GdPicture Tesseract Plugin - Royalty Free OCR Engine

What's New in Gdpicture.NET 9.4?

• New QrCode barcode encoder for image & PDF
• New DataMatrix barcode encoder for image & PDF
• New PDF417 barcode encoder for image & PDF
• New Sauvola local adaptive thresholding method with contrast normalization
• Bitonal image filters speed enhancement
• Unicode support for the QRCode reader engine added
• Improvement of the Gaussian filter
• Optional drop shadow effect to the GdPicture.XMP annotation added
• Improvements of 1D & 2D barcode reading speed and accuracy
• New function for counting the number of unique colors in an image
• Horizontal and vertical alignment support in AnnotationText objects
• SquaredBox property for AnnotationRectangle, AnnotationRectangleHighlighter and AnnotationEllipse objects added
• Improvements of the internal Image decoding engine
• PDF text extraction and annotation support improved
• Battery of minor bug fixes
• Documentation enhancements and lots of new code snippets

What's New in Gdpicture.NET 9.2?

• Base64 encoding/support to the GdPicture/XMP Annotation Plugin. Especially for JavaScript usage.
• Support for unsupported file types in the ThumbnailEx control allowing to specify custom image. IE: an office icon.
• Speed improvement of the TIFF encoder with CCITT3 and CCITT4 compression schemes.
• Fast page resizing/scaling for the PDF format, without quality and compression loss.
• Support to create bitmap from separated Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black images.
• Private tag reading and writing at page level for the PDF format.
• GdPicture/XMP Annotation support improved (new methods).
• Improvement of the PDF form-fields parsing support.
• TWAIN behavior customization to handle some unstable TWAIN drivers.
• Improvement of document format detection support.

Main changes in GdPicture 9.1:

• Added support for loading the entire document into the memory before the start of the decoding process. This allows to subsequently overwrite or delete the source file.
• Stream support improvement. Documents can now be loaded from non-seekable stream objects.
• Added item insertion in the ThumbnailEx control.
• Owner drag & drop support in ThumbnailEx. New example in vb & c# added demonstrating drag & drop between two ThumbnailEx objects.
• Added asynchronous support for item deletion, modification & insertion in the ThumbnailEx control.
• Improved image compression performances.
• Improved TWAIN support with Citrix and WPF applications.
• Improved document rendering speed.
• PDF caching mechanism improved, especially for image attributes extraction.
• Improved document type identification by header analysis.
• Small performance enhancements & minor bug fixes.

GdPicture.NET 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 45 image formats.

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.