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- Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments including Vista (see "Pegasus Imaging Toolkits and the Windows Vista Environment" technical bulletin)
- Sample code is included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, Delphi, VC++, C++ Builder, HTML, Access
- Deploys within .NET as a managed control (see "Building Robust Imaging Components for the Microsoft .NET Platform" white paper)
- 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
- 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).
- BLOB database support
- Customer-acclaimed tech support
- Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download
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| Document Imaging |
- Ideal for powerful document imaging and forms processing application development
- Single and multi-page Tiff and PDF reading and writing, including TIFF tag handling
- File conversion
- Sophisticated TWAIN scanning support (TwainPRO control)
- Annotation capabilities (NotateXpress control)
- Advanced printing capabilities beyond Internet Explorer including Print to TIFF (PrintPRO control)
- Image editing and clean up (including crop, rotate, scale, zoom, save as grayscale, image binarization, anti-aliasing, deskew, despeckle, border removal)
- Pegasus Imaging offers additional products complementing ImagXpress to support barcode recognition, ICR, OCR, OMR, ISIS scanning, and more.
IMAGE BINARIZATION
 
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| Compression & File Formats |
- Over thirty image formats are supported from files, memory buffers and Internet addresses
- Read and write PDF, TIFF, JPG, GIF, RAW, BMP, WBMP, PNG, DCX, DIB, PIC, PBM, PCX, PGM, PPM, TGA, ICO, RLE, and more
- Read WMF image files
- Read and Write multi-page TIFF, PDF, ICO, DCX, and MO:DCA images
- 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 files (image only) containing bitonal, grayscale, and color image data.
- Multi-page PDF support including adding new pages into existing PDF files, and viewing pages from PDF files
- JBIG2, JPEG 2000, lossless JPEG, JPEG-LS, and WSQ support available as add on's
- EXIF tag editing
- 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, cross platform C/C++ compression interface available within PICTools products
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| Image and Video Acquisition |
- Video frame capture support through CapturePRO (Read the Full CapturePRO Product Description)
- 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
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| Image Processing and Editing |
- Comprehensive set of over 80 image processing functions, including zoom, deskew, and despeckle (see list below for more)
- Configurable binarization and half toning
- Anti-alias and scale to gray
- Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed images
- Advanced merging capabilities
- Retention of image transparency
- Automated 1 bpp image cleanup
- Border removal
- Autocrop
- 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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| Sample Image Processing Functions |
| Brightness |
Flip |
Rotate |
Motion blur |
| Twist |
Matrix filter |
Contrast |
Crop |
| Resize |
Resample Mosaic |
Median filter |
Negate |
| Sharpen |
Soften |
Ripple |
Mirror |
| Outline |
Color Equalization |
Gamma |
RGB adjust |
| Hue |
Luminance |
Emboss |
Dither |
| Print |
Solarize |
Swirl |
Buttonize |
| Blend |
Diffuse |
Parabolic |
Pinch |
| Warp |
Zoom |
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| 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, 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
- 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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| 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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