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ImageMan ActiveX Suite by Data Techniques

Add sophisticated image processing and scanner support to your application. ImageMan components are optimized for Windows and include support for loading, saving, displaying, printing, converting, and processing images in more than 35 of the most common raster and vector formats. It also includes built-in database support for writing and reading image data from memory. Available as an ActiveX OCX and DLL for maximum compatibility with your environment.

While some library vendors think more properties are better, our API which has evolved over the last 8 years provides a compact yet powerful set of properties, methods and events. While our high level functions make it easy to create 'image enabled' applications in minutes, our low level functions give you total control over image processing. ImageMan's modular architecture also allows you to ship only the import/export filters that you need with your application, allowing you to save disk space. Also, you can create your own import/export filters for proprietary formats. Our continuing commitment to ImageMan assures you of future releases including increased performance and support for new image formats. Our dedicated support staff will also be here if you have any questions about ImageMan or how to best use it in your application.

ImageMan Features Include:

New and Improved image format support. We now support reading Kodak Flashpix images and support has been added for Interlaced, Multipage, and animated GIF files

Support for Adobe PhotoShop Plug-In Filters in our new Plugins ActiveX control. Now your users have can access to thousands of cool image filters designed for PhotoShop

Data Binding Support for Visual Basic makes creating Image Enabled Database apps a snap

Enhanced Image Display support including new Octree Color reduction and faster dithering

Interpolated scaling for the ultimate in image quality when scaling images

Images can now be rotated in hundredth of degree increments

Built-in filters including Emboss, Sharpen, Blue, Edge Detection and more plus the ability to specify your own filter kernels

50+ Special Transitional effects with complete control over speed, granularity and more in our new lightweight Special Effects control

Enhanced File Save dialog allows users to specify the image save options

Enhanced Image Open dialog with configurable thumbnail preview and image information

Support for reading and writing CMYK color TIFF files

New Image Contrast adjustment support

Improved AntiAliasing support for 1 bit image display

Support for 35+ raster and vector formats

Includes support for FlashPix, Photo CD, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, RLE, DIB, EPS, GIF, PNG, TGA, IMG, DXF, PCX, DCX

Finely Crafted API

Not only is Imageman easier to use but it's much smaller. In fact ImageMan is less than half the size of some competing libraries

Royalty Free

Unlike other toolkits that require royalties for their advanced versions, you can distribute your ImageMan applications royalty free

Adobe PhotoShop Plugin Support

ImageMan is the only imaging toolkit that allows you to add support for hosting thousands of Adobe Photoshop plugins. Visit out PlugIn Effects Gallery for sample effects and links to other filter resources

Sophisticated Image Processing

Image Filters like embossing, edge detection, blur, sharpen, and more. Adjust Brightness, Contrast and Gamma. Interpolated Scaling for the best image quality. Rotate images by hundredths of degrees. Mirror, flip and invert. Automatic Thumbail generation

Color Image Support

ImageMan includes several features that make it ideal for Color image processing and display. Our new Interpolated scaling support assures you the best image quality when scaling images up or down and it's fast. Our new Color reduction algorithms allow you to reduce the number of colors in an image with excellent image quality. While you're reducing your image you can also specify one of several supported dithering methods be used to further improve the image quality. Images can be reduced to an optimized palette or a fixed palette for displaying multiple images on a palettized system, Images can even be reduced/dithered to a user specified palette

Document Processing Support AntiAliasing support make displaying scaled high quality black and white images a snap. Automatic thumbnail generation is just a function call away. Support for reading and writing multi page tiff/DCX files including support for Group compression assures compatibility with document management standards

Scanning

ImageMan includes support for TWAIN compatible scanners, frame grabbers and digital cameras. It only takes a few lines of code to acquire an image from any supported device and ImageMan also has lower level functions that allow you to scan from an Automatic Document Feeder(ADF) and control image attributes such as resolution, color depth, scan area and more. Includes support for 32 bit TWAIN Sources

Printing

ImageMan's printing support gives you complete control over the printing process. You can mix graphics and text on any Windows supported printers

Database Support

ImageMan's API includes functions for writing and reading image data from memory blocks making it ideal for use with databases. Functions are also included to read image data embedded in other file and with our low level functions you can even write your own low level I/O handlers

Compression

ImageMan supports the most common compression schemes including:

Packbits

Group 3

Group 4

Modified Huffman

JPEG

RLE

LZW

Special Effects

ImageMan includes over 50 special image transitional effects for creating cool multimedia applications

New Features in ImageMan ActiveX Version 8

Support for using the Image control in ASP and ASP.NET server side applications

Support for creating the Image control as an automation object in addition to a Visual control

Support for 16 & 32 bit images including full transparency support

Support for reading/writing JPEG2000 compressed images

Alpha channel support

Image Merge method with full transparency support

Deskew for correcting scanned images

Screen capture support

Support for reading and writing standard and custom TIFF tags

Support for getting opened image data including compression type, image format and other image specific data

GetRow/SetRow methods allow easy access to image data via arrays

The Image and Twain controls have been rewritten using ATl for enhanced speed and also smaller size. MFC DLLs are no longer required

Crop method

PartNumbers: PC-504599-140758 504599-140758 PC-504599-140767 504599-140767 PC-504599-140764 504599-140764 PC-504599-140761 504599-140761

Publisher PartNumbers: IMACTX IMACTXUPG IMACTXUPGV5 IMSRC

PurchaseOptions: ImageMan ActiveX Suite V8.60 1 Developer License , ImageMan ActiveX Suite V8.6 1 Developer License with Source Code , ImageMan ActiveX Suite V8.60 Upgrade from ImageMan Active V6/7 , ImageMan ActiveX Suite V8.60 Upgrade from ImageMan Active V5 or earlier

Resources: Read the ImageMan ActiveX help file, Download the ImageMan ActiveX V8.6 evaluation on to your computer - Displays Nag Screens

Operating System for Deployment: Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: ActiveX OCX

Built Using: MFC V4.0

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 97, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Visual J++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0, CodeGear C++ (formerly Borland), Delphi 3.0, Delphi 2.0, Delphi 1.0, Sybase Power++ Pro 2.0/2.1, Sybase PowerBuilder 6.0, Sybase PowerBuilder 5.0, Watcom C/C++, .NET Framework 1.0

Product Class: User Interface Components

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