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scConverter Conversion SDK

Conversion SDK for PDF, DWF, TIFF, CALS, PLT, Gerber and CGM

scConverter™ can convert PDF, DWF, Gerber, CGM, TIFF, CALS, PLT, PNG and JPEG files to a large number of output formats. The list of available output formats includes Adobe PDF, PDF/A, DXF, DWF, CALS, TIFF, PLT and PNG. You will find a complete list of all available input and output formats below.

You have full control of the conversion process and can select scaling, resolution, number colors to use and more using the available methods and properties. You can define pen tables to control colors, line widths, line styles and line end style.

PDF to CAD conversion with scConverter from Software Companions

ScConverter can convert from PDF to CAD formats

Markup, also known as comments or annotations, may be added to the converted file. An extensive set of annotation types which includes text, stamps, barcodes, polylines, polygons, rectangles, circles, ellipses and pictures are available.

With scConverter you may merge multiple PDF files into a single multipage PDF file. You can merge all pages from the different PDF files, or a selection of pages. In addition scConverter includes a function for splitting a multipage PDF file into multiple PDF files with one or more pages each.

With the PDF to CAD functionality you can convert your PDF files into editable DXF, HPGL/2, Gerber, CGM and SVG file formats.

You may use scConverter in any development environment that does support COM, for example .NET, VB, C++, MFC, C#, Delphi, ASP, ASPX and many others. If your application, or development environment, doesn't support COM, the DLL export functions that can be called directly.
scConverter provides more than 150 methods, properties and exported functions that may be used by your application.

The SDK contains several source code examples, including command line converters, a complete batch converter and an application for merging several individual PDF files into a new multipage PDF file.

scConverter Key Features

Convert Adobe PDF files.
Convert Autodesk DWF 2D files.
Convert Autodesk DWFx 2D files.
Convert TIFF, CALS, PNG, JPEG, JPEG-XL and BMP image formats.
Convert PLT, HPGL, HPGL/2, KIPGL and HP-RTL files.
Convert CGM files.
Convert Calcomp plotter files.
Convert Gerber plotter files.
Convert your files into PDF, PDF/A, DWF, DXF, CGM, Gerber, TIFF, JPEG, PNG and other formats.
Compare two files and save the result as PDF, PNG, TIFF or JPEG.
Use the Software Companions XML Markup format to add annotations to the converted files.
Merge PDF files into a single multi-page PDF file.
Split a multi-page PDF file into multiple PDF files with one or more pages.
Split a multi-page TIFF file into multiple single page TIFF files.
Conform, or convert, an existing PDF file into PDF/A standard.
Encrypt a PDF file with a custom password.
Optimize an existing PDF file.
Create a digitally signed copy of a PDF file using a certificate file.
Create searchable PDF files from scanned image or PDF files by using the Tesseract OCR engine.
Create vector PDF files from PLT, DWF, DWFX, Gerber or CGM files. Layers are included if available in source file.
Use the PDF to CAD functionality to create editable cad files from PDF.
Convert one or more Gerber files to an image or a vector file. Each Gerber file/layer will be drawn with an user defined color.
Compress files using Brotli, gzip, bzip2 and zstd compression methods.
Use advanced image processing tools like Resize, Deskew, Cleanup and Defox.
Detect QR codes in PDF, TIFF and other image format files.
Extract a thumbnail of a page either to an image file, or by using the IPicture interface (image in memory).
Add conversion to your own application by using either the COM interface or the exported functions.
The SDK is available as both 32- and 64-bit.
Only one developer license is needed to develop and redistribute both 32- and 64-bit.
No royalty or other redistribution costs.