Snowbound Announces Latest RasterMaster Imaging SDK Versions Featuring XML Annotations and Expanded MS Office and PDF Support
Automated document imaging functions decrease application development time, provide expert functionality; New PDF and Microsoft Office features facilitate development of more versatile applications
Watertown, MA (June 6, 2007) – Snowbound Software, a leading provider of powerful, flexible, and reliable imaging technology, today announced the availability of new versions of its RasterMaster™ Imaging SDK, including Version 16 for Microsoft® Windows (DLL, ActiveX®, and .NET™) and Version 11 for the Java™ Platform. The RasterMaster SDK, Toolkit and Library provides automated document imaging functions that decrease application development time while providing expert functionality and features including: document conversion, annotation, and manipulation. Through the user-friendly API, developers can easily build their applications with robust imaging capabilities. Notable enhancements for these releases include XML annotation capability and expanded support for PDF and Microsoft Office formats.
The XML annotation feature provides a portable data layer enabling annotations to be overlaid onto documents, burned into a document, or distributed outside of the document. By creating annotations in an XML format, that data can be used by back-end systems or end-users to index, search and be externally edited.
The latest PDF enhancements allow companies to build more capabilities directly into their applications to facilitate compliance, security and end-user productivity including:
- Ability to display text, FreeText, Ink, and Stamp annotations
- Ability to display AcroForm data entered into compatible PDF documents
- Faster decompression times enabling rapid retrieval and viewing of large, multi-page PDFs
RasterMaster’s MS Office enhancements further expand Snowbound’s functionality across the suite, enabling companies to build applications that seamlessly support MS Office documents including:
- Word – Support for varying page sizes, landscape view, color text, text boxes, objects, and updated Unicode characters—specifically for
Far East character sets - Excel® – Support for embedded images and color background and text in Excel documents
- Outlook® – Support for displaying plain text in the MSG email file format
- PowerPoint® – Text extraction allows population of custom database fields
“Our extensive support for key formats helps set us apart from other imaging SDKs and helps our customers build more efficient and valuable applications,” said James Palo, vice president of research and development at Snowbound Software. “We understand that our customers want their experience with the formats they rely on to be seamless in their applications. Delivering that experience is one of the key objectives that drives our development team forward.”
Additional enhancements to the RasterMaster imaging SDKs include expanded support for AFP, ASCII, and PCL. To learn more about the entire list of new features for RasterMaster for Windows v.16, .NET v.16, or Java v.11 Imaging SDKs visit www.snowbound.com.
Pricing and Availability
RasterMaster Imaging SDK, including Version 16 for Windows (DLL, ActiveX, and .NET) and Version 10 for Java, is available immediately. Pricing begins at $2,495 plus distribution.
About Snowbound Software
Snowbound Software develops technology that makes viewing, converting, and manipulating documents and images easy. Snowbound's expert imaging toolkits, powerful web viewers, and rapid batch conversion applications accurately support numerous file formats and are designed to increase productivity and profitability across many vertical markets. For more information please visit www.snowbound.com.
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