Archive for the ‘New Events’ Category
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.
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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 Posted in General, Important Features, New Events, New Releases | Comments Off
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 Posted in General, Important Features, New Events, New Releases | Comments Off
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 Posted in General, Important Features, New Events | Comments Off
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 Posted in General, Important Features, New Events | Comments Off
Thursday, February 17th, 2011

We hope you will like it !
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team
Tags: logo Posted in General, New Events | Comments Off
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 Posted in General, Important Features, New Events, New Releases | Comments Off
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 Posted in General, Important Features, New Events | Comments Off
Friday, December 17th, 2010
GdPicture is proud to introduce the new Punch Hole Removal Filter! It’s fast and accurate and we hope that you will enjoy it.
What else is inside?
Some of the major improvements are:
- full JBIG2 single and multiple page reading and writing support.
- TWAIN functions to better control Auto-Scan feature and retrieve device info.
- Toolkit is ready for clouding usage.
- Some speed enhancement in image parsing & rendering.
There are new methods of the GdPictureImaging class including JBIG2, TWAIN, JPEG and more.
In the ThumbnailEx features we added a mouse events control.
Many reported bugs have been fixed.
You can see the full list of the new features here.
The GdPicture Team

Tags: cloud, GdPicture.NET, JBIG2, JPEG, new release, Punch Hole Removal Filter, TWAIN, XML, XMP Posted in Important Features, New Events, New Releases | Comments Off
Friday, December 17th, 2010
For its 10th birthday, Google sent all his AdWords users their own personal thank you video. Like more than a million companies, we’ve received a customized video.

Check the video here
GdPicture has been a Google AdWords user from the start, and without it we would never be as successful as we are today.
So, from the GdPicture Team, we wish Google a happy birthday :
JOYEUX ANNIVERSAIRE !
Tags: birthday, GdPicture, google Posted in General, New Events | Comments Off
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