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ImagXpress Document by Pegasus Imaging Corporation

A comprehensive document imaging toolkit. ImagXpress Document, replacing ImagXpress Professional, is ideal for document imaging and forms processing application development. As a .NET and COM toolkit, it delivers single and multi-page TIFF support, embedded-image PDF support, TIFF tag handling, EXIF tag handling, file conversion, and support for 1 to 16-bit images. Build applications displaying documents and thumbnail images with fine details enhanced. ImagXpress Document provides sophisticated TWAIN scanning support, image editing and clean up (including image binarization, thresholding, anti-aliasing, deskew, despeckle, line removal, hole punch removal, blank page detection, scale to gray, save as grayscale, crop, rotate, scale, zoom), annotation/redaction capabilities, and advanced printing capabilities beyond Internet Explorer. ImagXpress Document includes ImagXpress, NotateXpress, TwainPRO, PrintPRO, and ThumbnailXpress.

Technical Notes

Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments

Sample code is included for: VB.NET, C#, VB, Delphi, VC++, HTML, Access

Deploys within .NET as a managed control and is fully compliant with .NET 1.0 and above

Can be used in any development environment that hosts ActiveX/COM controls

Includes 5 controls: ImagXpress, NotateXpress, TwainPRO, ThumbnailXpress, 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

Compression & File Formats

Over thirty image formats are supported from files, memory and URLs

Read and write multi-page TIFF, PDF, ICO, DCX, and MO:DCA images

Multi-page TIFF support, including compacting of multiple page files, TIFF tag editing, Wang TIFF annotation compatibility, and 9 to 16-bit grayscale

TIFF format support includes Group 3 and Group 4, JPEG, JPEG Type 7, CCITT RLE, LZW, Pack Bits, and Deflate

Multi-page PDF support (embedded image PDF only - containing bitonal, grayscale, and color image data) including adding new pages into existing PDF files, and viewing pages from PDF files

Full Adobe PDF support is available by adding on the PDFXpress toolkit

Read and write single-page PDF, TIFF, JPG, GIF, RAW, BMP, WBMP, PNG, DCX, DIB, PIC, PBM, PCX, PGM, PPM, TGA, ICO, RLE, and more

Read WSQ and WMF image files

JPEG 2000, lossless JPEG, JPEG-LS, JBIG2, and WSQ compression support available as add ons

EXIF tag editing

Support for 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32-bit images

Support for 2 to 16-bit grayscale images, including window leveling

Beyond 8-bit, 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

Thumbnail Image Support

An easy, flexible, memory-friendly way to add thumbnail image display is provided by the included ThumbnailXpress control

Support a wide range of file formats (all those supported by ImagXpress and PDFXpress)

Multi-Page Image Support

Display thumbnails of directories and/or multi-page image files

Filter the contents of directories based on attributes such as file name, extension, date and time or size

Rapid Display

Generate thumbnails asynchronously to provide the fastest display of thumbnail images possible

Cache thumbnail images for quick scrolling and redisplay

Caching support provides options to control the amount of memory used

Horizontal or Vertical Scrolling

Create thumbnails in either vertical or horizontal mode (only one scroll bar will be active)

Scroll bar methods and events are available for creating custom solutions

Set the size of the container for thumbnail images

Flexible Captions

Set thumbnail display options, including spacing between thumbnails, border width, border color, background color and painting order

Set labels displayed with each thumbnail, either by automatically deriving from filenames, or programmatically controlled.

Take advantage of extensive font formatting options

Flexible Image File Selection

Select one or multiple thumbnails using the mouse

Create custom actions using mouse methods and events

Retrieve information about the thumbnail image including its height, width, and current status

Retrieve the name of the original image used to create the thumbnail

Document Image Processing and Editing

Comprehensive set of over 80 image processing functions

Automated 1 bpp image cleanup

Configurable Binarization and Half Toning

Anti-alias and scale to gray

Advanced merging capabilities

Autocrop

Automatic Deskew - Automatically detect and remove skew from bitonal images. Detection focuses on the content of the image, such as text and drawings, rather than the border. You can also specify acceptable skew angle, quality, and confidence levels

Despeckle - Use advanced technology to remove specks from bitonal images, including specification of speck size and reporting of number of specks removed

Line Removal - Remove lines of defined size, thickness, and other specifications, from bitonal images. Report the number of lines removed

Dilate - Add black pixels to extend objects vertically, horizontally, or diagonally

Erode - Remove black pixels from objects in bitonal images vertically, horizontally, or diagonally

Smooth Zoom - Enhance character clarity, using Smooth Zoom. Replace an image with a new image with width and height doubled and with pixels smoothed

Shear - Apply rotation of bitonal images, along only the vertical or horizontal axis, by the specified angle in degrees. Allow the user to specify the color with which to pad the image

Hole Punch & Blob Removal - Locate and remove all black blobs (e.g. hole punch marks) in bitonal images, within a defined search area, based on size or density. Detect and report the number of blobs found within the search area

Blank Page Detection - Automatically determine that a page is blank within a set of bitonal images, by detecting if no objects are found to exceed the minimum object dimension. A border (top margin, left margin, right margin, bottom margin) within which to test for blank page, and minimum confidence, can be specified

Border Crop - Remove the black border around a bitonal image

"Preserve Dark" Detail Enhancement

Ideal for enhancing thumbnail images or images that are zoomed out

Preserve the dark pixels of an image when an image is scaled at ratios less than 1:1 (many pixels are averaged for the one displayed)

Avoid losing details in fine lines or fine text

Retention of image transparency

Color anti-aliasing and smoothing for zoomed

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

TWAIN Scanning

Acquire images from TWAIN scanners and digital cameras

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

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

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

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

Annotation

Fully-programmable annotation support through 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/Kodak 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 fully transparent backgrounds for notations

Supports opaque and translucent notations, useful for watermarking

Multiple layer support

.ANN annotation file format support (a proprietary format of TMSSequoia that was used in the ViewDirector SDK, providing a clear upgrade path to ImagXpress, and allowing for conversion from .ANN to the corresponding NotateXpress type)

Lock and unlock annotation data to the control rather than the image, enabling navigation of medical images (and others) without moving the annotations, such as patient name and ID

Printing

Advanced printing support through PrintPRO

Add 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 multi-page TIFF and multi-page PDF output (containing G4 compressed image data)

Print text and graphic bitmaps

Print binary data

Print formatted and unformatted text, rotated text, graphics, margins, and any number of images on one or more pages

Text Capabilities - Set properties including location, alignment, font, rotation, attributes, color, background transparency and more

Set font objects in containers like Visual C++ using the Font Method

Graphics Capabilities - Line, point, circle, ellipse, rectangle, rounded rectangle, curve, arc, polygon, pie shapes and more

Provides complete control over how the graphics are drawn and filled including draw mode, draw style, width, fill color, and fill style

Printer Property Capabilities - View and change printer properties including the bin, paper size, print quality, orientation, duplex mode, etc.

Supports single and multi-page documents

Cancel print jobs that have been previously sent to the printer

Provides access to the printer's device context (DC) for custom control

Print single or multiple Device Independent Bitmaps (DIB) and Device Dependent Bitmaps (DDB) on any page

Bitmaps can be resized inside a rectangular area with or without maintaining the aspect ratio

Automatically maintain the bitmap's aspect ratio to print large images at any size

Set the system default printer

Select and set up a printer from a dialog box or query system printers

Print images transparently

Print collages, including precise placement of borders and other images by specifying pixels, twips, points, millimeters, centimeters, character or inches

What's New in ImagXpress V9.0

The components within the ImagXpress v9 SDK are updated to provide greater usability, functionality, flexibility, and performance.

Features Include:

Additional File Format Support

AutoCAD 2000 - DWG, DXF, DXB, DWF

HD Photo (JPEG XR) - HDP, WDP

More Camera RAW Formats

PTOCA – IBM’s AFP format with Presentation Text

ABIC– IBM compression format for check images

IPTC metadata support within TIFF and JPEG files

TIFF with intrinsic orientation (the file itself contains a rotation angle that can be interpreted during display)

JPEG 2000 images within PDFs

Compress to PSNR value in JPEG 2000 (to specify the amount of compression by quality rather than by target file size)

JPEG 2000 multithreading support for faster compression & decompression

Improved Rendering

Enhanced ability to load and process large images and files

Improved viewing of large PDF or CAD images

Query from Memory

Query image data (e.g. tags) from memory buffer or IO.Stream without loading the entire image

Save image data (e.g. tags) to memory buffer or IO.Stream without saving the entire image

New XML and XFDF Annotation Support

XML multi-page support for import and export of annotations via file or memory

PDF annotation import and export using XFDF via file or memory

Use with PDF Xpress to annotate PDF files

New Annotation Features

Note tool

Block highlight tool

Tooltip text support for individual annotations

Custom cursors

New arrowheads

Improved autosizing

Improved Unicode Support

Annotations

File names

Text

Printing

TWAIN Scanning

Enhanced TWAIN Scanning & Capture Support

New object-oriented .NET interface

Access to device’s capability settings and configuration dialog

Ability to maintain scanner settings for each session

JPG, J2K, JBIG2, TIFF-G4 compression types added to PDF save

TIFF write optimization (faster to write large multi-page TIFFs)

TW_STR32 type support

Save to stream or buffer

Unicode support

Enhanced Thumbnail Image Support

Directory drill down

Drag and drop thumbnails within and between thumbnail windows, and from other applications

Programmatic scrolling

Mousewheel support

Keyboard navigation

Load thumbnails from memory buffer or IO.Stream

Save thumbnail image as Bitmap, HBitmap, or Picture object

Set component, cell, text, and background colors

Associate user-defined data with thumbnail images

Generate thumbnails of CAD images

Improved Printing Support

New object-oriented .NET interface

Unicode support

Enhanced access – select printer by name

New User Interface Features

Smooth scroll

Mouse wheel support

Custom cursors

Easier Integration with Pegasus Imaging’s ISIS Xpress Toolkit

ISIS scanning and image capture is now included in the download and available for purchase separately as an add-on. Sample code is included

What's New in V8.0

Improved .NET Support - The ImagXpress, NotateXpress, and ThumbnailXpress .NET components use a newly designed object-oriented interface. These components are fully compliant with .NET 1.0 and above. The documentation for these components is fully integrated with Visual Studio

New Thumbnail Control - ThumbnailXpress provides developers with an easy, flexible, memory-friendly way to add thumbnail image display to applications. ThumbnailXpress is delivered as both a .NET component and COM control

Enhanced Document Imaging Features - ImagXpress v8.0 builds on previous technology to offer further enhanced document image processing features, including a subset of Pegasus Imaging's ScanFix technology

New Photo Editing Features - Includes Advanced Auto Red Eye Removal, Alpha Channel Support and Advanced Auto Color Correction and Auto Lightness Correction

New Compression and File Formats - Includes support for 9 to 16 Bit Gray TIFF, vendor-Specific Camera RAW Formats, TIFF JPEG Compression Type 7 and WSQ Fingerprint Decompression Added as Standard

New Annotation Features - Includes .ANN Annotation File Format Support and Medical Annotation Data Locking

Available in four editions;

Photo - includes ImagXpress, NotateXpress, TwainPRO, PrintPRO, and ThumbnailXpress

Document (formerly Professional in V7) - includes ImagXpress, NotateXpress, TwainPRO, PrintPRO, and ThumbnailXpress

View - includes ImagXpress, NotateXpress (Viewing functionality only), PrintPRO, and ThumbnailXpress

Standard - includes ImagXpress and TwainPRO

PartNumbers: PC-506212-156685 506212-156685 PC-506212-156689 506212-156689 PC-506212-156697 506212-156697 PC-506212-156693 506212-156693 PC-506212-156700 506212-156700 PC-506212-156701 506212-156701 PC-506212-156705 506212-156705

PurchaseOptions: ImagXpress Document V9.0 1 Developer License , ImagXpress Document V9.0 - Upgrades 1 Developer Upgrade License from ImagXpress Document V8.x , ImagXpress Document V9.0 - Upgrades 1 Developer Upgrade License from ImagXpress Professional V7.x , ImagXpress Document V9.0 - Upgrades 1 Developer Upgrade License from ImagXpress Professional V6.x , ImagXpress Document V9.0 - Runtime Licenses 1-4 Installations (Price per CPU) , ImagXpress Document V9.0 - Runtime Licenses 5 or more Installations (Price per CPU, Minimum quantity 5) , ImagXpress Document V9.0 - Server License 1 Server (CPU) License

Resources: See the ImagXpress Comparison Matrix, Read the ImagXpress ActiveX help file, Read the ImagXpress .NET help file, Read the ThumbnailXpress ActiveX help file, Read the ThumbnailXpress .NET help file, Read the TwainPRO ActiveX help file, Read the TwainPRO .NET help file, Read the PrintPRO ActiveX help file, Read the PrintPRO .NET help file, Read the NotateXpress ActiveX help file, Read the NotateXpress .NET help file, Read the Pegasus Licensing Information, Download the ImagXpress V9.0 ActiveX evaluation on to your computer - Displays Nag Screens, Download the ImagXpress V9.0 .NET evaluation on to your computer - Displays Nag Screens

Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.51

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WinForms, ActiveX OCX, VCL, VC++ Class Library

Built Using: ActiveX Template Library (ATL)

General: Internet Enhanced, Includes Digital Signature, Marked as Safe for Scripting, Marked as Safe for Initialization, OCX96 Compatible, Supports Component Categories, Supports Apartment Model Threading

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 97, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 4.0, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0, Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, Microsoft Access 2003, Microsoft Access 2002, Microsoft Access 2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, C++Builder 4, C++Builder 3, Delphi 7.0, Delphi 6.0, Delphi 5.0, IBM VisualAge for Basic, IBM VisualAge C++, Sybase PowerBuilder 7.0, Sybase PowerBuilder 6.0, Sybase PowerBuilder 5.0, Watcom C/C++, .NET Framework 2.0, .NET Framework 1.1, .NET Framework 1.0

Product Class: User Interface Components

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