IMAGING

Image processing & Document Imaging SDK :

• Unicode Support
• Advanced image processing
• Read, edit and create multi-page TIFF images
• Read, edit and create animated GIF images
• Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit, 64-bit and 128-bit color depth
• Import / Export images from clipboard
• Includes the GdPicture ADR™ Technology - Automatic Document Recognition Engine
• Import / Export images from HTTP or FTP servers
• Advanced TWAIN scanning (webcam and scanner) with Automatic Document Feeder control (ADF) and Auto-scan control
• Use TWAIN capabilities to detect & read barcode symbols, including Code 39/128/93, EAN-8/13, PostNet, PDF 417, 2 of 5 Matrix and many more
• OCR features: create searchable PDFs, convert images to text, perform character recognition on specific areas *
• 1D Barcode Recognition features: detect & read more than 20 industrial barcode type **
• 2D DataMatrix Barcode Recognition features: detect & read more than 20 industrial barcode type ***
• Convert from, and to, any color depth, from 1-bit to 64-bit
• Multiple color quantization and reduction algorithms
• Load and save CMYK images
• Apply color correction according to color management information ICC / ICM
• Read and write stream & binary data: IStream, array of bytes, string
• Auto Border removal for bitonal & color images
• Cropping and border adding functions
• Advanced rotation options: basic 90°, 180°, 270°, flip X and Y-axes; rotate by a specific angle
• Watermark text, shapes or images
• Advanced Text processing
• Create high-quality thumbnails
• Manually skew and de-skew images
• Auto Deskew an image
• Obtain specific color components of an image (Red, Green, Blue, Alpha, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow or Black channel)
• Full metadata support: read / write EXIF, GPS, thumbnail and IPTC tags
• Print images using a printer dialog box, using auto-fit to page, automatic rotation and many other features
• Composite images: combine images using transparency
• Resize using 8 different interpolation modes, including bilinear, bicubic and nearest neighbor
• Draw lines, ellipses, circles, rectangles, Bezier and curves using anti-aliasing
• Draw Barcodes 25i, EAN13, 3 of 9, code 128
• Change the brightness, saturation, contrast and gamma
• Bitonal & Color Image Enhancement: dilate, erode, noise removal, despeckle filters and character repair
• Multiple filters and effects including emboss, blur, edge enhance and engrave
• Personalize filters using matrix conversion
• Area selection: select areas or regions on an image for processing
• Capture the contents of any window or selection of any window
• Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed images
• Zoom enhance
• HSL, CMY, CMYK, RGB, ARGB, sRGB64, ICM, ICM2 color space management
• PDF writing features: image, shapes, text, encryption including PDF/A support

* Requires the optional GdPicture Tesseract Plugin for ActiveX.
** Requires the optional GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin for ActiveX.
*** Requires the optional GdPicture DataMatrix Barcode Recognition Plugin for ActiveX.

GdViewer & GdViewerCnt

Image & PDF Viewer Controls :

• Unicode Support
• Image bitmap and vector viewer: a high-quality viewer class with multiple view modes
• Load and print single & multi-page images
• PDF Viewer
• Read multi-page Tiffs with the ability to change pages quickly and easily
• Display large image files
• Read binary data types like IStream, IUnknown and array of bytes
• Load images from URLs
• Multiple image scaling algorithms, including anti-aliasing, bicubic and nearest neighbor interpolation
• Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit, 64-bit & 128-bit color palettes
• Import images from the clipboard, StdPicture, IPicture, HBitmap, DIB, GDI+ image handles
• Advanced rotation options, including 90°, 180°, 270° and flip X or Y-axes
• Advanced and optimized printing features: print a selection of pages from a multi-page file, print multi-page images in single print jobs, fit images to paper size
• User-defined display area
• Animated Gif viewer
• Advanced scrollbar and auto size features
• Aspect Ratio Control
• Right click pop-up menu, including tools, selection and zoom *
• Built-in tools including hand tool, pan and zoom, and rectangle selection
• Move and scroll down and across images using the mouse
• Zoom enhance, zoom by height, by width, fit to page
• User-defined zoom and user-defined area zoom
• Support for keyboard and mouse events
• Change image zoom or position using the mouse wheel
• Smooth Scrolling
• Save and restore a specific position within an image (Image MAP system capability)
• GdViewerCnt: Image viewer container class. This is like a vb picturebox in that it can contain other controls placed in it