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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 Light Imaging Toolkit launched

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:09:00 GMT

Image manipulation using GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit.

Royalty-free OCR, reading, conversion, printing and writing of images in a large variety of formats.

GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit is an ActiveX image processing component for creating, editing and composing bitmap images. GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit can perform OCR, read, convert, print and write images in a large variety of formats. GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit can be used within any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports ActiveX components, including Visual Basic, REALbasic, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, PHP, ASP, MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, WinDev, PowerBuilder, .NET environments like C# and VB.NET, and many others. GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit works on Microsoft Windows platforms from Win 98 to Win 7 (32 bit & 64 bit).

Features

Unicode Support
ActiveX Image Processing component containing over 550 functions
Advanced image processing
Read, edit and write multi-page TIFFs
Read, edit and write animated GIFs
Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit and 64-bit color depth
Image enhancement functions
Import / Export images from clipboard
Import / Export images from HTTP or FTP servers
Includes the GdPicture ADR Technology Automatic Document Recognition Engine
Advanced TWAIN scanning (webcam and scanner) with Automatic Document Feeder control (ADF) and Autoscan control
Use TWAIN 2.0 capabilities to detect & read barcode symbols, including Code 39/128/93, EAN-8/13, PostNet, PDF417, 2 of 5 Matrix and many others
Convert from, and to, any color depth, from 1-bit to 64-bit
Multiple 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
Automatic border removal
Automatic deskew
Crop and add borders
Advanced rotation features: basic 90°, 180°, 270°, flip X and Y-axes, rotate by a specific angle
Watermark text, shapes or images
Advanced text processing
Create thumbnails
Skew and de-skew images
Obtain specific color components of an image
Read / write EXIF, GPS, thumbnail and IPTC tags
Print images using autofit
Composite images: combine images using transparency
Resize using 8 different interpolation modes including bilinear, bicubic and nearest neighbor
Draw lines, ellipses, circles, rectangles, Bezier and curves using anti-aliasing
Draw Barcodes 25i, EAN13, 3 of 9, code 128
Change the brightness, saturation, contrast and gamma
Bitonal & Color Image Enhancement: noise removal, despeckle filters, character repair
Multiple filters and effects, including emboss, blur, edge enhance and engrave
Personalize filters using matrix conversion
Area selection: select areas or regions on an image for processing
Capture the contents of any window or selection of any window
Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed images
Zoom enhance
HSL, CMY, CMYK, RGB, ARGB, sRGB64, ICM, ICM2 color space management
PDF writing features: image, shapes, text, encryption, PDF/A

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GdViewer OCX now Windows 7 compatible

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:09:00 GMT

Viewing a PDF in GdViewer OCX.

Version 4.12.18 also includes 64bit compatibility.

GdViewer OCX is a low-cost and royalty-free OCX Image Viewer and OCX PDF Viewer control that supports a wide range of image formats such as tiff, gif, jpeg, jbig, png, wmf, bmp, wbmp, pdf, pdf/a, pcx, pnm, j2k, jp2, hdr, psd, tga, jng, exr, dds, ppm, sgi, pbm, pgm, pfm, xbm, xpm, koala and iff. GdViewer OCX can be used within any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports ActiveX components, including Visual C++, Visual Basic, REALbasic, Visual Foxpro, Delphi, Visual Studio .Net, MS Access, WinDev and PowerBuilder. With GdViewer OCX, you can view, zoom, print and rotate, define a display area, zoom in on an area, play an animated gif, display multi-page tiff files, display pdf files, define your own zoom in or zoom out values, use the keyboard to scroll down and across images, set an anti-aliasing display mode, and more.

Updates in 4.12.18

64bit systems compatible
Windows 7 compatible

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GdPicture.NET adds OMR

Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:22:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.NET.

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

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.NET.

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

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.NET.

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

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GdPicture.NET adds native 64-bit version

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:38:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.NET.

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)

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GdPicture improves Metafile rendering

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:01:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.NET.

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 Pro adds 2D DataMatrix option

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:45:00 GMT

Viewing image properties and adjusting color balance.

GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK V5.13.1 adds support for optional 2D DataMatrix barcode recognition plugin.

GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK is a document imaging toolkit delivered as ActiveX component to display, create, acquire, edit and print images and PDF. 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 and more. Images can be cropped, converted, rotated, combined, colors can be reduced, filters and effects can be applied. Images can also be scanned from TWAIN devices, OCR can be performed to convert image to text or to build searchable PDF documents. OCR Toolkit using the optional GdPicture Tesseract 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, Visual C++, Delphi, Visual FoxPro, PHP, ASP, Access, Windev, PowerBuilder, PowerBasic and many others.

Updates in V5.13.1

Recognize 2D DataMatrix barcodes using the optional GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin

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Royalty-free image viewers now available

Tue, 25 May 2010 16:30:00 GMT

An image viewer sample application made with GdImageBox Pro ActiveX.

GdImageBox OCX and GdImageBox Pro ActiveX support popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, HDR, PNG, PSD and TIFF.

GdImageBox is a royalty-free Image Viewer ActiveX control for developers who need to support popular graphic image formats like TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, BMP, WBMP, PCX, PNM, PFM, J2K, JP2, HDR, JBIG, PSD, TGA, JNG, EXR, DDS, PPM, SGI, PBM, PGM, XBM, XPM, KOALA and IFF. Using GdImageBox, you can view, zoom and rotate, define a display area, zoom in on an area, play animated gifs, display multi-page tiff files, define your own zoom in or zoom out values, use the keyboard to scroll down and across images, and set an anti-aliasing & smoothing display mode. GdImageBox Pro can be used within any Windows development environment that supports ActiveX components, like Visual C++, VB6, Visual Foxpro, Delphi, Visual Studio .NET, VB.NET, MS Access and WinDev.

The following editions are available:

Features

Unicode Support
Display single page and multi-page images
Read EXIF Tags, GPS Tags, Thumbnail Tags and IPTC Tags
Display large image files
Load images with embedded ICC profiles
Load images from IStream or IUnknown binary data
Load images from URLs using HTTP or FTP protocols
Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit and 64-bit color depth images
Load images from Clipboard data, StdPicture objects, IPicture objects, HBitmap handles, DIB handles and Gdiplus handles
Rotate & flip 90°, 180°, 270° and flip X or Y-axes
User-defined display area
Loop an animated gif using minimal CPU resources
Move & scroll down and across images using vertical & horizontal scrollbars
Aspect ratio control of the horizontal & vertical image resolution
Built-in tools including pan, auto zoom and area selection
Move and scroll an image using the mouse
Zoom enhance, zoom by height, by width, fit to viewer
User-defined zoom-in & zoom-out step values and user-defined area zoom
Many keyboard and mouse events are available
Change image zoom or position using the mouse wheel
Smooth scrolling
Save and restore a specific position within an image

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GdPicture.NET improves speed

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:39:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.

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 Pro Imaging SDK renders faster

Mon, 24 May 2010 17:39:00 GMT

Viewing image properties and adjusting color balance.

Version 5.13.0 features improvements to document rendering speed, plus new methods in the Imaging class.

Updates in V5.13.0

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

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GdPicture.NET gains new TWAIN features

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:33:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.

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.

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GdPicture.NET updated

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:07:00 GMT

Acquiring an image from a TWAIN source with GdPicture.

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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1D Barcode Recognition Plugin released

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:31:00 GMT

Detecting a barcode from a region of interest.

New release detects and decodes 18 industrial 1D barcode types in more than 90 document formats.

GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin gives your application the ability to detect and decode 18 industrial 1D barcode types in more than 90 document formats, including Bitmap, Metafile and PDF. GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin reads linear barcodes from any source such as stream, file, scanned image, clipboard, http, ftp, etc.

Features

Detects barcodes in more than 90 different image formats, including PDF
Recognizes barcodes' orientation from 0° to 360°
Detects multiple barcodes from black & white, grayscale, paletized and color images
Returns the string value of each barcode recognized
Returns the type of each barcode recognized
Returns the bounding box of each barcode (top-left, top-right, bottom-left & bottom-right points)
Returns if a barcode has a checksum
Detects nearly 20 industrial 1D barcode types
Detects barcode on a full page or on a region of interest
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
Supported barcode types include: Industrial 2 of 5, Inverted 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, Iata 2 of 5, Matrix 2 of 5, Code 39, Codeabar, Bcd Matrix, DataLogic 2 of 5, Code 128, Code 93, EAN 8, EAN 13, EAN 128, UPC Version A, UPC Version E, ADD 2 and ADD 5

About GdPicture

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

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 Pro Imaging SDK updated

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:46:00 GMT

Viewing image properties and adjusting color balance.

New version adds support for 40+ RAW camera formats, PICT format, and barcode recognition (with optional plugin).

Updates in V5.12

Added support for 1D Barcode recognition (requires GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin)
Speed improvement of the image viewer
Added reading support for PICT image format
Added support for more than 40 RAW camera image formats

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.