ABBYY Europe launched its ABBYY FineReader Engine 8.0 CLI for Linux, a command line interface utility for integration of ABBYY’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and PDF conversion technologies within Linux environments. The new utility will enable fast access to the automated text recognition and conversion process on Linux environments.

Enfocus NV, launched PitStop Connect, a new tool for creating desktop-based Connectors for routing the PDF files from the desktop of creative professionals to publishing and printing houses. The aim of PitStop Connect is to streamline the workflow between the community of creative professionals and the publishing/printing houses.

H&W Computer Systems, Inc. released its new JES2Web software to receive JES2 reports from Mainframe system in a PDF or Text format. The software also provides the capabilities to automatically e-mail the reports, manage and reuse the reports on a PC.

Nuance Communications, Inc. announced that the accounting department of Boston Red Sox has selected Nuance’s eCopy PaperWorks software for scanning paper documents in to PDF. Boston Red Sox intends to drive out the paper from its accounting department to create efficient invoice processing.

Foxit Corporation has released a new version of PDF Reader 3.2 with number of improvements to PDF viewing process and new features. The navigation has been improved in newer version and shortcuts have been added for ease-of-use.

JPG To PDF Converter is a new Windows-based utility for fast and qualitative conversion of images to PDF documents. It supports commonly used image formats including JPG, GIF, BMP, PNG, TIFF and PSD.

Quick PDF Library 7.18 has been officially released. The new version contains a number of significant additions and improvements to the library, including Delphi 2010 support, JPEG2000 / JPXDecode image support, enhanced unicode support and a whole lot more.

Moyea Software announced the availability of its PPT to PDF Converter 1.1 software for Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit. The software has been fixed to remove earlier identified bugs and includes enhancements.

AWinware Software, a vendor for Windows-based PDF applications, announced a free trial of ‘PDF Encryption’ which allows — you guessed it, the batch encryption of PDF files.

IT PRO’s Friday Five rundown has identified PDF Reader Pro as one of the Top five paid applications used on iPhone. The current version of PDF Reader Pro is priced at USD 0.99 or GBP 0.59

ePub Converter 2.1 is an efficient tool to convert the PDF, HTML, XML, TXT, GIF and JPEG documents in to ePub file format. ePub Converter 2.1 supports batch and user interface conversion of documents.

PDFZilla is a desktop-based application that converts PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text documents, Plain Text files, Images, HTML Files and Shockwave Flash SWF Files. PDFZilla supports batch and page-wise conversion mode.

IBM X-Force (R) 2009 Trend and Risk Report reveals soaring phishing and format related threats with PDF document and editors.

Foxit Corporation, the vendor for electronic document solutions, announced its plans to offer a complete PDF publishing solution for providers of electronic content.

Simpo PDF Creator from Simpo Technologies has received 4 star rating from user reviews on Softpedia.com.