ImageGear for .NET adds enterprise-class image viewing, processing and editing functions easily to any application, with support for more than 100 file formats and expanded functionality such as optical character recognition (OCR), barcode recognition and support for medical DICOM images.

why do i want this .net image processing library?

simplicity
All the image functions you could ever need, all in a single toolkit. Effortlessly control and distribute the exact functionality your application needs.

file format support
View and edit more than 100 image file types, including TIF, JPEG, PDF, CAD, DICOM, HD Photo, Camera RAW and many more document and image formats.

HTML5 viewer
Create true Zero Footprint web-based and mobile applications for document and image viewing, management, and processing using ImageGear's ASP.NET HTML5 functionality.

Enhance your application with fast, powerful, selectable functions for an exhaustive list of file types. ImageGear .NET supports over 100 image, graphic, and document formats, including raster and vector images, PDF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, TIFF, DICOM, CAD, ABIC Check Imaging, HD Photo, Camera RAW, and more (see complete list here).

All supported formats also have robust save options for complete format control. It easily converts images from one format to another and bitmap images to scalable, editable images in seconds. It loads and displays Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents stored in the XML DOCX format. Support for loading of headerless RAW image files is available.

Reads and writes metadata without decoding or recompressing an image
Works with a wide variety of supported file formats across bit depths
Creates batch conversion processes and eliminates compatibility issues
Enables access to all pages of any multi-page file
Delivers fast TIFF, JPEG, GIF, MO:DCA, and Group IV processing
raster formats
Easily converts to and from various raster image formats, such as TIFF, JPEG, and PDF
Quickly converts various images into one standard format for consistent viewing
Build applications to convert to and from bitmap images with various bit depths, palettes, and compression and encoding options
vector formats
Includes enhanced reading, writing, and rendering of vector images
Reads and writes DWG and DXF file formats up to AutoCAD 2014 version
Creates applications that render 3D wireframe objects

image viewing & display
Add powerful viewing and viewing-enhancement functions that take full advantage of Windows GUI features. It includes support for WinForms, ASP.NET, and WPF, and also includes GUI features such as common dialogs for image loading, saving, processing, and more. High-speed display provides complete control over how your application displays images. Shorten development efforts by using GUI functions that simplify the implementation of several sophisticated GUI features. Utliize Anti-Aliasing and Smoothing on color and black and white images.

manipulate & manage PDFs
Get a handle on PDF processing with functions for conversion, library management and more. It incorporates the Adobe PDF Library. Convert Microsoft Office Open XML documents to PDF and existing PDF files to PDF/A. It even enables the creation of PDF/A files from Raster Images. The product reads, writes, displays, and edits Portable Document Format (PDF), PostScript (PS), and Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) and has comprehensive PDF API for native PDF annotations, searchable text, and more.

PDF support for ImageGear .NET
ImageGear provides low-level access to the PDF libraries. Easily integrate PDF into your imaging applications. Automatically conform to the PDF Language Standard, as well as open and process PS and EPS files.

Quickly add annotations to a PDF document. Annotation marks include text, line, freehand polyline, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, polyline, audio, image, ruler, protractor, encryption, button, hot spot, and rich text. This version also includes the ability to import and export these marks to XML files. The application developer has the flexibility to embed a subset of these annotation types into the PDF file as a true Adobe annotation or to save them in a separate file.

Highlights

Ability to convert Microsoft Office Open XML documents to PDF
Support Adobe PDF v1.7 and PS v3
Easily read and write to and from PDF, PostScript, and Encapsulated PostScript files
Quickly add a wide variety of annotations to a PDF document
Preserve vector data when saving PDF files
Work with 3D PDF content in Universal 3D (U3D) format
Provide more control of displaying individual CMYK channels and Pantone spot colors in a PDF
Convert scanned pages into PDF searchable text using the ImageGear OCR functionality
Create PDF/A files from Raster image files and scanned images
Verify PDF documents for reliable graphic content exchange through PDF/X (PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and PDF/X-4) and PDF/A (PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b) compliance
PDF Text Extraction to allow for the extraction of words from PDF documents or specified pages, including word enumerating and sorting and obtaining word layouts, styles and characters
Double byte support so that information can be shared across multiple languages including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Hebrew
Native PDF document printing renders document content directly to the printer, providing more speed and reducing memory requirements
Embed and subset fonts into PDFs to ensure the document is viewed exactly as it was created
Additional font support providing listing of available host system fonts and finding system/PDF font matches, as well as font creation from system fonts and for the editing of font information

OCR in ImageGear for .NET
OCR language support
Includes support for over 100 different languages
Support for Asian Languages (Chinese, Korean and Japanese)
Recognizes characters from multiple languages within a single image
For a complete list of supported languages please see our product documentation
OCR zone based processing
auto-zoning:

An automatic page layout decomposition process that breaks image into individual zones for processing.
Located Zones are assigned a type based on expected content: flow, table, graphic.
Improves recognition results by removing image areas of the image from the valid processing area
Advanced Table detection improves data result reconstruction.
user defined zones:

Process an entire image or just the section containing the information you need.
Zones can be defined on the fly by a user, loaded from a file, or detected automatically by the engine.
Flexible API gives developers the ability to define areas of images to be processed and the type of content located in that defined area.
Apply advanced data checking zone by zone
Specialized content? Define the appropriate recognition module for your content.
OCR result processing
recognition details:

Each character is returned with an accuracy Confidence Value with alternate character information.
One incorrect character can drastically change a word; for this reason the recognition engine reports a certainty value for all recognized words.
Advanced font information and location information allows ImageGear to create text representations of the original, with a similar layout.
language control

The ImageGear OCR engine processes all data in a Unicode format. The data output can be formatted for a specific code page.
output to file or stream

Image over Text PDF
Text based PDF
PDF output includes output to PDF/A
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office 97 (Word, Excel & Powerpoint)
RTF
HTML
XML
For a complete list of output formats please see the product documentation
OCR image pre-processing
Advanced Image Processing methods are available to improve OCR accuracy.
For highest accuracy the OCR engines looks for dark characters on a pale background. Auto Inversion functionality detects if the image needs to be inverted for highest accuracy.
Images getting scanned upside down? Processing landscape documents? Automatic image orientation detects and adjusts images so they are properly oriented.
Deskew methods will detect image misalignment and automatically correct it, improving auto-zoning and recognition accuracy.
Despeckling methods remove minor dots and imperfections in the image capture process.
Resolution enhancement can be performed to improve the quality of the low resolution images.
OCR data checking
A complete Checking Subsystem used to improve recognition accuracy.
Advanced spell checking using 17 different language dictionaries is provided. Each dictionary contains between 100,000 to 200,000 entries.
Vertical dictionaries improve spell checking and OCR accuracy for medical and legal industries.
Customize validation to your needs by defining User Dictionaries, with values specific to your needs
Validate results using Regular Expressions
Developers can use event based checking to start validation work flow.
OCR editions
OCR language options

The ImageGear for .NET OCR functionality supports two sets of languages, Western and Asian. These language options are licensed separately for development and deployment. The Asian offering has some basic support for western characters, but this support will not utilize any dictionaries to improve results. If you need support for both sets of languages please contact us.

OCR Deployment Options

The Western Language support for the ImageGear for .NET OCR functionality is available in two different editions for distribution, Standard and Plus. The primary difference between these two versions is the list of output formats created by the OCR engine. The ImageGear for .NET product with Asian Language support is only available in one edition, which follows the Plus Edition.
Standard Edition:
The PDF formatting in the Standard Edition is accomplished using text output reported by the OCR engine and ImageGear's internal PDF engine.

Standard Edition output formats:

Searchable text PDF files
Text documents
Plus/Asian Edition:
Formatted output is created by using all of the recognition information (font detail, located image areas, and recognized table structure information) to reconstruct a representation of the original document. The Plus Edition leverages the power of the OCR engine to create the robust formatted output.

Plus/Asian Edition Output Formats:

Text documents
Word
Excel
HTML
and more

process & edit document images
Empower your applications to perform a broad range of image cleanup, correction and transformation functions.

Easy-to-use ImageClean includes:

Hole punch removal
Line removal
Dotted line removal
Clean borders
Negate
Auto-crop
Image dilation
Erosion
And more

enhanced TWAIN scanning
Tap the full power of TWAIN-compatible devices through comprehensive TWAIN function support. Comprehensive support for the latest TWAIN devices including scanners, digital cameras, and video capture boards is provided. It works with multipage and single page scanning, with configurable parameters, and controls all scanner capabilities within your program. The TWAIN transfer mode is quickly defined, and the display of the TWAIN UI is programmatically controlled.

Easily works with TWAIN: v1.6, v1.7, v1.8, v1.9.

HTML5 & jР°vascript imaging
Easily integrate RESTful services, a rich jР°vascript API and more to deliver an optimal viewing experience. View Office files with complete clarity with SVG-based rendering. Customizable interactive interface empowers the creation, modification and saving of annotations, while Configurable RESTful Services simplify loading or image and annotating content. Support for display of over 100 formats, including commonly used Microsoft Office formats is available. Built-in services enables easy integration with multiple content/image repositories.

jQuery imaging plugins suitable for use in MVC web applications
Rich jР°vascript API for manipulating the display of images
Configuration application for GUI based configuration of Web services
Customizable right-click context menu

photo/color processing
Easily manipulate photos and color images to get enhanced image quality and minimal image file sizes. Region of Interest (ROI) support permits specification of a shape, such as ellipse, polygon, freehand, or a 1-bit mask, for identifying pixels to include/exclude from image processing algorithms. Powerful color reduction methods are available for maximum quality and minimum size, using dithering or halftone.

Area Detection and Processing Uses a predefined or custom pixel checking method
ICC color profile support Allows for accurate color display
Pantone channels support Enables true image representation
Blending and Combining Images Combines data from two or more images, such as Alpha Blend

empower users to annotate
Give your users the ability to add, edit and burn-in XML-based annotations, and define your own annotation types. This feature includes support for WinForms, WPF, and ASP.NET and offers easy to implement UI elements with XML-based annotation for images and medical data. Create custom annotation types, and control granular security settings to control annotation access. It contains the Accusoft Redlining Toolkit (ART), enabling annotation on images and documents such as lines, arrows, protractors, rulers, highlighting, sticky notes, and much more.

capture to the Cloud
Hook web apps into scanner functions to deliver high-quality scanning directly to cloud storage repositories. This feature enables Web Applications to communicate with document scanners with no special server requirements and no ActiveX plug-ins used.

It leverages the power of ISIS to control Scanner Features, and also provides connectivity to TWAIN-based devices. It is available in zero-footprint capture for all devices that support Cloud Capture natively, or a one-time download of the Cloud Capture web services component. Support for popular Windows browsers like, Internet explorer, Firefox, Safari and Chrome is offered.

barcode recognition in ImageGear .NET
barcode recognition features
Detect, read, and write 1D & 2D barcodes
Identify and recognize barcodes anywhere on the page, in any orientation, in milliseconds
Accurately decode barcodes most other engines can't.
Report confidence values for detected barcodes
supported barcode types
1D Barcodes
2D Barcodes
Postal Codes
Patch Codes
barcode image support
24-bit color images
8-bit grayscale images
1-bit black and white images
barcode editions
Available in four different deployment licensing models, enabling customers to select the option that best matches processing speed and supported barcode type needs:

1D Client 1D barcode read/write with speed limited to 40 pages per minute; designed for desktop or other moderate-volume applications
1D Server 1D barcode read/write with no preset speed limitations; go as fast as your processor will allow; designed for high-end, high-volume applications
1D/2D Client 1D and 2D barcode read/write with speed limited to 40 pages per minute; designed for desktop or other moderate-volume applications
1D/2D Server 1D and 2D barcode read/write with no preset speed limitations; go as fast as your processor will allow; designed for high-end, high-volume applications

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