to PDF: Convert HTML (.html) files to PDF documents.

・RTF to PDF: Convert the RTF (.rtf) files to PDF documents.

・CSV to PDF: Convert CSV (.csv) files to PDF documents.


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・Developer Guides: https://www.compdf.com/guides/pdf-sdk/processor/overview

・API Page: https://api.compdf.com/

・Contact Sales: https://api.compdf.com/contact-us

・Technical Issues Feedback: https://www.compdf.com/support

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