GdPicture.NET Licensable
Components and Their Features

Components are the smallest licensable part of GdPicture.NET, with each component consisting of a set of unique features.
When you license a component, you license the component’s entire feature set, regardless of if you use a single feature or all of them.

Automatic Document Recognition (ADR) and Optical Mark Recognition (OMR)

  • Identify and classify invoices, checks, forms, orders, delivery notes, page separators, or any kind of structured document (ADR)
  • Create automatic or manual document classification workflows (ADR)
  • Develop image comparison applications (ADR)
  • Leverage scanning workflow by adding the instant page separator feature (ADR)
  • Leverage a structured document processing system by realigning regions of interest (Anchoring Mechanism — OMR)
  • Detect and decode checkmarks of sheets and surveys (OMR)
  • Template-recognition engine based on sophisticated pattern matching (Anchoring Mechanism — OMR)
  • Enhance OCR zoning accuracy (OMR)

    Annotations

    • Read and write XMP annotations from PDFs or images
    • Support for all major annotation types (custom, rubber stamp, highlight, freehand, text, arrow, rectangle, ellipse, line, connected line, link, ruler, and polygon ruler annotations)
    • Rotate, resize, and move annotations
    • Blending and printing support
    • Unicode support
    • Multipage document support
    • Annotation collections can be loaded or saved in XML format
    • Annotation collection can be stored as document metadata
    • Annotations can be flattened on any document
    • Let the user move, resize, rotate, and scale annotations
    • Manage annotations programmatically or by user interaction

    Barcode Reading and Writing

    • Read 1D, 2D, QR, MicroQR, Data Matrix, PDF417, Aztec, and MaxiCode barcodes from a bitmap
    • Write 1D, 2D, QR, MicroQR, Data Matrix, PDF417, Aztec, and MaxiCode barcodes from a bitmap
    • Recognize barcode orientation from 0° to 360°
    • Detect multiple barcodes from black and white, grayscale, palletized, and color images
    • Return the string value, type, and bounding box of recognized barcodes, or if the barcode has a checksum
    • Detect barcodes on a full page or a region of interest
    • Save images into folders based on their barcode
    • Get the number of rows and columns of each 2D barcode recognized
    • Read 2D barcodes from a full page or region of interest
    • Recognize partially destroyed symbols using Error Correcting Codes (ECC algorithm)
    • Full Unicode support for reading and writing barcodes

    Digital Signatures

    • Add, remove, and validate digital signatures
    • PDF/A-conformant digital signatures
    • Support for European signature standards
    • Add an optional visual appearance of a signature (page, size, color, position, text, image, etc.)
    • Support for multiple digital signatures
    • RFC3161-compliant timestamp support

    Document Capture (TWAIN / WIA)

    • Complete TWAIN and WIA scanning support
    • Image source enumeration and selection
    • Duplex scanning support
    • All transfer modes are fully implemented and automatically negotiated by the engine
    • API to enforce a specific transfer mode, such as memory, file, or native mode
    • Handles 32-bit and 64-bit data sources
    • Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and flatbed control
    • Detect and reject blank pages during scanning
    • Number of image transfers negotiation (acquire a predefined amount of pages from a document feeder system)
    • Save and restore scanner configuration from file
    • Image scanning attributes control, such as color depth, resolution, brightness, contrast, size, and more
    • Detect and read barcode symbols
    • Acquire images in multiple formats, including PDF/A, PDF OCR, encrypted PDF, multipage TIFF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, JBIG2, GIF, PNG, and EXR (TWAIN and WIA)
    • Save acquired images to an FTP or HTTP server
    • Can use standard Windows acquisition wizard or fully customized dialogs
    • Single-page and multipage acquisition support
    • Low-level API to handle more than 150+ TWAIN capabilities

    Document Editor

    • Reorganize or impose pages in a PDF document
    • Swap, move, delete, and resize specific pages in a PDF document
    • Merge several PDF documents with advanced resource handling
    • Merge several PDF documents specifying how to handle attachments
    • Split a PDF document with input conformance preservation
    • Merge specific pages of a PDF document into a single one
    • Rotate specific pages in a PDF document using any floating angle
    • Rotate specific pages in a PDF document using standard angles (90, 180, 270)
    • Rotate all pages in a PDF document using standard angles (90, 180, 270)
    • Draw a page over another page in a PDF document

    Document Viewing and Printing (UI)

    • Display and print more than 100 formats using WinForms and WPF user controls
    • Support for very large and very complex documents
    • Built-in adaptive caching mechanism with user action prediction to dramatically speed up rendering
    • Display documents from file, stream, memory RAW, OLE Picture, GDI+ bitmap, byte array, string, and others
    • Display documents from an HTTP server or an FTP server
    • Display multipage document files with high-quality rendering
    • Password support for encrypted documents
    • Generate high-quality thumbnails from PDF pages or images in more than 100 formats
    • Generate thumbnails from a directory, including subfolders
    • Generate thumbnails from the GdPicture Image or GdPicturePDF object with multipage support
    • Asynchronous thumbnail generation
    • Thumbnail drag-and-drop support
    • Thumbnail reordering by mouse actions
    • Customize thumbnail width and height
    • Convert viewer coordinates to document coordinates and vice versa
    • Display any type of image on any display device or .NET Graphics object
    • Drawing highlighted regions within the GdViewer using the mouse, which is useful when creating anchors for document recognition, as well as in OMR applications
    • Zoom or stretch documents using very optimized interpolation algorithms for high-quality display
    • Use a custom Gamma setting to increase the visibility of an image
    • Customize the viewer: Change the background, select a border style, enable or disable the scrollbars, and select the mouse action
    • Apply any kind of rotation or flip to the displayed image
    • Use the panning tool, area selection tool, and auto-zoom tool to perform any kind of action
    • Scroll through multipage TIFF or PDF files (go to the next page, previous page, last page, first page, or custom page number)
    • Send an image or selected pages to a printer
    • Enable or disable the built-in context menu that gives the end user a wide range of tools
    • Display animated GIF images with low CPU usage
    • Use the viewer to store any kind of object, including shapes, buttons, and grids
    • Catch any kind of event, including mouse and keyboard events, paint and display events, and zoom events
    • Printing devices enumeration
    • Select a destination printer, print quality mode, position, orientation, and color mode (black and white or color)
    • Print a single page or a range of pages
    • Raise printer configuration dialog box
    • Stretch or zoom an image to a specific size
    • Automatic page orientation support
    • Print silently or using dialog boxes
    • Print on a local or network printer, or using a specific paper bin
    • Set a custom printing job name
    • Print a specific number of copies
    • Catch printing errors or events (before and after printing — get remaining pages)

    HTML Conversion

    • View HTML pages in WinForm and WPF viewers
    • Convert HTML pages to PDF
    • Manage a pool of instances that will speed up processing
    • HTM, HTML, MHT, MHTML, CSS, JavaScript, image, SVG, hyperlink, and forms support

    Image Conversion

    • Convert images to PDF
    • Convert any document to image or SVG

    Image Documents

    • Browse the list of supported file formats (raster images).
    • Functionalities to handle alpha channel and transparency
    • Functions to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and gamma
    • Functions to read/write data from/to the clipboard. (Windows only)
    • Color mapping and color profile management
    • Color palette manipulation
    • Color quantization and pixel formats conversion
    • Load/create images
    • Bitmap drawing, and shape or text drawing
    • Effect and filters for color, grayscale, and bitonal bitmaps
    • Image exporting and saving
    • Get and set image properties
    • Metadata support for EXIF, IPTC, GEO, Comments
    • DICOM, multipage TIFF, multipage JBIG2, and multiframe GIF manipulation
    • Access separately any single pixel of the image
    • Resize and rotate images
    • Image document processing and analysis
    • Thumbnail creation and embedded thumbnail management

    KVP and Table Processing – Smart Redaction

    • KVP engine returns the type of data (nature of the content) and accuracy data (confidence level)
    • Fully automated redaction processes with Smart Redaction support for PDF
    • Table extraction support for PDF

    Linearization

    • Save a document to a linearized PDF
    • Save any document to a linearized PDF

    MICR

    • Support for CMC-7 and E-13B fonts
    • Returns recognized characters with confidence level and an alternate set of recognized characters at next-lower level of confidence
    • Works on any bit-depth bitmap (color, grayscale, and monochrome)

    MRC – Hyper Compression

    • PDF generation or optimization with Mixed Raster Content compression
    • PDF generation or optimization with color detection

    MRZ/MRTD Reader

    • OCR-B font support
    • Support for all standardized MRZ formats (TD, TD2, TD3, MRV-A, MRV-B)

    OCR

    • Perform OCR (optical character recognition) with full Unicode support on PDFs and more than 100 file formats (also requires the PDF processing component)
    • Supports more than 100 languages, including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Vietnamese, Chinese, Russian, Polish, and Dutch
    • Character recognition confidence scores
    • Retrieves the font information (style, family, and more)
    • Retrieves the character’s location
    • Retrieves paragraph properties (justification, alignment, bounding box, and more)
    • Support for PDF/A OCR generation (PDF image and hidden searchable text)
    • Can produce PDF and PDF/A with Unicode characters with a very small size
    • Can recognize only digits, only alpha or only allowed characters. Plus option to specify denylist of characters
    • OCR context support. Defines if the engine is processing a document, single word, single character, text block, vertical text, etc.
    • High performance zonal engine that uses a caching mechanism and parallelization
    • Automatic document orientation detection
    • Can detect paragraphs in the same document with different orientations
    • Automatic skew correction
    • Intelligent automatic image correction to increase OCR accuracy and speed
    • Segmentation features to detect blocks, paragraphs, lines, words, and characters
    • Built-in multithreaded engine for PDF/OCR creation

    Office Conversion

    • Convert MS Word OpenXML (DOCX) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS Word (DOC) to PDF, TIFF, or DOCX
    • Convert MS Word Template (DOTX) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS Word Macro-enabled Document (DOCM) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS Excel OpenXML (XLSX) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS Excel (XLS) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS Word Macro-enabled Spreadsheet (XLSM) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS PowerPoint OpenXML (PPTX) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS PowerPoint (PPT) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert MS PowerPoint Macro-enabled Spreadsheet (PPTM) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert OpenDocument Text (ODT) to PDF or TIFF
    • Convert Rich Text Format (RTF) to PDF or TIFF

    PDF Conversion

    • Convert Microsoft Outlook Item (MSG) to PDF
    • Convert Electronic Mail Format (EML) to PDF
    • Convert TXT to PDF

    PDF Processing

    • Create PDF documents from scratch, from 1.4 to 2.0
    • Create PDF/A documents with any version and conformance level
    • Load/save PDF documents from/to disk or memory
    • Edit PDF metadata at document, page, and object levels
    • Support any PDF version from 1.0 to PDF 2.0
    • Create and place 1D or 2D barcodes that comply with major standards (e.g. Code128, QR Code)
    • Manipulate content streams and optional content groups (OCG)
    • Create, modify, and extract annotation or form field properties
    • Capabilities to flatten form fields, annotations, and layers
    • Create, modify, and extract links properties
    • Fully manage PDF actions
    • Create, modify, and extract bookmark (or outline) properties
    • Encrypt and decrypt documents with 256-bit AES and apply security properties
    • Digitally sign PDF documents and validate electronic signatures
    • Create, modify, and extract document properties
    • Fully control all possible ways to handle file attachments for reading and writing
    • Manage fonts with complete subsetting and Unicode support
    • Render text with advanced layout support
    • Rasterize pages to images at blazing speed and very high fidelity
    • Extract and embed images with any supported compression scheme and color space preservation
    • Add image or text watermarks to existing PDF documents
    • Advanced text search with regex and fuzzy search support
    • Search and highlight text of existing PDF documents
    • Advanced text extraction powered by a state-of-the-art layout-understanding engine
    • Handle measurement and coordinate units for reading and writing operations
    • Manage all graphics state operators to describe content appearance
    • Draw any common shape such as ellipses, circles, lines, rectangles, and more
    • Fully control path construction and painting operations
    • Advanced printing support, including full control over the printing process
    • Create accessible PDFs by fully managing marked content and tags
    • Optimize PDFs with advanced content processing features, font optimization, and unused resources removal
    • Repair corrupted PDF documents using advanced content retrieval capabilities
    • Advanced content manipulation capabilities to remove text, hidden text, and text area
    • Convert pages to grayscale with vector content preservation
    • Analyze content of specific pages to determine the presence of hidden text, visible text, images, and graphics. Determine if a page is raster-based
    • Remove interactive content of PDFs, such as annotations, form fields, hyperlinks, and JavaScript

    PDF/A Conversion and Validation

    • Convert more than 100 formats to PDF/A
    • Convert to all PDF/A versions and conformance levels
    • Validate any PDF/A version and conformance level
    • Convert to PDF/A by direct modification (fixing existing content to fit PDF/A requirements, as opposed to creating a completely new file based on the original), vectorization, or rasterization
    • Automatically determines the claimed conformance of a document
    • Provides both a basic validation result and a detailed machine-readable report (XML)

    Redaction

    • Add redaction marks
    • Customize redaction marks