The new major version of DocuVieware offers improvement of the core engine and many new features. It now includes support for HTTPS TWAIN acquisition and annotation comments. Muret, July 2017 ORPALIS releases the new major version of its HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit, DocuVieware. “Thanks to a strong expertise in document imaging and image processing, ORPALIS offers a great tool to build rich Web applications. This component is suitable for any industry, and provides interactive features to ease collaborative processes online,” says Loïc Carrère, CEO of ORPALIS and DocuVieware creator. DocuVieware customers include Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, small and medium businesses, and non-profit. Any organization that needs to develop client interactive application to manage their documents online can benefit from the many features of the toolkit. DocuVieware is powered by GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK (www.gdpicture.com). The latest enhancements in the new major version of GdPicture.NET (GdPicture.NET v14) improve DocuVieware v3 performance, memory footprint, and user experience. What’s new in DocuVieware v3? Global improvements The rendering quality of images has been greatly improved at certain zoom levels. PDF rendering time has been dramatically sped up, and data transfer speed between server and client is now faster. Format support improvements include: - Microsoft Office OpenXML document export to vector PDF - faster loading speed of RAW images - support for more than 80 new cameras formats - RTF format support Annotations Two new independent properties (CanEdit and CanDelete) can enable or disable the corresponding action buttons. This allows a finer handling of access rights. TWAIN acquisition The DocuVieware TWAIN Web Connector 2.0 now supports TWAIN acquisition over HTTPS. The security chain is preserved in SSL secured environments. The security aspect is transparent to both user and developer because it is automatically managed during the installation process. DocuVieware 3.0 allows programming a default configuration thanks to the new corresponding JavaScript client API methods. Besides acquisition settings, the device driver dialog can appear or not. It is now possible to silently scan documents and make the acquisition process easier for end users. New Comment feature and built-in Snap-In DocuVieware 3 provides a new built-in rich user

The new major version of DocuVieware offers improvement of the core engine and many new features. It now includes support for HTTPS TWAIN acquisition and annotation comments. ORPALIS releases the new major version of its HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit, DocuVieware. “Thanks to a strong expertise in document imaging and image processing, ORPALIS offers a great tool to build rich Web applications. This component is suitable for any industry, and provides interactive features to ease collaborative processes online,” says Loïc Carrère, CEO of ORPALIS and DocuVieware creator. DocuVieware customers include Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, small and medium businesses, and non-profit. Any organization that needs to develop client interactive application to manage their documents online can benefit from the many features of the toolkit. DocuVieware is powered by GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK (www.gdpicture.com). The latest enhancements in the new major version of GdPicture.NET (GdPicture.NET v14) improve DocuVieware v3 performance, memory footprint, and user experience. What’s new in DocuVieware v3? Global improvements The rendering quality of images has been greatly improved at certain zoom levels. PDF rendering time has been dramatically sped up, and data transfer speed between server and client is now faster. Format support improvements include: - Microsoft Office OpenXML document export to vector PDF - faster loading speed of RAW images - support for more than 80 new cameras formats - RTF format support Annotations Two new independent properties (CanEdit and CanDelete) can enable or disable the corresponding action buttons. This allows a finer handling of access rights. TWAIN acquisition The DocuVieware TWAIN Web Connector 2.0 now supports TWAIN acquisition over HTTPS. The security chain is preserved in SSL secured environments. The security aspect is transparent to both user and developer because it is automatically managed during the installation process. DocuVieware 3.0 allows programming a default configuration thanks to the new corresponding JavaScript client API methods. Besides acquisition settings, the device driver dialog can appear or not. It is now possible to silently scan documents and make the acquisition process easier for end users. New Comment feature and built-in Snap-In DocuVieware 3 provides a new built-in rich user experience Snap-In that

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:

ORPALIS is pleased to announce the release of a new free HTML5 Document Viewer solution for ASP.NET, DocuVieware Lite. It is a fast and powerful tool for developers to add loading and viewing capabilities to their web applications. DocuVieware Lite provides Rich User Experience with innovative features to develop web applications that are altogether robust, light, dynamic, interactive and productive. At no cost. A powerful and innovative engine DocuVieware Lite is a modern HTML5/AJAX control to load images and documents and see them instantly displayed in the viewer. It provides various and high-level client/server performance optimizations to get a fast and crystal clear rendering. A light application DocuVieware Lite is a zero-footprint viewer, meaning that there is no client side installation, download or digital certificate required. All processing tasks are performed on server-side: this way the resources of user's computer/mobile device are not used and it avoids slowing the processes. A secured and productive solution for users Everything is managed server-side and the content is secured. As a zero-footprint viewer DocuVieware Lite is a really productive solution for the user as there is no time spent to download files, the content is accessible everywhere at any time. A flexible tool DocuVieware Lite is a flexible solution: it is cross-platform, meaning that it is accessible from any of the various modern web browsers within different operating systems. It is mobile device friendly thanks to its responsive design. An easy integration for developers The SDK’s efficient architecture includes sophisticated optimizations but is very easy to integrate with just a few lines of code. DocuVieware Lite’s User Interface is localized and can be translated in 10 languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Slovak, Czech, Arabic and Romanian). A viewer with many features More than 100 file formats are supported by DocuVieware lite. The supported compression schemes include JPEG, JPEG2000, JBIG2 and more. The documents formats include PDF, DOCX, TXT, SVG, DICOM, TIFF, PNG and more. RAW camera image formats support is also provided. With DocuVieware Lite it is possible to navigate through documents, zoom-in and zoom-out, rotate pages and select text. Navigation in continuous page view mode is automatically enabled for multipage documents. DocuVieware Lite provides enhanc

ORPALIS is pleased to announce two simultaneous releases: the new major versions of GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK (version 12) and DocuVieware (version 2), the HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit. The core of the SDK has been improved in terms of speed and accuracy and numerous new features have been added to both products. GdPicture.NET and DocuVieware cover .NET WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET and COM/ActiveX User Controls, making ORPALIS the editor of the most complete imaging toolkit of the market. The full change log is available on the GdPicture forum in the “announcements” section (GdPicture Imaging Forums • Announcements[^]). GdPicture.NET version 12 - New feature: Office Open XML Word Processing Document Integrators of GdPicture.NET can display a preview of DOCX files within their applications. The writing of Office Open XML Word Processing Document is possible by the mean of the Open XML SDK distributed within GdPicture.NET. - Image processing Convolution filters Convolution filters based on convolution matrix are now available to apply a number of effects on the images: blurring, sharpening, edge detection, embossing, and more. New document image binarization This new feature is an optimized version of the well-known “Bradley adaptive thresholding” algorithm. It improves the quality of the black and white picture submitted to the engines, OCR or barcode, boosting the accuracy of the recognition. Other Support for 8-bit reversed grayscale palette JPEG and JPEG 2000 has been added. - Document imaging Advanced document utilities Fast identification of the document format and preview (including thumbnails and counting the number of pages) are now offered. It is also possible to use specific fonts and new features like dispose image, empty cache and force garbage collection are available to optimize memory usage. Blank page detection The accuracy of this functionality has been enhanced. - PDF PDF Layers GdPicture.NET 12 now supports PDF Layers (Optional Content Groups). This includes reading, writing and browsing the layers. PDF support Overall performance: version 12 is now 57% faster for reading, 12% faster for rendering and faster for generating a PDF than version 11.

ORPALIS is pleased to announce the new medium release of its flagship product GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK and of its universal HTML 5 viewer and document management kit DocuVieware. GdPicture.NET version 11.2 This medium release includes a new rendering engine for the GdPicture viewers. Imaging (WinForm) The GdViewer engine has been improved in matters of rendering performances and speed with large documents. A view rotation feature has been added and all rotations and flips are now supported with vector documents. Support for TXT, SVG and metafile rendering in vector mode is also included. Imaging (WPF) Several interface changes, with new methods (PdfGetTextOccurenceCount, GetSelectedTextRegions, GetRegionWidthPixels, GetRegionHeightPixels, AddPolyRulerAnnotInteractive). PDF Improvement of the Unicode characters rendering, text extraction and PDF parsing. Annotations New Poly-rulers annotation tool. Barcoding Improvement of the 2D barcode recognition accuracy. New demo applications have been added to the current user guide and minor bugs have been fixed. The full list of changes of the version 11 is available on its dedicated page (http://www.gdpicture.com/products/whats-new-in-version-11/) of the GdPicture website. DocuVieware DocuVieware is a fully-customizable, fully-featured and universal HTML5 viewer and document management kit (http://www.gdpicture.com/products/docuvieware/). Its purpose is to view, annotate and easily manage any document, on any device and any browser. It supports more than 90 file formats, including PDF, TIFF and SVG. Many demos (http://www.docuvieware.com/demo/) are available on the DocuVieware website to show the endless possibilities of its customization. New functionalities are available in this new medium release: - Improvement of caching mechanism to reduce memory consumption. - Enhancement of the user interface responsiveness. - New method for AddPolyRulerAnnotInteractive for the interface (JS). - Czech and Slovak locale added to the package of languages already included (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Arabic and Romanian). The integration of DocuVieware is made via GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK. About ORPALIS

ORPALIS is pleased to announce two simultaneous releases: the new major version of GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK (version 11) and the new HTML5 Viewer and Document Management Kit, DocuVieware. The offer now covers .NET WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET and COM/ActiveX UserControls, making ORPALIS the editor of the most complete imaging toolkit of the market. GdPicture.NET version 11 This new major version includes various enhancements of the core engine, many interface changes and new features of the document imaging, PDF, thumbnails and printing domains. New native WPF controls and an ASP.NET WebControl (called DocuVieware) are also available. Below is a description of the major changes listed by domain. General The loading speed of images has been dramatically improved. The redistribution for .NET version has been simplified: there is now a standalone .NET assembly and separated C++ runtimes. Starting with Framework 4 edition, UserControls are multi-threaded. Formats The SVG image format is now supported. Document Imaging Several filters have been improved in terms of speed and accuracy: punch hole removal, blob removal. The automatic text inversion filter has been created. The auto deskew feature has been enhanced and a new method to delete black and non-uniform margins has been added. OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) The OMR engine has been enhanced in terms of speed and memory consumption. PDF New WPF rasterizer and Hybrid engines. The text extraction feature and the digital signature support have been improved. Text contrast is now better rendered on documents at low zoom levels. Selected text can be copied to clipboard, in all viewers. Color Detection MRC (Mixed Raster Content) support has been added to improve image compression. Printing A new print size option is now available to fit the page size to the paper size. Thumbnail The rendering speed has been dramatically increased and support for asynchronous PDF page thumbnail generation has been added. Annotations GdPicture/XMP annotations are now rendered as native PDF annotation so they are visible under any PDF reader. Responsiveness of the interactive annotation editing feature has been improved. Barcoding The accuracy of the 1D and 2D barcode recognition engines has been improved. MICR The MICR font reader engine has been enhanced. The processing time is almost divided b

ORPALIS is pleased to announce the first preview of a new universal HTML5 viewer and document management kit called DocuVieware. DocuVieware displays and handles more than 90 image and document formats, including PDF and TIFF. It offers hundreds of functionalities such as loading document from any source, multipage document navigation in continuous page view mode, annotations, pages browsing, smooth zooming, rotation, printing, text selection, content search and much more... DocuVieware is a "Zero footprint" solution currently available as ASP.NET WebControl offering server side and JavaScript API. This is a perfect solution to manage the documents lifecycle and to display complex formats within a web application. It works on any device in any browser supporting HTML5 such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer and IOS. DocuVieware is fast, accurate and reliable. Several demos are available on its dedicated page at http://docuvieware.azurewebsites.net/. The online demos currently available are: - Simple viewer: for a fast and instant display of files loaded from any source. You can choose the size of your thumbnails depending on your viewing purposes. The feature continuous page view mode is enabled for multipage documents. - Annotations: a wide range of entirely customizable annotations is available, like highlighter, rectangle, ellipse, rubber stamp, line, arrow, text, sticky note, freehand, freehand highlighter, ruler and more. All annotations are editable and are displayed in the thumbnails. - Customizable viewer: to build the viewer adapted to users’ needs, functionalities can be activated or deactivated. For instance the activation of the content search feature allows the user to find specific word(s) within their context. For longer documents it is possible to navigate chapter by chapter without having to scroll down each page, one after the other. - Custom toolbar: styling options of the toolbar, widgets and icons are endless, to perfectly fit the design of the customer’s company. - Blog integration: DocuVieware can be integrated in any kind of blog without installing any third party application. Everything is hosted in the cloud. No need to use a specific browser for your blog either as DocuVieware works with any HTML5 supporting browser. The integration of this kit is made with GdPicture.NET 11 beta version.

The new medium release of GdPicture.NET 10.2 all-in-one imaging SDK includes new PDF and barcoding features. An innovative MICR plugin which detects and decodes CMC-7 and E-13B fonts on documents such as checks is also available. After the launch of the GdPicture MICR SDK Preview (http://www.orpalis.com/labs/micr-engine/), ORPALIS is proud to announce the release of a tool enabling developers to detect and decode, among other features, MICR lines from any structured document such as checks. The MICR Plugin for GdPicture.NET is available with the release of the new medium version of the bestselling and award-winning GdPicture.NET all-in-one imaging SDK version 10.2. MICR Plugin for GdPicture.NET MICR stands for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition and is a standard encoding technology in banking industry used mainly for checks. Our plugin can decode both CMC-7 and E-13B fonts with an extreme accuracy (reaching 99.9% on 300 dpi images) even on poor quality and poorly contrasted images. The MICR plugin is fast (20 checks per second on Intel Core i7 based computers), AnyCPU (available in 32 bit & 64 bit versions), multi-threaded and at the same time it keeps a low memory usage. The MICR plugin can also: - Work on any bit-depth bitmap (color, grayscale and monochrome). - Automatically repair altered symbols. - Include symbol size tolerance. - Detect check codelines by full page layout analysis. - Automatically detect MICR fonts (no need to set Region of Interest on the document). - Return recognized characters with confidence level and an alternate set of recognized characters at next-lower level of confidence. - Allow choosing white-lists of symbols. - Allow optional setting of the expected number of symbols. The full description of the MICR Plugin is available on its dedicated page (http://www.gdpicture.com/products/plugins/micr.php) on the GdPicture website. Other features available in GdPicture.NET version 10.2 New enhancements are also available in the v10.2 in the barcoding (PDF417) and PDF domains in terms of accuracy. GdPicture.NET 10.2 can be downloaded from the GdPicture website at http://www.gdpicture.com/download.php. About ORPALIS ORPALIS is creator, developer and owner of the comprehensive document imaging toolkit series released under the brand "GdPicture", which is no

ORPALIS has launched the version 10.1 of its bestselling product GdPicture.NET Imaging SDK. This release includes new features of the barcoding and PDF domains. A new plugin to read and handle DICOM files is available for the Medical Imaging Market. Muret, France, November 15th. What’s new in GdPicture.NET 10.1? Barcoding - 1D barcode reading memory handling improved. - 2D barcode detection accuracy improved. PDF - PDF pages drawing, duplicating and cloning mechanism improved. - PDF rendering engine improved. Other - Interface changes. - Support to determine if TIFF/JPEG codec must produce image including quantization tables and or Huffman tables (by altering the JpegTablesMode exif tag) added. - New DICOM Plugin http://www.gdpicture.com/products/plugins/dicom.php. With the DICOM Plugin, GdPicture.NET is entering the market of Medical Imaging components. DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is a set of standards which regulates all aspects of handling the medical-imaging digital information and is used in medical specialties (like radiology, cardiology, radiotherapy, oncology, ophthalmology, neurology, pneumology, surgery and more) as well as in dentistry and veterinary. With the DICOM Plugin for GdPicture.NET developers can now add to their applications the ability to handle medical-related images for viewing and analysis purposes. Below is the list of its main features: - 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. - Supports any bit-depth image, IE: 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 or 16-bit images. - RAW, JPEG (8-12-16), JPEG 2000, Deflate and RLE compressions. - Lossy and lossless JPEG compression. - Full multipage support. - Convert DICOM images to multipage TIFF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, PDF… - Low memory usage and fast image decoding. - AnyCPU: available in 32 bit & 64 bit versions. - Can work in multi-thread applications. GdPicture.NET 10 Editions and Plugins are 100% royalty-free. The download of GdPicture.NET 10.1 is available on the GdPicture website at the Download page http://www.gdpicture.com/download.php. About ORPALIS ORPALIS is creator, developer and owner of the comprehensive docu

This major release of the bestselling and award-winning Document Imaging SDK developed by ORPALIS has better performance in terms if speed, accuracy and memory usage. GdPicture.NET 10 now includes a new plugin and more than 100 new features that cover the domains of document imaging, image processing, image support, barcoding, PDF, OCR and annotation support. Muret, France, September 17th 2013. GdPicture.NET 10 is now available to the public, with more than 100 new features including a new color detection plugin, full WEP image format support, enhanced support document annotating, vector PDF/OCR support, native 16-bit per channel image processing, better document clean-up filters, Patch Code and Micro Qr-Code support, full support for ICC profiles form RGB(A) and CMYK(A) image, enhanced PDF support, super-fast multipage TIFF generation with mixed compression such as JPEG and CCITT4, and more. Below is a list of the major changes. New Plugin: GdPicture Automatic Color Detection Plugin The GdPicture Automatic Color Detection Plugin www.gdpicture.com/products/plugins/color-detection is a 100% royalty free extension of GdPicture.NET. It dramatically reduces the size of electronically stored documents to accelerate processing and file transfer. Image Support - Support for getting image information, metadata and embedded thumbnail without decoding pixel. - Faster JPEG codec (between 2x and 4x faster for loading and saving purposes). - JBIG2 decoding: speed improvement, multipage reading optimization. - Support for native 48-bit and 64-bit bitmap processing. - Multipage tiff loading time divided by 2. - Multipage tiff creation with mixed JPEG and CCITT compression support. - Option to extract a specific page of an editable multipage tiff document without the need to decode and re-encode the bitmap. - Support for sequential multipage tiff writing into stream objects (including mixed compression support). - Support to specify compression of each page in multipage tiff writing. - Improved PNG encoder and interlacing, compression level customization, 48 and 64 bit PNG creation and predictor support added. - RLE compression support for 8bpp BMP saving. - 48 bit and 64 bit output support JPEG 2000 saving. - Full ICC profile support for RGB and CMYK color spaces. - Transparency support for EXR saving. - WebP image support (reading and writing). - Multipage ico reading support. - Support for CMYKA,

The commercial version of GdPicture.NET Document Imaging SDK version 10 will be released on September 2013. A BETA program is now available to try the new functionalities of GdPicture.NET 10. Muret, France, (07/08/2013). ORPALIS has launched the BETA version of GdPicture.NET 10. The major features of this release are numerous and include a new Color Detection engine, WebP image format support (reading and writing), full color profile support, Micro QR Code support (decoding and writing), full support for 16-bits per channel bitmap, image codecs improvements, vector support for PDF/OCR and more. The BETA program of GdPicture.NET 10 is accessible upon request on the helpdesk platform of the GdPicture website www.gdpicture.com at http://support.gdpicture.com/ (Support/Submit Ticket/GdPicture.NET 10 BETA Program). Here is a short overview of some of the major changes (the list is not exhaustive and is updated daily): - Color detection (new plugin). - New Micro QR Code Reader and Writer engine. - Support to access image information, metadata and embedded thumbnail without decoding pixel added. - PDF/OCR creation from PDF keeping all input document content (fonts, text, bitmap, vectors, metadata, page structures...). - GdPicture Tesseract Plugin now based on Tesseract 3.02 and includes more languages. - GdPicture Tesseract Plugin behaviour can now be fully customized. - AES 256 bit encryption support for PDF format. - Average PDF rendering time decreased by 20%. Up to 50% on bitmap based PDF. - JPEG2000 compression scheme support for PDF creation. - Faster JPEG codec (between 2 and 4 times faster for loading and saving purpose). - JBIG2 decoding: speed improvement, multipage reading optimization. - Support for native 48-bit and 64-bit bitmap processing. - Multipage tiff loading time divided by two. - Multipage tiff creation with mixed JPEG and CCITT compression support. - Option to extract a specific page of an editable multipage tiff document without the need to decode and re-encode the bitmap added. - Support for sequential multipage tiff writing into stream objects (including mixed compression support) added. - Support to specify compression of each page in multipage tiff writing added. - PNG encoder improved and interlacing + compression level customization + 48 & 64 bit PNG creation + predictor support added. - RLE compression support for 8bpp BMP saving added. - 48 bit and 64 bit output suppo

ORPALIS is now certified as Young Innovative Company by the French Ministry of Research thanks to its groundbreaking techniques in the field of document imaging. Muret, France, May 10. Each year, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research (Ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche, MESR) delivers a certification and a grant to companies dedicating a significant part of their activity to scientific work. In April 2013 ORPALIS is officially recognized as Young Innovative Company (Jeune Entreprise Innovante, JEI). There are 5 conditions to be eligible as Young Innovative Company http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid5738/la-jeune-entreprise-innovante-j.e.i.html - be a Small or Medium Company (Petite et Moyenne Entreprise, PME) - be less than 8 years old - have a consequent budget allocated yearly for research work - be independent - be truly innovative in scientific and technical aspects with patent pending projects. In 2009, 2373 French companies have beneficiated of this status, which was created in 2004. ORPALIS is based in the South-West of France, in the small town of Muret, near Toulouse. Toulouse is famous for being the center of the European aerospace industry and hosting world leading IT companies. In this favorable environment Loïc Carrère created a company which became in a very short time a reference in the document imaging and image processing domains. Loïc Carrère says: “Thanks to the State’s recognition and financial support, the company’s activity will be even more focused on developing our own technologies and on the release of several patents. The bottom line is that without research work, you cannot build a powerful, stable, durable and innovative product like our GdPicture SDK http://www.gdpicture.com/, which helps thousands of organizations with their ever growing needs for document imaging, image processing and document management. Our end-users applications, even the free ones like PaperScan Scanner Software Free Edition http://www.orpalis.com/products/paperscan/paperscan-free.php and ORPALIS PDF Reducer Free Edition http://www.orpalis.com/products/pdfreducer/pdfreducer-free.php, are built with the same technologies. The general public benef

ORPALIS has released a new medium version of its Document Imaging SDK flagship product GdPicture.NET 9, which now features a 2D barcode generator. Muret, France, March 5th. GdPicture.NET 9.4 includes important features such as barcode encoders for 2D barcodes (QrCode, DataMatrix and PDF417), a lot of new code snippets for an even more comprehensive documentation and numerous annotations functionalities requested by customers. Existing features have been improved in terms of speed (barcode reading, image decoding) and accuracy (filters, PDF text extraction). What’s new in GdPicture.NET version 9.4? - New QrCode barcode encoder for image & PDF. - New DataMatrix barcode encoder for image & PDF. - New PDF417 barcode encoder for image & PDF. - New Sauvola local adaptive thresholding method with contrast normalization. - Bitonal image filters speed enhancement. - Unicode support for the QRCode reader engine added. - Improvement of the Gaussian filter. - Optional drop shadow effect to the GdPicture.XMP annotation added. - Improvements of 1D & 2D barcode reading speed and accuracy. - New function for counting the number of unique colors in an image. - Horizontal and vertical alignment support in AnnotationText objects. - SquaredBox property for AnnotationRectangle, AnnotationRectangleHighlighter and AnnotationEllipse objects added. - Improvements of the internal Image decoding engine. - PDF text extraction and annotation support improved. - Battery of minor bug fixes. - Documentation enhancements and lots of new code snippets. New methods and properties of the GdPictureImaging, GdPicturePDF, GdViewer, AnnotationText and BookmarkTree complete this medium release. The full change log is available on the GdPicture forum in the Announcements section at http://forums.gdpicture.com/announces/gdpicture-net-new-release-t4087.html The upgrade to this medium release is free for owners of a GdPicture.NET 9 license. Owners of version 7 and 8 licenses can buy the upgrade to version 9 directly on the GdPicture website at the Order page: http://www.gdpicture.com/order.php For any other kind of upgrade, the GdPicture Sales Team can be contacted through the Helpdesk at http://support.gdpicture.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit/ or via the Quick Contact F

ORPALIS and its Document Imaging SDK line of products “GdPicture” is pleased to appear in the 2012-2013 Top 25 Bestselling Publisher and Product lists edited by ComponentSource, the world’s largest provider of software development resources. Since 2009 GdPicture is in the Top 100, with a better ranking each year. Muret, France, March 5th, 2013. GdPicture ranks 13th in Top 25 Bestselling Publisher for 2012-2013, up from 20th place last year, in ComponentSource overall publisher list. Its flagship product GdPicture.NET SDK ranks 18th in Top 25 Bestselling Products, up from 24th place. GdPicture Document Imaging SDK becomes the first publisher of its category in the Bestselling Publisher list. The ComponentSource awards are given to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers http://www.componentsource.com/services/publisher/awards-2012-2013-publisher.html and the Top 100 Bestselling Products http://www.componentsource.com/services/publisher/awards-2012-2013-product.html based on the total sales dollar value of orders placed by customers during the year (2012) through ComponentSource. GdPicture.NET includes all needed features for developers to enjoy complete power and control over document handling in the domains of image processing, document-imaging and document-management. It is distributed in 6 different editions (Document Imaging SDK Ultimate, Document Imaging SDK, Image SDK, TWAIN SDK, Document Viewer SDK and Partners Editions) which are completed by 9 additional plugins (1D, Datamatrix, QR-Code and PDF 417 Barcode Recognition, PDF, Annotations, Tesseract, OMR and JBIG2 Plugins). The version 9 of GdPicture.NET has been released in June 2012 and is now trusted by customers worldwide. Its thousands of functionalities make it one of the most complete SDK available on the market. GdPicture.NET is rated 5 stars out of 5 on the ComponentSource website. http://forums.gdpicture.com/customerreviews/?sid=2417b3d7da3066fa5ff6c2e3c59421b5 GdPicture.NET is available for download at http://www.gdpicture.com/download.phpand can be tried for free for 30 days http://www.gdpicture.com/eval

GdPicture.NET version 9.3 document imaging and image processing toolkit for .NET and ActiveX is now available with a new set of functionalities. In addition to the Comparison Matrix a new Product Selector tool helps customers find the right configuration for their needs. Muret, France. ORPALIS has released a new medium version of its flagship product GdPicture.NET. This new release adds features such as custom annotation support, interactive PDF features support, PDF form field editing support, new bitonal filters and more than 50 other features. What’s new in GdPicture.NET version 9.3? • Features to customize the PDF bookmark control appearance added. • Barcode detection (1D & 2D) improved on fax and high resolution images. • GdPictureImaging: SaveAsIStream, SaveAsStream, SaveAsByteArray and SaveAsString now fully support multipage tiff creation and JPEG 2000, targa, exr, wbmp, xpm and PBM formats. • Memory usage of the bitonal image filters reduced. • Spaces detection accuracy in the OCR engine improved. • Improvements of the generated PDF/OCR quality. • PDF files linking support for creating and for viewing purpose added. • Interactive PDF features support: actions, document-level navigation and more. • Printing support improved when autofit and automaticRotation options are simultaneously activated. • Custom annotation support added. • Support for form fields creation and edition added. • 3 new bitonal image filters (Erode, ErodeV and Dilate) added. • PDF rasterizer improved (memory usage reduced and compatibility with some malformed objects increased). • Improvements of the FTP and HTTP transfer support. • PDF text extraction and search improved. • Latest reported bugs fixed, new samples provided in the package, documentation enhancements. • Improvement of the mouse position zoom mode. • Memory usage improvement, especially for huge bitmap embedded in PDF documents. The full change log is available on the GdPicture forum in the Announcements section at http://forums.gdpicture.com/announces/guess-what-here-gdpicture-net-t3958.html GdPicture.NET 9.3 can be downloaded from the GdPicture website at the Download page: http://www.gdpicture.com/download.php Requests for a free 30 days evaluation key are made on the Evaluation page at http://www.gdpicture.com/e

A medium release of the GdPicture.NET 9 document imaging and image processing toolkit for .NET and ActiveX is now available with a new set of features. Muret, France, September 17th. ORPALIS has released a medium version of its flagship product GdPicture.NET. The new functionalities concern the document imaging, PDF, annotations and viewing domains. It also includes several documentation improvements, new snippets and demo applications. Below is the list of the main changes: - Base64 encoding/support to the GdPicture/XMP Annotation Plugin. Especially for JavaScript usage. - Support for unsupported file types in the ThumbnailEx control allowing to specify custom image. IE: an office icon. - Speed improvement of the TIFF encoder with CCITT3 and CCITT4 compression schemes. - Fast page resizing/scaling for the PDF format, without quality and compression loss. - Support to create bitmap from separated Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black images. - Private tag reading and writing at page level for the PDF format. - GdPicture/XMP Annotation support improved (new methods). - Improvement of the PDF form-fields parsing support. - TWAIN behavior customization to handle some unstable TWAIN drivers. - Improvement of document format detection support. The changes in the GdpictureImaging, GdPicturePDF, AnnotationManager, ThumbnailEx and GdViewer classes are available on the GdPicture 9 changelog forum post at http://forums.gdpicture.com/announces/gdpicture-net-here-t3890.html[^] Gdpicture.NET 9.2 can be downloaded here: http://www.gdpicture.com/download.php Requests for a free 30 days evaluation key are made on the Evaluation page of the GdPicture website at http://www.gdpicture.com/evaluate/sdk-evaluation.php For owners of previous GdPicture.NET versions and products, upgrades at discounted prices are applicable. Our sales team can directly be contacted via our Quick Contact Form at http://www.gdpicture.com/contact/contact-form.php About ORPALIS Founded in 2003, ORPALIS is creator, developer and owner of the comprehensive document imaging toolkit series released under the brand "GdPicture", which is now

A medium release of GdPicture.NET 9 document imaging SDK with a new set of features is now available. Muret, France. ORPALIS has released a medium version of its flagship product GdPicture.NET. In GdPicture.NET 9.1 the toolkit core has been enhanced in terms of speed and the memory usage has been reduced. This version includes the fixes of the latest reported bugs and introduces a new set of features based on customer requests. Below is the list of the main changes: - Added support for loading the entire document into the memory before the start of the decoding process. This allows subsequently overwriting or deleting the source file. - Stream support improvement. Documents can now be loaded from non-seekable stream objects. - Added item insertion in the ThumbnailEx control. - Owner drag & drop support in ThumbnailEx. New example in VB & C# added demonstrating drag & drop between two ThumbnailEx objects. - Added asynchronous support for item deletion, modification & insertion in the ThumbnailEx control. - Improved image compression performances. - Improved TWAIN support with Citrix and WPF applications. - Improved document rendering speed. - PDF catching mechanism improved, especially for image attributing extraction. - Improved document type identification by header analysis. - Improvement of the image resizing algorithm to provide better output quality. - Fixed some interop issue with C++ Builder XE2. - GdViewer: new method GetObjectInterop() for com interop purpose. - Improved CMYK tiff saving. - Improved PDF packing algorithm to generate smaller document and improving processing time. - Fixed temporary file generation issue during TWAIN acquisition. The changes in the GdpictureImaging class,ThumbnailEx class and GdViewer (new overloads, methods and properties) are available on the GdPicture 9 changelog forum post at http://forums.gdpicture.com/gdpicture9-changelog/gdpicture-net-has-been-released-t3848.html Gdpicture.NET 9.1 can be downloaded here: http://www.gdpicture.com/download.php Requests for a free 30 days evaluation key are made on the Evaluation page of the GdPicture website at http://www.gdpicture.com/evaluate/sdk-evaluation.php For owners of previous GdPicture.NET versions and products, upgrade prices

GdPicture.NET document imaging and image processing SDKs version 9 are now available for sales and include a lot of new features and functionalities. Muret, France, 07/02/2012. ORPALIS has released a major version of its flagship and award-winning product Gdpicture.NET. GdPicture.NET 9 document imaging and image processing toolkits are now more comprehensive than ever. New features of the document imaging, PDF, annotations and barcoding domains are available. New methods and properties of the GdPicture.NET interface are also included. The toolkit core has been improved in terms of speed, memory usage and multithread handling. What’s new in GdPicture.NET 9? Here is a selection of the new features and functionalities. The full description of GdPicture.NET 9 is available on the GdPicture website at http://www.gdpicture.com/whats-new-v9.php Toolkit Core - Binaries for NET Framework 4.5. - Memory usage optimization and speed enhancement. - Better error handling. - User controls appearance customization improved. - Multithreading handling improvement especially with the ThumbnailEx control. - Better stream handling. - Temporary files creation avoided while loading from stream, array of bytes or string data (especially for usage in cloud or in sand-box). - Several Unicode issues fixed. - OCR & PDF support for RTL languages such as Arabic improved. Annotations - Memory usage optimization and speed enhancement. - Synchronisation with other GdPciture Objects (ThumbnailEx, AnnotationEditor, BookmarkTree...) improved. - Support for loading and saving annotations of all pages of a document from/to a single XML block. - Ruler annotation added. PDF - PDF rasterizer produces any Pixel format bitmap. - Support for linearized PDF creation (fast web view mode). - PDF Transparency support for rendering. - PDF rendering speed increased by 15-30% with lower memory usage. - PDF formfield and annotation flattening quality increased. - PDF support for alpha channel when adding 32-bit ARGB bitmap (soft mask). - PDF Document Viewing preference support. - Full files attachment support (embedded file stream). - Full PDF transparency support (blend modes). - Graphics state stack and transformation matrix support. - Digital signature validation with certificate and document content checking as well as digital certificate support with stamp. - Page duplication and drawing support.