Thursday, September 27, 2012

Select PDF Image & Extract Text from Image of PDF File in the Cloud

What's New in this Release?
PDF files are widely used among developers as these are easy to create and manipulate with maximum security. PDF files are portable and support interactive functions that make it more popular among different file formats. Now, there might be scenarios where you need to extract text from PDF files. Saaspose.Pdf allows you to extract text from Pdf files in no time. You can also extract text from images using a combination of features of two REST APIs i.e. Saaspose.Pdf and Saaspose.OCR. Consider a scenario where you need to extract text from an image in the PDF file. For this, first you need to extract image from PDF file using Saaspose.Pdf REST API. Once you have extracted the image from PDF file, you can now extract the text from image using  Saaspose.OCR REST API. Saaspose.OCR allows you to extract text from BMP and TIFF images. You can extract text and recognize characters from the documents in the cloud using Saaspose.OCR API. You can also recognize the font attributes from extracted text such as font type, font style and font size throughSaaspose.OCR.  A series of simple steps allows you to extract the text from images from PDF files in the cloud:
  • Extract image from PDF files using Saaspose.Pdf
  • Extract text from images using Saaspose.OCR
We have REST and SDK examples for different programming language that you can utilize to extract text from PDF files or images.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Pdf documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Pdf  for performing different tasks like the followings.
About Saaspose
Saaspose is a new cloud-based document generation, conversion and automation platform for developers that offer a unique suite of APIs to work with Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs, and email formats and protocols. It supports all features for file processing, document scanning, barcodes creation and recognition, and allows extracting text or images too. You can also work with SaaSpose APIs using REST SDKs that can be called from .NET, Java, PHP and Ruby etc.
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Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465

Monday, September 24, 2012

Get Number of Images in a Slide or Presentation & Save Slide as Image

What's New in this Release?
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Slides. With this new release of Saaspose.Slides, you can manage images in your presentations using Saaspose.Slides REST API. There might be scenarios where there are a number of images used in your presentations. Using Saaspose.Slides, you can get all the number of images in presentation. You can also get the number of images in a single slide. Saaspose.Slides allows you to get image count from a presentation uploaded at Amazon S3 storage. Saaspose.Slides offers another aspect of images and presentations i.e.  you can save slide as an image. You can also save a slide as an image with specified size and use it accordingly in your applications. Whether, it’s getting image count from presentations or saving a slide as an image, Saaspose.Slides has it all with quick and productive results. You can utilize our SDK and REST examples to manage images in your presentations using Saaspose.Slides REST API.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Slides documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Saaspose.Slides
Saaspose.Slides is a REST based API that allows developers to read, write & modify a PowerPoint presentations in cloud. It is platform independent API & can be used by developers in web, desktop, mobile & cloud applications alike. It provides a rich set of features like creating presentation from scratch, modify various aspect of a presentation & converting a presentation to PDF, XPS, TIFF, SVG, HTML, PNG, JPEG, GIF & BMP formats. It helps you add, modify or extract text from the presentation.
More about Saaspose.Slides
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Create Barcode Image on Local System or Saaspose Image Storage in Cloud

What's New in this Release?
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Barcode. Saaspose.Barcode provides two approaches used to create barcode. Firstly, you can upload the desired file to Saaspose Storage using Saaspose REST API. Then you can generate barcode image using Saaspose.Barcode REST examples. You can also use Saaspose.Barcode SDK examples for generating the barcode image from the file uploaded on Saaspose Storage for different languages like .NET, Java, Ruby and PHP. Another way is to directly generate barcode image on your local system using Saaspose.Barcode REST API and SDKs without saving the file to Saaspose Storage. You can use the file path or stream to generate barcode image using Saaspose.Barcode REST API. The file is sent through request stream to Saaspose servers, processed and the output is sent back as response stream. In this case, the file is not saved on Saaspose Storage. It is a single call process that uploads the file to server, generates the barcode image, sends the generated image as response stream and deletes the source file from the server. Please refer to Saaspose.Barcode documentation for more details on its features. So, with this simple set of features you can generate barcode image either from local file or stream in the cloud. Being a platform independent API, Saaspose.Barcode can work with other File Format APIs across any platform using any programming language.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Barcode documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Barcode for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Saaspose.Barcode
Saaspose.Barcode is a cloud based REST API that helps developers to generate new barcode images from scratch, recognize barcodes from images, specify barcode text attributes, set barcode image characteristics like width, height, border style, output format etc. Developers can create barcode using more than 40 symbologies like (1D) EAN13, EAN8, UPCA, UPCE barcode, MSI & Code11 (2D) like PDF417, DataMatrix, Aztec, QR, Italian Post 25 & postal types like Postnet, Planet, USPS OneCode & many more.
More about Saaspose.Barcode
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465

Monday, September 17, 2012

Get List of all Attachments in PDF File & Download Selected Attachment

What's New in this Release?
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Pdf. This new release offers a powerful collection of features that help you manage attachments in PDF files. You can download the attachments from PDF files and save them for further use. You can also get the list of all attachments within the PDF file. Using Saaspose.PDF, you can choose to get the selected attachment from PDF files. Saaspose.PDF also allows you to get the number of attachments in a PDF file. This set of features is simple to use yet yields desired results in no time. You can improve the productivity of your applications by using these features for your PDF files in the cloud. All you need is to download the desired SDK from Github.com and get started with managing the attachments of your PDF files. Saaspose.PDF is a REST API that helps to create, edit and manipulate PDF files across any platform, using any programming language. Whether its text or image extraction from PDF files or converting PDF files to other file formats, Saaspose.PDF has a variety of features to provide these features. You can refer to our documentation that guides through the features and examples of Saaspose.Pdf. By using Saaspose.Pdf SDKs, you can download the attachments in PDF file or you can also get selected attachment from the PDF file.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Pdf documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Pdf  for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Saaspose.Pdf 
Saaspose.Pdf is a REST API to create, edit & manipulate PDF files. It also convert PDF file to DOC, DOCX, HTML, XPS, TIFF etc. You can create a new PDF either from scratch or from HTML, XML, template, database, XPS or an image. A PDF file can also be rendered to JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and many other image formats. It works with any language like .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python and many others. It is platform independent REST API & working with web, desktop, mobile or cloud applications alike.
More about Saaspose.Pdf
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Get, Set, Remove & Manage Document Properties of PDF Files by REST API

What's New in this Release?
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Pdf. This new release now allows developers to manage document properties of PDF files using Saaspose.Pdf REST API. Using Saaspose.Pdf, you can set a single document property. This REST API allows you to get all properties of document or you may choose to get a specific property from documents. You can also remove all document properties or any single property of your presentation using Saaspose.Pdf REST API. You can utilize our SDK and REST examples to manage document properties of PDF files in the cloud.It requires a simple step, download the required SDK from Github.com and incorporate the useful features into your application. For more details, please refer to Saaspose.Pdf documentation. Using Saaspose.Pdf API, you can manage document properties of presentations such as get or remove all properties of a document and set a single document property. You can integrate Saaspose.Pdf with other File Format APIs to use a variety of features for better productivity of your application.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Pdf documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Pdf  for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Saaspose.Pdf 
Saaspose.Pdf is a REST API to create, edit & manipulate PDF files. It also convert PDF file to DOC, DOCX, HTML, XPS, TIFF etc. You can create a new PDF either from scratch or from HTML, XML, template, database, XPS or an image. A PDF file can also be rendered to JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and many other image formats. It works with any language like .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python and many others. It is platform independent REST API & working with web, desktop, mobile or cloud applications alike.
More about Saaspose.Pdf
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465

Monday, September 10, 2012

Extract Shapes from Images of Particular Slide or Presentation in Cloud

What's New in this Release?
Saaspose development team is proud to announce the new release of Saaspose.Slides. While working with presentations, it often requires extracting shapes from images added in the slides. With this new release of Saaspose.Slides, you can extract shapes from images and use them as per your requirements. This feature allows you to access the shapes in presentation images, extract shapes from presentation collection and save them in a file. Saaspose.Slides REST API checks for each image added in the presentations and looks for any shape added in the slide images. It extracts the shapes and saves it in a file. You can use the shapes that are extracted from the presentations and saved in the file. Using Saaspose.Slides, you can also extract shapes from a particular slide uploaded at Amazon S3 storage. You can utilize our SDK and REST examples to extract shapes from a particular slide in PowerPoint presentations using Saaspose.Slides features in your applications. Saaspose.Slides not only supports several features for processing the presentations, it also collaborates with other File Format APIs to create the best combination of features for better results. It is a flexible REST API and can be used with any language of your choice across any platform.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose.Slides documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose.Slides for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Saaspose.Slides
Saaspose.Slides is a REST based API that allows developers to read, write & modify a PowerPoint presentations in cloud. It is platform independent API & can be used by developers in web, desktop, mobile & cloud applications alike. It provides a rich set of features like creating presentation from scratch, modify various aspect of a presentation & converting a presentation to PDF, XPS, TIFF, SVG, HTML, PNG, JPEG, GIF & BMP formats. It helps you add, modify or extract text from the presentation.
More about Saaspose.Slides
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Add, Remove, Hide/Unhide or Move Worksheet in Workbooks in the Cloud

What’s new in this release?
The latest version of Saaspose.Cells contains a collection of features that helps to manage your worksheets. You can add a new worksheet in your workbooks. You can hide a worksheet in your document, and you may choose to unhide a worksheet in a workkbook as required. You can also move a worksheet within a workbook. Moreover, Saaspose.Cells allows you to remove a worksheet from permanently from your document. Saaspose.Cells is a feature-rich API that helps you in manipulating the worksheets using different features. We have SDK and REST examples for Saaspose.Cells REST API that help you utilize it for your applications in the cloud. You can refer to our REST and SDK examples for different programming languages. Saaspose.Cells not only supports various features for worksheet management but it also collaborates with other File Format APIs to enhance your experience of document manipulation in different file formats. You can easily manage your worksheets using Saaspose.Cells REST API in the cloud.
Newly added documentation pages and articles
Some new tips and articles have now been added into Saaspose documentation that may guide you briefly how to use Saaspose APIs on Amazon S3 Storage for performing different tasks like the followings.
Overview: Saaspose.Cells
Saaspose.Cells is a REST based API for processing spreadsheets in the cloud. It allows creating, manipulating and converting spreadsheets in your web, desktop, mobile and cloud applications. It supports rows, columns, cells, text, data, images, hyperlinks, comments, formulas & many other aspects of spreadsheet. It can be used with any language to incorporate the spreadsheet processing features in any type of business application. It is a platform independent API & can be used with any language.
More about Saaspose.Cells
Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465

Monday, September 3, 2012

Saaspose.Newsletter September 2012 Edition is Out Now!

Saaspose Newsletter for August 2012 has now been published that highlights all newly added information, exciting new features & informative blogs about Saaspose APIs & SDKs. This month Saaspose.Words, Saaspose.Cells & Saaspose.Slides have introduced new features for finding & replacing text inside workbooks, Word documents & PowerPoint presentations.  Apart from that Saaspose team have also added features for word documents, PowerPoint presentations & PDF files conversion to other file formats.
Tip of the Month: Invitation to Get Involved In Beta Release of Heroku Add-On
We’re very much excited to share a good news with Heroku lovers! As Saaspose is a platform and language independent REST API, we want to make sure that we provide examples, SDKs, add-ons, and plug-ins for your favorite language and platform. Our team has been working to integrate our REST API with Heroku and creating Heroku add-on to get you started with this platform. We have created different examples for Java, Ruby and Python for now. You can also download the source code of these examples from Github.
Our team has put a great deal of effort into bringing this add-on up quickly along with simple getting started documentation and examples etc. Now, we welcome all of you to be part of it during the beta stage. As you understand, we’ll have to invite interested users to be part of this beta release. So, if you want to get involved and peek into our Heroku add-on before it goes public, please send us an email at support@saaspose.com with the title ‘Invitation for Heroku Add-On’, and we’ll send you an invitation. Click here to view simple getting started documentation:
Best of Saaspose API Blogs
Stay tuned with the recent updates, features and announcements of Saaspose APIs through Saaspose Blog.
Latest From the Documentation
We have added many examples for various features of Saaspose File Format APIs in our documentation during the month of August. We have added various features to these file format APIs such as Saaspose.Pdf and Saaspose.Slides. These features include execute mail merge template, add watermark text and image, create PDF from XML, replace text in a slide etc. You may view a complete list of examples for each API in the following announcement posts:
Saaspose API SDK Updates
 We have introduced features in our SDK for Java during the month of August 2012. There is a list of features available for each API on Github and you can download the required SDK. These new features are added in Saaspose.Slides REST API. These updates include a set of features for replacing text in PowerPoint documents. For more details, you may refer to the following announcement about Saaspose REST API Features Implemented in SDKs During the Month of August 2012  
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Contact Information
Aspose Pty Ltd, Suite 163,
79 Longueville Road
Lane Cove, NSW, 2066
Australia
Saaspose - Your File Format Experts 2.0
sales@aspose.com
Phone: 1.214.329.1520
Fax: 866.810.9465