Document AI company Synapsoft said on Tuesday it has upgraded its document-viewing solution, Synap Document Viewer, adding features such as AI document translation and sensitive data masking.

Synapsoft said it carries out regular updates twice a year for all customers and that more than half of the new functions added this time were developed to reflect customer requests.

The AI document translation function can translate a document being viewed into languages including Korean, English, Japanese and simplified Chinese. It supports translating only the text while maintaining the original page count and layout, allowing users to view it in the same form as the original.

It supports major business documents including PDF, Hangul (HWP and HWPX), Word, PowerPoint and Excel. For the translation engine, it can link not only external AI services but also customers' own LLMs. If the translated document is saved as a PDF, a watermark indicating it is an AI-translated document is displayed.

The sensitive data masking function applies masking to the relevant content when a document is converted to an image or PDF, if the pattern of information to be covered is specified as a rule.

A function was also added that allows users to view markdown (MD) files used in generative AI services and development documents without downloading them.

Synapsoft CEO Kyung-heon Jeon (전경헌) said, "As the document viewer is a product used every day at customers' workplaces, customer requests are the product roadmap." He added, "We will continue to add features that fit the changed work environment, such as AI translation and sensitive data masking, to provide value beyond viewing documents."