Archive for the ‘New Releases’ 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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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, February 14th, 2011
We’re happy to announce two new releases: GdPicture.NET 7.4 and our last plugin, GdPicture Form Processing-OMR and Template Recognition.
What’s new in GdPicture.NET 7.4?
- Forms Processing features
- lots of bug fixes
- performance improvements
- improvements of the TIFF format support
You can find all the information here.
GdPicture Forms Processing Plugin Overview:
Template Recognition can help to align area to be processed by filters, OMR, OCR or barcode recognition. For example, if several documents are scanned of the same form, and the scanning orientation or quality is not guaranteed, the GdPicture Anchoring System can be used to specify the orientation of each document and the translation made to each document from the one where the user selected their Areas (surrounding rectangles).
Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) helps to detect the content of a checkbox, fill-in-area , multiple choice examination form, or any area where highlighting is required to indicate a certain choice.
Main features:
- accurate & fast Optical Mark Detection (OMR)
- template recognition (Anchoring Mechanism)
- enhance OCR zoning accuracy
- low memory usage
- royalty-free licensing: no distribution license required for server or desktop
- low memory usage
- available in 32 bit & 64 bit version
- can work in multi-thread applications
The FAQ and pricing information related to the plugin can be found here.
Cheers!
The GdPicture Team
Tags: Forms Processing, GdPicture.NET, OMR, Plugin, Template Recognition, TIFF
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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, 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
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
Hi guys !
GdPicture.NET 7.2 is already out!
What’s inside ?
- New set of WIA scanning features.
- Fast adaptive threshold algorithm.
- New Gaussian filter.
- New Unsharp Mask filter.
- Improvement of the barcode recognition accuracy & speed (1D & 2D).
- New set of features in the Thumbnail control.
- Some speed improvement in toolkit core.
- Support for FloodFill algorithm in any bit-depth including Alpha layer support…
And as usual, some reported bugs were fixed and there are lots of new methods of the GdPictureImaging class, as well as new property and methods of the ThumbnailEx class.
Everything’s here.
The GdPicture Team.
Tags: Barcode Recognition, Datamatrix barcode reader, GdPicture.NET, Thumbnail Viewer Control, TWAIN Scanning, WIA
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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010
Hi there !
We just published a medium upgrade of our new GdPicture.NET 7 Edition. We recommend to migrate to this version.
There are some major improvements with the JBIG2 Encoder, PDF loading speed, WIA scanning support… And we added lots of new methods of the GdPictureImaging Class.
You can check all GdPicture.NET 7.1 can do here.
The GdPicture Team
Tags: GdPicture.NET, JBIG2, PDF Reader, WIA
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