GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK v14 New Major Release

[GdPicture ORPALIS]

ORPALIS is pleased to announce the release of the new major version of its bestseller GdPicture.NET Document Imaging and Image Processing SDK. The new version includes an overall performance improvement of the core engine and many new features. Muret, France, June 20 GdPicture.NET is a document imaging and image processing SDK to develop WinForms, WPF and Web applications. New features and improvements in GdPicture.NET v14 - New document viewer engine Renders large bitmap very quickly, and display multipage documents in a multiple page view mode (WinForms). - New document converter class Quickly converts more than 100 formats to PDF and TIFF, by handling every aspect of the conversion. - OCR The engine has been optimized to reduce memory usage, improve stability and increase accuracy, especially with low-resolution bitmap and very large bitmap. Searchable PDF (PDF-OCR) creation has been improved, and the files produced are smaller. The PDF page recognition method has been improved to avoid wasting time on existing visible text. - Long term archiving (PDF/A) GdPicture.NET 14.0 is able to generate all PDF/A versions. - Additional PDF features Most important parts of the PDF core have been enhanced to improve parsing, writing, rendering, memory usage, and speed. GdPicture.NET is now up to 5 times faster reading a complex PDF and dramatically faster-writing PDF text. Produced files are smaller and the compatibility with several viewers has been improved. There is a new font generation engine supporting subsetting of True Type fonts when writing PDF with Unicode content. The new text extraction algorithm builds text closer to the natural reading order. Other new PDF features and enhancements include: support for transfer functions to the PDF rasterizer, new CCITT filter decoder, support for adding JPEG image to PDF without decoding / re-encoding the image, PDF packing improvement for documents with links, enhancement of page normalization support, and better processing speed (and memory usage) of big documents. - Office Open Xml Word-Processing Document Improvements of the rendering engine and support for tables content and pictures. - Barcoding 1D barcode reading engine: 10% more barcodes recognized, 44% more patch codes recognized, 14% faster. Improvement of 1D barcode writer encoding. Data matrix barcode reading engine: 15% more barcodes recognized. PDF 417 reading engine: