1. Fixed an issue that caused actions to ignore file extensions during processing.
2. Fixed an issue in the Split/Merge Documents action where invalid characters in generated document names could cause output documents to be saved with incorrect names.

1. Added a 'Split by Text' method to the Split/Merge Documents action, allowing documents to be split using various page text criteria.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Added bookmark level range options to the 'Split by Bookmarks' method in the Split/Merge Documents action to control which bookmark levels are used as split boundaries. The method was renamed from 'Split by Top Bookmarks'.

1. Fixed the issue where folder monitor reports were overwritten instead of being appended to existing files.

1. Fixed an issue that could cause the application to crash when editing preferences. (48617)
2. Fixed the issue where the 'Ignore Pages Range' checkbox was not updated after resetting the action.
3. Fixed the issue where the Folder Monitor processed files without extensions even when a file type filter was specified.

1. Added a 'Find Duplicate Pages' action, which detects sets of duplicate pages and passes them to the next action, excluding the first page in each set.
2. Added a 'Delete Duplicate Pages' tool, which deletes duplicate pages in each detected set of duplicates, except for the first page.
3. Added a new merge method for the 'Split/Merge Documents' action, which merges all documents from each source directory into a single output document.
4. Added a warning for actions that execute JavaScript in scripts created by other authors.
5. Added a paper size filter to the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions. Also added a page count filter to the 'Filter Pages' action. (47238)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue where the 'Create PDF Portfolio' tool would fail when the portfolio contained only a small number of files.
2. Fixed the behavior of the 'PDF to Audio' action dialog box when the 'Read Out Loud' plug-in is not available.
3. Fixed an issue where some user preferences were unexpectedly reset to their default values.
4. Fixed an issue where the file types in the 'Choose Input Files' action became empty while editing the list of tool actions.
5. Fixed an inconsistency between the tool order shown in the Shell Menu category and the actual order in the Explorer Shell Menu. (48326)
6. Fixed an issue that caused incomplete settings updates when multiple instances of the application were running. (47153)
7. Fixed an issue with the warning display in the 'Debug Log Preferences' sheet when returning to the initial settings. (48050)
8. Fixed an issue where folder monitors failed to reconnect to a network folder. (T# 7636)
9. Added a confirmation prompt to stop running tools when closing system sessions.
10. Added an automatic reconnection feature to folder monitors for cases where network source folders become temporarily unavailable.
11. Improved tool keyword display during search by excluding duplicate keywords from different actions.

1. Fixed an issue where the 'General' and 'Shell Menu' preferences were reset to their default values when modifying other settings.

1. Added the ability to specify a page range for each item in Files Lists (*.pdtfl) using special syntax. For example: <1-3, All> D:/Folder/Document.pdf.
2. Added a 'Recolor Pages' tool/action, which applies color adjustments to document pages, including colorizing, remapping colors, and converting to black and white/grayscale.
3. Added a "Shell Menu" settings page (Options → Preferences → Shell Menu) that allows users to configure the behavior of tools launched from the Shell Menu, such as sorting input files and defining UI interaction.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue where the application window could be incorrectly shown or hidden during a command-line run.
2. Fixed an issue where input files were incorrectly sorted by modification date.
3. Fixed an issue where filtering files by extension in the file list did not work correctly.
4. Fixed an issue where the application would sometimes crash on startup. (46643)
5. Fixed an issue where the 'None' color option was missing for region appearance in the 'Redact Regions' action. (46573)
6. Fixed an issue where Shell Menu tools might not be imported when using 'Import Settings' from the "Manage Settings" page. (46814)
7. Fixed an issue where processed files were not handled according to the settings in Tool Options → All Options → Input Files. (46386)
8. Fixed an issue where the sound at the end of tool operation was not played even when the "Play sound when tool processing ends" option was enabled. (46781)
9. Fixed an issue where a would tool fail to correctly determine the input file types and apply the Compound Filter, which in some cases prevented the tool from starting. (46783)
10. Moved the 'Extract Pages' tool to the 'Pages' tools category.
11. Updated the 'Images to PDF' action so that, when run with multiple images, output PDFs are named after the first image used, instead of using a predefined file name.

1. Added an 'Add Attachments' tool/action, which enables users to attach files to PDF documents by specifying the file location and/or a filename mask.
2. Added the 'Populate Forms' tool/action, which enables users to create PDF documents from PDF templates.
3. Added the 'Add root bookmarks with folder structure' option to the 'Split/Merge Documents' action when the merge method is set to 'All to one'. This option creates a bookmark tree that reflects the folder structure of the input files. (44953)
4. Added the 'Autostart' option for the Folder Monitor, which defines whether the Folder Monitor should start at system startup. (44332)
5. Added the 'Resolve Unknown Named Destinations during Bookmarks Import' option, which checks for bookmarks pointing to named destinations and replaces any invalid destinations with page target equivalents. (44447)
6. Added an option to 'Remove trailing dots/spaces in the path of saved files', which fixes user-defined paths in order to prevent the creation of ghost folders.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed the issue with rendering thumbnails for narrow or short pages in the extended 'Choose Input Files' dialog box.
2. Fixed the issue where user dialog boxes or prompts could be shown during a command line run, or when in folder monitor mode.
3. Fixed the issue with the 'Export Bookmarks to Text File' action that prevented it from working and resulted in the error 'The system cannot find the file specified'. (46180)
4. Fixed the issue where the application failed to process files when launched from the command line with a folder as the input. (45625)
5. Fixed the issue that prevented some JavaScript commands from executing due to insufficient permissions.
6. Fixed the issue where running the 'Reset Forms' or 'Import Forms' action caused an application crash.
7. Added the ability to define filename masks for data sources in the 'Import Comments' and 'Import Form Data' actions. This option also enables the import of multiple data source files.

1. Fixed an issue where progress cancellation could hang when tools were running with the 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' option enabled.
2. Fixed an issue where the taskbar progress bar was displayed incorrectly when running tools multiple times.

1. Added a 'Redact Regions' tool/action that allows users to redact content in PDF documents within user-defined regions.
2. Added a 'Create PDF from Web Pages' tool/action that creates PDFs from web pages specified by a URL, or from local files in *.htm, *.html, or *.mhtml formats.
3. Added an 'Add Links from Barcodes' tool/action that finds barcodes on document pages and adds links to them.
4. Added a 'Pause' button to the tool run progress window, which allows users to pause tool runs when required.
5. Added a %[RelPath] macro that inserts the relative path of files from their root folders. The macro is assigned a value only if the file is located within a subdirectory of the specified root folder. The root folder can be specified using the 'Select Folder' option in the 'Choose Input Files' action, or as a line in a 'Files List' file (*.pdtfl).
6. Added the ability to rename custom tools in Tools View, without entering the Tool Edit View, using either a toolbar command or the F2 hotkey. (40564)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with digital signature templates that use an external images disappearing after an application restart. (T# 7217) (35136, 28955)
2. Fixed an issue where the %[FolderName] macro was missing from several action macro popup menus.
3. Fixed an issue in the 'Flatten Comments' action that could lead to incorrect comment deletion.
4. Fixed an issue where input files were sorted by name when running tools via the command line. The order of input files is now preserved, unless the 'sort' command line option is specified. (43634)
5. Fixed an issue with irregular label text in the 'Filter Files' action dialog box and its description. (44735)
6. Improved the save process, which now has an increased performance in most cases when 'Multi-threaded Processing Mode' is enabled.

1. Fixed an issue that could lead to performance drops when saving documents using the 'Save Documents' action.
2. Fixed an issue with the application of page ranges of inputs in the 'Add Barcode' action.
3. Fixed an issue where the 'Place' parameter was not always saved when using the 'Choose Input Files' and 'Save' action.
4. Fixed an issue where the 'Export to Images' and 'Extract Images' actions prompted for the owner password multiple times when running in Multi-Threaded Processing mode.
5. Fixed an issue where the 'Extract Images from PDF' action would skip images when 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' was enabled.
6. Fixed an issue where relative paths specified in the filename option of save actions were not expanded correctly. (44225)

1. Fixed an issue with text report duplication when using the /Log:shared command (44065)

1. Fixed an issue with folder monitors missing subfolders that were moved to monitored folders. (43752)
2. Fixed an issue with processing the output of the 'Export PDF to Images' and 'Extract Images from PDF' actions when 'Multi-Threaded Processing' mode is enabled.
3. Fixed an issue with the output folder of the 'Save Documents' action when the folder parameter is specified in the command line and a local place is selected in the action's UI.

1. Added an option to exclude folders and files in the 'Choose Input Files' action when using the 'Select folder' and 'Select file list' options.
2. Added an option to enable a Debug Log file (via Options -> Preferences -> Debug), which contains messages about the application's operation.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed the issue with the 'Replace Pages' action where pages were not replaced when the action was configured during a run of the tool.
2. Fixed the issue where the incorrect 'Enter Password' dialog box appeared when adding a password to Predefined Passwords storage.
3. Fixed the issue with the incorrect processing of filenames in the 'Save Images' action when filenames are defined in a previous action (e.g. in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action).
4. Fixed the issue with adding a redundant bookmark in the 'Split/Merge document' action when the options 'Insert blank page after document' and 'Add root bookmark with filename' are enabled. (T# 7085)
5. Improved performance when processing PDF documents in the 'Export PDF to Images' and 'Extract Images from PDF' actions with 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' enabled.

1. Fixed an issue that led to crashes when applying an XMP metadata template to the 'Change Document Properties' action while the tool ran with the 'Multi-threaded processing mode' option enabled. (42484)
2. Fixed an issue that sometimes resulted in files being destroyed (saved with 0 bytes) when the tool opereation was cancelled. (41680)
3. Fixed an issue with the 'Ignore Input Page Range' option that caused some input documents to be excluded from further processing. (42418)
4. Fixed the issue with applying the %[RegExp] macro when processing multiple input documents. (42720)
5. Fixed an issue with the 'Delete Empty Pages' option of the 'Delete Pages' action that caused single-page documents to be excluded from further processing.
6. Fixed an issue with the case sensitivity of some macro names that led to the processing output of actions such as 'Find by Regular Expression' and 'Run JavaScript' being ignored.
7. Fixed an issue with the /Log:full command line option that caused warning messages to not be saved in the output log file.
8. Fixed an issue with applying macros in the 'Send Mail' action.
9. Fixed an issue with the 'Filename' option of save actions. This issue permitted the creation of folders with trailing spaces and periods in the name, which resulted in an inability to remove them and irregular output structures. (42737)

1. Added an 'Add Barcode' tool/action that adds barcodes with user-specified data to documents.
2. Added a 'Run JavaScript' tool/action that runs user-defined JavaScript code snippets for input documents.
3. Added a 'Normalize Pages' tool/action that adjusts the position and rotation of pages/content in documents.
4. Added an 'Identify Forms' tool/action that identifies form fields in document content.
5. Added the option of navigating through list items using the keyboard in the 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog box.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue that could result in the 'The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process' error when 'multi-threaded processing mode' is enabled. (41679)
2. Fixed an issue that could lead to the 'The specified file cannot be found' error when 'multi-threaded processing mode' is enabled. (42096)
3. Fixed an issue that resulted in applying the 'Successfully processed files' action (Tool Info/Tool Edit View -> Tool settings -> All Options -> Input Files group) to input files that were not processed. (40506)
4. Fixed an issue where only a font subset was embedded when using 'Convert to PDF/A' in conjunction with Microsoft Word documents.
5. Fixed an issue with missing 'Allow Copy Serial Keys' and 'Allow Auto-Upgrade Serial Keys' administrative templates.
6. Fixed an issue that could result in the application freezing when 'multi-threaded processing mode' is disabled.
7. Fixed an issue with document names when using the 'Keep doc as is' method in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action.
8. Fixed an issue that caused an inability to define a page ranges for the 'Delete Pages', 'PDF to Audio', 'Delete All Comments', and 'Delete Markup Annotations' actions.

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Save Images' action that was causing the inability to save multipage images.
2. Fixed an issue with converting email/msg files to PDF.

1. Added a 'Move Pages' tool/action that enables the reordering of pages within PDF documents.
2. Added functionality that enables the reordering of tools in Tool Categories. Users can now Drag&Drop any tool to their preferred position, or use predefined sorting by the tool's name, creation date, modified date, or last used date. Predefined sorting can be applied via the context menu in the Tools List.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with the inability to keep custom settings in the 'Print Document' action. This led to an inability to use the action in Folder Monitors, or to have multiple tools with different settings. (41010)
2. Fixed an issue where the 'Set Security' action failed on the first input when running without any preliminary setup.
3. Fixed an issue with autonumbering documents in the 'Save Documents' action after using the 'Split/Merge Documents' tool.
4. Fixed an issue that caused presets to not be saved in action setup dialogs in cases where the user modified only the presets and not the action settings.
5. Fixed an issue with resetting the shell menu tools when performing the 'Reset All Settings' operation.
6. Fixed an issue that could corrupt the Predefined Passwords Storage.
7. Fixed an issue that caused the application to become unresponsive when attempting to run, from the command line, a tool or shortcut that has a critical problem.
8. Fixed an issue with some UI colors in 'Dark Mode'.
9. Fixed an issue with undo/redo for the delete action when editing the actions list of tools.
10. Fixed numerous issues with tool naming when creating, editing, or cloning tools.

1. Fixed an issue that made it impossible to recreate corrupted password storage (local) in some cases.

1. Fixed an issue that resulted in incorrect 'Split/Merge Documents' dialog box content when 'Batch Processing Mode' and 'Show Dialog for Manual Split/Merge' options are enabled. (40762)
2. Fixed an issue that led to the inability to use the 'Save Documents' action's 'Use Source Folder as Destination' option in some cases when the source folder was from a user-specified 'Place'.
3. Fixed an issue with the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions that could lead to incorrectly filtering results.

1. Added 'External Links' and 'Document Info' search options for the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions.
2. Added a 'showprompt' parameter for the /RunTool Command Line option. (40622)
3. Added support for the 'Append to existing document' option for text-based file types (*.csv, *.txt, *.ptdfl).
4. Added support for the '%[BatesValue]' macro in the 'Change Document Properties' and 'Save Documents' actions.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Choose Input Files' action's 'Compound Filter' when using folder monitors. (39731)
2. Fixed an issue that could result in application variables not being saved when editing their preferences.
3. Fixed an issue when overwriting a file with itself on remote storage.
4. Fixed an issue with incorrectly applying options from the 'Tool Options' > 'Input Files' section to input files that weren't successfully processed.
5. Fixed an issue that caused the 'Preserve original timestamp' option to not be applied in some cases.
6. Fixed an issue with returning incorrect search results from bookmark text within the 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions.
7. Improved application performance when running tools in certain cases when batch-processing mode is enabled.
8. Changed the default value of the 'Method of applying custom values' in 'Change Document Properties' to 'Merge'.

1. Fixed an issue where the 'Files created' field value was not changing in the Text Tool Report. (40399)
2. Added an option ‘Words from the Same Page’ to the proximity option for the ‘Filter Pages’ action.

1. Added an 'Application Variables' option that allows users to define custom values which can be used in all fields that support macros. Application Variables can be defined in the application preferences (Prefs/General). (T# 5430, T# 5431)
2. Added 'Custom' and 'Apply Metadata Template' options to the 'Change Document Properties' action.
3. Added a 'Create Compound Filter with All Selected Filters' option to the 'Choose Input Files' action's file types dialog box. This option allows users to define a compound filter that contains all selected file types and specify additional custom file types that should be included\excluded.
4. Added a 'PDF-Specification' option in the application preferences (Prefs/General) that determines the PDF specification of created documents. (39850)
5. Added an ability to use macros in the 'Keywords' field in the 'Change Documents Properties' action.
6. Added 'Select only documents/pages/files that do not fulfill the criteria above' and 'Apply OR logical operation between criteria' options to the 'Filter Document', 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Files' actions.
7. Added a 'Skip processing documents for which a matching value was not found' option to the 'Find by Regular Expression' action.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue that led to a potential application crash when tools were running with 'Multi-threaded processing mode' enabled.
2. Fixed an issue that led to a potential application crash when several instances of PDF-Tools were running at the same.
3. Fixed an issue that could lead to system resource overuse and a slow down of processing when 'Multi-threaded processing mode' is on and 'Batch processing mode' is off.
4. Fixed an issue with escape characters in command line parameters. (40320)
5. Improved the display of the unavailability of some application UI elements during tool operation. (39865)
6. Macro %[Regexp:value_name] can now be used in any field that supports macros, and is executed after the 'Find by Regular Expression' action.
7. Support for the 'Modern' Microsoft text-to-speech engine, which makes available all voices installed in OS voices to the new 'PDF to Audio' action.
8. The option 'Maximum number of working threads allowed' was moved to the 'Performance' category of the application settings (Prefs/Performance).
9. Improved performance of the 'Extended Choose Files' dialog box operations when working with a large number of files.
10. Added the ability to specify a custom page range for each input document in the extended 'Choose Input Files' dialog. It is available for any tool that contains actions with a 'Page Range' option.
11. Numerous smaller fixes & improvements.

1. Added GroupPolicy-permissions to the AD Administartive Template to add/delete/renew serial keys.
2. Added a 'Show warning when trying to view multiple files' option to the 'Show Files' action.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue that was causing irregular display of tools in the Shell Menu when the tool has diacritic characters in it's name. (40139)
2. Fixed an issue that led to a possible application crash in cases where the 'Show setup dialog while running' option was enabled.
3. Fixed an issue that led to a possible application crash when the 'Save Documents' action is running for large number of documents.
4. Fixed an issue with Folder Monitors that caused the Monitor to process files saved by it's own Tool. (40149)
5. Fixed an issue with Multi-Threaded Processing Mode that meant options that were changed during the Tool run were not saved.

1. Fixed the issue that was causing demo watermarks to be added to documents when users had valid but expired keys.
2. Fixed the issue with numerous macro values in the 'Save Documents' action for documents that are created during a tool run by one of the actions.
3. Fixed an issue in the 'Summarize Comments' action that caused the creation of a PDF document even in cases where the output type was not set to PDF document.

1. Added a 'Use incremental save if possible' option in the 'Save Documents' action.
2. Added a 'Detect underlying Sharepoint resource for local path' option in the application preferences (Prefs/General).
3. Added a 'Plugins' page in PDF-Tools preferences (Prefs/Plugins).

1. Added the option to add specific PDF-Tools 'tools' to the Windows Explorer Shell Menu for selected files to be processed by PDF-Tools launched directly from Windows Explorer. You can manage a list of tools to be presented in the Shell Menu by: - Checking/Uncheking Shell Menu icon near the tool's name in the Tools List and the Tool Info pane; then Choosing one of 'Add to Shell Menu' or 'Remove from Shell Menu' commands for the selected tools in the Tools List's context menu; then choosing either 'Add to Shell Menu' or 'Remove from Shell Menu' commands for the selected category in the Tool Categories List's context menu; - Drag&Dropping tools to the 'Shell Menu' tools category. Also exporting and importing shell menu tools is available using 'Export All Settings' and 'Import All Settings'. To use this feature one chooses to install the PDF Tools Shell Extension during PDF Tools application installation.
2. Added an 'Open File' command to the Tool Report context menu. (T#6275)
3. Added 'Case Sensitive', 'Whole Words', 'Exact Phrase', 'Adjacent Words Only' and 'Use Regular Expression (ECMAScript)' options to the search contols in the Tools List and Actions Library. To access these options, click on the magnifying glass icon on the left side of the search field.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue in the 'Sign Document' action that led to getting a permissions error. (39572)
2. Added default sorting of input files by the full file path in the 'Choose Input Files' action for the 'Select folder' option and in the 'Extended Choose Files' dialog for 'Add Folder' command. (T#6202)
3. Added Demo labels to the 'Save images' action that are applied to processing results when using an unregistered version of PDF-Tools.
4. Added an option for extraction of images from form fields and comments in the 'Extract Images' action.
5. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Fixed the discard PDF/A standard action.

1. Changed the appearance and conditions under which the 'Keep order' option is enabled in the 'Tool Options' dialog box.

1. Added an 'Apply Redaction' tool/action that removes content marked for redaction. (T#6030)
2. Added an 'Extract Attachments' tool/action that extracts attachments from documents.
3. Added a 'Keep output order' option that allows one to specify whether to keep the order of output documents in accordance with the order of input documents.
4. Added a 'Run Application' action that starts the specified external application via the command line with specified command line parameters.
5. Added a 'Create Files List' action that creates a file containing the file names from the action's input. The Files list can be saved with the subsequent 'Save Documents' action.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue in the 'Send mail' action that could lead to the incorrect creation of archives.
2. Fixed an issue that led to a possible application crash in cases when the 'Store selected file names for future use' option in the 'Choose Input Files' action and the 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' tool options are enabled.
3. Fixed multithreaded processing of the 'Find and Redact' action. (T#6103)
4. Fixed an issue when running the 'Find and Redact' action with the option to 'Show setup dialog while running' switched off. (T#6102)
5. Fixed an issue that led to an application crash when producing large number of documents via the 'Split/Merge' action.
6. Fixed an issue that led to the inabillity to use pre-defined regular expression patterns in the 'Find by Regular Expression' action.
7. Fixed an issue that caused the 'Import Bookmarks' action to not work for the local file system.
8. Added an 'Overlay Type' option in the 'Find and Redact' action.
9. Added 'Document info' and 'File extension' macros for the 'Subject' and 'Archieve name' options in the 'Send Mail' action.
10. Changed the behaviour of the 'Compose all CSV to one' option for the 'Export Form Data' action. Now the set of columns in the CSV composition file will contain columns for all fields from all input documents, not only the fields that are contained in the first document.
11. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Added options for sorting documents in the 'Extended Choose Input Files' dialog's context menu. (38472)
2. Added the ability to set an image size limit in pixels in the 'Extract Images from PDF' action. (38370)
3. Added the option to set operations with source files after a tool is completed.
4. Added the ability to set audio format quality parameters in the 'Export PDF to Audio' action.
5. Added a warning in the case of incorrect options used for the 'Filter Pages', 'Filter Files', 'Filter Documents' actions in order to prevent running the tool with incorrect parameters.
6. Added shortcut support for large number of UI commands.
7. Added clipboard support for the 'Extended Choose Input Files' dialog which allows one to Copy/Paste a list of files from/to a Files list. (37628)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with the %[Page] macro when saving extracted images from a PDF. (T#5834)
2. Fixed an issue that caused the dark theme to be applied only after an application restart.
3. Fixed an issue where the 'Delete Form Fields' action did not delete all the necessary forms.
4. Fixed an issue that caused the 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog to hang when processing many documents.
5. Fixed an issue with processing Form Fields, Comments and Bookmarks correctly in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action in the case of a single input document.
6. Fixed an issue that could lead to the application crashing when the 'PDF to Audio' action is running with 'Multi-threaded Processing Mode' option enabled.
7. Fixed an issue that led to demo labels showing despite a valid license key being present. (37437)
8. Fixed an issue that led to the inability to load Files List in the 'Extended Choose Input Files' dialog.
9. Fixed an issue with the 'Export Form Fields' action producing an empty CSV file with 'Merge all to one CSV' option enabled. (T#6007)

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Insert Pages' action that led to an inability to configure action options.
2. Fixed an issue with the tool run progress when PDF-Tools is run from the Command Line.

1. Fixed issue with incorrectly generated JPEG streams that caused an "Out of memory" error in Acrobat.
2. Fixed an issue with the Initial View's Page layout settings in the 'Change Document Properties' action.
3. Fixed an issue with loading high quality previews in the Preview Pane in the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action's manual split/merge dialog.

1. High DPI Support: added a new 'use per monitor resolution' mode that provides the correct UI appearance for any resolution used in multi-monitor configurations (Prefs/General).
2. Added keyboard shortcuts support for numerous UI actions.
3. Added 'Merge all to one CSV', 'Append existing document' options for the 'Export Form Data' action.
4. Added the options 'Text Encoding', 'New Paragraph Mode', and 'File Place Mode' to the 'Create PDF from Text' action. (T# 5707)
5. Added the possibility to navigate to online help for standard tools and actions by clicking on a help icon/link in the Tools Info pane, header of Tool Action dialog, Tool Action Info pane, header of Tool Edit View.
6. Added the possibility to export, import and reset Folder Monitors during 'Export All Settings', 'Import All Settings' and 'Reset All Settings' commands processing.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with canceling a tool's execution after changing user settings in cases where the input document was invalid.
2. Fixed an issue with configuring the 'Insert Pages' action options.
3. Fixed an issue with processing password protected documents with 'Genereate Bookmarks from Page Text' action.

1. Added Demo labels for the 'Export PDF to Plain Text' and 'PDF to Audio' actions applied to processing results when using an unregistered version of PDF-Tools.
2. Added a 'Keep folder structure' option for the 'Create PDF Portfolio' action.
3. Added a 'Choose portfolio cover' option for the 'Create PDF Portfolio' action.
4. Added 'Play sound when tool processings ends', 'Make application icon flash in taskbar when tool processing ends', and 'Minimize application to tray' application options. (T# 5583)
5. Added a 'Filename for generated files' option for the 'Split/Merge Documents' action that allows users to specify a macro that will be used to generate file names of output files. (T# 5579)
6. Added the possibility to pass folder paths in a "Files list" file. (T# 5415)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue where the 'Source title' and 'Source page' were not shown in tooltips in the manual 'Split/Merge Documents' dialog. (T# 5580)
2. Fixed an issue which resulted in the option 'Use source folder as destination' not working after using the 'Split/Merge Documents' action. (T# 5546)
3. Fixed an issue with Folder monitors for folders on network drives. Added a hint for when an error occurs.

1. Fixed an issue that led to the inability to use the 'Use source folder as destination' option when using the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action. (T# 5546). (36225)

1. Added the group policy 'Do not show Tool Report by default' that allows the Tool Report to be hidden by default.
2. Added 'Force making report pane visible' option that allows to turn off forcing Tool Report visibility on any type of messages.
3. Added a Task bar progress tool that allows users to control processing progress even when main window is minimized.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue that led to the inability to use 'Use source folder as destination' when using the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action.
2. Fixed the 'Filter Files' action issue that led to incorrect filtering by file Creation/Modify date.
3. Fixed the 'Print Document' action when only low resolution printing is allowed.
4. Fixed the 'Save Images' action issue with incorrect behavior of the 'When file already exists' option.
5. Fixed an issue in the 'Print Document' action with sheets' range
6. Fixed an issue of overwriting PDF files with the results of tool processing. (36426)
7. Added a feature to the 'Find and Redact' action to search and redact document objects such as comments, fields, document info, etc.
8. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Changed the 'Add Digital signature' action. Now an improved 'Sign Document' action can sign existing signtature fields or skip documents that do not require a signature.
2. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Preserve original timestamp' option. (35239)
2. Fixed an issue with the 'Delete Pages' action that led to an innabillity to change actions options while it was running.
3. Fixed an issue with the 'Add Digital Signature'.

1. Added an 'Import as Layer Overlay' tool/action that overlays a destination PDF document with a selected source PDF document.
2. Added a 'Find by Regular Expression' action that allows finding values in a document's text using regular expressions and use it in the 'Save Documents' action with macro-like syntax %[Regexp:value_name].
3. Added a 'Create PDF Portfolio' tool/action that allows creating new PDF portfolios by combining supported files.
4. Added a 'Rasterize Pages' tool/action that rasterizes document's pages.
5. Added a 'Recompress Images' tool/action that recompresses images in documents.
6. Added an 'Activate License' button on the license hint.
7. Added a Group Policy options: 'Hide hint about using Enhanced OCR for users.', 'Hide warning about activation the license for a user'.
8. Added a 'Preserve original timestamp for file' option for the 'Save Documents' action.
9. Added an 'Append existing document' as an overwrite action option in the 'Save Documents' and 'Change Document Properties' actions.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Insert Pages' and 'Replace Pages' actions that led these actions not working.
2. The 'Force making Report pane visible' option was improved.
3. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Save Documents' action with no error shown when trying to overwrite existing file. (T# 5373). (29724)
2. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Added an 'Insert blank page' option for 'Split/Merge Documents' action that gives ability to insert blank page after document with even/odd pages count when merging multiple documents.
2. Added an ability to choose which type of message will force showing Report pane.
3. Added an ability for 'Extract Images' action to extract images from tiling pattern.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Show Files' action when tool works with enabled 'Multi-Threaded Procesing Mode' option that led to the destination folder not opening on tool run finish.
2. Fixed an issue with the 'Split/Merge Documents' action that led to crash after closing 'Manual Split/Merge dialog' with enabled 'Multi-Threaded Procesing Mode' option.
3. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Added a 'Copy with rename' action for Form Fields in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Split by top bookmarks' method in the 'Split/Merge Documents' action.
2. Fixed an issue with the 'Filter Files', 'Filter Pages' and 'Filter Documents' actions that led to incorrect filtering of files, pages, and in some cases documents.
3. Fixed an issue with the 'Show Files' action when tool works with disabled the 'Batch processing mode' option.
4. Fixed an issue with the 'Save Images' action that led to inabillity to save images to a remote Place.
5. Fixed an issue with the 'Import Comments' and 'Import Form Data' actions that led to the inabillity to perform an import from *.xml files.
6. Fixed an issue with setting parameters for 'Export to Microsoft Word Document', 'Export PDF to Excel Spreadsheet', 'Export PDF to Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation', and 'Export PDF to Plain Text' actions.
7. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Fixed an issue with the 'Delete All Comments' action that led to removing Form Fields.
2. Fixed an issue with the 'Reset Forms' action that led to an inabillity to use the 'Reset Forms' action in Tools with 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' option enabled.
3. Fixed an issue with expanding the %[Filename] macro to a file name with an extension.
4. Fixed an issue with running the 'Show Files' action when 'Batch Processing Mode' is disabled.
5. Fixed an issue with handling relative paths when PDF-Tools is run from the Command Line.
6. Numerous small fixes & improvements.

1. Added 'Multi-Threaded Processing Mode' Tool option that enables multi-core processing of input documents.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed issues that were causing inability to save Files List in Extended Choose Files dialog.
2. Fixed an issue with 'Store selected file names for future use' option of 'Choose Input Files' action .
3. 'Reset Forms' tool was moved to 'Forms' Tool Category.
4. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added a new feature to the Administrative Template: an option to force hiding a hint about license expiration

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue that leads to the inability to start the application in some version of Windows due to a missing DLL, MFPlat.dll. (T# 5014)
2. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added a 'Find and Redact' tool/action that finds text with matching criteria and marks results for redaction or redacts them.
2. Added a 'Find and Replace Bookmark Text' tool/action that locates bookmarks and replaces text in bookmarks' titles.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Added 'Send e-mail without files' option to the Send E-Mail action. It allows the user to send e-mails without attachments. This can be useful for notifications when a tool is finished running.
2. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed issue with setting default Converters parameters for 'Convert Files to PDFs' action.
2. Fixed saving password security settings.

1. Added ability to Create/Load Files List in Choose Files Extended Dialog.
2. Added ability to use Files List located in Places.
3. Added a 'PDF to Audio' tool/action that allows user to read text from PDF and save as WAV or MP3 (Windows 8 and higher) audio file.
4. Added a 'Sanitize Document' tool/action that removes hidden data from PDF so any sensitive information will not be published with your document.
5. Added ability to continue actions list after 'Print Document(s)' and 'Send Mail' actions.
6. Added special icon that indicates that tool is used in Folder Monitor.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed issue with setting default Converters and Scanner parameters for 'Convert Files to PDFs' and 'Scan to Images' actions in the application preferences.
2. Improved Load/Save settings operation performance.
3. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed a problem that prevented changing the icon for custom tools.

1. Added a new "Enhanced OCR" module that is much faster, provides better quality, recognizes text styles and tables, supports creating PDF files with editable text and images, and more.
2. Added a 'Convert Colors' tool/action.
3. Added a 'Filter Pages' action.
4. Added a 'Filter Document' action.
5. Added a 'Filter Files' action.
6. Added a hint that reminds notifies users about any license key issues.
7. Fixed issues that could lead to the application slowing down.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue when files that were drag&dropped into a watched folder but were not processed.
2. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added the ability to read/write files on the Cloud-systems such as SharePoint, OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Box.com and Dropbox.
2. Added the ability to show the embedded dialog box for most actions when tool is running.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed the issue with moving original files after they have been processed by a Folder Monitor.
2. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added the 'RunFldMon' Command Line option. Further information on this option is available here.
2. Added ability to create shortcuts to a Folder Monitor and ability to copy the monitor's ID to the clipboard.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed an issue with 'Every N pages from different document' option of the 'Split/Merge PDFs' when interleaf merging was enabled regardless of whether the option was activated.
2. Fixed issue with saving file to itself if path is longer the 260 characters.
3. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added a 'shared' parameter to the 'Log' Command Line option that allows sharing one log file between different instances of PDF-Tools running at the same time.
2. Added a special 'New' label for standard tools which indicates the tool was added in a recent version of PDF-Tools. Categories that contain new tools are also marked by a special bullet.
3. Added the 'Output' Command Line option that allows users to specify parameters for output actions in tools specified in the 'Run Tool' Command Line option. (T# 4066)
4. Added an 'Import Comments' tool/action.
5. Added an 'Export Comments' tool/action.
6. Added an 'Import Form' tool/action.
7. Added an 'Export Form' tool/action.
8. Added a 'Reset Forms' tool/action.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed a problem that led to an application crash after updating to newer version.
2. The name of the document currently being processed is now displayed the progress message for 'OCR Document' action. (29724)
3. Added an 'Every N pages from different document' option for the 'Split/Merge PDFs' action that allows users to do interleaf merging of input documents. (T# 3939)
4. Added the ability to specify a page size in the 'Add Digital Signature' All Options dialog so users can place digital signatures on the page more accurately. (30539)
5. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed an issue that was causing the application to crash after deselecting tools that contain the 'Print Document' action. (31239)
2. Fixed a problem that led to the inability to change the application language in some cases. (31220)

1. Added the 'Print Document' tool/action.
2. Added the 'Merge Pages' tool/action.
3. Added the 'subfolder' parameter for the 'RunTool' Command Line option, which allows users to specify whether subfolders should be included.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed the issue with the file type filter being ignored in the Folder Monitor feature.
2. Added the 'Delete Empty Pages' option for the 'Delete Pages' action.
3. Tool Report improvements: added superscript error/warning icons that indicate the presence of errors/warnings in the tool/action. Users can click these icons to navigate directly to the first error/warning message in the message's tree branch.
4. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed the issue with the 'Do Not Ask for Passwords' setting, which was occasionally prompting for passwords despite being disabled.
2. Fixed a minor issue in the Tool Report pane. The 'Click here to show more' label is no longer present for first-level elements.

1. Added the 'Build Table of Contents' tool/action.
2. Added the 'Export Bookmarks' tool/action.
3. Added the 'Import Bookmarks' tool/action.
4. Added the 'Export Bookmarks to Text File' tool/action.
5. Added the 'Import Bookmarks from Text File' tool/action.
6. Added the 'Generate Bookmarks from Page Text' tool/action.
7. Added the 'Enhance Scanned Pages' tool/action.
8. Added the ability to specify a *.pdtfl text file as input for tools. Files in *.pdftl format contain a list of newline-separated filenames that tools can process.
9. Added the 'Do not ask for passwords' tool option. This option makes it possible to skip password-protected input files that do not have valid, corresponding passwords in Predefined Passwords Storage.
10. Added an OCR feature for the 'Create PDF from Images' action.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed the issue that was preventing error messages from being displayed in the Tool Report pane.
2. Fixed the issue with using illegal symbols in document names when documents are split by bookmarks.
3. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed the issue that was preventing external programs from accessing files processed in PDF-Tools when the latter was still running.
2. Fixed the issue that was present when adding tools to the Favorites category. (30445)
3. Fixed numerous issues that were present when moving tools between categories.
4. Fixed the issues that were causing the loss of the 'Batch Processing Mode' status during tool import/export.
5. Fixed the issue that was causing the first file/folder to be skipped during root folder enumeration. This issue occurred in some cases when the 'Add Folder' feature was used.
6. Fixed the issue with the enumeration of shared folders such as '\\share\sharedfolder\'. This issue occurred in some cases when the 'Add Folder' feature was used.
7. Fixed the 'Add Bates Numbering' tool issue that was present in cases when multiple input documents were specified. Pages are now numbered on all documents without the need for a restart on each document.
8. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added ability to process file paths longer than 260 characters.
2. Added batch processing option, that allows to choose how to process multiple input objects: apply every tool's action to every object individually or all objects at a time.
3. Added option for ‘OCR pages’ action to skip documents that already contain text.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed issue with file type filter being ignored in 'Choose Input Files' action.
2. Tool Report improvements: added ability to copy file path, open folder containing file from report message; added ability to show more messages directly in report if they were hidden because of message count limits; added displaying of how much time was spent on Tool execution.
3. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed the issue that was causing the application to crash on exit after tools have been imported/exported.
2. Added functionality to search for tools in the ‘Choose Tools’ dialog box, which has been redesigned to improve usability.
3. Numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added the 'Change Document Properties' tool.
2. Added the 'Clear All Digital Signatures' tool/action.
3. Added the 'Create Weblinks' tool/action.
4. Added the 'Delete All Comments' tool/action.
5. Added the 'Delete Weblinks' tool/action.
6. Added the 'Duplicate Pages' tool/action.
7. Added the 'Flatten Comments' tool/action.
8. Added the 'Insert Empty Pages' tool/action.
9. Added the 'Insert Pages' tool/action.
10. Added the 'Remove Bates Numbering' tool/action.
11. Added the 'Remove Headers and Footers' tool/action.
12. Added the 'Remove Pages Background' tool/action.
13. Added the 'Remove Watermarks' tool/action.
14. Added the 'Send Mail' tool/action.
15. Added the 'Set Page Transitions' tool/action.
16. Added the 'Split Pages' tool/action.
17. Added the 'Summarize Comments' tool/action.
18. Added the 'Folder Monitors' feature, which monitors specified folders and automatically executes designated tools on added files.
19. Added the 'Tool Report Pane', which displays messages about the Tool execution process. The content of reports can be configured in Tool Report Options dialog box.
20. Added a feature to write tool reports to a specified file while running tools in Command Line mode. The content of reports can be specified through Command Line options. Further information on this feature is available here.
21. Added a feature to remember groups of files when 'Choose Input Files' actions are used. Grouped files can be selected subsequently in order to save time.
22. Added a feature to copy a category's ID to the Clipboard. (This option is available in the right-click context menu of Tool Categories).
23. Added a feature to the 'Save Images' action that enables the automatic selection of color depth when images are saved.
24. Added a feature to the 'Get Images from Scanner' action that displays a list of scanned images after scanning has been performed.
25. Added a feature to edit images in the Choose Input Files dialog box.
26. Added a 'showui' parameter for several of the Command Line options. Further information on this parameter is available here.
27. Added the 'DumpCategories' Command Line option. Further information on this option is available here.
28. Added a Group Policy administrative template for Tool Categories, which enables system administrators to fine-tune the end-user application.
29. Added the 'All Tools' Tool Category.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed the issue with the 'Choose Tools' dialog box that displays when tools are imported in Command Line mode. (29581)
2. Fixed the issue with the 'Split/Merge PDFs' Tool that occurred when the Page Range for input documents was set. (T# 3772). (25627)
3. Fixed the issue with Document Info macros. (29774)
4. Fixed the issue with processing damaged PDF documents.
5. Fixed the issue with the optimization of PDF portfolio files.
6. Fixed the issue with resizing the main window of PDF-Tools when certain Tools are running.
7. Fixed the issue with saving changes when Tool parameters are edited in the Tool Info pane.
8. Fixed the issue with applying the 'OCR Pages' action to documents that contain text.
9. Fixed some issues related to the processing of protected PDF documents.
10. Fixed some issues related to the creation of Tool shortcuts.
11. Added an option to the 'Convert to PDF/A' action for PDF documents that are already compliant with the PDF/A standard.
12. Made numerous smaller fixes/improvements.

1. Added a workaround for a bug in a Windows 7 update - possible rendering issues when KB4034664 is applied to Windows 7 systems that have 'Desktop Composition' turned off.

1. Minor fixes and improvements.

1. Fixed issue with renaming tool-categories. (29262)
2. Fixed issue with reset actions to defaults.

1. Fixed issue with 'Scan to PDF' tool. (29085)
2. Fixed some issues with processing password-protected pdfs by 'Split/Merge' tool.

1. Minor fixes in UI.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Updated some languages for UI-translation.

1. New UI design with features for grouping tools by category. Added functionality to create custom categories/use standard categories to store custom tools. All custom tools/categories are marked with a special user-icon.
2. Tools can be added to the Favorites category using the context menu, by dragging the tool into the Favorites category or by clicking the icon in the upper-left corner of Tools in the Tools list
3. Added a feature to launch tools by dragging folders/files onto the tool-item.
4. Added a feature to sort input files in Command line mode.
5. Added a feature to reset tool/action parameters to default values.
6. Added 'Discard Special PDF Standard' tool/action.
7. Added 'Export PDF to Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet' tool/action.
8. Added ability to safely store document passwords for automatic re-use by tools when processing documents. Password storage is private, protected via encryption and by a special master-password (see 'Passwords' page in 'Preferences' dialog).

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Common fixes/improvements.

1. Extract Images from PDF: added an option to keep the transparency of extracted images. (27518)
2. Save Images: added a feature to customize image-format parameters.
3. Added a feature to copy a tool's ID to the Clipboard (look to the tool's context menu).
4. Added a feature to launch a tool by dragging files directly on to the tool icon itself.

1. Added 'Insert Pages' tool/action.
2. Added 'Replace Pages' tool/action.
3. Added 'Delete Pages' tool/action.
4. Added 'Convert PDF to PDF/X' tool/action.

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Common fixes/improvements.

1. Added Undo/Redo features in the 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog.
2. Added the ability to configure file-to-pdf converters globally and for each instance of the 'Convert Files to PDFs' action.
3. Added the ability to specify a custom page range for each input document in the extended 'Choose Input Files' dialog. Tip: It is possible only when the tool contains 'Ask for Source Files' and 'Split/Merge Documents' actions and there are no actions that modify the page range between them. (25627)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed several problems when processing large numbers of files. (27221, 27518)
2. Fixed an issue with 'Crop Pages' when the input document has rotated pages (T# 3719). (27341)
3. Fixed a crash caused by the 'Crop Pages' action on certain documents (T# 3718).
4. Common fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed crash when user used any non-English UI-localization.

1. Added ability for making shortcuts to the necessary tool(s). Tip: you may do it using context menu for selected tool-item or by drag&drop such item to the desktop.
2. Added new ability to Overlay PDF. (25919)
3. Added new ability to Export PDF to MS-Word Document. (25586)
4. Added new ability to Export PDF to MS-PowerPoint Presentation.
5. Added new ability to Export PDF to Plain Text file.
6. Added Command Line support. (26257)
7. Added Group Policy administrative template for special tunning the end-user application by system administrators (Click to download the template).
8. Added features for Export/Import selected tools. (26153)
9. Added feature for Export/Import all program settings. (26153)
10. Added ability to filter pages list easily inside "Manual Split/Merge" dialog. Currently you may set custom pages selection using new 'Select Pages...' feature on the toolbar and 'Invert Selection' from context menu. (25627)

Bug fixes and other updates/enhancements:

1. Fixed issue: Split/Merge PDFs operation hangs when merging many files. (T#3513) (25532)
2. Fixed issue with producing large files by PDF/A converter. (26249)
3. Fixed issue with handling the 'Use source folder as destination' option for 'Create PDF from Images' and 'Create PDF from Text' tools. (26413)
4. Common fixes/improvements.

1. Fixed issue with overwriting existing files. (25503)
2. Fixed issue with D&D pages from pages repository in 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog.
3. Improved/fixed 'Manual Split/Merge' dialog: height of embedded pagelists controls now is calculated by content, fixed auto-scrolling during D&D. (25601)
4. Minor fixes/improvements.

1. The initial release of PDF-Tools V6.