What’s new in version 9
GdPicture.NET SDK version 9
All-In-One Document Imaging SDK
What’s new ?
- Binaries for NET Framework 4.5 available.
- Memory usage optimization.
- Battery of speed enhancement.
- Better error handling.
- Improved usercontrols appearance customization.
- Multithreading handling improvement, especially with the ThumbnailEx control.
- Main classes implement IDisposable interface.
- Stream support improvement.
- Documents can now be loaded from non-seekable stream objects.
- Better stream handling.
- Temporary files creation has been avoided while loading from stream, array of bytes or string data. (Especially for usage in cloud or in sand-box).
- Several Unicode issues fixed.
- Improved OCR & PDF support for RTL languages such Arabic.
- TWAIN support enhanced, especially with Citrix and remote scanners.
- Windows 8 support.
- Improvements on the ftp & http transfer support.
- Improvements of the internal Image decoding engine.
- Custom annotation support.
- Memory usage optimization.
- Speed Improvement.
- New Ruler annotation object.
- Horizontal and vertical alignment support in AnnotationText objects.
- Improved synchronization with other GdPicture Objects (ThumbnailEx, AnnotationEditor, BookmarkTree…).
- Added support to load and save annotations of all pages of a document from/to a single XML block.
- Base64 encoding/decoding support. Especially for JavaScript usage.
- Drop shadow appearance support.
- Added SquaredBox property for AnnotationRectangle, AnnotationRectangleHighlighter and AnnotationEllipse objects.
- PDF rasterizer can produce any Pixel format bitmap.
- Support for linearized PDF creation (fast web view mode).
- PDF form fields creation and edition. PDF Transparency support for Rendering.
- PDF rendering speed has been increased by 15-30% with lower memory usage.
- PDF formfield and annotation flattening quality increased.
- PDF now supports alpha channel when adding 32-bit ARGB bitmap (soft mask).
- PDF Document Viewing preference support.
- Full files attachment support (Embedded file stream).
- Added private tag reading & writing at page level for the PDF format.
- PDF caching mechanism improved, especially for image attributes extraction.
- Full page labeling support.
- Full PDF transparency support (Blend modes).
- Graphics state stack and transformation matrix support.
- Digital Certificate support with stamp.
- Digital signature validation with certificate & document content checking.
- Page duplication support.
- Page drawing support. For example, draw the Page X of a PDF to a specified area of the page Y of another PDF.
- Bookmark reading & writing support.
- PDF action support.
- Added fast page resizing/scaling for the PDF format, without quality and compression loss.
- Interactive PDF features support: Actions, document-level navigation and more.
- PDF files linking support, for creating and for viewing purpose.
- PDF text extraction and annotation support improved.
- Multithreading handling improvement.
- Improved document format detection support.
- Owner drag & drop support.
- Improved items rendering speed.
- Added support for unsupported file types allowing to specify custom image. IE: an office icon Added asynchronous support for item deletion, modification & insertion.
- Improved RAW image format loading speed.
- Speed improvement of the Document Imaging Filters (AutoDeskew, Despeckle…)
- New 8bpp and 4bpp Quantizer with very high quality, high speed and low memory usage.
- GIF encoder enhancement to produce better quality image with dramatically speed increasing.
- Faster image resizer on indexed bitmaps.
- Memory usage has been dramatically decreased for document filters.
- Better support for large tiff files (IE 4gb multipage tiff documents).
- Dramatic increase in speed in handling editable multipage tiff & gif.
- New blob removal filter.
- Multipage documents are opened in read & write mode by default (at the same speed as the previous read-only mode).
- Added new noise removal filters.
- New sophisticated line removal filter.
- Speed improvement of the TIFF encoder with CCITT3 & CCITT4 compression schemes.
- Added support to create bitmap from separated Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black images.
- New Sauvola local adaptive thresholding method with contrast normalization.
- New function for counting the number of unique colors in an image.
- Added option to specify barcode type to detect during 1D barcode recognition process.
- Added option to return undecodable barcode.
- Added option to specify the number of expected recognized barcode for 1D, Datamatrix , QRCode and PDF417 reader.
- Increased speed & accuracy of the 1D barcode reader (speed increased between 33% and 50% according to our benchs).
- Increased accuracy of the QR barcode reader + Unicode support.
- Increased accuracy of the DataMatrix barcode reader .
- Decreased memory usage. New PDF417 Barcode Plugin.
- Support for drawing Qr-Code, Datamatrix and PDF417 barcodes on bitmap and PDF.