Version History - DocuFreezer

Version 7.0 (October 6, 2025)

Faster OCR performance: Multitasking with SIMD optimization is now enabled by default (OCR SIMD: Yes), delivering faster image decoding and processing for text recognition (Note: Available for 64-bit Windows systems only)
Improved accuracy with noise removal: The new OCR noise removal feature (OCR remove noise: Yes) reduces artifacts in scanned images for cleaner text recognition
New OCR languages: Korean and Arabic
Fixed PDF rotation issue: Corrected an issue where rotated PDF pages affected OCR accuracy
Redesigned Advanced Settings tab interface featuring improved search speed and a tree-based structure for better UI and easier navigation
Added new Grayscale operation (with adjustable image dithering) offering two modes: 256 shades of gray and Black and white
CAD to PDF conversion: ability to use eDrawings Viewer to convert CAD drawings (DXF, DWG) to PDF if Microsoft Print to PDF printer is installed
New Excel file loading settings allowing to show/hide gridlines, headers, and change page orientation when converting XLS/XLSX/CSV files
Downscaling shapes to fit page size: DocuFreezer can automatically shrink large embedded images in Outlook EML, MSG, and Word files if they exceed the page size
New ability to convert multiple Outlook PST messages with the same subject. To ensure that multiple message files having the same subject are successfully converted, turn off the setting Unique content in file list (Settings → Advanced → Unique content in file list: No)
Option to select code page for output TXT files — including Unicode (UTF-8), Unicode (Big-Endian), US-ASCII, or other formats (Advanced Settings → Output formats → TEXT → Code page) and include a Byte Order Mark (BOM) at the beginning of the text file (Write BOM)
Quickly verify whether you're using the latest version — now you can click the DocuFreezer logo on the program's main window and choose Check for updates…
Backward compatibility — now you can load Settings INI-files created in older DocuFreezer versions
New file modification date and time macros: {SrcFileDate} (Source file last write date), {SrcFileTime} (Source file last write time)
Fixed behavior of the {ContainerName} macro when used in output folder paths
New PDF Text annotation operation as an alternative to a regular Text watermark. It can speed up the processing, since it doesn't need document re-rendering and reduces file size increase. This operation is available for PDF documents only
New ability to apply Bates numbering either as a Text watermark or in output filenames
New ability to set Text watermark offset dimensions: Centimeter (cm), Millimeter (mm), Inch (in)
Fixed application of Russian or Chinese text as a source for QR-code Barcode watermark
Improved components for processing Microsoft Excel and Word files
New supported formats: Lotus Word Pro Document LWP (.lwp) files (via OpenOffice engine), Comic book file CBR and CBZ (.cbr, .cbz)
Fixed font size issue when set below 1 pt
Fixed watermark offset restrictions
Fixed applying image watermarks to raster file pages with embedded images (e.g., multipage TIFF)
Fixed preserving folder structure when converting PST and ZIP files
Fixed Auto Crop operation with 270° page rotation
Fixed PDF rasterization issues
Fixed removing unused objects in PDF files
Fixed Outlook PST extraction
Fixed Visio VSDX → PDF conversion
Fixed PDF bookmark copying
Fixed TXT margin definitions
Fixed text shifting when Aspose.Words engine is used
Fixed crash when post-processing actions were enabled

Version 6.0 (July 16, 2024)

Newly integrated library for better text recognition – Tesseract OCR
New OCR languages: Dutch, Chinese Simplified
Ability to convert HEIC (HEIF) images by installing the free-to-use ImageMagick application alongside DocuFreezer
New supported format: WebP
Added Polish localization
Updated components for better processing of HTML files and CAD drawings (DWG, DXF)
Updated components for better processing of Outlook PST files
New Resize operation that allows you to change the size of documents/images during conversion
Minor UI improvements
Fixed issue related to processing of file attachments
Fixed issue when converting HEIC to JPEG
Fixed French localization
Fixed issue with processing ZPL files
Fixed "Sent time" and "Received time" values that appear in the mail headers when MSG or EML email message files are converted
Other fixes and improvements

Version 5.0 (June 9, 2023)

New file editing operations: Auto Crop, Crop rectangle, Crop margins
Adding barcodes and QR codes as a watermark
Saving current DocuFreezer Settings as an .INI file and loading them when needed
Ability to apply different settings to individual files or groups of files in the List of Files
Ability to enable macros when processing macro-enabled Word documents
Plain text (TXT) file format can now be used to save & load file lists
CSV spreadsheets can now be used to import file lists
New custom file filter for adding files via Add folder button
Updated component for better processing of DWG and DXF drawings
Ability to skip "Not to Plot" layers
New Display line weight and Fonts to bold settings
Ignoring attachments of unknown type is now set by default
Ability to set up a placeholder instead of an unsupported attachment
New ways to extract EML and MSG attachments when processing Outlook emails
Ability to use Acrobat as OCR component for better text recognition (Adobe Acrobat must be installed)
New OCR languages: Italian and French
Correct reading of HTML file encoding if it is not specified in the HTML file code
New text watermark and output file name template macros: User name {user} and Computer name {computer}
Ability to use JPEG compression when images are converted to PDF (Image to PDF embedding)
Only one instance of DocuFreezer is now enabled by default
New Knowledge Base and updated DocuFreezer Settings website sections
Added German and French localization
Improved UI
New supported format: EPUB (E-book file format, .epub)
Fixed issue with converting different Excel worksheets to PDF or images
Fixed issue with ZPL to JPEG conversion
Fixed issue with adding multi-line text watermarks
Fixed issue when adding files via drag-and-drop
Fixed overcluttering of Temp folder when using Merge into one file feature
Fixed issue when converting DWG and DXF files in Split worksheets mode
Fixed file naming if a macro contains an extra space in the end
Fixed names of some Advanced Settings and new tooltips added
Fixed PLT page size detection

Version 4.0 (December 16, 2021)

New supported formats: iPhone HEIC images (.heic, .heif), vCard electronic business cards (.vcf)
New rotation and auto-rotation operations
Ability convert XLS, XLSX files without Microsoft Excel installed
Ability to convert DOC, DOCX, RTF files without Microsoft Word installed
Ability to convert MSG and EML files without Microsoft Outlook installed
Added tooltips for each setting in the Advanced Settings
Renewed Settings panel: Page range selection added to the Common tab
New updated commercial component for converting DWG and DXF drawings
File association with EML is no longer necessary for Apple Mail File Format (EMLX)
Updated Features and DocuFreezer Settings website sections
Fixed issue with Corel Draw CDR files processing
Fixed issue with processing Outlook PST and OST files
Fixed issue with the Make PDF Searchable (OCR) function

Version 3.2 (June 17, 2021)

New supported formats: iCalendar ICS, Apple Mail EMLX
Ability to add image or text watermark automatically
Ability to load a list of files from an Excel spreadsheet
New OCR languages: Polish and Portuguese
New way to split multipage PDF files: X pages per file
New Advanced Settings tab with all available settings
Ability to drag'n'drop email message files from Microsoft Outlook to the List of files
Ability to sort email files in the List of files by Email delivery time
Ability to sort email attachments in the output folder by name, type, size, date
Ability to set custom page size for Outlook MSG and EML files
Ability to keep original file names when creating a merged PDF/TIFF from email + attachments
Updated version of PDF files processing component
Updated DWG and DXF files processing component
Updated Outlook MSG and EML files processing component
Updated HTML files processing improved
Improved French localization and GUI
Improved logging: new XML-based log files
Updated DocuFreezer Settings and Features website sections
Fixed an issue with processing Outlook MSG files' headers
Fixed an issue with processing obsolete DOC and XLS files
Fixed an issue with converting multipage PDF files to JPEG files
Fixed an issue with converting Excel files to PDF
Fixed an issue with OCRing bitmapped PDF files to TXT
Fixed an issue with converting JPEG files with image rotation tag to PDF
XPS files processing fixed: the program can handle files with 50+ pages
MathCAD MCDX, MCTX files conversion algorithm fixed
PDF to TIFF conversion algorithm fixed
Word DOC and DOCX files processing fixed
Microsoft Publisher PUB files processing fixed
Microsoft Visio VSD, VSDX files processing fixed
Outlook PST files processing fixed
XML files processing fixed
TXT files processing fixed

Version 3.1 (July 17, 2019)

New ability to convert MathCAD Prime MCDX and MCTX files
New ability to set page range and extract PDF pages
New ability to reduce output PDF file size when converting Word DOC and DOCX files
New ability to save output files to the source folder
New ability to select compression method for output TIFF files
New ability to arrange multiple document pages on one sheet
Improved TIFF to PDF conversion algorithm
Improved conversion of AutoCAD DWG, DXF to PDF and image files
Improved JPEG to PDF conversion for increased performance and optimized output PDF file size
Fixed conversion of XPS to PDF and XPS to images
Fixed conversion of XML to PDF and XML to TEXT
Fixed issue with converting PDF files with javascript-based forms
Fixed combining documents and images to a single multipage PDF
Minor improvements and fixes

Version 3.0 (January 24, 2019)

New ability to OCR scans, images, and other data to searchable PDF or TXT
New output file format: plain text TXT
New ability to convert DWG and DXF drawings to searchable PDF and images
New ability to split Excel files into separate worksheets
New ability to convert to monochrome TIFF and PNG
New ability to add text watermarks
New ability to process an unlimited number of files per one session
Faster file conversion to PDF
Faster file conversion to JPEG, PNG, TIFF
Improved processing of high-resolution files with large DPI
Improved conversion of EML and MSG with attachments to a single PDF
Improved processing of archives with a multi-hierarchical structure
Minor improvements and fixes

Version 2.0 (June 15, 2018)

All-new interface
New file formats: PDF Portfolio, CSV, MHT (MHTML) and XPS
Ability to merge files into one PDF or TIFF and split multi-page PDF or TIFF into single pages
Ability to combine PDF or TIFF files (add pages to existing documents)
Ability to convert files in RAR, ZIP and 7-ZIP archives
Ability to convert Outlook MSG and EML files with attachments
Ability to instantly get error reports on files which failed to convert
Other minor fixes and improvements

Version 1.5 (September 28, 2015)

Added support for WordPerfect WPD format to convert it to PDF
Updated Outlook MSG to PDF file conversion module
Updated Adobe PDF to PDF/A file conversion module
Fixed issues that occasionally appeared while converting Word, Excel and OpenOffice documents to PDF
Fixed issues that occasionally appeared while converting Word documents to JPG
Other minor fixes and improvements

Version 1.4 (June 10, 2015)

Added support for OpenOffice ODT, ODF, ODP, ODS and ODG documents, PostScript (*.PS), Encapsulated Postscript Vector graphics (*.EPS) files and SVG image files
Ability to split multi-page documents into separate TIFF pages
Other improvements and fixes

Version 1.3 (March 11, 2015)

Added support for Microsoft PowerPoint PPS and PPSX files
Ability to convert TXT to PDF or image files without Microsoft Office Word installed
Improved algorithms for plain text TXT and Microsoft Word DOCX files processing
Other improvements and fixes

Version 1.2 (October 15, 2014)

Ability to batch convert JPG to PDF
Improved algorithms for converting images to PDF files
Other improvements and fixes

Version 1.1 (August 4, 2014)

Ability to convert XPS to PDF in batch mode
Ability to convert HTML to PDF in batch mode
Other improvements and fixes

Version 1.0 (May 5, 2014)

First public release of DocuFreezer
Ability to convert multiple documents to PDF, JPG, TIFF or PNG
Ability to drag and drop files to the main window