Features

Load / Save image in more than 45 formats.
Load / Save image & PDF on FTP & HTTP servers.
Import / Export image from DIB, RAW, GDI+ Bitmap, HBitmap, HICON, IPicture, .NET Stream, String data, Bytes array data...
Copy / Paste image from the clipboard.
Create image from screen capture.
Display Raster Images, Metafiles & PDF within a full-featured document viewer (GdViewer).
Create highlighted regions within a document viewer.
Mouse tools for documents viewing: Area selection, Pan, Page change, Zoom In, Zoom Out...
Print Image & PDF with complete control over the printing process & using featured printing dialog box.
Manipulate multipage TIFF image (insert, remove & swap pages).
Manipulate animated GIF image (insert, remove & swap frames, set frame delay & disposal method...).
Convert an image from one bitdepth to another.
Draw barcodes on an image (25i, EAN13, 3 of 9, code 128).
Draw shapes such as lines, ellipse, round, Bezier, curves, polygons...
Draw text with a lot of different styles.
Support all TWAIN 2.0 features for image acquisition.
Directly access to bits of an image.
Manage color palette of an image.
Quantize & reduce colors of an image.
Apply rotations, mirror & flips.
Rotate images by hundredths of degrees.
Read & write Metadata such as EXIF tags, Thumbnail tags, GPS tags & IPTC tags.
Create high quality image thumbnails.
Apply color mapping & ICC profiles to RGB and CMYK images.
Remove automatically borders of an image.
Auto-Deskew an image.
Change brightness, saturation, contrast, and gamma of an image.
Apply filters and effects (emboss, blur, edge enhance, auto-contrast...).
Cleanup image (despeckle bitonal images, remove lines & noise, repair characters...).
Select a region on an image for processing (Region Of Interest).
Merge and overlay Images with full transparency support.
Combine images using a specific operator of combination (And, Or, Xor, Min, Max, Abs, Multiply, Divide...).
Generate PDF & PDF/A with lot of features (compression, shapes, text, encryption...).
Extract text from a PDF (full page content or text within a specific area).
Search PDF for a given text string.
Generate searchable PDF from scanner, images or existing PDF files.
Perform automatic document recognition process using GdPicture ADR™ Technology.