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Product Roadmap

PDFDancer is actively developed with regular updates and new features. This roadmap provides visibility into what we're working on and what's planned for the future.

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This roadmap is subject to change based on customer feedback and evolving requirements. Features may be reprioritized, added, or removed.

What's Coming Next​

  • Full Text-Metric Read/Write Access — Complete control over text metrics
  • PDF Metadata Editing — Read and update PDF metadata properties

Performance​

  • Async Session Creation — Faster session startup

Backlog​

  • Reflow with Collision Detection — Expand text reflow until it hits other visible elements
  • Batched Edits — Loop operations like drawing grids
  • Document Template Store API — Cloud-based template storage
  • Table Extraction — Automatically detect and extract tabular data from PDFs
  • XFA Form Support — For financial and government forms
  • Extended Position Matching — contains() and intersects() for bounding boxes
  • Digital Signatures — Sign and verify documents
  • Signed PDF Handling — Graceful handling of digitally signed documents
  • Password Protected PDFs — Support for encrypted documents
  • PHP SDK — Native PHP support
  • .NET SDK — Native C# support for .NET developers

Shipped​

  • Structured Text Extraction — Analyze documents or individual pages as semantic reading units with roles, reading order, source provenance, bounds, and relationships
  • API v3 SDKs — Updated Java, Python, and TypeScript SDKs with a request-based workflow for replacing, inserting, deleting, and styling text
  • Text Reflow — Reflow edited text while respecting alignment, columns, lists, whitespace, hyphenation, and justified layouts
  • Template Replacement — Replace text and image placeholders with dynamic content, with optional reflow
  • Text Fragment Editing — Change the font, size, or color of specific parts of a text line
  • Text Selection and Detection — Select text by pattern or position, detect invisible text, and preserve stable text references across sessions
  • Paragraph and Column Detection — Detect paragraphs and complex multi-column layouts
  • Page Operations — Delete individual pages or page ranges while preserving page dimensions and rotation
  • Vector Graphics — Create, group, transform, and recolor vector paths, including transparent fills and strokes
  • Image Manipulation — Scale, rotate, replace, crop, flip, adjust opacity, and fill regions in images
  • PDF/A Preservation — Preserve PDF/A conformance information when processing compliant documents
  • Clipping Region Removal — Reveal content hidden by clipping regions
  • Typography and Font Management — Control kerning and text spacing, swap fonts while preserving positioning, and manage custom fonts
  • PDF Structure Support — Preserve outlines and bookmarks, control element stacking order, and work with PDF layers
  • Redaction — Permanently remove sensitive text, images, paths, and form fields
  • Form Fields and Annotations — Select and edit form fields while preserving supported appearances and annotations
  • MCP Server — Upload, inspect, edit, and export PDFs through Model Context Protocol clients
  • Reliability Improvements — Automatic retries and graceful rate-limit handling across the SDKs
  • OpenAPI Specification — Public API reference for integrating with PDFDancer
  • SDKs for Java, Python, and TypeScript — Supported SDKs for the three languages