Comparison Matrix
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.NET WinForms UserControls.Provides .NET WinForm native UserControls available in the edition: document viewer, thumbnail viewer, bookmark explorer, and annotation editor. Minimum supported framework: .NET Framework 4.6 and .NET Core 3.0. |  Included | Included | Included | Included |
.NET WPF Controls.Provides all available .NET WPF Controls of the toolkit: document viewer, thumbnail viewer and bookmark explorer. Minimum supported framework: .NET Framework 4.6 and .NET Core 3.0. | Included | Included |  Not available | Not available |
COM Interoperability.Use GdPicture.NET controls in any environment that support COM/ActiveX such as Delphi, Windev, VB6, Gupta, DataFlex, VBScript, Microsoft Office Macro, JavaScript... | Included | Included | Included | Not available |
ASP.NET WebForm & MVC.Includes DocuVieware WebControl working in ASP.NET WebForm and ASP.NET MVC. Can be used to build any kind of web application based on ASP.NET Core, Angular, NodeJS, ReactJS... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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Image printing.A wide range of printing capabilities including single page and multi-page document support is available: dialog boxes printing, printers enumeration, quality control, page-range, position selection and orientation printing support, stretch or zoom an image to a specific size, access to network printers and more. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Image rendering.Choose from a set of low level functions to render image or image portions on any kind of logical destinations such as HDC, HWND, Graphics object, dib, Hbitmap, Bitmap. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Source streaming.Handle documents from any possible source such as binary handle, bytes array, string, stream, clipboard, local file, file over network, HTTP remote server, ftp remote server with asynchronous loading support. Load image without decoding pixel* in order to quickly access information such as image properties, color profile and attached thumbnail. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
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Fast document conversion.A standalone class handling fast document conversion. It permits to quickly convert any supported document format by GdPicture (more than 100) to popular formats such as PDF and TIFF, by handling every aspect of the conversion (color space, metadata, annotations, image, text etc...) | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
PDF to PDF/A conversion.Convert any PDF to PDF/A with a single line of code. The GdPicture PDF/A converter is continuously improved to produce 100% accurate conversion, 100% PDF/A conformity, reduced file size and quick processing. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Raster, metafile, PSD and RAW images loading.Load TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, SVG, WMF, EMF, BMP, JPEG2000, WEBP, RAW, DNG, NEF, PSD, G3, HDR, EXR, TARGA, DDS, PNM, PBM, WBMP, XBM, PPM and 90 other image formats. Support images from 1-bit to 128-bit depth and files bigger than 2 GB. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Raster image creation.Save image to TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, JPEG-2000, WEBP, PBM, EXR, BMP, WBMP, WMF, XPM, TARGA... Full support for 16-bits per component pixel, RGB, RGBA, CMYK, CMYKA, RGB16, RGBA16, CMYK16 and CMYK16 images. Each encoder is highly customizable. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Raster PDF creation.Save image as PDF, including enhanced compression and encryption support. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
CAD loading support.Render & display DXF files, get thumbnail, browse, search, convert to PDF or bitmap... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Microsoft Word OpenXML (.docx) reading and writing support.Render & display, get thumbnail, browse, search, convert to PDF or bitmap... Also convert any supported format to DOCX | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
OpenDocument Text (.odt) reading support.Render & display, get thumbnail, browse, search, convert to PDF or bitmap... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
RTF loading support.Render & display, get thumbnail, browse, search, convert to PDF or bitmap... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet (.xlsx) loading supportRender & display, get thumbnail, browse, search, convert to PDF or bitmap... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Full managed PDF extension.The ultimate solution to fully support PDF and PDF/A. Create and modify existing PDF, print, split and merge PDFs, edit pages, apply digital signature, cipher and decipher PDFs, draw vector content, draw raster images, draw barcodes, edit formfields, annotate, manipulate layers, save as PDF with fast web view support, convert PDF to image, dramatically re-compress existing PDF and use thousands of other features... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Multi-page TIFF manipulation.Fully read and write multi-page TIFF images. Merge images, swap pages, delete pages, insert pages, repair TIFF documents. Support for multi-compression is included. Multi-page TIFF creation with mixed compression support (JPEG & CCITT for example). Append pages to existing TIFF document in no-time without re-encoding existing pages. Support BigTIFF specification to read and write more than 4GB tiff files. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
DICOM files reading.Handle medical-related images for viewing and analysis purpose: decode and view DICOM image files, supports all standards from the version 1 to the version 3, read all attached Tags (Patient, Study, Physician, Image), adjust dynamically Window width and level for images with a VOI LUT... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
JBIG2 extension (PDF, multipage image).Read and compress bitonal images and bitmap embedded in PDF documents in JBIG2 format very quickly. This continuously improved engine supports single page and multipage JBIG2 image reading and writing. It offers lossless or lossy encoding mode. For lossy encoding mode it uses a very sophisticated pattern matching and substitution engine to prevent as much as possible undesired substitutions. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Multi-bitmap ICO and animated GIF manipulation.Fully read and write animated GIF images. Merge frames, swap frames delete frame insert frame. Multi bitmap ICO is supported in read only mode. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
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Raster image & metafile viewing.Integrate features such as fast document displaying, creation of highlighted regions, customized render quality, mouse pan tool, mouse auto-zoom tool, area selection tool, gif animation, ability to catch user events and many other functionalities... | Included | Included | Included | Included |
PDF viewing.Our featured PDF viewer supports full PDF 1.7 specifications. All encrypted documents can be opened. Text can be selected, searched and extracted. Annotations and form fields can be perfectly rendered. PDF actions are fully supported (URL, external file and internal content navigation). Digital signature can be checked on the fly and validation marks rendered. Full support for hyperlinks with automatic navigation support... | Included | Included | Included | Not available |
DOCX, XLSX, ODT, RTF, TXT documents viewing.View office document formats such as docx, xlsx, odt, rtf and txt within fully featured controls with multipage view mode, text search, text selection & extraction and more... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
CAD images viewing.View DXF images within fully featured controls with HQ rendering, fast zooming, automatic view adjustment, text search, text selection & extraction and more... | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
SVG images viewing.GdPicture provides a top of the art SVG rasterizer engine enabling SVG visualization with high quality, fast zooming, automatic view adjustment, printing... | Included | Included | Included | Not available |
PDF bookmark navigation control.Include Usercontrol to allow PDF and image navigation through a fully-featured bookmark pannel. Gain full control over PDF outlines, navigation and actions (URL, external file and internal content navigation). | Included | Included | Included | Not available |
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Hyper-Compression (MRC)The GdPicture research team is developing an innovative MRC (Mixed Raster Content) engine following a continuous integration model. This engine is producing spectacular results by automatically adjusting the trade off between quality and compression rate to provide top quality documents at the lower possible size. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Automatic document recognition.Sophisticated engine designed for automatic document classification and categorization tasks will help you to identify invoices, checks, page separators and any other type of document. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
Color Detection Engine.GdPicture provides a very unique engine which allows users to bring automatic color detection in their applications. It dramatically reduces the size of electronically stored documents to accelerate processing and file transfer. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Image and Document Segmentation.A very fast and accurate segmentation engine is provided to automatically segment imagedocuments into blocks, paragraphs, lines, words and characters. It also offers the capability to identify connected components of a bitmap. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
PDF Reducer SDKCompress any document to PDF using unrivaled compression and optimization techniques, with a focus on font optimization, data compression, and image analysis. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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GdPicture OCR module.Add to your application a fast and accurate OCR engine and the functionality to build searchable PDFs from scanned images or faxes. OCR any kind of image, retrieve characters, bounding boxes and confidence. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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OMR and template recognition module.Use templates of parts of images to recognize translation in scanning and help align an area to be processed by filters, OMR, OCR or barcode recognition. Use OMR to detect the content of a check-box, fill-in-area, multiple choice examination form, or any area where highlighting is required to indicate a certain choice. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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GdPicture MICR module.Decode CMC7 and E-13B characters from documents with outstanding speed and accuracy. Also detect and decode the MICR line from any structured document such as checks by analyzing the full page layout with up to 99.95% of accuracy and 50 PPS on 300 dpi images. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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Drawing and Combining Images.Draw an image on top of another with the operator of combination, then perform rotation, skew, transparency and clipping path. Alpha blending and masking are also fully supported. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Shape drawing.Draw Bezier curves, lines, circles, rectangles, ellipses, grids, pies and polygons with full alpha blending and pattern support. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Text drawing.Draw text (full support of unicode). Text can be fitted within textbox or aligned on a specific axe. Full alpha blending to draw watermarks or styled text is supported. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
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1D barcode drawing on images and PDF.Draw more than 30 linear barcode types over image and PDF with custom color and orientation. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
1D barcode recognition on images and PDF.Detect and decode nearly 20 industrial 1D barcode types from more than 90 document formats, such as Bitmap, Metafile and PDF. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
Aztec Code barcode reading & writing on images and PDF.Read and Write Aztec Code barcodes in more than 100 document formats, including Bitmap, Metafile and PDF. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
DataMatrix reading & writing on images and PDF.Read and Write DataMatrix barcodes in more than 100 document formats, including Bitmap, Metafile and PDF. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
QR-Code and Micro QR-Code reading & writing on images and PDF.Read and Write QrCode and Micro QR-Code barcodes in more than 100 document formats, including Bitmap, Metafile and PDF. Unicode text is supported. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
PDF417 reading & writing on images and PDF.Read and Write PDF417 barcodes in more than 100 document formats, including Bitmap, Metafile and PDF. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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GdPicture/XMP annotation module.Add interactive annotation capabilities to your application such as custom annotations, bitmap, rubber-stamp, sticky notes, freehand, text, redaction, lines, arrows, highlighter and more… Annotations can be embedded within PDF, JPEG, PNG and TIFF documents or stored to separated file. Annotations added to PDF can be viewed in any PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Also include several sophisticated UserControls to manipulate annotations on the screen. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
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TWAIN scanning.Include full TWAIN specification support, with low and high-level functions for setting, getting and negotiating all TWAIN 2.2 features. Any device's capability can be negotiated, like automatic blank page discarding, barcode detection, paper format detection, color dropout, duplex and more. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
WIA scanning.Fully control imaging devices using the WIA protocol in native 32-bit or 64-bit mode with a few lines of code and a high level of stability. Document feeder, flatbed and camera support are included. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
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Filters & effects.These functionalities include ROI processing, convolution matrix based filters and more than 100 effects and filters working in the native image bit-depth such as Median, Gaussian blur, Unsharp Mask, Despeckle, FloodFill, Red-eye removal, Background subtract, Emboss, Sharpen, Blur, Edge Detection and Twirl and Swirl. Adjust contrast, brightness and saturation as you wish... Full support for native 48-bit and 64-bit RGB(A) pixel format. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Document image processing.Any bit depth document filters such as auto-deskew, automatic borders removal, blank pages detection, automatic document orientation detection*, automatic invert of negative pages, form drop out and more. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
Bitonal document image processing.Add dramatically fast filters dedicated to 1bpp bitmap such as characters repairing, automatic punch holes removal, lines removal, blobs removal, black borders removal, noise removal... | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
Resizing & rotating.Rotate by a 1000th angle degree precision with GPU usage, standard rotation and flips and resize image using 8 different interpolation algorithms. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
Color mapping & color profiles management.RGB, RGBA, RGB16, RGBA16, CMYK, CMYKA, CMYK16, CMYKA16 color spaces handling. Set or get embedded ICC profile to image. Process image according embedded ICC profile. Convert colors using transformations, swap colors, manage color channels and apply remap color table. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
Image quantization and depth conversion.Convert any color depth from 1-bit to 128-bit using efficient color quantization algorithms for images with indexed color palettes. Adaptive threshold and dithering mechanisms are provided. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Histogram computing.Compute histogram of color channel or of color entries for indexed bitmap (LUT). | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Direct image pixel access.Directly read and write pixel buffer of any bitmap. Read and write full or part-pixel data using low-level functions. Get scanlines, extract pixel data from a region of interest. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Color palette table manipulation.Full support for Look up Table (LUT). Swap entries, remove color entry, make color transparent, shift channels, set and get full color palette table. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Color and alpha channels manipulation.Get functions for manipulation of color and alpha channels such scale drop, swap and remove. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Lossless JPEG transformation.Apply several transformations to a JPEG image without any quality loss such as rotations, flips and cropping. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
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EXIF, comments and animation tags reading.Read exif tags (main, custom, GPS, geotiff) from JPEG, RAW, WEBP and TIFF images. WANG, maker notes, Photoshop resource and other private tags can be also obtained in they RAW form. Comment tags can be retrieved from JPEG, PNG and GIF images. Animation tags can be retrieved from animated GIF images. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
EXIF, comments and animation tags writing.Write exif tags (main, custom, GPS, geotiff) into JPEG, RAW, WEBP and TIFF images. WANG annotations, maker notes, Photoshop resource and other private tags can be also written from they RAW form. Comment tags can be written to JPEG, PNG and GIF images. Animation tags can be written into animated GIF images. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Converting WANG annotations to GdPicture/XMP annotations.Convert WANG annotations to GdPicture/XMP annotation scheme to be able to handle them in all supported formats of GdPicture. This feature is offered as open source project requiring a GdPicture.NET core license that supports GdPicture/XMP annotation writing. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
XMP tag reading from PDF.Read XMP tag from PDF. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
XMP tag reading from images.Read XMP tag from JPEG, TIFF, RAW, WEBP and PNG images. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
XMP tag writing on images.Write XMP tag into JPEG, TIFF, WEBP and PNG images. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
XMP tag writing on PDF.Write XMP tag into PDF. | Included | Not available | Not available | Not available |
IPTC tags reading.Read IPTC tags from JPEG and TIFF images. | Included | Included | Included | Included |
IPTC tags writing.Write IPTC tags into JPEG and TIFF images. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
Attached thumbnail handling.Read and write attached thumbnail in image. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
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Thumbnail generation.Create quickly high quality thumbnails with background color selection, get thumbnail from Metadata. | Included | Included | Not available | Included |
Embedded image thumbnail support.Read and write embedded thumbnail in TIFF, JPEG, RAW, WEBP, PSD, EXR and TARGA images. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
Thumbnail viewer control.Add embedded control to display thumbnails from raster image, metafile ,PDF, DOCX, RTF documents in asynchronous mode to maximize performances. The control can load quickly a battery of documents from files, folders, stream or GdPicture Images. | Included | Included | Not available | Not available |
