Image SDK

GDPicture’s image sdk includes over 500 comprehensive and sophisticated functions that provide image processing features for color and bitonal images such as image editing, image filters, image effects and image enhancement, supporting bitmaps with 1-bit to 128-bit color depth.

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GdPicture.NET Image Processing Features

Main Features of the Image SDK

How to Use the Image SDK

Download and install GdPicture.NET package from here.

You will find some compiled demo applications in
[Install directory]\Samples\Bin\

You will find C# and VB.NET demo applications including source code in
[Install directory]\Samples\WinForm\

You will find other code snippets within the online reference guide found here

https://www.gdpicture.com/guides/gdpicture/

You can find some discussions about TIFF manipulation in the dedicated Image Processing section of our community forums located here

Image Processing & Document Imaging

GdPicture.NET - How to use

FAQs

The SDK encompasses a wide range of image processing features, including:

  • Image Editing: Resize, rotate, flip, and crop images.
  • Image Filters: Apply per-pixel, convolution, edge detection, bilinear, and displacement filters.
  • Image Effects: Implement effects such as median, Gaussian blur, unsharp mask, despeckle, flood fill, red-eye removal, emboss, sharpen, and twirl.
  • Image Enhancement: Adjust contrast, brightness, gamma, and saturation; perform color anti-aliasing and smoothing; and enhance bitonal images by repairing characters, removing lines, and filling holes.

These functionalities support bitmaps with color depths ranging from 1-bit to 128-bit.

The SDK supports over 100 image and document formats, including:

  • Raster Images: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP, and more.
  • Vector Images: SVG, WMF, EMF, and others.
  • Document Formats: PDF, DICOM, JBIG2, and more.

This extensive format support ensures versatility in handling various image processing tasks.

Yes, the GdPicture.NET SDK offers advanced image transformation capabilities, including:

  • Angle Rotation: Rotate images with 1/1000 degree increments.
  • Scaling: Resize images using nine different interpolation algorithms to maintain quality.
  • High-Quality Thumbnails: Generate high-quality thumbnails suitable for various applications.

These features enable precise control over image transformations.

Yes. The SDK includes sophisticated document imaging filters designed to repair and enhance the quality of both bitonal and colored digital documents. These filters are particularly beneficial for improving Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy by cleaning up scanned images, removing noise, correcting skew, and enhancing character clarity.

Yes, the GdPicture.NET Image Processing SDK supports bitmaps with color depths ranging from 1-bit to 128-bit. This flexibility allows developers to work with images in various color resolutions, catering to diverse application requirements.

The GdPicture.NET SDK is versatile and can be integrated into both desktop and web applications. It provides fully-featured viewers and advanced image processing capabilities for WinForms, WPF, and web applications, enabling developers to create rich, interactive experiences across different platforms.

The SDK is designed for seamless integration with various development environments, including:

  • .NET Framework: Compatible with versions 4.5 and higher.
  • .NET Core and .NET 5+: Supports cross-platform development.
  • Programming Languages: C#, VB.NET, Managed C++, and more.

This compatibility ensures that developers can incorporate the SDK into a wide range of applications and platforms.

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