GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK

What's New in GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK 5.13.x?

• Faster Image Loading
• TWAIN support improvement for Network Scanners
• New method within the GdViewer class
• New method within the Imaging class
• Recognize 2D DataMatrix barcodes using the optional GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin

What's New in GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK 5.13.0?

• Some Speed improvements in documents rendering
• Some minor bug fixes
• New methods for the Imaging class

GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK is a full-featured Document Imaging Toolkit delivered as ActiveX component to display, create, acquire, edit and print images and PDF. GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK can be used as

• Document Imaging Plugin
• PDF Toolkit for displaying and creating PDF and PDF/A files
• Document Viewer: Image, PDF & Metafiles
• Barcode Writing SDK
• TWAIN 2.0 SDK to acquire images from devices such as capture cards, digital cameras and scanners with ADF support
• OCR Toolkit (requires the purchase of the optional GdPicture Tesseract Plugin)
• 1D Barcode Recognition SDK (requires the additional purchase of GdPicture Tesseract Plugin)
• DataMatrix Barcode Recognition (requires the additional purchase of GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin)

GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats such as multipage TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, JBIG, WMF, WBMP, PDF & PDF/A, PCX, PNM, JPEG 2000, HDR, PSD, TGA, JNG, EXR, DDS, SGI and many others.

Images can be cropped, converted, rotated, combined, colors can be reduced, filters and effects can be applied. Images can be scanned from TWAIN devices, OCR can be performed to convert image to text or to build searchable PDF documents. 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. Please, note that OCR, barcode recognition and Datamatrix Barcode recognition require the additional purchase of GdPicture Tesseract Plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin and GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin.

GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that support ActiveX / COM components, including Visual Basic 6, VBA, Realbasic, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, PHP, ASP, Access, Windev, PowerBuilder, PowerBasic and many others.

Gdpicture Pro Imaging SDK includes 3 classes containing over 850 functions. Please, note that OCR and barcode recognition require the additional purchase of GdPicture Tesseract Plugin and GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin.

Image processing & Document Imaging SDK :

• Advanced imaging processing
• Read, edit and create Multi-page TIFF images
• Read, edit and create Animated GIF images
• Support for 1-bit, 4-bits, 8-bits, 16-bits, 24-bits, 32-bits, 48-bits, 64-bits and 128-bits image color depth
• Import / Export image from clipboard
• Include the GdPicture Automatic Document Recognition engine (GdPicture ADR)
• Import / Export image from HTTP or FTP server
• Advanced TWAIN scanning (webcam and scanner) with Automatic Document Feeder control (ADF) and Auto-scan control
• Use TWAIN capabilities to detect & read barcode symbols including Code 39/128/93, EAN-8/13, PostNet, PDF 417, 2 of 5 Matrix and many others...
• OCR features (require the additional purchase of GdPicture Tesseract Plugin): Create searchable PDF, convert image to text, perform character recognition on specific area with the optional GdPicture Tesseract Plugin
• Convert any color depth to any color depth, from 1-bit to 64-bit
• Many 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: IStream, array of bytes, string...
• Auto Border removal for bitonal & color images
• Cropping and borders adding functions
• Advanced rotations: basic 90°, 180°, 270°, flip by x-axe or y-axe, specific angle rotation
• Watermark text, shapes or image
• Advanced Text processing
• Make high quality Thumbnails
• Skew and de-skew image manually
• Auto Deskew an image
• Obtain specific color components of an image (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow or Black channel)
• Full metadata support: Read / Write EXIF tags, GPS tags, Thumbnails tags, IPTC tags...
• Print image using printer dialog box, auto-fit feature, automatic rotation and many other capabilities
• Combine Images: Paste images together with transparency effect
• Resizing with 8 different interpolation modes (bilinear, bicubic, nearest neighbor...)
• Drawing lines, ellipse, round, rectangle, Bezier, curve, image with anti-aliasing
• Drawing Barcodes 25i, EAN13, 3 of 9, code 128
• Change brightness, saturation, contrast and gamma
• Bitonal & Color Image Enhancement: Dilate, Erode, Noise removal, Despeckle filters, characters repair...
• Lot of filters and effects (emboss, blur, edge enhance, engrave...)
• Personalized filters with matrix conversion
• Area selection: select areas or regions on an image for processing
• Capture the contents of any window or section of any window
• Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed images
• Zoom enhance
• HSL, CMY, CMYK, RGB, ARGB, sRGB64, ICM, ICM2 color spaces management
• PDF Write (image, shapes, text, encryption) including PDF/A generation support

Image & PDF Viewer Controls :

• Image bitmap and vector viewer (very high quality viewer class with many different view modes)
• Load and print single & multiple page image
• PDF Viewer
• Multi page Tiff reading, you can change page easily
• Display big image file
• Read binary data types like IStream, IUnknown, array of bytes...
• Load image from URL
• Multiple image scaling algorithms (Anti-aliasing, Bicubic and Nearest Neighbor Interpolation ...)
• Support for 1bit, 4bits, 8bits, 16bits, 24bits, 32bits, 48bits, 64bits & 128-bits pallets color
• Import image from Clipboard, StdPicture, IPicture, HBitmap, DIB, GDI+ image handle...
• Advanced rotations 90, 180, 270, 360, Flip X, Flip Y
• Advanced and optimized printing features: Print range of pages from a multi-page file, Print multi-page images in single print jobs, Fit image to paper size...
• User define display area
• Animated Gif Viewer
• Advanced scrollbar and auto size features
• Aspect Ratio Control
• Right click pop up menu, including tools, selection, zoom...
• Built in tools including hand tool, pan and zoom, rectangle selection
• Move / Scroll the image by mouse drag
• Zoom enhance, zoom by height, by width, fit to page...
• User define Zoom and user define area zoom
• Keyboard and Mouse Events
• Change image zoom with mouse wheel
• Smooth Scrolling
• Save and restore the specifies position of image (Image MAP system capability)
• GdViewerCnt: Image viewer container class (like a vb picturebox, can contain other controls placed on it)