Archive for the ‘Important Features’ Category
Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Hi guys!
GdPicture.NET v8.5 is now available! You will find lots of exciting features inside, including WEB support!
WEB Support
- New HTML demo to view and annotate documents in Internet Explorer (you will find the demo here)
Asynchronous Download/Upload
- Asynchronous HTTP/WEB document transfer for upload and download.
ActiveX Integration with Samples
- Better support in the COM/ActiveX edition: All GdPicture.NET 8 features are now available under .NET & ActiveX technologies.
- Full support and samples provided for VB6, Foxpro, Delphi, HTML and Silverlight.
Enhancement of Document Imaging & OCR
- New document Imaging filter Form Dropout.
- Speed improvement of the Punch Hole Removal document imaging filter (between 50% and 500% faster).
- Faster PDF/OCR engine, and more accurate with poor quality documents.
- Battery of bug fixes, especially for the OCR engine.
Other New Features
- New UserControl AnnotationEditor providing an interface to edit each annotation property.
- PDF rendering speed increased.
- PDF saving methods produces smaller PDF and are faster.
Full change log and methods of the GdPicture classes can be found on our forum here.
As usual you can download the latest version here and get an evaluation key for 30 days there.
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team
Tags: GdPicture.NET 8, HTML, new release, OCR, PDF, samples, Silverlight, WEB
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011
Hi!
We inform you that we will stop selling our suite of GDPicture ActiveX SDKs and plugins starting on February 1st 2012.
What are the products concerned?
GdPicture ActiveX SDKs:
- GdPicture Pro Imaging SDK,
- GdPicture Light Imaging Toolkit,
- GdViewer OCX,
- GdViewer Pro ActiveX,
- GdImageBox Pro ActiveX,
- GdImageBox OCX,
- GdTwain ActiveX,
- GdTwain Pro SDK.
Why do we stop selling our ActiveX line of products?
GdPicture.NET 8 now includes an ActiveX version which contains 100% of the ActiveX features and a lot more!
We recommend to V5 users to migrate to GdPicture.NET 8, the migration is easy!
I have a GdPicture ActiveX license: how can I upgrade to GdPicture.NET 8?
If you bought your ActiveX license after July 1st 2011, we give you a coupon worth 80% of the price paid to buy a .NET license.
For other cases, a coupon worth 50% of the price paid for the ActiveX license will be provided.
To get an upgrade coupon, please create a sales-upgrades ticket with a copy of your invoice attached here:
http://support.gdpicture.com/Tickets/Submit
How to get information?
We will communicate about this regularly via our Newsletter, Twitter and our Facebook page.
Do not hesitate to contact our sales team if you have any question about upgrading. The tech team is here to answer questions about migration issues, and there is always the forum to find help and code samples.
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team.
Tags: GdPicture ActiveX, GdPicture.NET 8, sales
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Hi guys!
GdPicture.NET version 8.4 is now live and we added some exciting features: in the Viewer you will find a new Magnifier tool
Properties related to the Magnifier Tool in the GdViewer class are:
- MagnifierWidth
- MagnifierHeight
- MagnifierZoomX
- MagnifierZoomY
The other features included in GdPicture.NET 8.4 are:
- Full Unicode support for text writing in PDF with many font scheme support such as Open type and post script: .fon, .fnt, .ttf, .ttc, .fot, .otf, .mmm, .pfb, .pfm.
- New featured C# demo application for Image processing with undo/redo features.
- Improvement of the Toolkit stability, especially for the OCR and the barcode recognition engines.
You will find the new methods of the GdPicture PDF and AnnotationManager class in our forum here.
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team
Tags: Annotations, GdPicture.NET 8, new release, OCR, PDF, Unicode, Viewer
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Hello guys, Good news!
GdPicture.NET version 8.3 is now published and includes a new barcode recognition engine, and we know some of you were waiting for it:
GdPicture QR-Code Barcode Recognition Plugin for GdPicture.NET!
As usual it’s fast, accurate and easy to use, works in 32 bit & 64 bit version and with any Windows operating system from Windows 2000 to Windows 7. It’s also thread-safe and of course royalty-free.
Specific functionalities are:
- Detects QR-Code in more than 90 different image formats, including PDF.
- Detects multiple QR-Code barcodes from black & white, grayscale, 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.
You can see all the new features of v8.3 on the GdPicture forum.
 Enjoy! You can find all the information about the QR-Code Barcode Recognition Plugin here.
Download and evaluate it there and tell us what you think!
As it is included in a medium release of GdPicture.NET 8 (v8.3), this engine can be unlocked & used without any additional charge by all the ultimate license owners.
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team
Tags: Barcode, GdPicture.NET, GdPicture.NET 8, new release, Plugin, QR-Code
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Hi guys!
We hope that you enjoyed the summer and for those who were on vacation, welcome back!
We’re excited to announce the new release of GdPicture.NET 8.2 which contains lots of new stuff:
What’s new ?
- OMR engine accuracy increasing
- 1D Barcode reader engine accuracy increasing
- 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 & accuracy (autodeskew, blank page detection…)
- Support for Multiselect and Drag & Drop in the ThumbnailEx control
- Battery of reported bug fixes
And a s usual, lots of changes in GdPicturePDF, GdPictureImaging and GdViewer Class, and a new AnnotationManager Class.
You can check the full change log here.
We hope that you’ll like it!
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team.
Tags: annotation, GdPicture.NET 8, new release, OMR, PDF
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
Hi again!
Big day today with the new website and the GdPicture.NET 8 release!
So, what are the major improvements in v8?
- 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, uncrypt, add watermarks and barcodes etc…
- Improvement of the autodeskew, autocrop 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.
You can find full release notes from this page: whats-new.
Customers who acquired a GdPicture.NET 7 license after 1st Jan 2011 are eligible to a free upgrade. Just contact our sales department providing your order ref. and your license key to get it: sales department.
We hope you will really enjoy this new release!
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team
Tags: GdPicture.NET, GdPicture.NET 8, PDF Plugin, XMP Annotations Plugin
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Monday, June 27th, 2011
Hi folks!
You may have noticed that some things are different today at GdPicture:
So what do you think of our new website? We hope you’ll like it!
A big thanks to our design team!
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team
Tags: website
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Hi everyone!
We are pleased to announce that GdPicture.NET is now in the Top 50 Products and GdPicture in the Top 50 Publishers on ComponentSource!
We are actually ranking in 30th place in the Top 100 Publisher list!
 
We thank you all for your support and for trusting us!
Cheers,
The GdPicture Team
Tags: Awards, Componentsource, GdPicture, GdPicture.NET
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
“PaperScan is a powerful tool centered on one idea : making document acquisition an unparalleled easy task for anyone.”
If you have several scanners, if you’re planning on buying a new scanner or even if you prefer to use your scanner’ software for document acquisition, this is what PaperScan can do for you :
- autodeskew
- punch holes removal
- remove borders
- angle rotation
- convert to black and white or greyscale or colour
- adjust colour (brightness, contrast, saturation, gamma)
- apply filters to smooth, stretch contrast or median the image
- apply bitonal filters to remove isolated dots or to dilate/erode characters
- apply contour, sepia or scanline effect
- image quality selection
- area selection / crop selected area
- image resize
- information about image’s resolution, size and colour mode
- save your work as single/multipage files in PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, JBIG2, PDF/OCR with post-naming options
You can find all the information you need about PaperScan on our new website www.orpalis.com/products/paperscan
To be aware of the new events and releases you can suscribe to the PaperScan Newsletter here.
Cheers!
The ORPALIS Team
Tags: document acquisition, ORPALIS, PaperScan, scanner
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Friday, January 14th, 2011
We are proud to introduce our new website for ORPALIS!
You can have a look at it here.
On www.orpalis.com you can have an overview of all our featured products: the GdPicture SDKs of course, and our brand new tools for document acquisition and management, PaperScan and PaperLight.
We thank the amazing Agile Outsourcing team for the amazing job done on this website! Merci!
Tags: document acquisition, document management, ORPALIS, PaperLight, PaperScan, website
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