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I must say I was very disappointed to see that you are charging an extra licensing fee for the barcode reading. This is the very reason I stopped using Atalasoft and switched to GdPicture. I was tired of being nickeled and dimed for every feature. And 50% more just for this feature!!!!!!!

Hi,

I understand you can be disappointed but you should keep in mind:

- GdPicture products are edited by a French company: ORPALIS.
- This company have talented employees who must be paid.
- Building a stable barcode reader such as our one required more than 2 year of research & development of 1 specialized engineer.
- The price of the plugin you are talking about is less than 1 day of a 5 year experiences engineer in Europe.
- The plugin is royalty free, you can redistribute it on any server ans on any application for free.
- GdPicture.NET is also fully royalty free, full featured (see our matrix) and updates are free and frequent (see our update history).
- Our activity is 100% research & development to improve performance & features of our software every day.

Basically, our company has charges and we need to sell our services to cover them.

Kind regards,

Loïc

Thanks for your reply Loic

Do not misinterpret my comments. I think your product is excellent and very fairly priced. I purchased it within minutes of checking out that it met my needs. My concern is the trend it begins. Will every new feature now come with a separate additional price? I do not mind paying for new features. I need to eat and I enjoy living indoors as well!!! Why not have a subscription option that gets you everything for an annually renewed fee? Call me crazy but I would rather paid $1300 once then $800 and $500.

Thanks
Jim

Hi Jim,

Thank you for the feedback.

No, we don't want to come all new features with extra cost or extra licensing. For the barcode reader it was a necessity because we spent of lot of money to get it, and we will spend a lot of money to maintain it.

Today, we have only 2 optional plugins OCR & barcode reader. And always on a 100% royalty free basis. As you can see, we just introduced 2 new major features for free in GdPicture.NET: around 30 RAW format support, & around 30 barcode writing support. All for free for existing customers. Have a look on our releases history, you can see that a lot of new features are added frequently, for free. viewforum.php?f=11


And welcome here, feel free to post any technical issue or feature request (more than 80% of our customer feature requests are considered - for free, within a month).

Kind regards,

Loïc

Hi,

I needed this feature urgently, so I had to purchase these from another manufacturer. Anyone who has set a longer deal with barcode recognition, knows a good detection appreciated and is willing to pay for it. I think the price is reasonable.

@Loïc: You can send me the promised 50 € to my bank account.

For Harry & other GdPicture customers:

If you have a license of a GdPicture Toolkit (ActiveX or .NET) + a license of a barcode reader from another manufacturer: We offer for free a license of our Barcode Recognition Plugin in exchange of a proof of payment

Hi Loïc,

please give me the eMail adress to send you the proof of payment from the other manufacturer.

I'm not sure whether it was a joke, or not?!?

Best regards,
Harry

It's not a Joke !

We are working on an announcement on a new blog we will publish soon...

The email is esales(at)gdpicture(dot)com

We need GdPicture serial + proof of competitor barcode reader.

Cheers,

Loïc

See: https://www.gdpicture.com/blog/gdpicture ... cial-offer

Hi Loïc,

I had send an eMail with all informations a week ago, but I got no free license?!?

Best regards
Harry

We sent you the license key.

I suppose you have the mail into your spam box. Else, try to contact us with a different email address.

Kind regards,

Loïc

Hello,

Does a purchase of the GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK Ultimate license include licenses for the Bar Code plugins as well as the OCR plug in? The feature-comparison-matrix leads me to believe so.

I am only asking because the link in the header of the matrix for the ultimate package lists the OCR feature with this text, "Perform OCR on a full page, or on an area of a page, using the optional GdPicture Tesseract Plugin."

In short, does the ultimate package include the plugins with no extra cost?

Thanks,
Adam

Hi Adam,

Yes the Ultimate edition includes all Plugins.

Kind regards,

Loïc