Version History

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