GdPicture.NET

What's new in GdPicture 8.5?

• Web support - Includes a new HTML demo to view and annotate documents in Internet Explorer.
• Asynchronous download/upload - Asynchronous HTTP/WEB document transfer for upload and download.
• Enhanced document imaging - New document Imaging filter Form Dropout.
• Improved punch hole removal - There is a speed improvement of between 50% and 500% when using the Punch Hole Removal document imaging filter.
• Faster PDF/OCR engine - Improved speed and accuracy with poor quality documents.
• Annotation editing - A new Annotation Editor provides an interface to edit each annotation property.
• Improved PDF support - PDF rendering speed has been increased and the save method produces smaller PDF files.

What's new in GdPicture 8.4?

• New magnifier tool has been added to the Viewer, available for PDFs and Images.
• Improved Autodeskew engine.
• Unicode support added for text writing in PDFs, with many font schemes supported such as Open type and Post Script.
• Printing support added to the GdPicturePDF class.
• Annotated document by the GdPicture/XMP Plugin can be saved into stream.
• New C# demo application for image processing with undo/redo features.
• Improved toolkit stability, especially for the OCR and the barcode recognition engines.

What’s new in GdPicture.NET 8.3?

New QR-Code engine features

• Detects QR-Code in more than 90 different image formats, including PDF.
• Detects multiple QR-Code barcodes from black & white, grayscale, paletized and color images.
• Returns the string value of each QR-Code barcode recognized.
• Returns the bounding box of each QR-Code barcode. -> top-left, top-right, bottom-left & bottom-right points.
• Returns the confidence of each QR-Code barcode.
• Returns the version of each QR-Code barcode.
• Detects QR-Code barcode on a full page or on a region of interest.
• Support for ECC error correction algorithm to recognize partially destroyed symbols.
• Fast, accurate & easy to use.
• Royalty-free licensing: no distribution license required for server or desktop.
• Strong named and digitally signed library.
• Working on any Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 2000 to Windows 7 !
• Available in 32 bit & 64 bit version.
• Can work in multi-thread applications (thread-safe).

What’s new in GdPicture.NET 8.2?

• OMR engine accuracy increased
• 1D Barcode reader engine accuracy increased
• Adobe PDF Annotation scheme support
• PDF Form Fields editing support
• New AnnotationManager class to handle GdPicture/XMP annotations by code
• Improved Toolkit stability in extreme multithread context
• Memory allocation and usage optimization of the Toolkit core
• Improvement of the document imaging filters speed and accuracy (autodeskew, blank page detection…)
• Support for Multiselect and Drag and Drop in the ThumbnailEx control
• Bug fixes

What's new in GdPicture.NET Version 8?

• 100% AnyCPU and thread-safe SDK
• Full annotation support for PDF and images including sticky notes, free hand, rubber stamps, shapes and more...
• Full managed PDF support (32 bit and 64 bit): Edit existing PDF, split & merge documents, swap pages, Edit pages, apply digital signature, uncrypt, add watermarks and barcodes etc...
• Improvement of the autodeskew, autocrop and automatic document orientation detection engines
• Thread safe OCR engine that supports near 40 languages
• Improvement of the Imaging core that also provides a subtract background filter

What's new in GdPicture.NET Ver. 7.4?

• OMR (Included in GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate and also available with the GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin)
• Template Recognition (Included in GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate and also available with the GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin)
• Better TIFF support
• Bug fixes & performance improvements.

What's new in GdPicture.NET Ver. 7.3?

• Full JBIG2 single page reading & writing support
• Full JBIG2 multipage page reading & writing support
• Progressive JPEG writing support
• Punch Hole Removal filter. Very fast & accurate
• TWAIN functions to better control Auto-Scan feature & retrieve device info
• Functions to read/write XMP field of an image
• Better control of adaptive image threshold method
• Toolkit is ready for clouding usage
• Speed enhancement of the Toolkit Core
• GdPicture.NET can now be used in clouding system such Windows Azure

What's new in GdPicture.NET Ver. 7.2.1?

• Rendering improvements

What's new in GdPicture.NET Ver. 7.2.0?

• New set of WIA scanning features.
• Fast adaptive threshold algorithm.
• New Gaussian filter.
• New Unsharp Mask filter.
• Improvement of the barcode recognition accuracy & speed (1D & 2D).
• New set of features in the Thumbnail control.
• Some speed improvement in toolkit core.
• Support for FloodFill algorithm in any bit-depth including Alpha layer support.
• Many reported bugs have been fixed.

What's new in GdPicture.NET 7.1?

• JBIG2 Encoder improvements.
• PDF loading speed improvement.
• PDF rasterizer memory usage dramatically reduced.
• WIA scanning support.
• Improvement of the TIFF parser.
• Very fast Median filter have been added.
• Function which determines if a page is negative.
• Speed improvement with 1BPP image processing.

What's new in GdPicture.NET 7?

• Dramatically speed increase for image filters & color depth conversion
• Memory usage optimization
• Speed improvement with 1bpp image manipulation
• Dramatically speed improvement with huge PDF handling
• GdPicture.NET 7 is available as native 32bit version and native 64 bit version *
• Full PDF links support in the document viewing control
• Full PDF bookmarks support in the document viewing control
• New UserControl ThumbnailEx to display thumbnails from directory, image, PDFor GdViewer object.
• New UserControl BookmarksTree to move through PDF bookmarks or page
• PDF AES 256 support for decryption in PDF reader & PDF rasterizer
• Added Barcode drawing support to PDF
• Added TelePen barcode support for writing
• Ability to get required size before drawing barcode on bitmap or PDF
• PDF support for DisplayFromHTTP & DisplayFromByteArray methods
• Faster image loading
• Bitmap Direct Access methods. To get bitmap info (bit depth, size, res...) without decoding pixels
• Added support to save TIFF in CMYK color space
• New GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder Plugin
• JBIG2 support for image saving and PDF writing (requires a separated License of the GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder Plugin)

What's new in GdPicture.NET 6.7.7?

• Better support for Metafile rendering
• Rendering quality & speed improved for some formats

What's new in GdPicture.NET 6.7.4?

• New PDF Reader features in the GdPictureImaging class
• Image extraction from PDF feature
• New JPEG lossless transformation features
• New set of TWAIN features
• Size of assemblies have been reduced
• Recognize 2D DataMatrix barcodes using the optional GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin

What's new in GdPicture.NET 6.7.3?

• Speed improvements
• Added support for mixed compression in Multipage TIFF image

What's new in GdPicture.NET 6.7.0?

• New PDF Reader features in the GdPictureImaging class.
• Image extraction from PDF feature.
• New JPEG lossless transformation features.
• New set of TWAIN features.
• Size of assemblies have been reduced.
• Battery of bug fixes & speed improvement.

What's new in GdPicture.NET 6.6.2?

• PDF displaying feature is now 100% thread safe
• Better highlighted regions support: Each region can now be moved & resized by user
• PDF transparency support have been added
• Full Pathpainting & construction support for PDF generation
• During PDF generation process image & fonts can now be added at anytime
• Performance improvement in multithread usage.
• Support for large barcode recognition

What's new in GdPicture.NET 6.5.x?

• Added full Unicode support for file path.
• Speed optimization for rendering.
• Best OCR support for high resolution image.
• 64 bit JPEG2000 image are now supported.
• Better AutoDeskew.
• Full JPEG compression support in multipage TIFF writing.
• Bug fixes & speed improvement.
• Lot of new samples (tiff splitter, multipage tiff generation...)

What's new in GdPicture.NET 6.4.x?

• Now you can get & set the alpha channel quickly.
• Speed improvement of the document viewer.
• Added support for custom dictionaries in GdPicture Tesseract Plugin.
• Added reading support for PICT image format
• Added support for more than 40 RAW camera image formats2

GdPicture.NET is a suite of Full-Featured & Royalty Free Document Imaging Toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications. With GdPicture.NET your programs will be able to display documents, acquire image from TWAIN scanners, make image processing, perform optical characters recognition and many other features covering all mainstream areas of document imaging. GdPicture.NET also offers an Royalty Free OCR plugin, GdPicture Tesseract Plugin. GdPicture Tesseract Plugin is a low cost and royalty free OCR Engine for application development using GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits. Based on the Google's open source Tesseract OCR, GdPicture Tesseract Plugin brings OCR features to GdPicture Toolkits such as text recognition on specific area of an image and searchable PDF creation from scanner, image or existing PDF documents. GdPicture Tesseract Plugin support many languages & can process more than 90 image formats.

GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin is a low cost, fast, accurate and royalty free 1D Barcode Recognition Engine for development of applications using GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits.GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin adds to your applications the ability to detect and decode near than 20 industrial 1D barcode type from more than 50 document formats such as bitmap, metafile and PDF.

GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin is a royalty free & thread-safe extension of GdPicture.NET SDK which provides anchoring mechanism (also known as template recognition) and OMR features. GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin is included free of charge in GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate Edition. GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin can also be bought separately to add the OMR and Forms Processing functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.

GdPicture can also add to your document processing applications, the ability to detect and decode 2D DataMatrix barcodes in more than 90 document formats, including Bitmap, Metafile and PDF with the GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin. GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin is a low-cost, fast, accurate and royalty-free DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Engine for developing applications using GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits.

GdPicture Tesseract OCR Plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition, GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition and GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin are included with your GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate Edition purchase. You can also order GdPicture Plugins separately to extend the functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.

GdPicture XMP/Annotations Plugin is a royalty free & thread-safe extension of GdPicture.NET which allows users to markup PDF documents TIFF and JPEG Images. With GdPicture XMP/Annotations Plugin you can add annotation capability to our application such as rubber-stamp, sticky notes, freehand, text, redaction and more.

GdPicture.NET Managed PDF Plugin is a royalty free & thread-safe extension of GdPicture.NET which brings extended support of the PDF format. GdPicture PDF Plugin is a pure .NET assembly that works very fast on huge documents and delivers valued features such as PDF/A generation, digital signature support, PDF merging and splitting, PDF modification, PDF rasterization, etc.

GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder Plugin is a royalty free & thread-safe extension of GdPicture.NET which allows to read & write JBIG2 image.
It supports single & multipage JBIG2 format and add support for JBIG2 compression in PDF Documents.

GdPicture.NET Features Overview:

• Load / Save image in more than 45 formats.
• Load / Save image & PDF on FTP & HTTP servers.
• Import / Export image from DIB, RAW, GDI+ Bitmap, HBitmap, HICON, IPicture, .NET Stream, String data, Bytes array data...
• Copy / Paste image from the clipboard.
• Create image from screen capture.
• Display Raster Images, Metafiles & PDF within a full-featured document viewer (GdViewer).
• Create highlighted regions within a document viewer.
• Mouse tools for documents viewing: Area selection, Pan, Page change, Zoom In, Zoom Out...
• Print Image & PDF with complete control over the printing process & using featured printing dialog box.
• Manipulate multipage TIFF image (insert, remove & swap pages).
• Manipulate animated GIF image (insert, remove & swap frames, set frame delay & disposal method...).
• Convert an image from one bitdepth to another.
• Draw barcodes on an image (25i, EAN13, 3 of 9, code 128).
• Draw shapes such as lines, ellipse, round, Bezier, curves, polygons...
• Draw text with a lot of different styles.
• Support all TWAIN 2.0 features for image acquisition.
• Directly access to bits of an image.
• Manage color palette of an image.
• Quantize & reduce colors of an image.
• Apply rotations, mirror & flips.
• Rotate images by hundredths of degrees.
• Read & write Metadata such as EXIF tags, Thumbnail tags, GPS tags & IPTC tags.
• Create high quality image thumbnails.
• Apply color mapping & ICC profiles to RGB and CMYK images.
• Remove automatically borders of an image.
• Auto-Deskew an image.
• Change brightness, saturation, contrast, and gamma of an image.
• Apply filters and effects (emboss, blur, edge enhance, auto-contrast...).
• Cleanup image (despeckle bitonal images, remove lines & noise, repair characters...).
• Select a region on an image for processing (Region Of Interest).
• Merge and overlay Images with full transparency support.
• Combine images using a specific operator of combination (And, Or, Xor, Min, Max, Abs, Multiply, Divide...).
• Generate PDF & PDF/A with lot of features (compression, shapes, text, encryption...).
• Extract text from a PDF (full page content or text within a specific area).
• Search PDF for a given text string.
• Generate searchable PDF from scanner, images or existing PDF files.
• Perform automatic document recognition process.

GdPicture Tesseract OCR Plugin Main Features:

• Character recognition confidence.
• Retrieve character location.
• Output text.
• Support for multipage searchable PDF output.
• Multi languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Vietnamese, Polish and Dutch.
• Can recognize only digits, only alpha or only "white listed" characters.
• Fast area processing.
• Document orientation detection.
• Easy to use.
• Fast, performent & bug free.
• Royalty Free- No distribution license required.

GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin - Royalty Free Barcode Reader Main Features

• Detects barcode from more than 50 different image formats including PDF
• Detects barcodes orientation from 0° to 360°
• Returns the value of each barcode
• Returns the type of each barcode
• Returns bounding box of each barcode -> top-left, top-right, bottom-left & bottom-right points
• Returns if a barcode has checksum
• Can detect near than 20 industrial 1D barcode type
• Detects barcode on full page or on region of interest
• Fast, Accurate & Easy to use
• Royalty Free licensing - No distribution license required for server or desktop

GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin Main Features

• Detects 2D DataMatrix barcodes in more than 90 different image formats, including PDF
• Detects multiple DataMatrix barcodes from black & white, grayscale, paletized and color images
• Returns the string value of each DataMatrix barcode recognized
• Returns the bounding box of each DataMatrix barcode. -> top-left, top-right, bottom-left & bottom-right points
• Returns the number of rows of each DataMatrix barcode
• Returns the number of columns of each DataMatrix barcode
• Detects DataMatrix barcode on a full page or on a region of interest
• Support for ECC error correction algorithm to recognize partially destroyed symbols
• Fast, accurate & easy to use
• Royalty-free licensing: no distribution license required for server or desktop
• Strong named and digitally signed library
• Working on any Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 98 to Windows 7

GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin Main Features

• Accurate & fast Optical Mark Detection (OMR) SDK for .NET
• Template recognition (Anchoring Mechanism)
• Enhance OCR zoning accuracy
• Low memory usage
• Royalty-free licensing: no distribution license required for server or desktop
• Working on any Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 98 to Windows 7
• Low memory usage
• Available in 32 bit & 64 bit version
• Can work in multi-thread applications

GdPicture XMP/Annotations Plugin Main Features

• Read & Write XMP annotation from PDF & Image
• Full Unicode support
• Many sophisticated annotations such as highlighted regions, free-hand, rubber stamps, sticky notes, connected lines, embedded images, polygons, text and more
• Very fast rendering and manipulation
• Annotations collection can be loaded/saved in XML format
• Annotations collection can be stored as Metadata of the document
• Annotations can be burnt on any document
• Let your user to move, resize, rotate, scale any kind of annotation
• Full support for blending

GdPicture.NET Managed PDF Plugin Main Features

• Read, Edit & Write PDF documents from file, or any Stream
• Full support for incremental saving to preserve document content history
• Repair corrupted documents
• Pack documents and reuse existing resources to dramatically reduce file size
• Works very fast on large documents
• Strong objects serialization to produces 100% compliant and smaller PDF documents
• Very fast text extraction engine, on whole page or ROI
• Add / Extract Bitmaps & Fonts
• Write text with font embedding support

GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder Plugin Main Features

• Read & Write single page JBIG2 image
• Read & Write multipage JBIG2 image
• Convert from more than 90 document formats to JBIG2
• Enhance PDF compression using the JBIG2Decode filter instead of CCITTFaxDecode
• Lossless compression
• Compress 2 - 5 times more than CCITT4
• Low memory usage
• Royalty-free licensing: no distribution license required for server or desktop

GdPicture.NET is available in 6 different editions:

GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate

GdPicture PDF plugin, GdPicture XMP Annotation plugin, GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder plugin, GdPicture Forms Processing plugin, GdPicture OCR Tesseract Engine plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Reader plugin and GdPicture DataMatrix Recognition plugin are included free of charge in GdPicture.NET 8 Ultimate Edition.

• Image processing.
• PDF creation.
• TWAIN acquisition.
• Raster image & metafile viewing.
• PDF viewing.
• 1D Barcode Recognition
• OCR
• Forms Processing (OMR, Template Recognition)

GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK

• Image processing.
• PDF creation.
• TWAIN acquisition.
• Raster image & metafile viewing.
• PDF viewing.

GdPicture.NET Image SDK:

• Image processing.
• PDF creation.
• Raster image & metafile viewing.

GdPicture.NET TWAIN PRO SDK:

• TWAIN acquisition.
• Image processing.
• PDF creation.

GdPicture.NET TWAIN SDK:

• TWAIN acquisition.
• Image processing.

GdPicture.NET Document Viewer SDK :

• Raster image & metafile viewing.
• PDF viewer.