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 file annotations
• Print PDF files and their annotations with a new custom dialog box
• 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)
• Save all or part of a PDF to a new PDF document.
• 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.

The component OrdoPDFReader.v3.ocx has no other dependency than PDFium_x86.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

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New version 3.0.8 released

adds the ability to :

• View PDF file annotations
• Print PDF files and their annotations with a new custom dialog box
• Save all or part of a PDF to a new PDF document.

See Post 1

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New version 3.09 released

• Incorporated PDF merge functions into the component. This eliminates the dependency on OrdoPDFMerge.dll.
• Minor bug fixes.

See Post 1