From the GdPicture Team, we wish you all the best for 2012!

Bonne année!

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

We inform you that we will stop selling our suite of GDPicture ActiveX SDKs and plugins starting on February 1^st 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 1^st 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.

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:

• Better Autodeskew control.

• 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.

• Printing support in GdPicturePDF class.

• Annotated document by the GdPicture XMP/Annotations Plugin can be saved into stream.

• 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

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

Maybe some of you noticed that our Helpdesk/Support Platform system looks a little different. Our goal is to achieve the best quality of service possible and we added a lot of new functionalities to improve interactivity with the users.

So what’s new on the Support Platform?

• Live Help Support

When our support team is online, you will now be able to reach our agents directly through a chat window. The window is available on the left hand side of our website.

• Instant Remote Control

Now our agents can interact directly with the user’s PC !

During a chat, you will be able to connect to the agent by downloading a small executable file from the support’s desk web server.Once successfully connected, the remote control session begins immediately.

• Customer Survey

When a chat session ends, you will be able to rate the conversation. This tool is very useful for us to see in which ways we need to improve our service.

Please note that the new Helpdesk/Support Platform is currently in the testing phase for two weeks.

This weekend we made some changes in our helpdesk platform to increase support reactivity from our staff. During the installation process, we encountered several issues: all our registered users received three different emails from GdPicture  (GdPicture.NET 8.0.3; GdPicture.NET 8.1 Has Been Released; GdPicture.NET 8.2 New Release). If you received these emails, please excuse us for the inconvenience, you were not supposed to get them.

Thank you for your comprehension.

Cheers!

The GdPicture Team.

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.

I create this post to catch your attention on a thread that I created on the forum demonstrating how to use GdPicture.NET in WPF application.

- Using GdViewer in a WPF Window
- Converting a GdPicture image to a BitmapSource object, and uses the JpegBitmapEncoder to subsequently save the BitmapSource to a jpegfile.
- Using GdPictureImaging from code side.

You will be able to download a standalone application explaining these 3 scenarios.

See:
http://forums.gdpicture.com/gdpicture-net-wpf-applications-f52/using-gdpicture-net-wpf-application-t3187.html

We should release soon pure WPF controls that will takes profit of the Direct3D API.

Cheers !

Loïc

Because it’s not all about computers and coding, we wanted to share with you some pictures taken during the trip to Iasi, Romania, to see our team there.

Loïc (with the glasses) and our Romanian team: from the left, Cosmin, Gabi and Bogdan.

This is how our days looked like: first, coffee.

Then, work.

And finally we found some time to visit the beautiful town of Iasi.

Next time, we’ll try to show pictures from our Jordanian team.

That’s all folks!

Cheers,

Elodie

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