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GdTwain SDK

by GdPicture - Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX

From 1st February 2012, GdPicture ActiveX editions will no longer be available for sale. Please purchase GdPicture .NET instead as it now includes both .NET and ActiveX compatibility.

An easy to use ActiveX component to control TWAIN devices. GdTwain ActiveX is an easy to use ActiveX component to control TWAIN devices such as scanners, digital cameras and capture cards. With GdTwain ActiveX you can fully control the image acquisition process, scan images from an automatic document feeder, clean up images, enhance image applying filters like auto border removal, Despeckle, automatic deskew and more. GdTwain ActiveX can save images to disk or upload to FTP server. GdTwain ActiveX can be used in any environment of development that supports ActiveX/COM components including Visual Basic 6, VBA, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, PHP, ASP, Access, Windev, PowerBuilder, PowerBasic and many others.

Screenshot of GdTwain SDK - ActiveX - 2.8.0

What's new in GdTwain ActiveX ver. 2?

GdTwain ActiveX is now Windows 7 Compatible


GdTwain ActiveX is an ActiveX TWAIN control that allows developers to easily acquire images from devices such as scanners, cameras and capture cards. GdTwain ActiveX can be used within any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows development environment that supports ActiveX components, including Visual Basic, REALbasic, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, PHP, ASP, MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, WinDev, PowerBuilder, .NET languages like C# and VB.NET, and many more. GdTwain ActiveX works with Microsoft Windows platforms: 98, NT4, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista or Windows 7.

GdTwain ActiveX Main Features

  • Unicode Support
  • Advanced image processing, including auto border removal and the ability to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma
  • Acquire an image to a handle, file (including multipage Tiff), the clipboard, a byte array, HBitmap, and StdPicture
  • Support for 1bit, 4bit, 8bit, 16bit, 24bit, 32bit, 48bit and 64bit color depth
  • OCR features: create searchable PDFs with encryption, convert images to text, perform character recognition on a specific with the Tessaract Plugin.
  • 1D Barcode Recognition features: detect & read more than 20 industrial barcode type with the 1D barcode Recognition Plugin
  • Use TWAIN capabilities to detect & read barcode symbols including Code 39/128/93, EAN8/13, PostNet, PDF417, 2 of 5 Matrix and many others
  • Image enhancement functions
  • Convert from, and to, any color depth, from 1bit to 64bit
  • Multiple color quantization and reduction algorithms
  • Advanced text processing: add text with a semi transparency effect or draw rotated text
  • Adjust the image resolution (DPI) of the twain device
  • Define the capture area of the twain device
  • Define the brightness and contrast of the twain device
  • Enable / disable ADF feeder
  • Enable / disable AutoScan mode
  • Enable / disable duplex scanning
  • Enable / disable Automatic Deskew
  • Enable / disable Automatic Rotation
  • Enable / disable Automatic Border Detection
  • Enable / disable Automatic Brightness
  • Select the twain device pixel type: B/W Color, Gray color, RGB color, CMYK color
  • Provides high and low level API
  • GdTwain ActiveX control uses the latest TWAIN 2.0 specification

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