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 Technical Notes |
- Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments including Visual Studio 2008
- Sample code is included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, Delphi, VC++, HTML/Scripting
- Deploys within .NET as a managed control and is fully compliant with .NET Framework 2.0 and above (see "Building Robust Imaging Components for the Microsoft .NET Platform" white paper)
- Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX COM controls
- Suitable for Client/server Web applications
- 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
- Can be used in a multi-threaded environment and perform synchronous thread-safe processing (more).
- Query image data (e.g. tags) from memory buffer or IO.Stream without loading entire image
- Save image data (e.g. tags) to memory buffer or IO.Stream without saving entire image
- Support user-specified debug logging levels
- Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download
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| Compression & File Formats |
- See our web page showing ImagXpress File Format Support in Each Edition
- Support file formats from files, memory and URLs
- Support for 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32-bit images
- Support for 2 to 16-bit grayscale images, including window leveling
- Support beyond 8-bit, grayscale lossy JPEG
- Unicode (double-byte) characters are supported in text, file, and in thumbnail descriptors
- Support image-only PDFs (containing bitonal, grayscale, and color image data such as JPEG, JPEG 2000 or JBIG2) including file creation, adding new pages into existing PDF files, and viewing. Users may add on PDF Xpress for enhanced PDF support.
- Support TIFF including Group 3 and Group 4, JPEG, JPEG Type 7, CCITT RLE, LZW, Pack Bits, Deflate, IPTC metadata, TIFF tag editing, compacting of multiple page files, Wang TIFF annotation compatibility, 9 to 16-bit grayscale, and intrinsic orientation (the file itself contains a rotation angle that can be interpreted during display)
- 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.
- ImagXpress Document will read:
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| AutoCAD 2000 - DWG, DXF, DWF |
JBIG2 |
PNG |
| BMP |
JEDMICS C4 |
PPM |
| CALS (Type 1) |
JPEG metadata edit (IPTC, EXIF) |
RAW |
| CALS metadata edit (CALS tags) |
JPEG, JIF |
TGA |
| DCX (multi-page) |
MO:DCA, PTOCA, IOCA, ABIC (multi-page) |
TIFF (multi-page) |
| DIB |
PBM |
TIFF (single page) |
| GIF (multi-page) |
PCX |
TIFF metadata edit (IPTC, TIFF tags) |
| GIF (single page) |
PDF (multi-page, image only, with image compression) |
WBMP |
| HD Photo (JPEG XR)- HDP, WDP |
PDF (single page, image only, with image compression) |
WMF, EMF |
| ICO (multiple image) |
PGM |
WSQ |
| ICO (single image) |
PIC / ePIC |
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- ImagXpress Document will write:
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| BMP |
JBIG2 |
PIC / ePIC |
| CALS (Type 1) |
JPEG, JIF |
PNG |
| CALS metadata edit (CALS tags) |
JPEG metadata edit (IPTC, EXIF) |
PPM |
| DCX (multi-page) |
MO:DCA, PTOCA, IOCA (multi-page) |
RAW |
| DIB |
PBM |
TGA |
| GIF (multi-page) |
PCX |
TIFF (multi-page) |
| GIF (single page) |
PDF (multi-page, image only, with image compression) |
TIFF (single page) |
| ICO (multiple image) |
PDF (single page, image only, with image compression) |
TIFF metadata edit (IPTC, TIFF tags) |
| ICO (single image) |
PGM |
WBMP |
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| Thumbnail Image Support |
- An easy, flexible, memory-friendly way to add thumbnail image display is provided by the included ThumbnailXpress control
- Support a wide range of file formats (all those supported by ImagXpress and PDF Xpress)
- Multi-Page Image Support
- Display thumbnails of directories and/or multi-page image files
- Filter the contents of directories based on attributes such as file name, extension, date and time or size
- Display thumbnails of PDF files (when PDF Xpress is installed)
- Rapid Display
- Load thumbnails from memory buffer or IO.Stream
- Generate thumbnails asynchronously to provide the fastest display of thumbnail images possible
- Cache thumbnail images for quick scrolling and redisplay
- Caching support provides options to control the amount of memory used
- Multiple Navigation Options
- Create thumbnails in either vertical or horizontal mode (only one scroll bar will be active)
- Directory drill down
- Drag and drop thumbnails within and between thumbnail windows, and from other applications
- Programmatic scrolling
- Mouse wheel support
- Keyboard navigation
- Flexible Captions and Display Options
- Set thumbnail display options, including spacing between thumbnails, border width, border color, background color and painting order
- Set labels displayed with each thumbnail, either by automatically deriving from filenames, or programmatically controlled.
- Take advantage of extensive font formatting options
- Set the size of the container for thumbnail images
- Set component, cell, text, and background colors
- Associate user-defined data with thumbnail images
- Unicode support for thumbnail descriptors
- Flexible Image File Selection
- Select one or multiple thumbnails using the mouse
- Create custom actions using mouse methods and events
- Retrieve information about the thumbnail image including its height, width, and current status
- Retrieve the name of the original image used to create the thumbnail
- Easy Integration with Other Pegasus Components
- Save thumbnail image as Bitmap, HBitmap, or Picture object
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| Document Image Processing and Editing |
- Comprehensive set of over 80 image processing functions
- Automated 1 bpp image cleanup
- Auto Binarize
Analyzes the image and automatically optimizes binarization settings when converting to a bitonal image
- Configurable Binarization and Half Toning
 
 BEFOREAFTER
- Anti-alias and scale to gray
- Advanced merging capabilities
- Autocrop
- Automatic Deskew
Automatically detect and remove skew from bitonal images. Detection focuses on the content of the image, such as text and drawings, rather than the border. You can also specify acceptable skew angle, quality, and confidence levels.
- Despeckle
Use advanced technology to remove specks from bitonal images, including specification of speck size and reporting of number of specks removed.
- Line Removal
Remove lines of defined size, thickness, and other specifications, from bitonal images. Report the number of lines removed.
- Dilate
Add black pixels to extend objects vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
- Erode
Remove black pixels from objects in bitonal images vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
- Smooth Zoom
Enhance character clarity, using Smooth Zoom. Replace an image with a new image with width and height doubled and with pixels smoothed.
- Shear
Apply rotation of bitonal images, along only the vertical or horizontal axis, by the specified angle in degrees. Allow the user to specify the color with which to pad the image.
- Hole Punch & Blob Removal
Locate and remove all black blobs (e.g. hole punch marks) in bitonal images, within a defined search area, based on size or density. Detect and report the number of blobs found within the search area.
 
BEFOREAFTER
- Blank Page Detection
Automatically determine that a page is blank within a set of bitonal images, by detecting if no objects are found to exceed the minimum object dimension. A border (top margin, left margin, right margin, bottom margin) within which to test for blank page, and minimum confidence, can be specified.
- Border Crop
Remove the black border around a bitonal image
 
BEFOREAFTER
- "Preserve Dark" Detail Enhancement
- Ideal for enhancing thumbnail images or images that are zoomed out
- Preserve the dark pixels of an image when an image is scaled at ratios less than 1:1 (many pixels are averaged for the one displayed)
- Avoid losing details in fine lines or fine text
- Retention of image transparency
- Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed
- 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
- Area and region processing
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| Tools |
- Create customized mouse and key sequences for tools in toolbar, including hand tool, magnifying glass, pan and zoom, rubber band, rectangle (area and region), elliptical and free hand selection
- Create customized interactive toolbar
- Create custom cursors
- Right click pop up menu, including image information dialog, tool selection, zoom
- Automated support to maintain the Aspect Ratio for images with differing horizontal and vertical resolutions
- Multiple image scaling algorithms
- Advanced scrollbar, smooth scroll, mouse wheel support, and autosize features
- Capture the contents of any window or section of any window
- Built in timer with TimerTick event
- Image property interface
- Programmable image alignment within the control
- 1/1000 degree rotation increments
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| Printing |
- Advanced printing support provided by the included PrintPRO component
- Image Color Management supported, including user provided monitor and print
- 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)
- Print text and graphic bitmaps
- Print binary data
- Print formatted and unformatted text, rotated text, graphics, margins, and any number of images on one or more pages
- Text Capabilities - Set properties including location, alignment, font, rotation, attributes, color, background transparency and more
- Set font objects in containers like Visual C++ using the Font Method
- Graphics Capabilities - Line, point, circle, ellipse, rectangle, rounded rectangle, curve, arc, polygon, pie shapes and more
- Provides complete control over how the graphics are drawn and filled including draw mode, draw style, width, fill color, and fill style
- Printer Property Capabilities - View and change printer properties including the bin, paper size, print quality, orientation, duplex mode, etc.
- Supports single and multi-page documents
- Cancel print jobs that have been previously sent to the printer
- Provides access to the printer's device context (DC) for custom control
- Print single or multiple Device Independent Bitmaps (DIB) and Device Dependent Bitmaps (DDB) on any page
- Bitmaps can be resized inside a rectangular area with or without maintaining the aspect ratio
- Automatically maintain the bitmap's aspect ratio to print large images at any size
- Set the system default printer
- Select and set up a printer from a dialog box or query system printers
- Select printer by name
- Print images transparently
- Unicode (double-byte) characters are supported for languages with extended character sets
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| Annotation |
- Fully-programmable annotation support provided by the included NotateXpress component
- Add annotation and redaction capability to applications
- Add, delete, query, and manipulate annotation elements programmatically
- XML multi-page support for import and export of annotations via file or memory
- PDF annotation import and export using XFDF via file or memory (use with PDF Xpress)
- 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
- Multiple layer support
- Create, display, save, restore, and password-protect annotations in independent layers
- Standard annotation objects include ruler, freehand, text, rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line, polyline, image and rubber-stamp
- Add notes, block highlight, tooltip text support for individual annotations, and autosize
- Create custom cursors or use those included
- Brand annotations into images
- Print annotations with the image
- Supports opaque, translucent, and fully transparent backgrounds for notations
- Supports opaque and translucent notations, useful for watermarking
- .ANN annotation file format support (a proprietary format of TMSSequoia that was used in the ViewDirector SDK, providing a clear upgrade path to ImagXpress, and allowing for conversion from .ANN to the corresponding NotateXpress type)
- Lock and unlock annotation data to the control rather than the image, enabling navigation of medical images (and others) without moving the annotations, such as patient name and ID
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| TWAIN Scanning |
- Acquire images from TWAIN scanners and digital cameras using the included TwainPRO component
- Access device’s capability settings and configuration dialog
- Maintain scanner settings for each session
- Save to stream or buffer
- Data source enumeration and selection
- Enable/disable data source user interface
- Multiple image acquisition
- Read and Write basic G3/G4 TIFF, JPEG, BMP and PackBits
- Save / compress to JPG, J2K, JBIG2, and TIFF-G4 within PDF files
- TIFF write optimization (faster to write large multi-page TIFFs)
- FTP upload capability
- Specify image resolution, image scaling, units, and color depth
- Negotiate for all standard device features such as image dimensions, location and resolution
- Negotiate for optional device features such as: autofeeder enabling, brightness, contrast, image layout/frame, maximum image transfers, progress indicators, resolution, scaling, and units
- Scan images faster and use less memory by transferring images from the data source in either Native or Buffered Memory transfer mode
- Provides support for advanced TWAIN capabilities like barcode or patchcode detection and compressed data transfer directly from the scanner
- TW_STR32 type support
- Reduce data transferred between the scanner and the PC by transferring images from high-end scanners using the scanner's built-in compression
- Catch illegal operations from errant TWAIN Data Sources before they crash the application. TwainPRO will return an error back to the application letting the application safely exit or continue.
- Unicode (double-byte) characters are supported for languages with extended character sets
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| Easier Integration with ISIS Xpress Toolkit |
- The ISIS Xpress component for ISIS scanning and image capture is now included in the ImagXpress download and is available for purchase separately as an add-on. Sample code is included in the toolkit. Read more about ISIS Xpress v3.
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| Edition Descriptions & Included Components |
The ImagXpress v9 toolkit is available in four editions, enabling you to access the features and functionality that best address your imaging requirements. Features within each edition are unlocked based on the registration license.
| ImagXpress Photo - Designed for applications that handle color and photo images, ImagXpress Photo supports the development of photo management software, online photo services, kiosk applications, and more. It provides an impressive collection of state-of-the-art photo enhancement and photo image compression technologies. ImagXpress Photo unlocks all the functionality available within ImagXpress.
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| Includes the ImagXpress, NotateXpress, ThumbnailXpress, TwainPRO and PrintPRO components.
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| ImagXpress Document - For document imaging applications, ImagXpress Document is the highest quality imaging toolkit available. It provides specialized document enhancement and viewing capabilities, as well as scanning, advanced image cleanup, annotation and multi-page image support. ImagXpress Document unlocks all features of ImagXpress except the photo enhancement and photo file format support.
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Includes the ImagXpress, NotateXpress, ThumbnailXpress, TwainPRO and PrintPRO components.
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ImagXpress View - ImagXpress View provides highly flexible and easy-to-use image viewing and printing functionality. Pan, scroll, zoom, select, magnify, annotation viewing, multi-page image viewing, thumbnail image display, and TIFF/EXIF tag reading is included. No file conversion or image modification is provided, and everything is read-only.
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| Includes the ImagXpress, NotateXpress, ThumbnailXpress, and PrintPRO components.
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ImagXpress Standard - ImagXpress Standard is ideal for color image processing and offers a solid set of basic image viewing, printing and scanning features. Viewing tools, image effects and basic image enhancements are included. ImagXpress Standard contains a subset of the features found in all other editions of ImagXpress. Document image cleanup, multi-page image support, annotation, and thumbnail support are not provided.
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| Includes the ImagXpress and TwainPRO components.
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