
Thread Safe!

Compatible with X-copy deployment.

Support for Unicode.

Load/Save images in more than
90 formats.

Load/Save images & PDFs on
FTP &
HTTP servers.

Import/Export images from DIB, RAW,
GDI+ Bitmap, HBitmap, HICON, IPicture,
.NET Stream, String data, and Byte array data.

Copy/Paste images from the
clipboard.

Create images from
screen capture.
Display Raster Images,
Metafiles &
PDFs within a
fully-featured document viewer (GdViewer).

Create
highlighted regions within a document viewer.

Mouse tools for document viewing include: Area selection,
Pan, Page change,
Zoom-in, and
Zoom-out.
Print Images &
PDFs with complete control over the printing process and using a fully-featured
printing dialog box.

Manipulate
multi-page TIFF images (insert, remove and swap pages).

Manipulate
animated GIF images (insert, remove and swap frames, set a frame delay & disposal method.).
Convert an image from one bit-depth to another.

Draw more than 30 different
barcode types on an image, including 25i, EAN13, 3 of 9 and code 128 (
view complete list).

Perform OCR on a full page, or on an area of a page, using the
optional GdPicture Tesseract Plugin.

Recognize more than 20 industrial 1D barcodes using the
optional GdPicture 1D Barcode Recognition Plugin.

Draw
shapes such as lines, ellipses, circles, Beziers, curves and polygons.

Draw
text in a wide range of styles.

Supports all
TWAIN 2.0 features for image acquisition.

Directly
access bits of an image.

Manage the
color palette of an image.
Quantize & reduce the colors of an image.
Rotate,
mirror &
flip images.

Rotate images by hundredths of a degree.

Read and write
Metadata such as
EXIF tags, Thumbnail tags, GPS tags and
IPTC tags.

Create high-quality image
thumbnails.

Apply
color mapping and
ICC profiles to RGB and CMYK images.

Automatically remove the borders of an image.
Auto-Deskew an image.

Change the brightness, saturation, contrast, and gamma of an image.

Apply
filters and
effects (emboss, blur, edge enhance, auto-contrast).
Clean up an image (despeckle bitonal images, remove lines and noise, repair characters).

Select a region of an image for processing (Region Of Interest).
Merge and
overlay images with full transparency support.

Combine images using specific operators; And, Or, Xor, Min, Max, Abs, Multiply, Divide.

Generate
PDF & PDF/A files with compression, shapes, text and encryption.
Extract text from a PDF (full page content or the text within a specific area).
Search PDFs for a given text string.

Generate
searchable PDFs from scanners, images or existing PDF files.

Perform
automatic document recognition using
GdPicture ADR™ Technology.

Lot of samples are provided in C# and VB.NET.

A COM compatible version is also provided !