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GdPicture 9.4 Has Been Released

Tuesday, 05 March, 2013 12:12

Hi folks!

Spring is coming and so is GdPicture.NET 9.4!

So, talking about renewal, v.9.4 has new barcode encoders for 2D barcodes (QR-Code, DataMatrix and PDF417)!

That’s not all of course: we provide new features, enhancements and bug fixes, just check out some of them:

  • New Sauvola local adaptive thresholding method with contrast normalization.
  • Bitonal image filters speed enhancement.
  • Unicode support for the QRCode reader engine added.
  • Improvement of the Gaussian filter.
  • Optional drop shadow effect to the GdPicture.XMP annotation added.
  • Improvements of 1D & 2D barcode reading speed and accuracy.
  • New function for counting the number of unique colors in an image.
  • Horizontal and vertical alignment support in AnnotationText objects.
  • SquaredBox property for AnnotationRectangle, AnnotationRectangleHighlighter and AnnotationEllipse objects added.
  • Improvements of the internal Image decoding engine.
  • PDF text extraction and annotation support improved.
  • Battery of minor bug fixes.
  • Documentation enhancements and lots of new code snippets.

The complete list can be found here.

GdPicture.NET 9.4 is available on the download page of the Gdpicture website.

Download GdPicture.NET 9.4

Upgrade to v 9.4 is free for all GdPicture.NET v.9 owners.
If you own a GdPicture.NET v.7 or v.8 license, you can directly order the upgrade to v9.4.
Other upgrade cases will be solved by our Sales team so feel free to contact us via our Quick Contact Form.

We have also modified the Comparison Matrix by displaying more features and details about them, in a structured manner.
And you can consult it as both HTML or PDF so now you can also download it, share it and easily print it!

That’s all for now!

Cheers!

The GdPicture team

GdPicture Wins Again the ComponentSource Top 25 Publisher and Product Awards for 2012-2013

Monday, 04 March, 2013 20:17

Hi folks,

It’s Awards time again!

This year GdPicture and our flagship product Gdpicture.NET climb up a few more steps in the Top 25 Publisher and Bestselling Product at ComponentSource! For the first time GdPicture Document Imaging SDK becomes the first publisher of its category in the Bestselling Publisher list:

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GdPicture is now ranking 13th up from 20th last year in the Top 25 Publisher list.

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GdPicture.NET is 18th, up from 24th, in the Top 25 Bestselling Products list.

 

 

ComponentSource is the world’s leading marketplace and community for software components and development tools.

The ComponentSource awards are given to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers and the Top 100 Bestselling Products based on the total sales dollar value of orders placed by customers during the year (2012) through ComponentSource.

We’ve come a long way since the GdPicture debut in the top 100 in 2009-2010! Congratulations to our team and a big “merci” to all our customers, both faithful and new!

Cheers!

The GdPicture Team

GdPicture.NET 9.3 has been released with more than 50 new features!

Thursday, 08 November, 2012 18:06

Hi folks!

We’re a bit late for that but we hope that you spent a terrific Halloween!

We have some new things for you today:

  • GdPicture.NET version 9.3 has been released including custom annotation support, interactive PDF features support, PDF form field editing support, new bitonal filters and more than 50 other features;
  • Licensing modifications concerning GdPicture.NET Document Viewer SDK and the GdPicture.NET TWAIN Editions;
  • A new tool to select the GdPicture products configuration you need, aka the Product Selector.

GdPicture.NET 9.3

What’s new?

  • Features to customize the PDF bookmark control appearance added.
  • Barcode detection (1D & 2D) improved on fax and high resolution images.
  • GdPictureImaging: SaveAsIStream, SaveAsStream, SaveAsByteArray & SaveAsString now fully support multipage tiff creation and JPEG 2000, targa, exr, wbmp, xpm and PBM format.
  • Memory usage of the bitonal image filters reduced.
  • Spaces detection accuracy in the OCR engine improved.
  • Improvements of the generated PDF/OCR quality.
  • PDF files linking support for creating and for viewing purpose added.
  • Interactive PDF features support: Actions, document-level navigation and more…
  • Printing support improved when autofit and automaticRotation options are simultaneously activated.
  • Custom annotation support added.
  • Support for form fields creation and edition added.
  • 3 new bitonal image filters(Erode, ErodeV & Dilate) added.
  • PDF rasterizer improved (memory usage reduced and compatibility with some malformed objects increased).
  • Improvements on the FTP & HTTP transfer support.
  • PDF text extraction and search improved.
  • Latest reported bugs fixed, new samples provided in the package, documentation enhancements.
  • Improvement of the mouse position’s zoom mode.
  • Memory usage improvement, especially for huge bitmap embedded in PDF documents.

The full change log is available on our forum in this post.

We remind you that you can upgrade to GdPicture.NET 9.3 from any previous version at any time.
The lastest version of GdPicture.NET is available on the download page of the Gdpicture website.
The upgrade from GdPicture.NET v9.0, 9.1 and 9.2 to 9.3 is free.
If you own a GdPicture.NET v7 or v8 license, you can directly order the upgrade to v9.3 . For any other upgrade case you can contact our team to get a commercial offer via our Quick Contact Form .

Licensing Modifications

To make the choice between our different products easier for you, we did the following changes in our GdPicture.NET Editions:

  • the PDF bookmark navigation control is now included in the GdPicture.NET Document Viewer SDK Edition.
  • GdPicture.NET TWAIN and TWAIN Pro Editions merged to a single TWAIN Edition. The new GdPicture.NET TWAIN Edition includes all features of the previous TWAIN and TWAIN Pro Editions.

You can see these changes in our Comparison Matrix.

Product Selector

In addition to our Comparison Matrix we created a Product Selector The Product Selector helps you determine the toolkits that match your needs.
In other words with the Product Selector you get the right configuration (the GdPicture.NET Edition and the Plugin(s) you need) and the right price in a few clicks!

Product Selector

That’s all for now!

Cheers,

The GdPicture Team

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