ImagXpress Professional provides anti-aliasing, deskew, despeckle, crop, rotate, video frame capture support, multiple image scaling algorithms, advanced scrollbar, auto size, and merging capabilities. Barcode, ICR, OCR, ISIS scanning, JPEG 2000, lossless JPEG, JPEG-LS, and WSQ are available as add on toolkits.
ImagXpress Standard contains a subset of the features provided in ImagXpress Professional. For a comparison of ImagXpress Professional and Standard editions please see the Evals and Demos section.
Benefits
To stay competitive in today's imaging marketplace, innovative organizations are increasingly tapping outside expertise to quickly add the most advanced imaging functionality to their applications. The ImagXpress Product Family radically simplifies digital imaging application deployment for businesses striving to deploy imaging solutions quickly and reliably.
- 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
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 (see The Pegasus Imaging Dot Net Philosophy)
- 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
- Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download
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
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, PGM, 1 bit PCX, 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
- PDF support for reading and writing document image PDF files (consisting of black and white image data)
- 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
- 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 C++ Class Library compression interface available within PICTools products
Image and Video Acquisition
- Video frame capture support through CapturePRO
- Interfaces with any video capture device that supports USB, FireWire, WDM, or native DirectShow including legacy Video For Windows 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 formats including AVI, Windows Media Content, and others, depending on DirectShow filters the user has installed
Medical DICOM Support
- DICOM window/level support (complete grayscale pipeline support for the modality and VOI levels)
- ImagXpress Professional is included within MedXpress for full DICOM support
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
Sample Image Processing Functions
- Brightness
- Twist
- Resize
- Sharpen
- Outline
- Hue
- Print
- Blend
- Warp
- Flip
- Matrix filter
- Resample Mosaic
- Soften
- Color Equalization
- Luminance
- Solarize
- Diffuse
- Rotate
- Contrast
- Median filter
- Ripple
- Gamma
- Emboss
- Swirl
- Parabolic
- Motion blur
- Crop
- Negate
- Mirror
- RGB adjust
- Dither
- Buttonize
- Pinch
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
- Built in timer with TimerTick event
- Image property interface
- Programmable image alignment within the control
- 1/1000 degree rotation increments
Annotation
- 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 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 transparent backgrounds for notations
- Supports opaque and translucent notations, useful for watermarking
- Multiple layer support
Printing
- Advanced printing support through PrintPRO
- 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 TIFF
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