Laura Massingham
Director of Product Marketing
Published July 15, 2026
Updated July 15, 2026
3 min
The Apryse Summer 2026 Release: Sharper Accuracy, Enhanced Developer Control
Laura Massingham
Director of Product Marketing
Summary: Apryse's Summer 2026 release delivers AI-powered OCR with expanded language support for accurate document extraction, document straightening for mobile capture, and new programmatic access to DOCX Editor tracked changes. Also included: WebViewer 12.0, Spreadsheet Editor XLS/CSV support, RTL translation, and Kotlin Multiplatform scanning. This article breaks down each new capability, how it improves accuracy and developer control, and where to find full technical release notes.
This summer's release features a collection of new capabilities that serve two goals: making document processing more accurate on the messy documents real workflows produce, and extending programmatic access to editor functions that previously required UI interaction.
Here's how both play out across the release and where to learn more about each.
Accuracy that holds up on real-world documents
Accuracy is the foundation of every document pipeline. When extraction fails, everything downstream goes with it, and teams fall back to manual rework. The two biggest capture-and-extraction additions in this release raise the accuracy bar at different points in that pipeline.
The latest AI-powered OCR engine for the Server SDK v12 sets new benchmarks in extraction precision across office-style documents, low-quality scans, and complex layouts. We've also expanded language coverage to include Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, and additional Latin-alphabet languages. That precision pays off where teams need it most: scanned documents convert into fully searchable PDFs with a text layer accurate enough that searches on aging archives, faxes, and photocopies actually return the right pages. Structured JSON/XML output feeds directly into search, indexing, and LLM/RAG pipelines, and because all processing runs on the customer's own infrastructure, documents never leave their environment, under predictable licensing rather than cloud per-page pricing.
Read more about the new OCR Engine
Document straightening works further upstream, at the point of mobile capture. This new Scanbot Document Scanning SDK feature reconstructs and flattens pages that arrive curved, folded, or crumpled, so the text reaching any OCR engine is straight and readable instead of warped, improving accuracy from unusable to automatable.
Together, these capabilities extend reliable accuracy to the documents and conditions where pipelines fail today.
Read more about Scanbot Document Straightening
Your application, your user experience
Apryse provides the capability; the developer decides how it appears.
The clearest example of enhanced developer control is the new API that exposes tracked changes in DOCX Editor directly to code. This matters most for AI-assisted review workflows. When an AI tool suggests edits to a contract or report, those suggestions can flow in as tracked changes, and the application can present them for human review, or resolve them automatically, creating custom interactions within the user interface.
Read more about new programmatic access in DOCX Editor
The rest of the Web SDK release follows the same idea. WebViewer 12.0 consolidates to a single UI and one supported customization model, giving developers one clear path for building and customizing the viewer.
Read more about improvements to WebViewer
Spreadsheet Editor now loads XLS and CSV files, so users can pass legacy files and data exports directly to the editor, and expands chart interactions.
Read more about Spreadsheet Editor updates
Also in this release
Beyond the two themes, the release broadens reach across markets and platforms:
- XLIFF Reflow adds right-to-left language support, applying Arabic and Hebrew translations onto left-to-right source documents with automatic layout mirroring. Read more
- Kotlin Multiplatform support lets teams drive both barcode and document scanning from a single Kotlin codebase across Android and iOS. Read more
- Scanbot Data Capture adds native ID support for Romania, Poland, Turkey, and Italy, plus thirteen new languages. Read more
Get started
Experience these new capabilities firsthand in our interactive demo or read the technical details in the WebViewer, Server SDK, and Scanbot release notes.
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