Laura Massingham
Director of Product Marketing
Published April 15, 2026
Updated April 15, 2026
5 min
Apryse Spring 2026 Release: Handwriting Recognition, Improved Collaboration and More
Laura Massingham
Director of Product Marketing
As business processes become more sophisticated, static documents aren't enough to fuel automation workflows. Developers can now build richer in-app document experiences for collaboration and review and extract the data that keeps processes moving. Here's what's new.
Digitizing the Human Element: Introducing Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) for Handwriting Extraction
Despite the push for digital-first, paper isn't disappearing as fast as we expected. In fact, 61% of all document processing workflows still incorporate paper. That’s why we are proud to feature Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR). This addition to our suite of extraction tools converts handwriting into machine-readable data. This is just one more way to eliminate the manual bottlenecks in your workflow facilitating true, end-to-end automation.
Read all the details on Intelligent Character Recognition, a new add-on to Server SDK.
Interactive Workspaces: Collaborative Review & Editing
For our WebViewer customers, we have expanded the Office editing capabilities and multi-document workflows. Over the past several quarters, we’ve moved beyond viewing to support more interactive ways to work with document content. The following features round out the latest additions to Apryse Web SDK.
- Native Chart Editing: Spreadsheet Editor users can now render and modify existing charts directly within your application, ensuring data can be edited and visualized without ever leaving the record.
- Permissioned DOCX Feedback: Context is everything. New in-document commenting for DOCX files allows teams to provide structured feedback without altering the underlying content.
- Multiviewer Foundation: Transform document comparison into an active workspace. Users can now edit and interact with multiple documents side-by-side using the full power of WebViewer.
See all the latest additions to the Web SDK in action in the interactive demo.
Extend What Your Application Can Do with PDF
This release introduces new server-based capabilities to remove sensitive content from your PDFs, and a long-awaited addition to the files that can be converted to PDF.
- Programmatic Security: A new PDF Sanitization API offers precise, automated control over the removal of sensitive data.
- Seamless Ingestion: New Email-to-PDF conversion makes it easy to pull communication-based records into your digital archive.
Visit the docs to learn more about these additions to the Apryse Server SDK.
More Flexibility for Android Developers with Scanbot SDK
With the Spring 2026 Release, Apryse extends Scanbot SDK’s native Jetpack Compose support to even more capabilities, including the Android Barcode Scanner SDK, Android Document Scanner SDK, and Android MRZ Scanner Module. Find more details in Scanbot Android SDK Adds Jetpack Compose Support for Custom UI.
Explore the Spring 2026 Release
Experience these new capabilities firsthand in our interactive demo or read the technical details in the WebViewer release notes and Server SDK release notes.
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