Fast, Powerful Imaging API Library for .NET 6+
Document Solutions for Imaging (DsImaging, previously GcImaging) allows you to programmatically apply advanced image processing with zero dependencies.
- Load and save image files like BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, ICO, SVG, WebP, and PNG
- Apply advanced processing effects like dithering and thresholding on grayscale and RGB images
- Draw graphics, add advanced text with full font handling, and paragraph formatting to images
- Compatible with Windows, macOS, and Linux
- Deploy locally, inhouse or to Cloud including Azure and AWS
- Includes a JavaScript Image Viewer to view and edit images on the client-side
Overview
A .NET Imaging API is a programming interface that allows developers to programmatically create and manipulate images at scale. Document Solutions for Imaging (DsImaging) is a solution allowing developers to load, process, and save images across many different formats in desktop and web-based applications.
Benefits of a C# .NET Imaging API
Fast and Efficient
Save memory with the small file size and time with the lightweight API architecture. Scalable, flexible, efficient, and fast to handle small and large TIFFs at top speed. Integrate with a JavaScript client-side Image Viewer to load, view, edit and save images.
Image Processor
Meet all the needs of a basic image processor: resize, convert, rotate, and flip images. Create, apply, and align the images in your apps that you need when you need them.
Advanced Image Effects
Convert average images into high-quality, detailed images in less time. Apply advanced image effects like dithering, thresholding effects, half-tone transparencies, resolution editing, grayscale conversion, effects on RGB images, and more.
Text and Graphics
Dynamically enhance your images with logos and text. With extensive font, layout, and graphic support, you can convert your images into branding elements and professional pages.
Full .NET Core Support
Develop for any .NET platform or major operating system like Windows, Linux, and Mac with a single code base. Use in your apps for .NET Core, .NET Framework, Mono, Xamarin.iOS, and Xamarin.Android.
Image Processing to the Cloud
Be everywhere with cloud-based deployment. With NuGet and DsImaging, you can deploy to Azure, AWS, and AWS Lambda to create services that manage and convert images on the cloud.
Our Top C# .NET Imaging API Features
Quick Start
In this tutorial, we create a real-life scenario with Document Solutions for Imaging to give you a fundamental understanding of what it can do.
Create Thumbnails
Downscale Images, and Apply various interpolation algorithms and create thumbnails of any size.
Draw Text on Images
Support advanced text layout engine with full font support, text processing, layout and formatting follows Unicode standards.
Convert Images
Easily convert images, including photos and pictures, into popular image formats like BMP, PNG, TIFF, GIF, and JPG.
Modify Images
Explore Bitmap transformations, creating thumbnails, enlarging images, indexing, and round clipping.
Create Icons (ICO)
Create a multi-frame ICO from a large PNG, Read a multi-frame ICO file, and render all frames along the diagonal of the resulting image.
HTML to Images
Easily render HTML content to images with DsImaging and DsHtml library. Save HTML as JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP, or GIF.
Document Solutions Image Viewer
Integrate with client-side image viewer to load, view, edit and save images.
Effects
Learn more about how you can alter brightness and contrast, saturation, dithering, grayscale, thresholding, and more.
Drawing
Draw Shapes and Round Rectangles with custom gradients, use clipping paths, add various watermarks, and more.
Image Comparison
Compare two similar images with minor differences, PNG vs JPEG, text rendered with TrueType font hinting, and more.
Animated GIFs
Create an animated GIF from JPG images, convert true color frames of your animated GIF to an indexed 8bpp, and more.
Additional Imaging Effects
Convert full-Colored images to indexed images with a palette, or apply color matrix and transparency masks to images.
Advanced TIFF Processing
Read and write TIFF frames quickly and easily. In addition, apply TIFF compression and color spaces and support tiled, planar, and differencing storage methods.
Create Tables with Complex Layouts
Make use of new TableRenderer API to create tables with complex layout, merge cells, rotate text direction in cells and draw custom content in the cells.
Extract EXIF Metadata
Extract all EXIF metadata from images, including time taken, shutter speed, focal length, light value, location, flash, title, creator, date, description, and copyright.
Text
Perform text rendering, trimming, antialiasing, and TrueType hinting. Explore our Japanese and Arabic language packs.
Draw Rotated Text
Use GcGraphics class methods to render rotated text in unrotated rectangle.
TIFF
Create a multi-frame TIFF with different images and dithering methods, extract frames from a TIFF, and more.
WebP Format
Load and Save images in WebP Format. (Each sample in demo browser has a WebP format tab.
Miscellaneous
Compose images with blending modes, reduce image color depth without loss of quality, swap color channels in an image, and more.
Draw SVG to Raster Images
Load, inspect, and modify the internal structure of SVG images, render SVG on PDF document and images.
Document Solutions Image Viewer
Check out the image editing tools: crop, resize, selection, flip, rotate and other awesome features in Document Solutions Image Viewer (DsImageViewer); helping you create a full-featured workflow to load, edit and save images in your applications.
Explore the Advanced Features of the .NET Imaging API
Your full-fledged ASP.NET Core sample browser includes all significant features, real-time image files, and use-cases. Download individual .NET Core samples that can run as a standalone. Demos include full sample code with comments to quickly bring you on board with Document Solution for Imaging. The demos now use the new Document Solutions Image Viewer. Click the button below to learn more.