What's New in PDFgear

Find the latest product news and updates on new features, fixes, and other improvements.

Version 2.1.13 October 28, 2025

  • Use the new OCR feature to turn scanned documents into searchable text.
  • Redact sensitive content securely with the new Redact tool.
  • Apply certificate-based digital signatures and add new signature fields.
  • Erase unwanted text directly in your PDF.
  • Added support for viewing and managing PDF attachments.
  • Added support for adding and editing images directly within the PDF.
  • Added a translation tool for PDF text.
  • Introduced a new tool to resize PDF pages.
  • Enhanced the printing function with an updated UI for multi-printing and expanded print modes.
  • Enhanced features with scanners, including creating PDFs from scanner, inserting pages from scanner.
  • Redesigned the stamp tool, adding the ability to manage custom stamps.
  • Enhanced crop feature to preview pages and crop multiple pages at once.
  • Updated the UI for the 'Flatten Annotations' feature.
  • Improved the 'Image to PDF' and 'PDF to Image' tools with new, user-friendly interfaces.
  • Redesigned the thumbnail panel for easier page management.
  • Updated the UI of the Welcome window and PDF viewer for a cleaner experience.
  • Introduced a new 'File' menu for easier access to settings and recent file management.
  • Added more customization options in the Settings window.
  • Fixed various bugs and enhanced overall stability.

Version 2.1.12 January 10, 2025

  • Fixed several bugs to enhance overall stability.

Version 2.1.11 December 30, 2024

  • Resolved launch issues on specific operating systems.
  • Fixed multiple bugs to improve overall stability.

Version 2.1.10 December 9, 2024

  • Added helpful tips for tools to improve usability.
  • Introduced support for shortcut keys to streamline workflow.
  • Added a right-click menu for pages for easier navigation and actions.
  • Fixed various bugs and enhanced overall stability.
  • Optimized the print feature for a better experience.
  • Improved the page deletion process for greater efficiency.
  • Enhanced dark mode for a more comfortable viewing experience.
  • Added support for inch-based calculations for page size property.

Version 2.1.8 August 30, 2024

  • Adjust UI details to uniform the overall style.
  • Save print configuration for easier future prints.
  • Fix minor bugs and enhance overall stability.
  • Keep aspect ratio when zooming in/out signatures, stamps, images, and text annotations by holding the shift key.
  • Give access to print, merge, split, and page management tools in the right-click.
  • Add prompts to screenshot and OCR tools.
  • Support converting PDF to multiple sheets or one sheet when converting to Excel.
  • Support font sizes smaller than 8pt in the Edit Text feature.
  • Support a larger page zoom ratio range.
  • Improve experience of comments
    1. Filter comments more effectively.
    2. Copy annotated texts more easily by right-clicking on them.
  • Improve experience of bookmark panel
    1. Support drag&drop bookmark to reorder.
    2. Add prompt when deleting bookmark that contains sub-bookmark(s).
  • Improve experience of merge tool
    1. Drag&drop to reorder the file list.
    2. Support giving multiple page ranges.
  • Add new features
    1. Add "Reader" in Tools to read aloud texts for better accessibility.
    2. Create a blank PDF.
    3. Highlight form fields for easier interaction.
    4. Support auto page scroll by pressing the mouse wheel.

Version 2.1.6 July 30, 2024

  • Fix minor bugs and enhance overall stability.
  • Enlarge font size in PDFgear Copilot for a better chatting experience.
  • Enable/disable PDFgear Copilot as needed.

Version 2.1.5 March 29, 2024

  • Support for view and modify PDF properties for easier managing and checking info of PDF documents.
  • Fix minor bugs and enhance overall stability for better experience.

Version 2.1.4 January 12, 2024

  • Supported Dark Mode, offering a sleek and eye-caring look to PDF processing.
  • Supported image editing features including extract, rotate, text recognize, delete, replace.
  • Fixed file-recovery issue which might occurs after upgrading.
  • Fixed minor bugs and enhanced overall stability.