Accusoft has announced the release of PDF Xpress v5, a PDF SDK, which includes support for the latest PDF versions, new support for PDF portfolio and attachments, and the ability to extract images and pages from a PDF.

Using PDF Xpress developers will be able to build more feature rich applications by giving users more control over PDF documents. Developers can now build a portfolio PDF viewer that can view all of the attachments of a PDF Portfolio, as well as add and remove PDF attachments.

Legal professionals often need to share information about cases. All case related documents can be contained in a PDF portfolio, which can contain images, Word documents, spreadsheets and more, all in one single PDF document.

PDF Xpress v5 provides support for PDF portfolios, allowing developers of legal applications the ability to create viewers or report on the contents of the case PDF portfolio during discovery.

"PDF Xpress v5 is a high level SDK that requires very little code to add PDF functionality to document imaging applications," said Steve Wilson, Director of Native Core Imaging at Accusoft.

"Among the many new features available, users can now extract images and pages contained in a PDF, which expands their ability to access and reuse the information in a document."

The ability to extract each image in a PDF and extract pages from a PDF document are also new features with PDF Xpress v5. Users can now easily move, add and delete groups of pages, or extract specific pages from a PDF document. PDF Xpress v5 can even automatically create a new PDF document using the extracted pages.

Image extraction from a PDF file is useful when creating web pages, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, etc. from images contained in a source PDF document. For example, web developers can utilise images and text from a PDF to produce web content. The uncompressed image data can be extracted and easily passed to other Accusoft components for further image processing.

Finally, users have greater control over PDF properties with the version 5 release. Developers can add and edit the properties of hyperlinks, determine the PDF version of a document and change bookmark properties with PDF Xpress v5.
For more information or to download PDF Xpress, visit http://www.accusoft.com/pdfxpress.htm.