Apryse WebViewer SDK release notes

v11.8.0

With the Fall release, WebViewer continues to deliver an increasingly consistent user experience across formats and expands out-of-the-box market coverage. All right-to-left (RTL) content is supported in WebViewer. Also, developers can quickly accommodate new global markets by providing localized, RTL viewing and document editing in the UI for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu.

Additionally, the DOCX and Spreadsheet Editors include new features so teams can work across document types efficiently. Review and collaboration are simpler with search and search and replace for DOCX Editor and Spreadsheet Editor via the UI or programmatically with the new APIs.

From programmatic automation to in-editor precision tools to global-ready language support, we’re making editing better with every release.

Until now, content in RTL languages was difficult to handle because PDFs lack implicit text direction. Developers often had to build custom workarounds that still produced issues like reversed character order, inaccurate search results, or broken copy/paste.

We’ve now expanded the document viewing and editing experiences in WebViewer, including UI localization, for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu, without additional engineering overhead. All other RTL languages benefit from these improvements as well.

Capabilities for RTL include:

• Modular UI RTL layout
• Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu​ language localization in UI Natural Text Selection​
• Improved Copy/Paste​
• Search​
• Both PDF and Office Viewing
• Consistent Page Manipulation

Benefits include:

• RTL users can interact with documents naturally.
• Reduces user frustration.
• Increases product usage and value.
• The correct character order, copy/paste, and search functionality is upheld.
• Text selection and highlighting is accurate.
• Content meaning and context is preserved.
• Eliminates the need for third-party tools and workarounds for developers.

This feature is available to all customers with a WebViewer license.

See the following new documentation for developing these features:

• RTL Language Support Overview
• RTL Language Support in DocumentViewer

DOCX Editor now offers APIs for programmatic text editing and a new in-editor Search & Replace panel, giving developers the ability to automate bulk updates and end users the ability to make quick, precise changes to content.

You can now automate structured updates like placeholder replacements, bulk corrections, or sensitive text removal, minimizing manual effort when generating or standardizing documents. With programmatic text editing through our APIs:

• Insert, delete, or replace text.
• Preserve existing document formatting, styles, and layout.

You can now enable fast, user-driven editing tasks directly within the editor during the document editing process. With UI search and replace:

• Use the new search and replace panel in the main menu of the UI.
• Replace a single instance or all instances of a word or phrase.
• Access search and replace by keyboard shortcut, if you prefer.

Benefits include:

• Faster updates due to programmatic text editing, keyboard shortcut, and search and replace all.
• Every matching term, placeholder, or name is updated the same way throughout the file.
• Updates are made with awareness of DOCX formatting.
• Eliminates the need to manually review each section for missed or inconsistent changes.

This feature is available to all customers with a WebViewer license and the DOCX Editor add-on.

See the following new documentation for developing these features:

• Overview of Search in WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor
• Search Text in WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor
• Search and Replace Text within WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor
• APIs for Searching Text

Spreadsheet Editor introduces search and replace across cells, sheets, and workbooks, with support for regex, case sensitivity, and programmatic APIs. This release also adds:

• Undo/redo buttons.
• Image insertion.
• Keyboard shortcuts for a faster, more familiar editing experience.

With search and replace you can:

• Search and replace text or numbers across all sheets in a workbook.
• Use advanced search options like regex and case-sensitive.
• See search results clearly in a panel and identified throughout the sheet.
• Move through results easily using next/previous.
• Replace one or all results at once.
• Use new APIs to run search and replace programmatically, especially for bulk updates.

Benefits include:

• Quick review of results identified in a sheet, or in the summary panel to see what’s being changed before committing to a replacement.
• Use Programmatic search and replace across large datasets using our APIs.
• Faster updates due to programmatic text editing and search and replace all.
• Every matching term, placeholder, or name is updated the same way throughout the file.
• Eliminates the need to manually review hundreds or thousands of rows that can result in missed or inconsistent changes.

This feature is available to all customers with a WebViewer license and the Spreadsheet Editor add-on.

See the following new documentation for developing these features:

• Spreadsheet Editor Edit Mode
• Overview of Search in WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor
• Search Text in WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor
• Search and Replace Text within WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor
• APIs for Searching Text

See our latest changelog for more WebViewer release information, including new APIs and bug fixes.

See our downloads page to access the most recent versions of our products so you have all of the latest features and functionality available.

v11.6.0
In this release, we’ve extended editing and layout controls for DOCX Editor and Spreadsheet Editor, both add-ons to the Web SDK, bringing more sophisticated formatting, styling, and cell-level control into a single, browser-based experience. It’s a step forward in keeping users focused and productive within your application.

Our modular UI now meets WCAG 2.2 AA standards across WebViewer, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor. This ensures your applications are accessible to users with motor or visual impairments, without requiring additional development effort.

The Spreadsheet Editor interface uses an Excel-like layout users are used to seeing so it’s intuitive and easy to use. Building on our View Mode launch, Spreadsheet Editor now has edit mode functionality users can use for:

• Cell Formatting: Modify text size and color, fonts, border styles, cell colors, border colors, and text styling for bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough.
• Formula and Function Support: Execute standard mathematical operations, statistical calculations, date/time functions, and other common formulas.
• Dynamic Data Manipulation: Easily add, edit, and delete rows and columns. Seamlessly cut, copy, and paste data.
• Cell Adjustments: Merge cells and preserve formatting.
• File Support: Open and export files in .xlsx format.

Editing capabilities in Spreadsheet Editor reduce reliance on third-party systems, multiple vendors, and file downloads for everyday spreadsheet tasks without compromising control, compliance, or security. Teams can format and calculate spreadsheet data directly all with a similar look and feel to how they manipulate PDFs and DOCX files.

See the following new documentation for developing these features:

• Spreadsheet Editor overview guide
• Spreadsheet Editor basic setup guide
• Spreadsheet Editor view mode guide
• Spreadsheet Editor edit mode guide

DOCX Editor now has a new layout tab users can use for:

• Margin Editing: Adjust the top, bottom, left, and right margins of a document’s body on a section-by-section basis. The Margin menu offers standard preset values, and you can also set custom values within it.
• Column Page Layout Editing: Adjust the number of columns and their width and spacing. You can apply the configurations you set to each section. You can also set uneven columns through custom settings.

Now, you can make more complex documents that jump from one section to the next with different layouts. DOCX Editor preserves text flow and section logic to ensure documents remain true to their original form, no matter how complex the layout.

The benefits of margin and column editing include:

• Professional formatting and branding across documents, from proposals to reports.
• Compliance with legal and industry standards, especially for industries like legal, education, and government that often have strict formatting guidelines.
• Text that isn’t cramped and enough white space around content, improving overall readability.
• More balanced, organized document layout.
  

DOCX Editor eliminates dependency on using other apps and file downloads without compromising security, control, or compliance. Companies can format and write directly within the same interface they’re already using for PDF files.

Our modular UI now meets WCAG 2.2 AA standards across WebViewer PDF Editor, DOCX Editor, and Spreadsheet Editor which ensures your applications are accessible to those with motor impairments, visual limitations, or cognitive disabilities without requiring additional development effort.

Here’s everything you get for a consistent, accessible UI with default behavior that enables developers to embed accessible in-browser document experiences without needing to build a custom solution from scratch:

On June 28, 2025, The European Accessibility Act made effective the requirement that digital products and services comply with WCAG 2.1 AA standards for certain industries. Our accessibility update exceeds the WCAG 2.1 AA baseline.

We recommend that customers review their usage of our Web SDK solutions to ensure that their own applications remain compliant. Product and accessibility teams should test against the updated criteria and are encouraged to contact us with any questions or concerns.

See our latest Changelog for more WebViewer release information, including new APIs and bug fixes.