This section provides information about the system requirements for ImageGear .NET in the following sub-sections:

Microsoft recommends running Visual Studio with administrator privileges. To properly use the ImageGear Samples, please run Visual Studio with elevated permissions. To run Visual Studio with elevated administrator permissions:

Confirm you are a member of the "Administrators" group on the local machine.
Right-click the Visual Studio shortcut and select the "Run as administrator" option from the context menu.
Click Continue to the UAC prompt.
To ensure you have the latest updates, after running Visual Studio, choose Help > Check for Updates.

Operating Systems

Windows 8
Windows 10
Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019

We do not recommend that you compile using AnyCPU, as some resources are platform-specific.

.NET Frameworks

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is required for OCR.

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 is required for ASP.NET.

Components not mentioned above require Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 (or higher).

Web Servers and Browsers

ASP.NET functionality is supported on IIS 6.0 - IIS 10.0 with the following browsers:

Windows Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0, and 11.0 (in compatibility mode)
Firefox
Chrome
Safari

Other Requirements

PDF and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) features require Microsoft Visual C++ 2015, Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 to be installed on the system. These packages are typically included with Microsoft Visual Studio.

DPW.exe requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 to be installed on the system.