ComponentSource Topic | GdPicture.NET

GdPicture.NET adds new Magnifier Tool

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 12:38:00 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

Improve the readability of PDFs and zoom in on images.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print image documents. Your programs will be able to display documents, acquire images from TWAIN scanners, perform image processing and optical character recognition (OCR). The product supports more than 90 vector and bitmap image formats including JPEG2000, JBIG, JBIG2, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and RAW.

Updates in 8.4

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

About GdPicture

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

GdPicture.NET improves QR barcode support

Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:01:44 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

Version 8.3.6 can detect multiple QR-Code barcodes from black & white, gray scale, palletized and color images.

Updates in 8.3.6

Detects QR-Code in more than 90 different image formats, including PDF.
Detects multiple QR-Code barcodes from black & white, gray scale, palletized 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).

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensives document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your applications quickly and easily 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 they provide services and reliable support to programmers & architects to reduce time and cost of applications development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

GdPicture.NET 8.2 improves OMR engine accuracy

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:10:00 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

1D Barcode reader engine accuracy is also increased and support for PDF Form Fields editing has been added.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web 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 technology supports more than 90 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, JBIG2, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and RAW camera. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. 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. You can also buy GdPicture Plugins separately to extend the functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.

Updates in 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

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensives document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your applications quickly and easily 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 we provide services and reliable support to programmers & architects to reduce time and cost of applications development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

GdPicture.NET V8 adds PDF annotation support

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 11:29:33 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

Edit existing PDFs, split & merge documents, swap pages, apply digital signatures, watermarks and barcodes.

Updates in 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, encrypt, add watermarks and barcodes etc...
Improvement of the autodeskew, auto crop 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

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

GdPicture.NET adds OMR

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:22:00 GMT

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GdPicture.NET V7.4 features Optical Mark Recognition, Template Recognition, plus improved performance and TIFF support.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web 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 technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture Tesseract OCR Plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition, GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition and GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin are included free of charge in GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate Edition, you can also buy GdPicture Plugins separately to extend the functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V7.4

Optical Mark Recognition (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.

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GdPicture.NET adds JBIG2 support

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 17:24:00 GMT

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Version 7.3 also features progressive JPEG writing, hole punch removal, XMP read/write functions and Cloud support.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web 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 technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture.NET is Royalty Free. Also available are GdPicture Tesseract Plugin, that is a royalty free OCR Engine for use with GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits and 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.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V7.3

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

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GdPicture.NET adds WIA scanning features

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:00:00 GMT

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GdPicture.NET V7.2.0 also features gaussian filter, unsharp mask filter and barcode recognition improvements.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web 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 technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture.NET is Royalty Free. Also available are GdPicture Tesseract Plugin, that is a royalty free OCR Engine for use with GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits and 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.

The following editions are available:

Updates in Version 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

About GdPicture

GdPicture.NET adds native 64-bit version

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:38:00 GMT

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Version 7.0 adds support for PDF AES 256 encryption and PDF barcode drawing plus faster image loading.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web 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 technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture.NET is Royalty Free. Also available are GdPicture Tesseract Plugin, that is a royalty free OCR Engine for use with GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits and 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.

Updates in Version 7

Dramatic speed increase for image filters & color depth conversion
Memory usage optimization
Speed improvement with 1bpp image manipulation
Dramatic speed improvement with huge PDF handling
GdPicture.NET 7 is available as native 32-bit 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, PDF or 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 separate License of the GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder Plugin)

About GdPicture

GdPicture improves Metafile rendering

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:01:00 GMT

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GdPicture.NET V6.7.7 features better support for Metafile rendering and improved rendering quality and speed.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web 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 technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture.NET is Royalty Free. Also available are GdPicture Tesseract Plugin, that is a royalty free OCR Engine for use with GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits and 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.

Updates in V6.7.7

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

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GdPicture.NET improves speed

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:39:00 GMT

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Version 6.7.3 also adds support for mixed compression in Multipage TIFF images.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET Web 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 technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Visual Studio 2008 and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture.NET is Royalty Free. Also available is GdPicture Tesseract Plugin, that is a royalty free OCR Engine for use with GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits. Please, note that OCR and barcode recognition require the additional purchase of GdPicture Tesseract Plugin and GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin.

Updates in V6.7.3

Speed improvements
Added support for mixed compression in Multipage TIFF images

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GdPicture.NET gains new TWAIN features

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:33:00 GMT

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Version 6.7.0 also adds PDF Reader features, PDF image extraction and lossless JPEG transformations.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web 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 technology supports more than 45 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, etc. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Visual Studio 2008 and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture.NET is Royalty Free. Also available is GdPicture Tesseract Plugin, that is a royalty free OCR Engine for use with GdPicture Imaging SDK Toolkits.

Updates in 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.

About GdPicture

GdPicture.NET updated

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:07:00 GMT

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Latest update features improved multithreaded performance, plus PDF transparency support.

Updates in V6.6.2

PDF displaying feature is now 100% thread safe
Better highlighted regions support: Each region can now be moved & resized by user
PDF transparency support
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

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GdPicture.NET updated

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN compliant device.

Latest release adds Unicode support, rendering speed optimization and improved AutoDeskew.

Updates in V6.5.0

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 and speed improvement.
Lot of new samples (TIFF splitter, multipage TIFF generation...)

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensives document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your applications quickly and easily 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 we provide services and reliable support to programmers and architects to reduce time and cost of applications development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

GdPicture.NET updated

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN scanner.

New version adds support for PICT, plus 40+ RAW camera image formats.

Updates in V6.4.X

Support for get & set 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 formats

About GdPicture

GdPicture, based in Toulouse, France, is a leading editor of comprehensives document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your applications quickly and easily 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. It provides services and reliable support to programmers and architects to reduce time and cost of applications development.