GdPicture.NET is a suite of fully-featured & 100 % royalty-free Document Imaging Toolkits. Delivered as .NET components, these toolkits allow developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents from within their own C#, VB.NET and CodeGear applications.
Using GdPicture.NET, your programs will be able to display documents, acquire images from TWAIN scanners, perform image processing, optical character 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, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, and RAW camera.
GdPicture.NET can be used within any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008/2010 & CodeGear RAD Studio..
GdPicture.NET features overview:
- Thread Safe !
- Compatible with X-copy deployment.
- Support for Unicode.
- Load / Save image in more than 90 formats.
- Load / Save image & PDF on FTP & HTTP servers.
- Import / Export image from DIB, RAW, GDI+ Bitmap, HBitmap, HICON, IPicture, .NET Stream, String data, Bytes array data...
- Copy / Paste image from the clipboard.
- Create image from screen capture.
- Display Raster Images, Metafiles & PDFs within a fully-featured document viewer (GdViewer).
- Create highlighted regions within a document viewer.
- Mouse tools for documents viewing: Area selection, Pan, Page change, Zoom In, Zoom Out...
- Print Image & PDF with complete control over the printing process & using featured printing dialog box.
- Manipulate multipage TIFF image (insert, remove & swap pages).
- Manipulate animated GIF image (insert, remove & swap frames, set frame delay & disposal method...).
- Convert an image from one bit-depth to another.
- Draw more than 30 different kind of barcodes on an image including 25i, EAN13, 3 of 9, code 128, PostNet...
- Draw shapes such as lines, ellipse, round, Bezier, curves, polygons...
- Draw text with a lot of different styles.
- Support all TWAIN 2.1 features for image acquisition.
- Directly access to bits of an image.
- Manage color palette of an image.
- Quantize & reduce colors of an image.
- Apply rotations, mirror & flips.
- Rotate images by hundredths of degrees.
- Read & write Metadata such as EXIF tags, Thumbnail tags, GPS tags & IPTC tags.
- Create high quality image thumbnails.
- Apply color mapping & ICC profiles to RGB and CMYK images.
- Remove automatically borders of an image.
- Auto-Deskew an image.
- Change brightness, saturation, contrast, and gamma of an image.
- Apply filters and effects (emboss, blur, edge enhance, auto-contrast...).
- Cleanup image (despeckle bitonal images, remove lines & noise, repair characters...).
- Select a region on an image for processing (Region Of Interest).
- Merge and overlay Images with full transparency support.
- Combine images using a specific operator of combination (And, Or, Xor, Min, Max, Abs, Multiply, Divide...).
- Generate PDF & PDF/A with lot of features (compression, shapes, text, encryption...).
- Extract text from a PDF (full page content or text within a specific area).
- Extract bitmap from PDF.
- Search PDF for a given text string.
- Generate searchable PDF from scanner, images or existing PDF files.
- Perform automatic document recognition process using GdPicture ADR™ Technology.
- Perform OCR on full page, area using the GdPicture Tesseract Plugin.
- Detect & decode all 1D barcodes from any document using the GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin.
- Detect & decode all DataMatrix barcodes from any document using the GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin.
- Lot of samples are provided in C# and VB.NET.
- A COM compatible version is also provided !
