News | April 3, 2014

Snowbound Software Enhances Mobile Features For VirtualViewer HTML5

Latest Version Also Includes Text Extraction, Metadata, and Keyboard Shortcuts

Waltham, MA (Marketwired ) - Snowbound Software, the market leader in web-based document viewing technology, today announced significant enhancements to its award-winning document viewer, VirtualViewer HTML5. VirtualViewer version 3.4 includes powerful new mobile capabilities, along with keyboard shortcuts, text extraction, and metadata functionality.

"This milestone release adds tremendous value to VirtualViewer;" said Jeff Kurson, product manager at Snowbound Software. "The new enhancements offer our customers more ways to streamline their workflow, while also providing our on-the-go clients with a truly mobile user experience."

VirtualViewer HTML5 version 3.4 satisfies customer demands for

  • An enhanced mobile user experience: Users accessing the viewer on tablets and smartphones can now utilize touch-based interactions for adding and editing annotations, as well as momentum-based scrolling to navigate through pages. The mobile version of the viewer also features a clearer and sharper user interface with bigger buttons that allow for easier touch navigation.
  • Text extraction capabilities: Users can easily copy and extract text from searchable documents by dragging over the desired text, copying to the clipboard, and then pasting safely and securely elsewhere.
  • Metadata functionality: The enhanced viewer displays a customizable list of document and page properties -- for example, Document Size (Bytes), Page Count or Document Format.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: With the new capabilities, users can employ simple keyboard shortcuts for many of VirtualViewer's features (zoom, rotate, print, scroll, etc.), saving significant time.

"We're incredibly excited to bring our new mobile-enhanced VirtualViewer to our customers," said Simon Wieczner, president and CEO of Snowbound Software. "We have listened to their requests and worked hard to provide a solution that will increase their productivity and capability with both tablets and smartphones."

Snowbound's VirtualViewer HTML5 document viewer is a document viewing solution enabling file retrieval through a universal web application. It does not require any client-side installation or plug-ins such as Flash, Adobe, or Office. VirtualViewer HTML5 works with any standard browser, provides on-the-go mobile viewing for iPad, Android and other tablet and smartphone platforms, and delivers flexible cross-platform support. It is available immediately for Java and will be available for .NET (x32 or x64) and other connectors (ICN, Filenet P8, and Alfresco) by April 14.

Pricing and Availability
Contact us at questions@snowbound.com or 617-607-2010 for pricing information and more details.

Who is Snowbound Software?

You may not realize it, but you probably interact with us several times every day.

We help deliver your mail, process your insurance forms and claims, expedite your banking transactions and even securely distribute your patient information to healthcare professionals.

Since 1996, our offerings have provided the means to keep information flowing smoothly and securely in the digital age. Using our technology helps organizations better organize and utilize their information, to optimize workflow, and best serve their customers and their employees.

We make powerful solutions for document viewing and conversion that enable information created in a variety of formats to be efficiently and effectively leveraged -- to help keep companies running smoothly -- and their customers satisfied. For more information, contact us at 617-607-2010 or info@snowbound.com, or visit www.snowbound.com or follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SnowboundS, LinkedIn:http://www.linkedin.com/companies/snowbound-software or Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/snowboundsoftware.

VirtualViewer, RasterMaster, SnowBatch and Page on Demand are registered trademarks or registered trademarks of Snowbound Software Corporation.

Source: Snowbound Software