ImageGear can be installed via NuGet or by a zip file provided by Accusoft. Once installed, you will need a valid license to use ImageGear. For development, this can be done with the License Manager that ships with the ImageGear zip file. To obtain a license, see Licensing and Distributing. If the toolkit is not provided a paid license, it will only operate in evaluation mode.
The easiest way to get ImageGear is via NuGet. However, if you have not previously installed a license on the machine, you will want to follow the Archive file instructions below to install a license before you are able to use the NuGet package.
If you have the dotnet CLI installed, run this command from your project’s directory to add ImageGear to your .Net Core project:
dotnet add package Accusoft.ImageGear.Core
For more information on the "dotnet add package" command, see Microsoft’s documentation.
Using the Nuget Package Manager, run this command to add ImageGear to your project:
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Install-Package Accusoft.ImageGear.Core
Note: to install PDF features, repeat the above steps with the
Accusoft.ImageGear.Pdfpackage.
You can install the NuGet package through Visual Studio 2015 or higher.
To read more about NuGet, please visit nuget.org.
Accusoft also provides an archive file you can download from our website. The archive contains the License Manager used for installing development licenses and all the artifacts included in the NuGet package.
In order to distribute your finished application you must purchase and install a fully paid license from Accusoft. The paid licenses override trial licenses.
Distributing ImageGear