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The Apryse Summer 2026 Release: Sharper Accuracy, Enhanced Developer Control
Apryse's Summer 2026 Release brings AI-powered OCR engine, WebViewer 12, document straightening, tracked changes API, and XLS/CSV support.

Laura Massingham
|July 15, 2026

Showing Hidden Text in WebViewer
Learn how to make hidden OCR and ICR text visible in Apryse WebViewer to verify extracted text, troubleshoot accuracy, and review scanned PDFs.
Roger Dunham
| August 21, 2026

The Cheapest Token Is the One You Never Send
Compare the token cost of raw LLM document extraction against deterministic pre-processing, with a per-document and per-million-document cost breakdown.
Laura Massingham
| August 19, 2026

Document SDK vs. Basic PDF Library: What Growing Teams Should Know
Compare a basic PDF library, a point API, and a full document SDK and learn the signs your growing app has outgrown open source. See which scales.
Isaac Maw
| August 12, 2026
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Client-Side Document Processing and Data Residency Explained
Data residency compliance starts with where documents are processed. Client-side and self-hosted architectures keep sensitive data in your environment.
Isaac Maw
| August 10, 2026

Beyond GoToR — Adding Highlights
Learn how to build GoToR links in Apryse WebViewer that navigate to another PDF and highlight selected text with custom data.
Roger Dunham
| August 06, 2026

Enterprise-grade Shouldn't Be a Privilege
Security, compliance, and scale shouldn't be earned later. See why enterprise-grade document infrastructure belongs at the foundation, not the upgrade path.
Garry Klooesterman
| August 06, 2026
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Product Updates

Scanbot Document Scanner SDK Adds Document Straightening for More OCR‑Friendly Capture
Summary: Scanbot SDK has introduced Document Straightening and Color Document Shadow Removal to address 3D distortions and uneven lighting to increase accuracy. By correcting page curvature and normalizing contrast, these features enhance OCR performance on real-world, imperfect scans for both new captures and existing image processing pipelines.
July 15, 2026
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Scanbot Barcode Scanner SDK and Document Scanner SDK Are Now Available for Kotlin Multiplatform
Summary: Scanbot has released its Barcode and Document Scanner SDKs for Kotlin Multiplatform, enabling developers to integrate enterprise-grade, offline data capture into shared iOS and Android codebases. These KMP libraries provide the same performance and features as native SDKs, including advanced barcode scanning and automatic document processing.
July 15, 2026
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Programmatic Tracked Changes in DOCX Editor: What's New in WebViewer 12.0
Summary: WebViewer 12.0 introduces TrackedChangeManager, an API for working with tracked changes in DOCX Editor directly from code. It lets developers accept, reject, navigate to, and retrieve tracked changes without requiring interaction through the editor UI.
July 15, 2026
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Showing Hidden Text in WebViewer
Summary: Scanned PDFs often contain a hidden text layer created by OCR or handwriting recognition (ICR), making it difficult for developers and users to verify data accuracy or troubleshoot extraction issues. While this text layer is invisible by design, the Apryse SDK makes it possible to bring these hidden elements to light. In this article, you will learn how to port server-side Node.JS code directly into the browser using WASM and the Apryse WebViewer, adding a custom UI button to instantly reveal invisible text for easy verification.
August 21, 2026
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Document SDK vs. Basic PDF Library: What Growing Teams Should Know
Summary: While a basic PDF library handles simple, single-purpose tasks like viewing or merging PDFs, growing applications typically need broader capabilities, performance at scale, security, and support that open-source libraries and single-purpose APIs do not provide. A full document SDK is built for teams that need embedded, scalable document workflows on one foundation, so you don't have to replatform once your requirements grow past the first release.
August 12, 2026
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Beyond GoToR — Adding Highlights
Summary: Building a GoToR link that jumps to another PDF is useful but what if it could highlight the exact text you meant, not just point at a rectangle? This post picks up the WebViewer GoToR series by showing how to store text quads directly in a link's custom data, so clicking the link highlights precise, multi-line selections in the target document—something desktop PDF apps can't do. It's a hands-on walkthrough with working TypeScript, building on the previous articles in the series.
August 06, 2026
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Enterprise AI Has a Document Problem. Apryse Has Built the Infrastructure to Solve It.
Apryse SDK Summer 2026 release introduces AI-powered OCR, intelligent document editing, and advanced capture capabilities that help developers transform complex documents into trusted, structured data for enterprise AI.
July 15, 2026
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Apryse Acquires PDF Tools to Expand Global Customer Reach and Advance High-Performance Document Processing
Acquisition adds industry-leading PDF/A conversion, advanced compression, and AI-powered redaction to platform serving an enhanced global customer base
July 14, 2026
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Apryse Wins “IDP SDK of the Year” in 2026 AI Breakthrough Awards
Recognition validates Apryse as a foundation of the AI document stack, helping developers turn complex documents into trusted, AI-ready data.
June 25, 2026
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How Blue Voice Uses Apryse WebViewer to Deliver AI-Powered Policy Access Across 200+ Police Departments
Law enforcement officers are guided by complex and specific local laws, regulations, and policies. But in the field, accessing and referencing this critical information is a challenge, historically relying on memory, phonebook-like manuals or calling for assistance.
Blue Voice tackles this challenge with its CJIS-compliant AI platform, providing law enforcement officers with immediate access to accurate legal, policy, and community resources, directly from the browser or smartphone.
June 22, 2026
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How Juume AI Cut 18 Months Off Its Go‑to‑Market Timeline with Apryse
When it’s time to add new capabilities to a software project, developers and leaders face the decision: build or buy? Juume AI faced this decision during development of the AI compliance platform CapraOne.
June 01, 2026
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Employee Spotlight: Why Apryse Felt Like the Right Place for Caio Nunes
The right workplace is about more than just the role. It's about finding a team, culture, and environment where you can thrive. For Caio Nunes, Enterprise Account Manager, Apryse has been exactly that.
July 21, 2026
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Employee Spotlight: Ownership Meets Opportunity with Madan Podduturi
What does it take to thrive in a fast-growing company? For Madan Podduturi, it starts with seeing complexity not as a barrier, but as an opportunity. At Apryse, the challenge of rapid growth, evolving systems, and cross-functional collaboration is exactly what drew him in.
As a Director of Business Solutions, Madan sits between Revenue Operations, GTM, Finance, and Legal giving him a unique perspective on how the business operates and grows.
June 23, 2026
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Supporting Operational Success with Joe Choi
This month, we’re highlighting the people behind the processes, systems, and collaboration that help Apryse operate efficiently and scale successfully.
Revenue Operations Manager, Joe Choi’s work plays a key role in connecting teams, improving workflows, and supporting our systems.
June 01, 2026
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Client-Side Document Processing and Data Residency Explained
Summary: Data residency and data sovereignty sound interchangeable, but confusing them can undermine a fintech platform's entire compliance strategy, and the document processing architecture you choose is often what determines which one you're actually solving for. This post untangles those terms alongside data localization, then makes the case that client-side and self-hosted processing sidestep the exposure that comes with sending documents to a third-party API in the first place. With real financial-services examples and a look at how GDPR and DORA factor in, it's a practical read for anyone building document workflows for regulated industries.
August 10, 2026
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Enterprise-grade Shouldn't Be a Privilege
Enterprise-grade infrastructure is usually treated as something you earn once you're big enough to need it, but that thinking gets more expensive the longer a team waits. This post argues that security, compliance, and scale should be built into the foundation from day one, not bolted on under pressure during an audit or a lost deal. It lays out what that actually looks like in practice, from client-side processing to compliance certifications, and why the cost of deferring the decision tends to show up all at once, right when it's hardest to absorb.
August 06, 2026
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