OrdoPDFReader : ActiveX component PDF viewer

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New version...

OrdoPDFReader version 3 is an ActiveX component PDF viewer which lets you:

• View PDF files
• Print PDF files
• Extract the text content if it exists
• Practice Character Recognition on the PDF file in conjunction with Tesseract-OCR, open-source OCR software under Apache 2.0 license (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tes...ster/README.md)
• Append or merge multiple PDF files

To view PDF file OrdoPDFReader uses PDFium.dll (licensed under BSD by Google / Foxit). It uses recent binaries compiled by Benoît Blanchon.
PDFium_x86.dll must be in the same directory as the ActiveX component. To merge PDF files it uses OrdoPDFMerge.dll, an activeX DLL that must be registered on the target system.

The component OrdoPDFReader.v3.ocx has no other dependency than PDFium_x86.dll, OrdoPDFMerge.dll, the common VB6 files (already present in the latest versions of Windows) and possibly a version of Tesseract-OCR/OrdoOCR if you want to use the OCR function.

Warning ! Version 3 is not binary compatible with version 2

The sources of a draft version of this control are available here on VB-Forums

This component is distributed as freeware. You can download the SDK at freeware.ordoconcept.net/OrdoPDFReader.php

The SDK contains a VB6 example, redistributable installers,...

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New version released:

Adds support for password-protected PDFs.
If a PDF is protected, the user will be prompted to enter the password.
Additionally, a "Password" property allows you to pre-set the password before loading the PDF file.

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New version 3 released

• adds the ability to append or merge PDFs
• uses a recent version of PDFium
• adds the display of an interactive table of contents with page thumbnails

Warning ! Version 3 is not binary compatible with version 2

See Post 1