Menu Close

2PDF 4.0: Smarter PDF Workflows with Bookmark Splitting and Editing Metadata, Adding Attachments to PDF, and Faster OCR

2PDF 4.0: Smarter PDF Workflows with Bookmark Splitting and Editing, Adding Attachments to PDF, and Faster OCR

New features

Better work with PDF 

  • New options to set or edit PDF metadata (Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, etc.)
  • New ability to attach external files to PDFs using the -pdf attpath parameter; for example, you can add an image, an XML, or Word document to generated PDFs
  • Write creation and modification dates to output PDFs (-pdf creationdate, -pdf modificationdate)
  • CAD to PDF conversion: Now it is possible to use eDrawings Viewer to convert DXF/DWG files when Microsoft Print to PDF is installed

Learn about PDF-related parameters in 2PDF Syntax →

New editing operations

OCR

  • Faster OCR performance: Optimized with SIMD technology (OCR SIMD: Yes enabled by default), delivering faster image decoding and text recognition (Available on 64-bit Windows systems only)
  • Improved OCR accuracy: The new noise removal (OCR remove noise: Yes) feature reduces image artifacts for cleaner text recognition
  • New OCR languages: Arabic, Korean, Dutch

Bookmarks

  • Split PDFs by bookmarks: Use -pdf multipage:split split_mode:bybookmarks to split by bookmark sections (previously, it was possible to split a document by pages only). In addition, you can specify bookmark names to extract only the selected sections, for example, -pdf multipage:split split_mode:bybookmarks bookmark:"name1" bookmark:"name2"
  • Retrieve a list of bookmarks as a return code using -info:bookmarks

CSV

HTML 

Miscellaneous

Improvements

  • Enhanced components for processing Microsoft Excel and Word files
  • Added digital signatures to some installation DLL files to prevent false-positive antivirus alerts

New supported formats

  • Lotus Word Pro Document LWP (.lwp) — via the OpenOffice engine
  • Comic book formats CBR, CBZ (.cbr, .cbz)

View the full supported file formats list →

Fixes

  • Fixed issues with processing Microsoft Outlook PST files
  • Corrected TXT margin detection
  • Fixed issue with HTML encoding detection
  • Fixed color-space handling during rasterization with "As is" mode
  • Fixed EO.PDF component issue causing landscape HTMLs to convert with incorrect orientation

How to get the latest version

Trial version

2PDF is free for evaluation purposes and is available for download. Please note that the trial version adds a special watermark on every output page.

Commercial version

A commercial license for 2PDF is priced at $149. Discounts and various licensing options are available.

A 50% discount is available for 2PDF 1.0-3.0 license holders. If you recently purchased a 2PDF license (in 2025), you are eligible to receive this update for free. To get a discounted or free upgrade, please contact us.