Features

• Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments
• Sample code is included for: .NET, VB, Delphi, VC++, C++ Builder, HTML, Access
• Deploys within .NET as a managed control
• Can also be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM or VCL controls
• Scan, capture, edit, convert, compress, annotate, display, and print capabilities
• Includes 5 controls: ImagXpress, NotateXpress, TwainPRO, CapturePRO, PrintPRO
• Optimized for speed
• Client/server Web development capabilities
• Streaming image support from the Internet, allowing progressive image viewing online
• Increased image processing speed available via an easy to use multiple image buffering mechanism
• Synchronous or asynchronous multi-threaded control
• BLOB database support
• Uses ATL to guarantee the smallest footprint and does not require MFC
• Customer-acclaimed tech support

Details

• Color Matching, with an easy to use interface:
• Reflected and emitted colors can be matched to achieve visual equality
• Supports monitor and printer profile selection, programmatically specifying rendering intent
• Color Space Conversion using ICC Color Profiles
• CMYK to RGB conversion for TIFF and JPEG images
• RGB to CMYK conversion for TIFF and JPEG images
• Color Proof printer output prior to printing

Photo Editing & Image Processing

• Ideal for powerful digital photo software application development
• Red Eye Removal, including user selected settings enabling selection of eye color, degree of eye glare reduction, precision of selected area for removal of red
• Dust Removal, for removing dust specks from color images (user provided parameter settings include speck size, light or dark specks, and smoothing adjustments)
• Scratch Removal, for removing scratches from a color image along a line (user provided parameter settings include thickness, brightness, and light or dark scratches)
• Auto Color Level, Auto Contrast
• Color Deskew
• Sharpen, Unsharp, and Soften filters
• Autocrop, crop, rotate, scale, zoom, despeckle, and border removal
• Comprehensive set of over 80 image processing functions (see list below for more)
• Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed images
• Advanced merging capabilities
• Retention of image transparency
• Adjust contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, gamma, and more
• Display adjustment of contrast, brightness, and gamma
• 24, 8, 4, and 1-bit color depth conversions with advanced palette control
• EXIF tag editing without affecting image data
• Area and region processing
• Print Collages, including precise placement of borders and other images by specifying pixels, twips, points, millimeters, centimeters, character or inches (PrintPRO)
• Sophisticated TWAIN scanning support included (TwainPRO)

• Over thirty image formats are supported from files, memory buffers and Internet addresses
• Read and write PDF, TIFF, CMYK TIFF, JPG, CMYK JPG, GIF, RAW, BMP, WBMP, PNG, DCX, DIB, PIC, PBM, PCX, PGM, PPM, TGA, ICO, RLE, and more * Read WMF image files
• TIFF formats including JPEG, CCITT RLE, Group 3 and Group 4, LZW, Pack Bits, and Deflate
• Multi-page TIFF support, including compacting of multiple page files, TIFF tag editing, and Wang TIFF annotation compatibility
• Read and write single and multi-page PDF format files containing G3 and G4 compressed bi-tonal image data. Other PDF objects are not supported. Users may append pages of this type to existing PDF files.
• Multi-page PDF support including adding new pages into existing PDF files, and viewing pages from PDF files
• JPEG 2000, lossless JPEG, JPEG-LS, and WSQ support available as add on's
• EXIF tag editing supported, without affecting the image data
• Support for 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 bpp images
• Support for 2 - 16 bpp grayscale images, including window leveling
• Beyond 8 bpp, grayscale lossy JPEG image compression and decompression
• Password protect images using .pic, a Pegasus Imaging Corporation format that allows greater compression and password capability. These files require Pegasus Imaging products to view and manipulate them.
• Low-level compression interface available within PICTools products

Tools

• Built in tools with the ability to reassign key sequences to different tools, including Hand tool, Magnifying glass, Pan and zoom, Rubber band, Rectangle (area and region), Elliptical and free hand selection
• Create customized interactive toolbar
• Right click pop up menu, including image information dialog, tool selection, and zoom
• Automated support to maintain the Aspect Ratio for images with differing horizontal and vertical resolutions
• Multiple image scaling algorithms
• Advanced scrollbar and autosize features
• Built in timer with TimerTick event
• Image property interface
• Programmable image alignment within the control
• 1/1000 degree rotation increments

• Advanced printing support through PrintPRO
• Image Color Management supported, including user provided monitor and print profiles
• Print collages, including precise placement of borders and other images by specifying pixels, twips, points, millimeters, centimeters, character or inches
• Add powerful printing features to applications with just a few lines of code
• Create a custom printing interface for Internet Explorer to bypass I.E.'s printing interface
• Print Preview is provided
• Print to File, including multi-page TIFF and multi-page PDF output (containing G4 compressed image data)

• Fully-programmable annotation support through NotateXpress
• .NET, COM and VCL component (NotateXpress)
• Add annotation and redaction capability to applications
• Standard annotation objects include ruler, freehand, text, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line, polyline, image and rubber-stamp
• Create, display, save, restore, and password-protect annotations in independent layers
• Brand annotations into images
• Print annotations with the image
• Add, delete, query, and manipulate annotation elements programmatically
• Read and write the Wang/Kodak TIFF annotation format, and store all annotations in either TIFF files or in external files
• Unicode (double-byte) characters are supported for languages with extended character sets
• Supports opaque, translucent, and fully transparent backgrounds for notations
• Supports opaque and translucent notations, useful for watermarking
• Multiple layer support

• Video frame capture support through CapturePRO
• Interfaces with any Video For Windows or DirectShow/WDM video capture device, including USB and FireWire devices
• Capture images directly into an application instead of resorting to third-party applications and loading files from disk
• Complete control over image capture, compress and save options
• Acquire both still images and video streams under program control
• Capture and compress video with or without audio
• Output compressed or uncompressed AVI, depending on video codecs the user has installed
• Text captioning for streams, including Unicode support and time/date macros

Benefits

• The technical support and provided sample code allows easy programming to free up scarce IT resources
• Licensing scales to support high volume application deployments lowering costs per user as more are deployed
• Integrates into multiple programming environments for fast and easy deployment
• Help Files and Newsgroups provide valuable examples on how to build scripts for a vast variety of imaging functions and application deployments

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