Advanced Word Processing Cloud REST APIs and SDKs – Aspose.Cloud October 2018 Newsletter

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October 2018

Microsoft Word Documents Manipulation REST APIs and Cloud SDKs
Perform Complex Word Processing Operation in Any Platform – Any Language
 
Email File Formats Processing APIs for iOS Applications via Xamarin Framework
 

Aspose.Words Cloud Product Family includes cloud SDKs for .NET, PHP, cURL, Python, Ruby and Node.js to create, edit, covert and render Microsoft Word document (20+ file formats) in any language or platform that is capable to call REST APIs. Developers can easily manipulate document properties, perform document processing operations and execute mail merge feature too. You can also render complete document or even a single page to all popular image file formats.

 
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Manipulate Microsoft Word Documents using Cloud SDKs for Ruby and Python

Aspose.Words Cloud APIs and SDKs allow developing apps to create, edit, convert or render Word documents without using Microsoft Word. Using the most optimized and scalable cloud SDKs for Ruby and Python – process Word documents even more quickly and easily than before. This version also provides Vector graphics support; and Table detection and recognition improvements while PDF to Word conversion. Read more details here.

Select HTML Fragments by CSS Selector from HTML Document using Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs

Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs and SDKs now include new REST API to let you make Selection of the HTML layout fragments from THML document that matches criteria specified by using CSS selectors and returns them as plain text or JSON. Read more details here.

Create Method to Return API Info and Provide Optional Password Parameter for all Methods

Aspose.Slides Cloud APIs and SDKs allow to manipulate Microsoft PowerPoint presentations in any platform. The recent version announces plenty of important features that enable you to: create a method to return API info, remove obsolete xxxNotes export formats and feature of passing color in PUT method body for background resource. Moreover, it also provides support of optional password parameter for all methods. Read more details here.

GET HTML Fragments and HTML Page Images using Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs

Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs and SDKs now add new REST API endpoints such as Get list of HTML fragments matching the specified XPath query by the source page URL and Get all HTML page images packaged as a ZIP archive by the source page URL. Read more details here.

Add New Recurring Tasks and Convert Project Documents to HTML in Cloud

Aspose.Tasks Cloud APIs and SDKs allow cloud developers to manipulate Microsoft Project files in any platform. The latest version supports an optional parameter within the API to convert MS Project document to HTML format that specifies whether project should be returned as a ZIP archive. Read more details here.

Cloud REST APIs to Convert HTML documents to PDF, Images and XPS

Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs and SDKs allow you to manipulate and translate HTML files in any Platform. The latest version adds a group of conversion PUT methods that provide possibility to upload conversion results to specified storage folder. Easily convert HTML files to PDF, XPS and popular image file formats. Read more details here.

Crop Specific Sections from Images using Aspose.OMR Cloud APIs

Aspose.OMR Cloud APIs and SDKs allow to add OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) capabilities within your cloud apps. The latest version allows clipping the desired area from the image and returns as an image in recognition response. It helps to obtain not only the recognition data but also cropped parts of the original image that may be further processed according to user needs. Read more details here.

 
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Select HTML Fragments by CSS Selector from HTML Document with Aspose.HTML Cloud 18.8

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Aspose.HTML CloudWe are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.HTML Cloud 18.8. A new REST API added that let you make Selection of the HTML layout fragments that match criteria specified by using CSS selectors. Moreover, a few bugs were also fixed. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of APIs Documentation.

 

New Features and Enhancements

New REST APIs

All URIs are related to https://api.aspose.cloud/v1.1/html

    • GET /html/{name}/fragments/css/{outFormat}

Selects HTML fragments by CSS selector from HTML document (located in storage by its name and folder path, like /folder1/folder2/name.html) and returns them as plain text or JSON. Please check Get HTML fragments using CSS Selector article for details.

    • GET /html/fragments/css/{outFormat}

Selects HTML fragments by CSS selector from the HTML page (located in Web by its URL) and returns them as plain text or JSON. Please check Get HTML fragments using CSS Selector article for details.

Fixed bugs

A bug in “Get images by URL” API regarding invalid Content-Disposition header value has been fixed. Similar issue was found in other APIs using source page URL as parameter.

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API:

    • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
    • Cloud SDKs – An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project
    • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
    • Aspose.HTML Forum – Our free online support forum where we address your queries and inquiries
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Get HTML Fragments and HTML Page Images with Aspose.HTML Cloud 18.7

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Aspose.HTML CloudWe are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.HTML Cloud 18.7. A group of new REST API endpoints such as Get list of HTML fragments matching the specified XPath query by the source page URL and Get all HTML page images packaged as a ZIP archive by the source page URL, has been added. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of APIs Documentation.

 

New Features and Enhancements

New REST APIs

All URIs are related to https://api.aspose.cloud/v1.1/html

    • GET /html/fragments/{outFormat}

Get list of HTML fragments matching the specified XPath query by the source page URL. Please check Get HTML fragments using XPath article for details.

    • GET /html/images/all

Get all HTML page images packaged as a ZIP archive by the source page URL. Please check Get Images from HTML document article for details.

Fixed bugs

Passing a URL with query parameters as a value to sourceUrl parameter has been partially fixed for static and server-side dynamically generated HTML pages. Whereas the issue regarding “Web pages with client-side dynamic content are not supported” will be handled in the future releases.

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API:

    • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
    • Cloud SDKs – An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project
    • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
    • Aspose.HTML Forum – Our free online support forum where we address your queries and inquiries
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Fully Reworked Version of Ruby and Python SDKs for Aspose.Words Cloud

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We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Words Cloud 18.8. Fully reworked versions of Ruby and Python SDKs for Aspose.Words Cloud have been released.. Moreover, the release provides Vector graphics support and Table detection and recognition improvements for PDF to Word Conversion Please go through the Aspose.Words Cloud 18.8 Release Notes for a full set of changes to the APIs.

New Features and Enhancements

1. Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Ruby

Fully reworked version of Aspose Cloud Ruby SDK has been released. Ruby Cloud SDK is a wrapper around REST API, allowing to process documents in Ruby 2.3 quickly and easily, gaining all benefits of strong types and IDE highlights. The distribution is available at rubygems.org and source code at GitHub. New SDK is fully supported and has the following advantages over the previous versions:

  • SDK is fully in sync with the API, all missing methods are added
  • Classes, methods, and properties have comments and are IDE-friendly
  • Better security
  • Usage of Request/Response classes to represent long lists of parameters. This allows for cleaner code and easier backward-compatibility going forward
  • SDK is not backward compatible with the previous generation because of the last item. It should be straightforward to convert program code to using Request/Response objects, if you need any help on migration please ask at Free Support Forums.

2. Aspose.Words Cloud SDK for Python

Fully reworked version of Aspose Cloud Python SDK has been released. Python Cloud SDK is a wrapper around REST API, allowing to process documents in Python 2.7, or higher (>=3.6) quickly and easily, gaining all benefits of strong types and IDE highlights. The distribution is available at pypi.org and source code at GitHub . New SDK is fully supported and has the following advantages over the previous versions:

  • SDK is fully in sync with the API, all missing methods are added
  • Classes, methods, and properties have comments and are IDE-friendly
  • Better security
  • Usage of Request/Response classes to represent long lists of parameters. This allows for cleaner code and easier backward-compatibility going forward
  • SDK is not backward compatible with the previous generation because of the last item. It should be straightforward to convert program code to using Request/Response objects, if you need any help on migration please ask at Free Support Forums

3. PDF to Word Conversion

PDF to Word converter now supports basic vector graphics. Moreover, accuracy of table detection has been significantly improved. Almost all simple tables are detected properly now. Please check Convert PDF Document to Word article for more details.

4. Added “taxonomy” parameter to document classification

The taxonomy parameter is responsible for the list of classifier classes. If the parameter is not specified or is set to “default”, the classification is performed according to the IAB-2 taxonomy (10 news classes). 

Alternatively, there is a taxonomy “documents” (10 classes of documents). If the taxonomy parameter is set to “documents”, the classification will be performed using “documents” taxonomy. Please check Document Classification article for more details.

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API.

  • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
  • Cloud SDKs – Cloud SDKs takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project
  • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.Words Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
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Add New Recurring Task and Convert Project Document to HTML with Aspose.Tasks Cloud 18.8

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Aspose.Tasks CloudWe are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.Tasks Cloud 18.8. This release added an optional parameter to “Convert Project Document to Specified Format” API that specifies whether project should be returned as a ZIP archive. This parameter is only supported for HTML format. Moreover, we provided an API that let you add new recurring task. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of APIs Documentation.

Important Changes and New Features

Get a Project Document in the Specified Format

We added an optional parameter returnAsZipArchive to GET /tasks/{name}/format API and POST /tasks/{name}/format API. It specifies whether project should be returned as a ZIP archive (supported only for HTML format). Please check Convert a Project Document to Specified Format article for more details.

Add new Recurring Task

Please use POST /{name}/tasks/recurringinfo API to add new recurring task.

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API:

  • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
  • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.Tasks Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
  • Aspose.Tasks Forum – Our free online support forum where we address your queries and inquiries
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A Group of Conversion API Methods Added and API Documentation Refined in Aspose.HTML Cloud 18.6

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Aspose.HTML CloudWe are pleased to announce the new monthly release of Aspose.HTML Cloud 18.6. A group of REST API endpoints — conversion PUT methods that provide possibility to upload conversion results to specified storage folder — have been added. Moreover, API documentation has been refined: descriptions of existing methods and parameters have been clarified. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of APIs Documentation.

 

New Features and Enhancements

New REST APIs

All URIs are related to https://api.aspose.cloud/v1.1/html

    • PUT /html/{name}/convert/image/{outFormat}

Converts the HTML document (located on storage) to the specified image format and uploads resulting file to storage. Please check HTML to Image (JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF) Conversion article for more details.

    • PUT /html/convert/image/{outFormat}

Converts the HTML document (in request content) to the specified image format and uploads resulting file to storage. Please check HTML to Image (JPEG, PNG, BMP, TIFF) Conversion article for more details.

    • PUT /html/{name}/convert/pdf

Converts the HTML document (located on storage) to PDF and uploads resulting file to storage. Please check HTML to PDF Conversion article for more details.

    • PUT /html/convert/pdf

Converts the HTML document (in request content) to PDF and uploads resulting file to storage. Please check HTML to PDF Conversion article for more details.

    • PUT /html/{name}/convert/xps

Converts the HTML document (located on storage) to XPS and uploads resulting file to storage. Please check HTML to XPS Conversion article for more details.

    • PUT /html/convert/xps

Converts the HTML document (in request content) to XPS and uploads resulting file to storage. Please check HTML to XPS Conversion article for more details.

API documentation Refinement

Descriptions of API methods and parameters in the API Reference page have been clarified.

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API:

    • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
    • Cloud SDKs – An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project
    • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.HTML Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
    • Aspose.HTML Forum – Our free online support forum where we address your queries and inquiries
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Create Method to Return API Info and Provide Optional Password Parameter for all Methods in Aspose.Slides Cloud 18.8

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Aspose.Slides CloudWe are pleased to announce the new monthly release of Aspose.Slides Cloud 18.8. The release creates a method to return API info; and remove obsolete xxxNotes export formats and obsolete feature of passing colour in PUT method body for background resource. Moreover, support optional password parameter for all methods. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of APIs Documentation.

 

New Features and Enhancements

  • Create method to return API info
  • Remove obsolete xxxNotes export formats
  • Remove obsolete feature of passing colour in PUT method body for background resource
  • Support optional password parameter for all methods

Other Improvements and Changes

  • Black rectangle instead of drawing in exported SVG
  • Empty SVG options cause an error

Public API Changes

  • new info resource is added. Its GET method allows to obtain API info, including API version.
  • optional password parameters are added to many methods to make them available for password-protected documents. They include:
    • password optional parameter for the following resources: slides, slide, notesSlide; saveAs for slide and shape; shapes and subresources – shape, paragraphs, paragraphportions, portion; masterSlides, masterSlide; layoutSlides, layoutSlide; images, image; placeholders, placeholder; properties, property; background; comments; theme and subresources – colorScheme, formatScheme, fontScheme; textItems, replaceText; merge; split – to be used with the document in case it is password-protected;
    • cloneFromPassword optional parameter for POST method of masterSlides and layoutSlides resources to be used with clone source document in case it is specified and is password-protected;
    • templatePassword optional parameter for PUT and POST methods of presentation resource to be used with template document in case it is specified and is password-protected;
    • Password property for PresentationToMerge object to allow for supplying password for the merged document;
    • PresentationPasswords property for PresentationsMergeRequest object to allow for supplying passwords for the merged documents;
  • Passing ARGB color as PUT request body parameter of background resource is removed as obsolete. Use the colour query string parameter instead.
  • PDFNotes, SwfNotes and TiffNotes export formats are removed as obsolete. Use PDF, Swf and Tiff formats instead with NotesPosition export option.

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API:

  • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
  • Cloud SDKs – An SDK takes care of a lot of low-level details of making requests and handling responses and lets you focus on writing code specific to your particular project
  • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.Slides Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
  • Aspose.Slides Forum – Our free online support forum where we address your queries and inquiries
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Clip Areas of Interest with Aspose.OMR Cloud 18.8

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We are pleased to announce the new release of Aspose.OMR Cloud 18.8. This release introduces a feature in OMR.Kernel (Cloud) that let users clip areas of interest. An improvement “No postprocessing for template images” has been made in GUI OMR Editor (Cloud client). Moreover, Python script for batch processing has been added as Demo in Python SDK. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of APIs Documentation.

New Features and Enhancements

Clip areas of interest

Users can specify an area of interest, which will be cropped from the image and returned as an image in recognition response. In this way, a user can obtain not only the recognition data but also cropped parts of the original image that may be further processed according to user needs. Please check the documentation for further details.

GUI OMR Editor (Cloud client)

  • No postprocessing for template images
  • Clip Areas of user’ interest feature allows users to add clip areas to templates, and also view and save clipped areas from recognized images
  • Python script for batch processing OMR documents has been added as a demo in Aspose.OMR Cloud SDK for Python

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API.

  • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
  • Aspose.OMR-Cloud SDK – The repository contains sample applications that demonstrate how to perform common OMR with Aspose.OMR API
  • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.OMR Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
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Aspose Cloud APIs August 2018 Newsletter – REST APIs to Manipulate Business Documents

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Aspose REST APIs for Office, PDF and Email Formats
Manipulate Documents using Any Language, Any Platform
 
Email File Formats Processing APIs for iOS Applications via Xamarin Framework
 

Aspose.Total Cloud Product Family is a collection of REST based APIs for document generation, conversion, rendering and automation in cloud. Web and mobile apps developers take full control to manipulate Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, PDF, Email, Barcode, OCR, OMR, HTML, Video and commonly used image file formats. The REST API can be called from any platform: .NET, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Rails, Salesforce, Amazon and many more.

 
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Preserve Bookmarks while PDF to Word Conversion in Cloud

Aspose.Words Cloud API provides new SaveOptions and support for preserving bookmarks in PDF to Word conversion. The Word Cloud API also supports document conversion to DOC, DOCX, XPS, TIFF, PDF, HTML, SWF, PCL and many other file formats. Read more details here.

Support of Format Validation for Image Resource in Aspose.Slides Cloud API

Aspose.Slides Cloud is a REST API for processing Microsoft PowerPoint file formats. You can easily create, edit and convert presentation files in cloud. The latest version now supports format validation for image resource as well as using PDF, SWF and TIFF formats instead with NotesPosition export option for adding PDFNotes. Read more details here.

Recognize Marks Data from PDF, Barcodes and QR-Codes in Cloud

Aspose.OMR Cloud has the capability to capture human-marked data from PDF documents and recognize images in PDF Format with high accuracy. You can add Barcodes, QR-codes and Aruco codes onto your template and recognize Barcodes and QR-codes in documents like surveys, questionnaires, examination paper. Read more details here.

Detect Keywords in the HTML Document Text Content using REST APIs

Aspose.HTML Cloud is a REST API to create, manipulate, convert and render HTML files in cloud. The latest version adds support for getting HTML document keywords using the keyword detection service or reference the URL of the document on web as an argument. Read more details here.

Code Example: Detecting Headers and Footers while PDF to Word Conversion using REST APIs

Aspose.Words Cloud offers advanced REST APIs to create, edit, convert or render Microsoft Word document formats. The latest version allows to perform text and document classification using machine learning and natural language processing techniques. Moreover, sections of PDF pages containing page numbers and document names will be converted as headers and footers in Word document that do not affect rest of the page layout and are not moved while the document is being edited. Read more details here.

Code Example: Export Shape in a Slide to SVG Format in Cloud

Aspose.Slides Cloud now adds SVG to shape export formats. Just specify export options in request body for POST method of SaveAs resource for a shape. Moreover, position parameter added to shapes, paragraphs and portions APIs that allow you to insert an item to a list at the specified position instead of just at the end of the list. Read more details here.

 
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Improved Text Recognition Module and Released Skew Correction Module in Aspose.OCR Cloud 18.6

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We are pleased to announce the new monthly release of Aspose.OCR Cloud 18.6. We released Skew Correction module that allows to recognise slightly rotated images, integrated Tensorflow-Serving technology into our pipeline and improved Text Recognition module to fix a lot of issues in our roadmap. For a detailed note on what is new and fixed, please visit the release notes section of APIs Documentation.

New Features and Enhancements

  1. Released skew correction module that allows to recognise slightly rotated images
  2. Integrated Tensorflow-Serving technology into our pipeline
  3. Improved text recognition module to fix a lot of issues in our roadmap:
    • Fix issue of collapsing words
    • Fix issue of duplicate letters
    • Fix issues with punctuation symbols
    • Learn to recognise characters: hyphen-minus (-), dash (–), grave accent (`), underscore (_), slashes (/)(\)

Aspose Cloud Resources

You may visit the following API resources for getting started and working with the API.

  • Product Documentation – Detailed API documentation with code examples and details about API functional areas
  • Aspose.OCR-Cloud SDK – The Cloud SDKs helps you quickly add OCR functionality to your application
  • API Reference Guide – Quickly browse through all Aspose.OCR Cloud APIs and test them in the browser
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