DocsCorp has launched a major upgrade to its pdfDocs, its PDF management application that integrates with business applications and systems for assembling, editing and distributing business-critical documents in PDF and PDF/A.

pdfDocs 4.1 is a complete redesign with a MS Office 2010/13 look and feel, including Backstage view and Ribbon menus. The modern user interface reduces complexity and clutter, allowing the user to focus on the task at hand. This will also reduce training requirements as it works like most of the standard applications on a user’s desktop.

Docscorp promised that users will also see significant speed improvements in software performance, as well as streamlined workflows. These enhancements have been achieved through a combination of new technologies and the availability of multi-core CPUs.

pdfDocs 4.1 now works independently of Organizer and Binder Projects. Single Document mode eliminates the need to use Adobe Reader. Simply double-click on any PDF on your desktop or email attachment, edit and save the PDF to your desktop or directly into your document management system.

Improved inline text editing makes it easier to make changes to PDF documents and a redeveloped PDF Editor pane allows you to easily review and edit PDF content. Forms capabilities are now standard in pdfDocs including formfilling and design.

The OCR module extends document workflows to digitise business information contained in paper documents and image files, which can be converted to MS Word, or text-searchable PDF. The OCR module supports more than 180 languages.

Digital signatures can be applied to sign or validate a form or document and a series of E-Learning modules can be accessed from within pdfDocs 4.1.

Commenting on the new pdfDocs 4.1 design and development, Dean Sappey, President DocsCorp, said that the company had invested over USD $2 million in the product over the past 12 months with more than 80% of the original pdfDocs code being rewritten in the latest development languages. cleanDocs, compareDocs and contentCrawler have also been redesigned with the same, modern user interface.

"With more and more of our clients deploying all of the companion products from our document productivity suite, we felt it was important to standardize the interface so users could work on any number of document production tasks no matter what the application or device. This investment will ensure we continue to deliver a technology that is future-proofed to our customers worldwide."

pdfDocs provides out-of-the-box integration with MS Office, HP WorkSite, HP TRIM, OpenText eDOCS DM, OpenText ContentServer, NetDocuments ProLaw, Worldox and many other systems.