Since 2003, GdPicture (www.gdpicture.com) 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.NET

GdPicture.NET is a suite of Full-Featured & Royalty Free Document Imaging Toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into they DotNet 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 50 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG...

GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008 & CodeGear RAD Studio.

Features overview:

• Load / Save image in more than 50 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 & PDF within a full-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 bitdepth to another.
• Detect & Write 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 2.0 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).
• Search PDF for a given text string.
• Generate searchable PDF from scanner, images or existing PDF files.
• Perform automatic document recognition process...