Brava! is gone — Here's why Nutrient SDK is the alternative you've been searching for

OpenText™ Brava!™ was once a widely used solution for secure document viewing, markup, and redaction, especially in engineering, legal, and government environments. But support ended in early 2022, and for more than three years, organizations have faced the reality of maintaining unsupported legacy deployments.

At Nutrient, we’ve seen the demand firsthand. Enterprises need a replacement that not only matches Brava!’s features, but also extends them with a modern, API-first foundation. That’s exactly what the Nutrient SDK delivers.

Brava! users need more than just a viewer

Brava! wasn’t just a static viewer. It supported high-stakes workflows like:

• CAD and Microsoft Office file rendering

• Scale-aware measurement and annotations

• Legal redaction workflows

• Custom markup tools and collaboration

• Integration with ECMs, DMSs, and enterprise platforms

Nutrient SDK supports all of the above and more — purpose-built to be embedded, extensible, and cloud-ready.

Why customers are switching to Nutrient

Organizations in legal, engineering, construction, and government sectors are switching to Nutrient SDK for:

• Comprehensive file support — PDF, CAD, Office, and more, rendered securely in the browser

• Redactions done right — Permanent, audit-compatible, and automatable

• A modern viewer experience — Zoom, pan, annotate, and collaborate in real time

• Flexible SDK integration — REST APIs, JavaScript SDKs, and web components

• Future-proofing— Actively maintained and continuously improved

Meeting the functional requirements of Brava! and extending them

Brava! enabled a range of document workflows. Nutrient SDK covers the same capabilities and extends them through modern architecture and broader integration support.

Core features

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Comprehensive file format support

Nutrient SDKs support a wide spectrum of file formats, including specialized and regulated formats, across different deployment targets.

PDF

• PDF (v1.0–2.0), PDF/A (Parts 1–4), XFDF, Instant JSON

Microsoft Office

• DOCX, DOC, DOTX, DOCM

• XLSX, XLS, XLSM

• PPTX, PPT, PPTM, PPSX, PPS

Image

• PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, GIF

• WEBP, SVG, HEIC, EPS, TGA

• DICOM, RAW (3FR, ARW, BAY, etc.)

CAD

• DXF

• DWG (via Document Engine)

Other formats

• HTML, MHT, MHTML

• MSG, EML

• TXT, RTF

• ODT

ℹ️ Nutrient file format support varies by SDK:

• Web SDK — 15+ formats
• XtractFlow — Widest coverage
• Document Engine — Specialized file support by license module

Migration considerations

Brava! used proprietary XRL annotations. Nutrient supports standards like XFDF and Instant JSON and provides APIs for annotation import/export. For customers migrating at scale, Nutrient SDK supports batch processing, metadata extraction, and annotation transformation.

Replacing Brava! is not optional — it’s necessary

More than three years after Brava!’s sunset, continued reliance introduces risks:

• No compatibility with modern browsers

• Growing security vulnerabilities

• Increasing incompatibility with modern file types

• Unsupported proprietary annotations

Nutrient SDK is the stable, supported, extensible path forward.

Ready to see it in action?

Contact us for a personalized demo and see how Nutrient can step into Brava!’s place — and take your workflows further.

Next steps

• Explore the SDK documentation

• Check out the Web demo