ComponentSource Topic | Image Processing

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.

ImageMan.Net now includes 64-bit support

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:55:00 GMT

Choosing which direction to mirror in ImageMan.Net.

Version 3.0 also supports EXIF data reading and writing during JPG encoding.

ImageMan.Net is a set of 100% Managed .NET classes and WinForms controls for building imaging and document management applications in .NET. It supports reading and writing many image formats including TIFF, BMP, FAX, DIB, RLE, PCX, DCX, JPG, JPEG2000, PNG, GIF, WMF and EMF. The object oriented architecture simplifies development and includes high and low level functionality for quick development and ultimate control.

Updates in V3.0

32 & 64-bit assemblies
Assemblies for .Net 2.0 and .Net 4.0
Reading and Writing of EXIF data is now supported by the JPG Encoder and Decoder classes
Visual Studio 2010 sample applications in C# and VB.Net
Many other new enhancements and performance tweaks

About Data Techniques

Data Techniques is a leading vendor of Imaging and Facsimile components for Microsoft Windows developers. Founded in 1984 the company released its first version of the ImageMan Imaging tools in 1991 for use with Windows 3.0. It followed by releasing the ImageMan/VBX product which was the first 3rd party VBX control on the market. Additional updates and a new ActiveX version of the ImageMan product have been released since then have made the ImageMan product a market leading toolkit. In 1994 the company released the FaxMan SDK product to allow developers to easily integrate seamless fax functionality into their applications. Data Techniques tools have been used in market leading applications from companies such as MCI, Lotus, Corel, Xerox and My Software.

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.

Aspose.Imaging for .NET launched

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:35:35 GMT

Manipulating images using Aspose.Imaging for .NET.

Add image processing capabilities to your .NET applications.

Aspose.Imaging for .NET is an imaging library that lets developers create, edit, draw or convert images in their .NET applications. Aspose.Imaging provides features that go beyond the native capabilities of the development platform. Aspose.Imaging for .NET supports BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG and PSD files (you do not need PhotoShop on your machine to create PSD files). Aspose.Imaging for .NET image processing routines should meet most imaging requirements. Like all Aspose file format components, Aspose.Imaging for .NET works well with both Win Form and Web Form applications. It also supports Silverlight.

Features

Create, Edit and Save Image Files - Aspose.Imaging for .NET is a class library that allows you to create Image files from scratch or load existing ones for editing purpose. Also, Aspose.Imaging for .NET provides the means to save the created or edited Image to a variety of formats. All of this can be achieved without the need of an Image Editor.
Support for Different File Formats - Using Aspose.Imaging for .NET, developers can easily open and save a multitude of file formats. These formats include: BMP, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, PNG and PSD.
Drawing Features - Aspose.Imaging for .NET includes support for an advanced set of drawing features. Developers can draw on an image surface either by manipulating bitmap information or by using advanced functionality like Graphics and Paths. The Aspose.Imaging for .NET API enables you to easily perform the following tasks:
- Draw lines, curves, rectangles and other geometric shape
- Fill closed shapes with solid colors or gradients and textures
- Draw text with options for fine control over the font
- Draw images by loading existing image data
Export Images - Along with rich set of image processing routines, Aspose.Imaging for .NET also provides an array of advanced algorithms that makes it the all-in-one solution for image conversion. These algorithms are encapsulated in specialized classes that are simple to use and can export images to other formats with reliability and performance.
Register Custom File Formats - Another feature that Aspose.Imaging for .NET provides is to register custom image formats. Aspose.Imaging for .NET allows the developer to register new custom file formats to create, open or export to by using one of the Aspose.Imaging for .NET registry libraries. This feature allows the addition of new file formats which can be used for drawing and export purposes.

About Aspose

Aspose is a leading vendor of .NET and Java development components, and rendering extensions for platforms such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and JasperReports. Its core focus is to offer the most complete and powerful set of file management products available. Aspose products support some of the most popular file formats in business, including: Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, PDF documents, Flash presentations and Project files. While its core focus is on file management products, Aspose's mission is to provide our customers with top quality products complemented by fast and reliable customer support. The company listens to its customers and produces a variety of solutions to meet the complex needs of its global audience.

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.

Victor Image Processing Library supports 64-bit

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:14:32 GMT

Online image processing using Victor Image Processing Library.

Version 6.0 adds library for 64-bit Windows, including a new interface for .NET languages.

Victor Image Processing Library gives your programs powerful image processing, color reduction, display, TWAIN scanning, printing, file handling, and converting capabilities. Victor Image Processing Library gives your applications the ability to handle a wide variety of image file formats including BMP, JPG, GIF, PCX, PNG, TGA, and TIFF. Use the Victor Image Processing Library to crop, mirror, flip, resize, and rotate to any angle. Extensive image processing is also included such as brightness, contrast, sharpness, embossing, posterization, and watercolor painting. Capture Images via TWAIN devices and even print them when finished. With Victor Image Processing Library you can create desktop or online ASP.NET. Compatible with Visual Basic, VB.NET, C/C++, C#, Java and many more DLL compatible environments.

Updates in V6.0

The Victor Image Processing Library is now available for 64-bit Windows. This version is functionally identical to the 32-bit Victor Library. The real change is that in the 64-bit operating systems all pointers and buffer addresses are 64-bit numbers. The result is that C/C++ function calls remain the same, but a new interface was created for dot net languages. The 64-bit Windows edition also allows you to work with larger images, it can handle images of any dimension up to 2 GB in total memory required.

You can now purchase Victor Image Processing Library for 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows or both. Upgrades are available from the 32-bit to the 64-bit edition.

About Catenary Systems

Catenary Systems first introduced the Victor Image Processing Library as a commercial product in 1990 as a library for dos programmers. Victor has evolved into the easy-to-use image toolkit it is today. With their expertise in developing small, fast code in C and assembler the company is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the library. Catenary Systems provides free technical support and offers custom software development to help developers achieve their goals and finish their projects.

Atalasoft DotImage V10.0 released

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:44:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

Adds a new web document viewer, managed subset, improved web scanning, barcode symbologies, and an IRIS OCR engine.

Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging is an advanced document imaging imaging toolkit that can add advanced image viewing, editing, printing, scanning, and annotating support to an application. DotImage Document Imaging includes an imaging class library, a Windows Forms control library, an ASP.NET Server-Side Image Viewer, DotTwain for advanced TWAIN scanning, and DotAnnotate for advanced annotations. Full documentation is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the new release introduces several advancements in support of building imaging applications for the cloud.

The following DotImage products are available:

Updates in 10.0

New WebDocumentViewer for ASP.NET websites. Built on jQuery and modern browser technologies.
Developers can create a full-page document viewer with smooth, flick-style momentum scrolling. Just a few lines of code are needed and the viewer can be easily embedded into any ASP .NET or ASP .NET MVC website and can be themed.

Can be easily deployed to websites using ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC
Can be themed with jQuery UI ThemeRoller
Shows multiple pages in a scroll viewer
Uses web handlers for server interaction

New DotImage OCR Engine: IRIS IDRS
DotImage 10.0 OCR now supports the IRIS IDRS engine. It currently supports 137 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, etc. languages and add-ons offer recognition of Asian, Hebrew, and Farsi languages. It also offers zonal and page analysis support. Another feature, the I.R.I.S. Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) engine for all Latin based languages, supports spaced and even touching handprint.

Supports Asian character sets
Supports ICR

New Silverlight Imaging SDK that is a subset of DotImage and usable in the client-side of Silverlight applications without elevation.
A large subset of DotImage has been ported to run inside the Silverlight client and other managed environments such as Windows Phone 7, Office 365, and Partial-Trust environments, plug-in and other managed environments such as WinPhone 7, BPOS, and Partial-Trust environments.

Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
Many image processing commands including 1-bit

Silverlight viewer performance enhancements

Can use local isolated storage for client-side caching.
Can get pages on demand when in single-page view mode
Silverlight viewers can use TIFF directly without converting to PNG or JPEG.

New fully-managed AnyCpu subset of DotImage that can be used in partial-trust environments.

Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
Many image processing commands including 1-bit

New Barcode Reader Symbologies
In addition to Code 39, UPC, PDF417, QR Code, DataMatrix, and the rest of DotImage's 1D and 2D barcode symbologies, DotImage now supports

AustraliaPost
OneCode/Intelligent Mail
Planet
RM4SCC

EZTwainX is included in DotImage Document Imaging and DotTwain
Browser-based scanning has been significantly improved with the addition of ActiveX TWAIN capabilities from the Dosadi acquisition, and included in DotTwain and DotImage Document Imaging.

About Atalasoft

Established in 2000, Atalasoft is a provider of a high-performance, standards-compliant .NET Framework imaging libraries targeted towards authors of document processing and management systems and photographic imaging. Atalasoft offers unparalleled ease of integration through CLR compliant objects, logically laid-out object hierarchies, rock-solid implementation, and first-rate support. Atalasoft's components have been used to quickly add imaging functionality to applications thus saving money and reducing development time. Atalasoft's customers include fortune 500 companies, medical imaging corporations, aerospace engineering, software development firms, and web developers from all over the world.

ImageGear for .NET v19.1 updated

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:36:00 GMT

Image processing using ImageGear for .NET.

ImageGear for .NET allows developers to accelerate their .NET development using fully managed code to create cutting-edge imaging applications for .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5. This comprehensive .NET imaging SDK provides support for AJAX, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), DirectX 10 and Direct3D 10 and more. ImageGear for .NET imaging SDK provides support for over 100 image formats, including TIFF, JPEG, CAD, Vector, 3D PDF, PDF/A, PS and more.

Updates in 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.

About Accusoft Pegasus (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.)

Accusoft Pegasus was founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Accusoft Pegasus is now repositioned to be the largest single source provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers, as measured by estimated market share and product offerings. Today the combined Accusoft Pegasus, with its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, is the imaging SDK leader. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video, and viewing. Technology is delivered for Microsoft .NET, ActiveX, Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow, and Java environments. Multiple 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, and IBM AIX.

Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:04:49 GMT

Performing document cleanup with LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging V17.5 also dramatically increases barcode recognition speed by up to 9X.

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging includes API, C++ Class Libraries and .NET Class Libraries for Win32 and x64 with features that include comprehensive annotations (Text, highlights, sticky notes, stamps, and more), specialized bitonal image display and processing such as scale-to-gray and favor-black. Also features performance and memory optimizations for bitonal images, document image clean-up including hole-punch, line and staple removal and scanning with TWAIN or ISIS. Now includes JBIG2, ABIC, JPEG2000 and LEAD CMW.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Detect, read and write Barcodes in Silverlight and Windows Phone
New high-level Barcode design for .NET simplifies adding support for all barcode types in your application without any special knowledge of barcode symbologies
Dramatically increased barcode recognition speed by up to 9X
Automated cleanup for barcodes
PDF updates and improvements
- PDF runtime now requires only a single DLL for distribution
- Merge multiple PDF or Postscript files into a single PDF document
- Split a PDF into multiple documents
- Extract text with properties such as bounding rectangle, font information and color
- Extract hyperlinks, bookmarks and internal links
- Load and save PDF metadata such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords and Producer
- New PDF Document Editor with extended support for adding, replacing, and deleting pages in any PDF file
- Enhanced PDF encryption support
- Convert Postscript files to PDF with full control over distiller, encryption and compatibility settings
- Convert existing PDF files to linearized PDFs(optimized for web viewing)
- Convert existing PDF files to PDF/A-1B
- Save fully customized UNICODE Bookmarks in PDF files
- Added support for multi-threaded PDF load
- Added support for writing PDF 1.3 and 1.6
- New PDF Info Extractor gets information about PDF version, image width, height, bit depth, compression and DPI
OCR Advantage Engine updates and improvements
- AutoZone has been improved to provide fewer, more accurate zones, improving OCR results
- Dramatically accelerated AutoZone detection, improving overall performance for OCR
- Faster Advanced Table Detection, providing better performance when dealing with documents containing tables
- New image pre-processing features to improve OCR results including fixing broken letters, dithered text, inverted text and more.
- Now supports the following languages: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese
- Added support for built-in Spellcheckingincluding NHunspell and Microsoft's System.Windows.Controls.SpellCheck engines
Enhancements to Existing File Formats
- Support for loading Office 2007 formats: DOCX, XLSX and PPTX
- Optimized load performance for DOC format
- Added ability to load Office formats from memory
- Added support for JBIG2 with non-sequential headers (i.e. random access)
- Support for loading refinement segments in JBIG2 format
Increased the speed of the Line Remove image processing function
New ImageColorType function for detecting whether the image is mostly black and white, grayscale or color.
Virtual Printer now supports network printing

About LEAD Technologies

LEAD Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1990 by Moe Daher and Rich Little. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, LEAD was established to commercialize Mr. Daher's inventions in the field of digital imaging and compression technology. Over the course of LEAD's more than 20 year life span, LEAD has become the established global leader in the digital imaging development tool sector, with a leading market position in all major countries throughout the world. LEAD is the developer and publisher of LEADTOOLS, the award winning development toolkit.

LEADTOOLS Imaging V17.5 improves format support

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:04:00 GMT

Zooming an image using LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK.

Support for JPEG-LS, JPEG-XR ,JPM, VFF, CR2 - Canon, NEF & NRW - Nikon, DNG - Adobe, ORF - Olympus and more added.

LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro SDK provides developers with the tools to create powerful imaging applications. LEADTOOLS Imaging Pro provides basic and advanced color imaging features for file format import/export, image compression, image display and effects, color conversion, image processing, TWAIN scanning, imaging common dialogs, database integration, printing and Internet with support for over 150 raster file formats and over 2000 effects.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

New File Formats
- JPEG-LS
- JPEG-XR
- JPM
- VFF
New Digital Camera Formats (DCF)
- CR2 - Canon
- NEF & NRW - Nikon
- DNG - Adobe
- ORF - Olympus
- ARW, SR2 & SRF - Sony
- RAW & RW2 - Panasonic
- RAF - Fujifilm
Enhancements to Existing File Formats
- Support for loading OS/2 BMP 16-bit
- Support for loading PNG 1+1
Support for ARGB4 color conversion

About LEAD Technologies

Localize your Medical Imaging applications

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:03:00 GMT

Viewing images using LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging V17.5 now fully supports customization and localization.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes hand-picked and optimized features to meet the specific needs of medical imaging application development, such as full DICOM dataset support, support for 8-16 bit grayscale, and 12 and 16 bit image processing and display with window leveling and LUT processing. DICOM 3, the industry standard medical imaging format/protocol is fully and completely supported, allowing programmers access to medical images retrieved from digital imaging modalities such as CT and MR scanners. LEAD's DICOM imaging support is one of the richest in the industry supporting 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit images including JPEG (8, 10 , 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12-bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full), and single and multi-page images. LEAD's Medical Imaging toolkit includes 8-16 bit grayscale display with window leveling. Window leveling is a linear conversion from stored pixel values to values to be displayed; LEADTOOLS can map the stored pixel values of interest using a user defined color map (using a LUT or Palette) or linear gray LUT.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Medical Workstation now fully supports customization and localization. Users can easily change the look and feel or language strings of the Medical Workstation for re-branding or localization purposes.
New DICOM Modality Worklist (MWL) WCF Service Component for the PACS Framework
Medical Image Viewer Features and Enhancements
- Added options for customizing the border of cells in the viewer
- Exposed more low-level annotation features
- Image Orientation tag automatically updates based on the current image orientation
- Added GetScale method, so user can get the current image scale value
- Added feature to allow the user to change the active sub-cell programmatically
- Added MatchScale method to allow users to make all the other cells match the scaling value of the specified cell
- Added Cobb Angle annotation tool
- Added user interface tools for Image Alpha(Sigmoid, Exponential and Logarithmic)
- Added VirtualImage property which allows the user to receive advanced details and status regarding the cell. This is useful for MPR, Derivative and Low Memory Usage cells.
- Empty cells with no assigned image can now be active, utilize tools and display text/tags
- Added Drag and Drop support for cells
- New image display and scaling options: UseDpi, FitIfLarger, Stretch, Explode
- New MPRType property to identify the axis for localization purposes
- Advanced synchronization tools including multiple series and viewer control instances
- Added GetPage method to allow user to get the desired frame from any cell type
3D Features and Enhancements
- Added support for Curved MPR/ Panoramic Polygon
- Added ability to generate and view Paraxial Cuts
- Added the ability to programmatically set the index of the MPR cell
- Added ImageLoaded event
DICOM Features and Enhancements
- New DLL dedicated to the internal DICOM tables, reducing deployment footprint
- Ability to load DICOM tables from XML, making customization simpler
- Get and Set encapsulated documents from memoryand disk
- Added support for YBR_FULL Photometric Interpretation with uncompressed and RLE-compressed DICOM image pixel data
- Added support for DICOM JPEG-LS Lossy and Lossless transfer syntaxes

About LEAD Technologies

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

Atalasoft DotImage updated to 9.0d

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

The following DotImage products are available:

Updates in 9.0d

Added ReferencedImageAnnotationRootPath property to the WebAnnotationViewer to allow caching of ReferencedImageAnnotation images in the browser
Added additional Type6 metadata parsing for unknown WANG Type6 data. It is now stored in the ExtraProperties of an annotation
.NET 4.0 WPF defaults to low quality instead of high quality for image resizes. DotImage set to high quality by default for its WPF viewers now
Added support for reading Wang Link Annotations, whose information is put in Extra Properties
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to render improperly if annotations were loaded in a RemoteInvoke when there were no layers
Fixed bug in TileSize for the WebImageViewer
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause TextAnnotations to render their text farther down the next line even when there was space left
Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer that stopped Chrome from working while using ASP.NET MVC
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would duplicate annotations on PostBack
Added Silverlight method for opening multiple files at once
A bug was fixed in the GifDecoder so that it will partially read some broken GIF files instead of throwing an exception
PDF Rasterizer bug fixed to rasterize PDF with 4bpp images in them
Fixed PDF/A compliance issue. endobj needs a newline before it
Fixed a rare bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause text fields containing annotation data to be added to the page
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that did not render annotation edges smoothly
Fixed a bug in PDF Annotation exporting when exporting no annotations over a page with annotations, it didn't remove the annotations that were there as expected
LevelsCommand support 16bpp Gray images now
Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer when contained in an UpdatePanel in a TabControl
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to disappear while RemoteInvoking
TiffDecoder can now deal with more corrupt TIFF files that have their directory offsets set to impossibly large numbers
Fixed client side support of Annotation.CanSelect
Improved multiline text rendering on Canvas object
Fixed a bug saving PDF after removing pages
Wang saved EmbeddedImageAnnotation functionality improved
Fixed a bug in ResampleDocumentCommand with images set to minisblack (using 0 for black, 1 for white)
Fixed a problem with rendering WebControls inside ASP.NET MVC ViewUserControls
Fixed a bug in WebAnnotationViwer -- the annotation was still loading after its AnnotationLoaded event is raised
Fixed a bug in the PDFEncoder for 1bpp images in the same document as 24bpp images
PDFAnnotationExporter and Loading Annotations did not take Rotation into consideration
Handle null destinations in PDF
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would fire AnnotationChanged at the wrong time in some cases.
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would not allow the ToolTip to be set from the client side when creating the annotation programmatically
fixed bug in SilverlightImageViewer when 1bpp images are rotated and antialiased. It didn't show it rotated
Fixed a bug in PDF generation with black outlines not showing up in Acrobat
Added a GetObjectType() to WebControls, so that customers can inherit from them, but original type is still known
Fixed a bug in the TWAIN ActiveX control to check availability of changing sizes before allowing it

About Atalasoft

ImageGear for .NET adds WPF GUI components

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:38:00 GMT

Image processing using ImageGear for .NET.

Version 19 includes enhanced viewer controls with auto-update for display and annotation changes.

Updates in v19

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 are suppored.
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

About Accusoft Pegasus

Accusoft Pegasus was founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Accusoft Pegasus is now repositioned to be the largest single source provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers, as measured by estimated market share and product offerings. Today the combined Accusoft Pegasus, with its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, is the imaging SDK leader. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video, and viewing. Technology is delivered for Microsoft .NET, ActiveX, Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow, and Java environments. Multiple 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, and IBM AIX.

Add XAML image display to your Silverlight apps

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:38:00 GMT

Image manipulation using ImageGear for Silverlight.

ImageGear for Silverlight v19 also improves managed JPEG2000 support.

ImageGear for Silverlight is an imaging SDK designed specifically for Silverlight. Seamlessly move programs from desktop to browser with responsive imaging and annotation controls. ImageGear for Silverlight provides functionality for image compression and display, interactive annotations and color image editing and processing.

Updates in v19

High Level Silverlight 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.

Managed JPEG2000 Support

This introduces the ability to view JPEG2000 images natively within the Silverlight toolkit. The Silverlight toolkit can now decode and display DICOM images with JPEG2000 compression without a server component.

DCRAW Improvements

Greatly improved the number of Digital Cameras RAW formats that are supported
Improved processing for several existing Cameras.

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.
Significantly improved Silverlight annotations UI.

DICOM Updates

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

About Accusoft Pegasus

Accusoft Pegasus founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Accusoft Pegasus is now repositioned to be the largest single source provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers, as measured by estimated market share and product offerings. Today the combined Accusoft Pegasus, with its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, is the imaging SDK leader. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video, and viewing. Technology is delivered for Microsoft .NET, ActiveX, Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow, and Java environments. Multiple 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, and IBM AIX.

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

About GdPicture

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

About GdPicture

ImagXpress improves PDF thumbnails

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:03:00 GMT

Red Eye removal with ImagXpress .NET Professional.

Version 10 SP1 offers improvements for displaying PDF thumbnails and automatically tries to correct corrupt PDF images.

The ImagXpress SDK lets you quickly add imaging functions to your Windows application. With Accusoft Pegasus' powerful imaging tools, you can quickly develop applications that require complex imaging tasks for document imaging, photo processing, or medical applications, while you concentrate on the unique needs of your program. ImagXpress Professional is the image handling engine behind most of Accusoft Pegasus' advanced recognition and image processing products. It's one of the fastest ways to develop professional applications involving images. ImagXpress Professional gives you configurable image compression, extensive file format support, image and thumbnail viewing, document and photo image processing, image editing, TWAIN scanning, document image cleanup, annotations for image mark-up and advanced printing support.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V10.0 SP1

Add the latest PDF support to your application

Using ImagXpress and PDF Xpress together you can easily create, modify, enhance, compress, and display PDF files.
Render PDFs, create image-based PDF files, edit bookmarks and metadata, convert to PDF/A, and more.

PDF developers now have more options. With this ImagXpress Service Pack, ThumbnailXpress offers improvements for displaying thumbnails of PDFs. ThumbnailXpress v3 provides the option to use a PDF Xpress feature to automatically try to correct corrupt PDF images. If the image can be corrected, the thumbnail will be displayed correctly. ThumbnailXpress customers working with PDF Xpress can either stay with PDF Xpress v3, or upgrade to PDF Xpress v4. The ThumbnailXpress component now supports both interfaces.

About Accusoft Pegasus

Founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Accusoft Pegasus is now repositioned to be the largest single source provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers, as measured by estimated market share and product offerings. Today the combined Accusoft Pegasus, with its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, is the imaging SDK leader. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video and viewing. Technology is delivered for Microsoft .NET, ActiveX, Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow and Java environments. Multiple 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX and IBM AIX.

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.

About GdPicture

DotImage adds new OCR Engine

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:08:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

Atalasoft DotImage 9.0c also gains wider RAW camera file support and includes various fixes.

Atalasoft DotImage is a full featured .NET imaging toolkit that adds advanced imaging functionality to your applications. DotImage includes a collection of image viewer controls for ASP.NET, Windows Forms, WPF, and Silverlight, backed by an advanced and high performance image processing library for scanning, editing, conversion, annotating, barcode reading and writing, PDF, and OCR. Build web-based RIA applications with document imaging capabilities quickly and economically with Atalasoft's flexible licensing model. DotImage is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures and is supported in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010.

DotImage is available in three editions:

The following add-ons and codecs are available to extend DotImage functionality:

Updates in 9.0c

Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would allow annotations to move while the image was centered and the control was being resized
Added a new OCR Engine, RecoStar, to DotImage OCR
Added a way to set PixelType in the ActiveX TWAIN control
Added a way to set FrameSize in the ActiveX TWAIN control
Fixed a licensing bug with the ActiveX TWAIN control
Fixed a memory leak in the hole punch removal command
Added FILEVERSION information to one of the Forms Processing assemblies
Fixed a case where IE warns of mixed content when using our web control on HTTPS pages
When 8bpp indexed files are sent to glyphreader, they will be auto-converted to 8bpp gray. If you want different behavior, you can handle the ImageSendOff event. The new image won't appear in translated documents -- it's used for OCR purposes only
Fixed issue in DocumentAnnotationViewer where annotations could be lost by deselecting the ThumbnailView
A memory leak was fixed in LineRemovalCommand
A bug was fixed in the The Toolkit Activation program so that DotImage Photo Free could be activated offline
Clarified instructions on the Toolkit Activation wizard
A memory leak was fixed in AutoBorderCropCommand
RAW was updated to add more cameras
Fixed a leak in the invert text command
Fixed a bug in Silverlight not cleaning all cached files
A bug was fixed in WinForms Annotations - when an annotation was deselected, it sent a click event with the wrong annotation in it
Corrected EndEdgePoints of detected barcodes
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would allow annotations to move while the image was centered and the control was being resized

About Atalasoft

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

About GdPicture

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

About GdPicture

ImageGear for Silverlight adds printing

Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:21:00 GMT

Manipulating an image with the ImageGear for Silverlight demo.

Version 18 also features support for annotations, direct TWAIN scanning, multi-touch displays, plus DICOM enhancements.

Updates in v18

New Annotation Support:

New Annotations, including Text Trimming, Point and Curve
Clipboard Support allows copy and paste of text-based annotations

DICOM Enhancements

Support for DICOM Presentation State allows image display and annotations to be in accordance with presentation state definition

Display Optimization

Print and Display methods can work with datasets larger than 16 MB

Printing & Scanning Now Available

Enable printing through the new ImageGear.Printing namespace API
Print Preview user control and dialog validate images before printing
Acquire images directly from TWAIN scanners when running locally

PageView Control Enhancements

New drag-and-drop events
Multi-touch display support has ImageGear ready for the next generation of touch-based devices

About Accusoft Pegasus

Virtual Printer SDK Module now available

Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:29:00 GMT

Saving a print job as an image with LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module.

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module captures print output and saves as EMF or any of 150+ supported image formats.

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module includes a programmable virtual printer driver that can capture output from any application as EMF and save it as a searchable document format or any of the over 150 image formats supported by LEADTOOLS. Additionally, the LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module includes several document writers to programmatically convert output from the virtual printer or EMF to several popular searchable document formats including PDF and DOCX.

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module is also available as part of LEADTOOLS Document Imaging Suite SDK.

Features

Native 32 and 64 programmable virtual printer driver
Add to any single or multi-thread application
Capture output from any application including Word, Excel and web browsers
Supports several searchable and editable output document formats including PDF, DOC, XPS and text
Supports over 150 output image formats including PDF
Redirect print jobs to disk, memory, database or SharePoint
Create a Print to PACS solution when used with the LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging
Automate workflow by creating multiple task based virtual printers
For development of Windows applications and includes native 32 and 64 bit Virtual Printer binaries
Add Virtual Printer technology to single and multi-threaded applications
Includes many broad and functionally specific demo projects with source code for C, Visual C++ (MFC), VB.NET and C#
Documentation includes sample source code for every function, method, property and event
Free technical support is available to customers and developers evaluating LEADTOOLS
Capture output from any application with LEADTOOLS programmable virtual printer driver
Convert EMF to searchable and editable document formats

LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module Seamlessly Adds Virtual Printer Technology to:
The LEADTOOLS Virtual Printer SDK Module is an add-on to the following products:

LEADTOOLS Document Imaging SDK
LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK
LEADTOOLS PACS Imaging SDK
LEADTOOLS Recognition Imaging SDK (Advantage OCR SDK Module is already included).

About LEAD Technologies

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)