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A web page is essentially composed of three main pieces: -the content, most often structured by HTML; -the user interaction handled by javascript; -the page format managed by CSS stylesheet. All of those three parts are largely improved since the beginning of the web. In the late years, W3C specifies new standards like Html5 and Css3 while many frameworks are built on Javascript ( Jquery, Angular 2, ReactJS...). Javascript becomes even a server-side language with the [...]

Fast Forward MPEG (FFmpeg) is one of the most popular and best multimedia networks in the world. It offers plenty of tools for you to play the video, convert the formats, stream live broadcasts and even analyze the multimedia stream. These are the tools that actually make FFmpeg is a great framework to work with. They provide you with the best technical solutions, also offering a myriad of extremely useful yet free software to the [...]

Excel files or more commonly known as spreadsheets are used to store, manipulate, analyze and retrieve statistical data. Spreadsheets work as a down-featured version of database management systems. Common uses of spreadsheets include daily price charts and sales data, student result calculation, employee salary management and similar systems. In short, almost all the statistical data can be stored, manipulated and presented in the form of graphs, charts, and tables via spreadsheets. The best thing about spreadsheets [...]

The PDF format is one of the most commonly used formats in the enterprise documents exchanges. Each company has its software for invoices, maybe from a specific vendor or developed by its own development team. Many dedicated frameworks exist in the market to manipulate PDF files, they all aim to make the developer’s work easy. In this tutorial, we will show how to create your printable invoices with PDF SDK. Bytescout’s PDF SDK contains many [...]

The use of some terms in digital imaging has become a matter of great confusion for many people. If you have ever wondered what is DPI of an image, it is a cumbersome task for a layman to differentiate between Dots per Inch (DPI) and Pixels per Image (PPI). Well, both DPI and PPI are the measure of resolution for both on-screen and print images. It is pertinent to note that DPI is relatively an [...]

Barcodes have become very common in today’s world. You see a barcode on almost everything you come across nowadays. You see them on consumable goods, gift cards, labels, and practically everywhere else ranging from supermarkets to shopping plazas and stores. There is no denying the fact that the traditional pricing system has effectively given way to barcodes in order to reinvent the system in a more pragmatic and quicker manner. QR Codes for Documents Sharing [...]

Bytescout PDF Extractor SDK 8.1.0.2600 New OCR processing filters were added in order to make the recognition quality better, especially on bad-quality scanned documents. DocumentOptimizer class was added, it is able to recompress all images in the documents with JPEG or CCITT compression. New filters to remove were added. Any kind of extraction class (TextExtractor, XMLExtractor, etc.) is now capable to load image files and also extract some text with OCR help. A demo app [...]

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ByteScout updated Bitmap Visualizer 1.0.4.105 freeware on September 13, 2016. What's new: Fixed collapsing side panel.  

ByteScout updated Spreadsheet SDK 2.70.1553 on August 15, 2016. What's new: added support for SHA512-based encryption fixed calculation of functions INDIRECT, COLUMN and ROW other minor improvements and bug fixes.