Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) / ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects)

Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.)

Accusoft was founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Accusoft is now repositioned to be the largest single source provider of imaging software development kits (SDKs) and image viewers, as measured by estimated market share and product offerings. Owing to its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, Accusoft is a leader in the imaging SDK field. Imaging technology solutions include barcode, compression, DICOM, editing, forms processing, OCR, PDF, scanning, video, and viewing. Technology is delivered for Microsoft .NET, ActiveX, Silverlight, AJAX, ASP.NET, Windows Workflow, and Java environments. Multiple 32-bit and 64-bit platforms are supported, including Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OSX, and IBM AIX.

ActiveX Components (ActiveX Controls, COM Objects & OLE Objects)

Microsoft first introduced the term ActiveX in 1996 when they launched a downloadable user interface control or software component that could be used by Internet Explorer to give more interactive or active content on a Web page to the reader. ActiveX controls were a re-branded subset of OLE custom controls (OCX) or OLE controls (OCXes) that were streamlined for downloading over the Internet and that could be digitally signed for security and authentication reasons. These ActiveX downloads were also tagged or marked as being safe for scripting and safe for initialization, to help give users confidence in using them in ActiveX Internet apps, as they were less likely to start making unauthorized actions on their systems. ActiveX controls also supported threading models, such as Apartment Model Threading, to try and improve performance in a multi-user or multi-process environment.

OLE controls (OCX's) or Object Linking and Embedding controls were themselves the successor to VBX controls first introduced by Microsoft to help programmers extend the functionality and features of their Visual Basic program by buying and reusing a VBX control built by another programmer or company, with expertise in a specific area. VBXes were limited to 16 bit usage for example on Windows 3.x, OCXes were available for both 16 bit or 32 bit architectures and began being widely used as people adopted Windows 95, although most people tended to use VBXes on 16-bit systems and OCX controls or OLE components on 32-bit systems for performance reasons. OLE itself was based on earlier work by Microsoft in their Office products to allow data to be exchanged and reused as objects inside other documents or files, such as embedding an Excel spreadsheet in a Word document and updating the content of that Excel spreadsheet for display using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE). Hence the term OLE document, that is still in use today.

OLE was part of the Microsoft COM or Component Object Model, that enabled programmers to reuse software components and services in a logical and object oriented manner. COM was extended and expanded over the years to include DCOM, the Distributed Component Object Model that allowed programmers to call OLE objects or COM objects situated on other computers or servers. COM+ was added to support transaction services using technologies such as Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and this first appeared when Windows 2000 was launched to better support distributed transactions in more complex applications, where higher performance and throughput was required. COM has gradually become a common term used to refer to: COM, DCOM, COM+, OLE and ActiveX technologies in general.

ActiveX components can be created in a variety of object oriented programming languages, but are most commonly created using C++ and the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC), such as: MFC 4.0, MFC 4.2 and MFC 6.0. When VB 5 was released in became possible for a Visual Basic programmer to create an ActiveX component for reuse by other people and whilst most programmers claim that the best ActiveX components were written in Visual C++ or by utilizing the ActiveX Template Library, it did not stop some entrepreneurial developers from Janus Systems writing one of the bestselling ActiveX UI controls of all time in VB5 and VB6, called Janus GridEx, a VB6 ActiveX, that gives the look and feel of the Microsoft Outlook UI inside your app.

ActiveX components and ActiveX controls come with a variety of file extensions such as: .exe, .dll and .ocx and these denote a certain type of usage either in-process as part of your program or app (an ActiveX DLL), or out-of-process as a standalone executable (an ActiveX Exe), as an ActiveX control or OCX control mainly used as a UI control on a form or page. Downloadable ActiveX controls are also packaged as .cab files or Cabinet files. These CAB files are packages of files compressed to take up less space and hence can be downloaded more efficiently over the Internet.

In this ActiveX Component gallery you will find a variety of commercial products that are ActiveX objects or ActiveX controls that people sometime refer to as VB controls or as a VB object, as they are often used within Visual Basic. You will find ActiveX Windows components that allow you to carry out visuals tasks, such as an ActiveX UI control for displaying video or images, an ActiveX image control or a non-Visual ActiveX upload component that will allow you to push a file up onto a server over the Internet using HTTP or FTP protocols.

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1. ImagXpress Professional ActiveX

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Image Processing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / VC++ Class Library

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2. Barcode Xpress Professional ActiveX

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Barcodes Product Type: Component / Add-In / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX EXE

Barcode Xpress supports 1D codes like Code 39 and 128, UPC, EAN, and 4-state postal codes, plus 2D barcodes including DataMatrix, QR Code, PDF417, Aztec, and more. It is designed for professional, high volume, automated software applications. Barcode Xpress locates barcodes anywhere on a page, decodes them, returns the content, and reports recognition confidence values. Barcode Xpress provides high-speed barcode reading and writing which is ideal for indexing and archiving.
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3. ImagXpress Standard ActiveX

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Image Processing Product Type: Component / ActiveX OCX / VC++ Class Library

Perform image compression, decompression, and file conversion with support for over 30 popular image file formats. The ImagXpress ActiveX SDK lets you quickly add imaging functions to your Windows application. With Accusoft Pegasus' powerful imaging tools, you can quickly develop applications that require complex imaging tasks for document imaging, photo processing, or medical applications, while you concentrate on the unique needs of your program. ImagXpress is the image handling engine behind most of Accusoft Pegasus' advanced recognition and image processing products. It's one of the fastest ways to develop professional applications involving images. ImagXpress Standard ActiveX offers a solid set of basic image viewing, printing, scanning, and processing features. Viewing tools, image effects and basic image enhancement are included. Document image cleanup and annotation support are not provided. Includes the ImagXpress, ThumbnailXpress, and TwainPRO components.
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4. Barcode Xpress Standard ActiveX

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Barcodes Product Type: Component / Add-In / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX EXE

Barcode Xpress Standard supports 1D codes like Code 39 and 128, UPC, EAN, and 4-state postal codes. It is designed for professional, automated software applications. Barcode Xpress locates barcodes anywhere on a page, decodes them, returns the content, and reports recognition confidence values. Barcode Xpress provides high-speed barcode reading and writing which is ideal for indexing and archiving.
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5. Barcode Xpress Professional + 2D Write

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Barcodes Product Type: Component / Add-In / .NET WinForms / .NET Class / .NET WF / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX EXE

Add robust barcode reading to your applications. Barcode Xpress allows you to create applications to read 1D (linear) and 2D barcodes. It provides many preprocessing functions that let you manipulate and clean up your image prior to barcode analysis including mirroring, flipping, zooming, rotating, negating, and more. Supports 21 1D barcodes including Code 39/128/93, EAN-8/13, and 2D barcodes including PDF417. Barcode Xpress Professional is the unlimited speed barcode engine. It will read as fast as the processor can handle.
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6. CapturePRO

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Imaging Product Type: Component / .NET Class / ActiveX OCX

Perform robust capturing of digital images and video. CapturePRO interfaces with any video capture device that supports USB, FireWire, WDM, or native DirectShow including digital video and legacy Video For Windows devices. CapturePRO contains managed .NET, COM and VCL components (CapturePRO and TwainPRO) that perform image and video acquisition from video capture devices.
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7. FormFix Standard

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Image Processing Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / ActiveX DLL

Add identification, form registration, OMR technology to your application. FormFix delivers both .NET and ActiveX COM components offering bitonal template-based form identification, form registration, form drop out, and OMR technology to developers of forms processing applications. Highly flexible and optimized for speed, FormFix's form recognition and form registration improve ICR, OCR, and OMR accuracy. It easily interfaces with Pegasus recognition engines, and with any recognition engine supporting memory-to-memory data transfers. ImagXpress and ScanFix Xpress are included with FormFix for image handling, advanced image cleanup, and TWAIN scanning. Standard Edition is delayed to processing forms at a speed of approximately 5 seconds per page.
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8. FormFix Professional

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Image Processing Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / ActiveX DLL

Add identification, form registration, OMR technology to your application. FormFix delivers both .NET and ActiveX COM components offering bitonal template-based form identification, form registration, form drop out, and OMR technology to developers of forms processing applications. Highly flexible and optimized for speed, FormFix's form recognition and form registration improve ICR, OCR, and OMR accuracy. It easily interfaces with Pegasus recognition engines, and with any recognition engine supporting memory-to-memory data transfers. ImagXpress and ScanFix Xpress are included with FormFix for image handling, advanced image cleanup, and TWAIN scanning. Professional Edition has full speed of processing forms (Standard Edition is delayed at approximately 5 seconds per page).
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9. FormSuite

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Image Processing Product Type: Component / .NET WinForms / ActiveX DLL

Add image compression, decompression, form identification, file conversion and more to your application. FormSuite includes FormFix Professional, SmartZone Professional, ScanFix Xpress and ImagXpress Document. FormFix delivers both .NET and ActiveX COM components offering bitonal template-based form identification, form registration, form drop out, and OMR technology to developers of forms processing applications. SmartZone offers developers the ability to perform zonal OCR (machine print character recognition) commonly used in forms processing applications. ScanFix Xpress offers bitonal document image enhancement technology. ImagXpress Document is ideal for document imaging and forms processing application development.
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10. ImageGear Medical v16

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Publisher: Accusoft (formerly Pegasus Imaging Corp.) Primary Category: Image Processing Product Type: Component / .NET Compact Framework / ActiveX OCX / ActiveX DLL

Quickly build next-generation medical imaging applications with full DICOM support. ImageGear Medical allows you to read and write DICOM images of various modalities, transfer syntaxes and bit depths. ImageGear Medical enables developers to create cutting-edge medical imaging solutions on Windows and Linux platforms with speed and ease. With this comprehensive medical imaging SDK you can quickly design powerful applications to read, write, display, and convert medical images and documents into DICOM files as well as integrate DICOM waveforms and overlays, grayscale LUT, and more. ImageGear Medical imaging SDK provides support for over 100 image formats, including uncompressed, RLE, JPEG, JPEG 2000 and more.
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