The Apryse Summer Release Delivers Multi-Format Document Editing for Workflow Continuity

Summary: Apryse makes it easier for developers to deliver secure, accessible, and consistent in-app editing experiences, boosting user productivity and maintaining full content control. In-app document editing is essential for seamless user workflows. The latest Apryse release enhances editing capabilities across PDF, DOCX, and XLSX formats, making it easier for developers to embed robust document editing directly into their applications.

Every interaction inside a modern application is an opportunity to improve productivity or to introduce friction. When it comes to document handling, even minor tasks like editing a clause or correcting a spreadsheet cell can break a workflow and slow a user down if they are forced to switch tools. That’s why in-app editing isn’t just a convenience—it’s a requirement for maintaining workflow continuity.

For developers, delivering viewing and editing across formats like PDF, DOCX, and XLSX in their applications is a complex task. It means reconciling inconsistent standards, ensuring accessibility, and maintaining full control over sensitive content. PDFs are especially tough to edit because they're layout-based, not structure-based. This makes even simple changes non-trivial, as you often have to work with objects like text streams, fonts, and annotations.

The latest Apryse release addresses these challenges head-on, extending our editing capabilities to Spreadsheet Editor, joining the PDF and DOCX formats. Each component is tailored to its format, but shares a unified, modular UI, streamlining development and ensuring a consistent user experience. With continuous innovation on both Server and Web SDKs, Apryse helps teams ship multi-format document editing faster, securely, and at scale.

We’ve extended editing and layout controls for DOCX and XLSX, bringing more sophisticated formatting, styling, and cell-level control into a single, browser-based experience. It’s a step forward in keeping users focused and productive within your application.

Learn more about the expanded DOCX Editor layout controls and Spreadsheet Editor capabilities

Our modular UI now meets WCAG 2.2 AA standards across WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor. This ensures your applications are usable by people with motor or visual impairments, without requiring additional development effort.

Check out the full details on the accessibility updates

We continue to build on the server-side PDF editing capability with a scalable and automated search-and-replace functionality for PDFs with layout-preserving reflow. This allows organizations to apply consistent changes (e.g. brand updates, regulatory revisions, contractual terms) without compromising design or introducing manual editing risk.

Learn more about Programmatic Text Editing

This release is a powerful display of our broader Web SDK strategy: delivering deeply integrated, format-specific editing tools through a consistent, accessible interface. By supporting the most widely used document types and aligning with modern accessibility and compliance standards, Apryse gives developers a single toolkit to build collaborative experiences that scale across teams, formats, and industries.

Whether you’re modernizing internal tools or embedding editing into customer-facing platforms, Apryse provides the most advanced and feature-rich toolkit on the market for fast, secure, in-app document editing that keeps your users in the application and your content in your control.

Contact sales to get started transforming your document editing workflows with Apryse, or start your trial.