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New PDF/A validator

November 9, 2020

Hi Everyone! We’re happy to announce our new PDF/A validator, available with the latest release. Why is it important to validate PDF/A files? Long term archiving is a critical requirement for many industries. Because of the complexity of PDF document format, it is very important to validate if all the PDF/A specification requirements are met.  […]

MS Office Binary Formats Support in GdPicture.NET and DocuVieware

October 12, 2020

Hi Everyone, They are finally here! We’re more than happy to offer MS Office binary formats in our SDK. DOC, XLS, and PPT now belong to the list of 100+ formats supported by our toolkit. Because it’s built with the GdPicture.NET engine, users will find in DocuVieware HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit the exact […]

DocuVieware Integration into SharePoint 2019

September 15, 2020

As several of our clients are using DocuVieware with their SharePoint environment, we decided to write a step by step article to help people before they dive in.
For this tutorial, we chose to make an App-in instead of a SharePoint solution.

GdPicture.NET OCR SDK: New MRZ Engine

August 31, 2020

Hi Everyone, Earlier this month, we have released a new OCR engine to read ID documents, and today we’re going to tell you more about it. And we’re very happy with the results: our engine decodes MRZ characters on any image in less than 100ms, even if the quality is low and the image skewed.  […]

DocuVieware Tutorial for Angular 10

August 27, 2020

Angular 10 became generally available as a production release on June 24, 2020.
The major upgrade to the Google-developed, TypeScript-based framework puts more emphasis on quality, tool, and ecosystem improvements than new features.

DocuVieware Tutorial for Blazor

July 20, 2020

DocuVieware is an HTML5-based viewer and document management toolkit. It is built to work with all modern browsers and devices to handle documents from any source. The DocuVieware UI supports annotations, thumbnails, bookmarks, as well as custom snap-ins that extend functionality. DocuVieware enables you to pan, zoom, rotate, select text, and print documents. And you […]

Creating a Universal Document Viewer App Using WPF on .NET Core

May 14, 2020

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a popular framework for making .NET applications. In addition to built-in controls, WPF supports the use of other control libraries to access new functionality, such as viewing and modifying several document formats with GdPicture.NET. With this single control, an application can view and edit images, PDFs, and other document types […]

How to Set up and Use DocuVieware with React

May 11, 2020

One of the promises of the modern internet is that we’d be able to freely exchange a multitude of document types, to work on together and share with colleagues. We’re not quite there yet, but getting a lot closer with tools like DocuVieware that let us collaborate with others even if they don’t have the […]

New: PassportPDF Plans Available

April 10, 2020

Hi Everyone, You may have noticed some information on our website and in your personal account about a new PassportPDF plan available for customers with licenses under an active maintenance plan.Today we’re going to explain what it is all about 😊 First things first: What is PassportPDF? PassportPDF is our next generation online unified APIs […]

Using PDF Layers or Optional Content Groups (OCG) in GdPicture.NET

March 23, 2020

Communicating ideas in digital documents can often be made much clearer through the use of layers. Layers have been supported in PDF documents since version 1.5 through optional content groups (OCGs), also known as PDF layers. “Optional” is key here. OCGs allow us to group images or annotations together, then control their visibility based on […]