GdPicture .NET

Category: New Releases

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!

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Cheers!

The GdPicture Team

GdPicture.NET V 7.4 New Release including OMR

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

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The FAQ and pricing information related to the plugin can be found here.

Cheers!

The GdPicture Team

The Free Edition of PaperScan is out!

“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

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To be aware of the new events and releases you can suscribe to the PaperScan Newsletter here.

Cheers!

The ORPALIS Team

GdPicture.NET V 7.3 Now Available

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

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GdPicture.NET 7.2 Is Already Here!

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.

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