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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
- 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
- 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 both text and file names
- 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.
- 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 Standard will read:
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JPEG, JIF |
PPM |
| CALS (Type 1) |
PBM |
RAW |
| DIB |
PCX |
TGA |
| GIF (multi-page)   |
PDF (single-page, image only, with image compression) |
TIFF (single page) |
| HD Photo (JPEG XR)- HDP, WDP |
PGM |
WBMP |
| ICO (single image) |
PIC / ePIC |
WMF, EMF |
| JBIG2 |
PNG |
WSQ |
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- ImagXpress Standard will write:
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| BMP |
PBM |
PPM |
| CALS (Type 1) |
PCX |
RAW |
| DIB |
PDF (single-page, image only, with image compression) |
TGA |
| GIF (multi-page)                       |
PGM |
TIFF (single page) |
| ICO (single image) |
PIC / ePIC |
WBMP |
| JPEG, JIF |
PNG |
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Image Processing and Editing |
- Comprehensive set of over 80 image processing functions, including zoom
- Auto crop
- Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed images
- Advanced merging capabilities
- Retention of image transparency
- Automated 1 bpp image cleanup
- Border removal
- 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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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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