GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit launched

Royalty-free OCR, reading, conversion, printing and writing of images in a large variety of formats.

Zoom [+]

Image manipulation using GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit.

GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit is an ActiveX image processing component for creating, editing and composing bitmap images. GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit can perform OCR, read, convert, print and write images in a large variety of formats. GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit can be used within any 32-bit and 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 environments like C# and VB.NET, and many others. GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit works on Microsoft Windows platforms from Win 98 to Win 7 (32 bit & 64 bit).

Features

• Unicode Support
• ActiveX Image Processing component containing over 550 functions
• Advanced image processing
• Read, edit and write multi-page TIFFs
• Read, edit and write animated GIFs
• Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit and 64-bit color depth
• Image enhancement functions
• Import / Export images from clipboard
• Import / Export images from HTTP or FTP servers
• Includes the GdPicture ADR Technology Automatic Document Recognition Engine
• Advanced TWAIN scanning (webcam and scanner) with Automatic Document Feeder control (ADF) and Autoscan control
• Use TWAIN 2.0 capabilities to detect & read barcode symbols, including Code 39/128/93, EAN-8/13, PostNet, PDF417, 2 of 5 Matrix and many others
• Convert from, and to, any color depth, from 1-bit to 64-bit
• Multiple color quantization and reduction algorithms
• Load and save CMYK images
• Apply color correction according to color management information ICC / ICM
• Read and write stream & binary data
• Automatic border removal
• Automatic deskew
• Crop and add borders
• Advanced rotation features: basic 90°, 180°, 270°, flip X and Y-axes, rotate by a specific angle
• Watermark text, shapes or images
• Advanced text processing
• Create thumbnails
• Skew and de-skew images
• Obtain specific color components of an image
• Read / write EXIF, GPS, thumbnail and IPTC tags
• Print images using autofit
• Composite images: combine images using transparency
• Resize using 8 different interpolation modes including bilinear, bicubic and nearest neighbor
• Draw lines, ellipses, circles, rectangles, Bezier and curves using anti-aliasing
• Draw Barcodes 25i, EAN13, 3 of 9, code 128
• Change the brightness, saturation, contrast and gamma
• Bitonal & Color Image Enhancement: noise removal, despeckle filters, character repair
• Multiple filters and effects, including emboss, blur, edge enhance and engrave
• Personalize filters using matrix conversion
• Area selection: select areas or regions on an image for processing
• Capture the contents of any window or selection of any window
• Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed images
• Zoom enhance
• HSL, CMY, CMYK, RGB, ARGB, sRGB64, ICM, ICM2 color space management
• PDF writing features: image, shapes, text, encryption, PDF/A

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensive document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can quickly and easily add several features to your applications like OCR, image processing, PDF creation, image conversion, document displaying, document printing, image acquisition and all other features covering all areas of document imaging technologies. GdPicture has thousands of customers all over the world including ECM market companies and software development firms. Every day the company provides services and support to programmers and architects to reduce the time and cost of application development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.