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Introducing PDF/A-4 Support in our PDF and Document Processing SDKs

January 22, 2022

We’re happy to provide conversion and validation support for all PDF/A versions, including the latest PDF/A-4 ISO standard (19005-4:2020) and its subsets PDF/A-4e and PDF/A-4f. Introducing conversion and validation support for a new standard generally depends on two things: a good understanding of the specification and many examples to test the engines. In the case […]

GdPicture.NET & DocuVieware Are Now Available as NuGets through Nuget.org

January 10, 2022

We’re happy to provide our bestseller PDF and document processing SDKs GdPicture.NET and DocuVieware as NuGet packages. We know many of you had this request for a long time 🙂 If you’re not familiar with NuGet, the best thing is to go straight to the source: An introduction to NuGet Cheers, The Dev Team

New MaxiCode 2D Barcode Reading and Writing Support

You can now build applications to write and recognize 2D MaxiCode barcodes. The US postal and shipment industries use this standard to ease label recognition on packages. The MaxiCode symbology includes a robust error correction system, and the GdPicture.NET goes a step further in the recognition process thanks to research work on the preprocessing and […]

Introducing the New GdPicture.NET Deep Learning-based ICR Engine

November 22, 2021

We’re gradually improving the machine vision capabilities of our versatile SDK with the release of the first version of a new ICR engine to recognize handwritten numerics. Future versions will support more contexts. What is ICR? Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) is an advanced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system that can recognize handwritten text and convert […]

PDF Days 2021: That’s a Wrap!

November 16, 2021

Last October, the PDF Association held a series of webinars about various aspects of the PDF format. Our technical presentations covered PDF/A conversion and validation and the growing low code/no code ecosystem for PDF tools. Remote for the second year in a row, the PDF event hosted 24 technical conferences over the month of October. […]

Deep Learning for Text Detection (Part2)

October 22, 2021

This article is the second part of “Deep learning for text detection.” In part 1, we outlined some deep learning approaches based on object detection used to perform text detection. In this part, we will outline some approaches based on image segmentation. There are different types of image segmentation, but for text detection, we will […]

Deep Learning for Text Detection (Part1)

In a previous blog article, we outlined several deep learning techniques for OCR. We mentioned how these techniques are used for text detection and text recognition, which are the two primary building blocks of an OCR system. In this article, we will go deeper into how deep learning is being used for text detection, which […]

New formats support in GdPicture.NET and DocuVieware SDKs: HEIF/HEIC, EML, and MSG

June 11, 2021

Within the last month, we have added a new image and two new email formats to our list. You will now find HEIF/HEIC, EML, and MSG in our toolkit offer for desktop, Web, and cloud development. Desktop components Web components REST API HEIF/HEIC High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) is a container to store an […]

Major Improvements of the MICR Detection and Recognition Engine

April 22, 2021

Hi Everyone, In March we have significantly enhanced our MICR engine, in such a way that we announced the new performances and improvements in a press release. But this was before last week’s release, which brought even better performances to the toolkit. We’re proud to have a fast and robust tool that can be a […]

INP Toulouse: Automate the Processing of Examination Papers

January 24, 2021

Presentation The INP Group brings together more than 30 engineering schools, over 20,000 students, including 1,360 apprentices and 2,400 doctoral students. Toulouse INP is ranked 5th best performing French engineering school according to the U-Multirank 2020 international ranking (out of 52 French schools). The INP Group is known for: Toulouse INP is developing relationships with […]