ImageGear for .NET

What's new in ImageGear for .NET v19.1

• TWAIN Improvement - Implemented TWAIN Acquire method that supports scanning from a document feeder and ADF.
• Online Help Improvement - Provided ImageGear for .NET documentation in Microsoft Help Viewer 1.0 format for help file integration with Visual Studio 2010.

What's New in ImageGear for .NET v19:
ImageGear for .NET version 19 includes the following new or enhanced functionality:

High Level WPF GUI Components

• Enhanced viewer controls with auto-update for display and annotation changes, and simplified contrast, brightness, and gamma adjustments.
• New XAML based display components that include customizable context menus and configurable toolbar controls with new page and annotation mouse tools.
• Property binding support in display and annotation API.

DCRAW Improvements

• Greatly improved the number of Digital Cameras RAW formats that we support.
• Improved processing for several existing Cameras.

Microsoft Word Support
ImageGear for .NET now has the ability to load and display Word documents stored in the XML DOCX format.

ART Updates

• New annotation types and UI enhancements.
• Custom annotations support allowing developers to define their own annotation types.
• Mark statistics provides data that can be gathered by the annotations drawing, Area measurements and additional linear measurements.
• ImGearPresentationPageDisplay.Export() method provides the ability to "burn-in", or merge, annotations into the image pixel data using WPF display renderer.
• Significantly improved WPF and Windows Forms annotations UI.

Barcode Integration
The Barcode functionality is now available through a new API.  The new functionality set provides the ability to read and write barcodes.

Recognition Improvements (32-bit only)

• New! Asian OCR engine that allows ImageGear to read Simplified Chinese, Standard Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
• New! 3D deskew methods designed to improve recognition on images taken with a camera.
• The Recognition to PDF output has been improved to support all Western languages.
• Upgraded to the latest Nuance libraries: version 16.5.

DICOM Updates
Updated ImageGear DICOM format metadata support to the latest DICOM 2009 standard.

PDF Improvements

• PDF XMP metadata is now supported for read and write.
• Enhanced PDF rendering for display and rasterization.
• Upgraded to the latest Datalogics libraries: version 9.1

New in the ImageGear .NET 17.3 release:
ImageGear now offers a comprehensive OCR solution including:

• Support for OCR recognition in over 100 languages
• Auto-Zoning feature automatically segments the image into zones
• Zone-based recognition performs different recognition processes on several areas of one document
• Dictionary support allows users to define words to aid spell checking feature
• Several image processing and cleanup enhancements
• Output recognized data to several formats: Image over text PDF, Plain text PDF, Microsoft Office 2007, Office 97: Word and Excel, RTF, HTML, and XML

Speed the development of your next-generation .NET applications using 100% managed code.

• Develop fully-managed solutions for .NET Frameworks 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and Vista
• Designed from ground up for the .NET Framework with over 2,000 imaging methods and properties
• Easily add AJAX to your ASP .NET development
• Leverage robust image processing API for images and documents
• Integrate next-generation DirectX 10 and Direct3D 10 features
• Extensive Windows Presentation Foundation support
• Support for over 100 image formats
• Full support for TWAIN scanning

Load, Save, and Convert Imaging Formats

• Easily work with a wide variety of supported file formats across many bit depths in your applications
• Abstract the details of each image format with an easy to use high-level API
• Use powerful control parameters to control the creation of your file
• Count on support for nearly 200 digital camera RAW formats

Powerful Image Processing and Photo Enhancement Capabilities

• Work with advanced filtering including sharpen, smooth, convolution, and edge detection
• Built-in photo image enhancements such as redeye removal and contrast adjustment
• Use time-saving special effects including mosaic, perspective, and solarize effects
• Flexible color reduction methods
• Easy to use ImageClean enhances documents for readability and better OCR results when sending to an OCR engine

Comprehensive Display, Annotation, and Printing

• Quickly add scrolling and zooming
• Work with anti-aliasing and smoothing on color and black and white images
• Use a wide array of layout controls and options
• Easy to implement UI elements with XML-based annotation for images and medical data

Robust Scanning

• Easy acquisition with full TWAIN support
• Work with multi-page and single page scanning with configurable parameters

Extensive CAD/Vector and PDF/PS Support

• Easily work with PDF 3D content in Universal 3D (U3D) format
• Read, write, display, and edit PDF, PS, EPS, DWF, DWG, DXF, CGM, HPGL, SVG, and more
• Comprehensive PDF API for native PDF annotations, searchable text, and more

Operating System, Development Environment, & .NET Framework Requirements
Supported Operating Systems

• Windows 2000 Service Pack 3
• Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1
• Windows Server 2003 x64 Edition
• Windows XP Service Pack 2
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Windows Vista
• Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 64-bit Edition

Supported .NET Frameworks

• Microsoft .NET Framework versions 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5