ComponentSource Topic | Imaging

Nicomsoft OCR V2.1 released

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:51 GMT

Read and process images for OCR content.

Nicomsoft OCR is an OCR software development kit. Developers can use it to embed high-quality optical character recognition functionality into their products. Recognition quality, agility, small size, ease of use and a royalty-free licensing policy are the main advantages of Nicomsoft OCR.

Updates in V2.1

New deskew algorithm and "Img_GetSkewAngle" function
Improved "Blk_Inversion" function - added ability to detect block inversion
Added block inversion detection during page layout analysis
Improved error handling
Updated sample projects
Updated documentation

About Nicomsoft

Established in 1999, Nicomsoft is a privately owned software company, specializing in the development of efficient commercial libraries and utility applications for end users. All their specialists have years of experience in the development of customized, fully integrated digital systems.

Royalty-free Optical Character Recognition

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:21:00 GMT

Read and process images for OCR content.

Embed high-quality optical character recognition with Nicomsoft OCR.

Features

Excellent character analysis technology delivering reliable recognition of any font even in poor-quality images
Excellent analysis algorithms for poor quality text, distorted, connected and broken characters
Dictionaries are used for the best recognition
English, German, French, Spanish and Russian language support
ICR module for handwritten digits
Full support for multiple core CPUs speeding up analysis through efficient parallel processing of recognition
Support of multiple image formats including BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and GIF
Simple API interface and sample projects for various programming languages including C#, C++, VB.NET, Delphi, C++ Builder and VB
Supports .NET, WPF, WCF, ASP.NET and Silverlight frameworks and technologies
Both native x86 and x64 binaries are included
Support for multipage image formats (TIFF, GIF)
Support for PDF files
Load images from files, memory or pixel data
Invert/rotate/mirror entire images or selected text block(s) before processing
Adaptive image binarization supports images with poor brightness or low contrast
Configure image binarization parameters for specific images
Page layout analysis algorithm (zoning)
Perform OCR step by step to provide intermediate results
Use several CPU cores for even faster image binarization
Perform zonal OCR and select one or multiple areas for OCR
Specify different OCR options for different areas
Process multiple images at once by using multiple threads

About Nicomsoft

GdPicture.NET 8.2 improves OMR engine accuracy

Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:10:00 GMT

Annotations created with GdPicture.NET.

1D Barcode reader engine accuracy is also increased and support for PDF Form Fields editing has been added.

GdPicture.NET is a suite of document imaging toolkits delivered as .NET components enabling developers to compose, display, capture, edit and print documents into .NET applications including ASP.NET web applications. With GdPicture.NET your programs will be able to display documents, acquire image from TWAIN scanners, make image processing, perform optical characters recognition and many other features covering all mainstream areas of document imaging. GdPicture.NET technology supports more than 90 vector and bitmap image formats from 1-bit to 128-bit including High Dynamic Range images, JPEG2000, JBIG, JBIG2, PSD, JPEG, TIFF, PNG and RAW camera. GdPicture.NET can be used on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows development environment that supports .NET components such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and CodeGear RAD Studio. GdPicture PDF plugin, GdPicture XMP Annotation plugin, GdPicture JBIG2 Encoder plugin, GdPicture Forms Processing plugin, GdPicture OCR Tesseract Engine plugin, GdPicture 1D Barcode Reader plugin and GdPicture DataMatrix Recognition plugin are included free of charge in GdPicture.NET 8 Ultimate Edition. You can also buy GdPicture Plugins separately to extend the functionality of any other GdPicture.NET SDK.

Updates in 8.2

OMR engine accuracy increased
1D Barcode reader engine accuracy increased
Adobe PDF Annotation scheme support
PDF Form Fields editing support
New AnnotationManager class to handle GdPicture/XMP annotations by code
Improved Toolkit stability in extreme multithread context
Memory allocation and usage optimization of the Toolkit core
Improvement of the document imaging filters speed and accuracy (autodeskew, blank page detection...)
Support for Multiselect and Drag and Drop in the ThumbnailEx control
Bug fixes

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensives document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can add several features to your applications quickly and easily like OCR, image processing, PDF creation, image conversion, document displaying, document printing, image acquisition and all other features covering all areas of document imaging technologies. GdPicture has thousands of customers all over the world including ECM market companies and software development firms. Every day we provide services and reliable support to programmers & architects to reduce time and cost of applications development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

Victor Image Processing Library supports 64-bit

Fri, 12 Aug 2011 11:14:32 GMT

Online image processing using Victor Image Processing Library.

Version 6.0 adds library for 64-bit Windows, including a new interface for .NET languages.

Victor Image Processing Library gives your programs powerful image processing, color reduction, display, TWAIN scanning, printing, file handling, and converting capabilities. Victor Image Processing Library gives your applications the ability to handle a wide variety of image file formats including BMP, JPG, GIF, PCX, PNG, TGA, and TIFF. Use the Victor Image Processing Library to crop, mirror, flip, resize, and rotate to any angle. Extensive image processing is also included such as brightness, contrast, sharpness, embossing, posterization, and watercolor painting. Capture Images via TWAIN devices and even print them when finished. With Victor Image Processing Library you can create desktop or online ASP.NET. Compatible with Visual Basic, VB.NET, C/C++, C#, Java and many more DLL compatible environments.

Updates in V6.0

The Victor Image Processing Library is now available for 64-bit Windows. This version is functionally identical to the 32-bit Victor Library. The real change is that in the 64-bit operating systems all pointers and buffer addresses are 64-bit numbers. The result is that C/C++ function calls remain the same, but a new interface was created for dot net languages. The 64-bit Windows edition also allows you to work with larger images, it can handle images of any dimension up to 2 GB in total memory required.

You can now purchase Victor Image Processing Library for 32-bit Windows, 64-bit Windows or both. Upgrades are available from the 32-bit to the 64-bit edition.

About Catenary Systems

Catenary Systems first introduced the Victor Image Processing Library as a commercial product in 1990 as a library for dos programmers. Victor has evolved into the easy-to-use image toolkit it is today. With their expertise in developing small, fast code in C and assembler the company is dedicated to supporting and enhancing the library. Catenary Systems provides free technical support and offers custom software development to help developers achieve their goals and finish their projects.

Atalasoft DotImage V10.0 released

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:44:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

Adds a new web document viewer, managed subset, improved web scanning, barcode symbologies, and an IRIS OCR engine.

Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging is an advanced document imaging imaging toolkit that can add advanced image viewing, editing, printing, scanning, and annotating support to an application. DotImage Document Imaging includes an imaging class library, a Windows Forms control library, an ASP.NET Server-Side Image Viewer, DotTwain for advanced TWAIN scanning, and DotAnnotate for advanced annotations. Full documentation is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and the new release introduces several advancements in support of building imaging applications for the cloud.

The following DotImage products are available:

Updates in 10.0

New WebDocumentViewer for ASP.NET websites. Built on jQuery and modern browser technologies.
Developers can create a full-page document viewer with smooth, flick-style momentum scrolling. Just a few lines of code are needed and the viewer can be easily embedded into any ASP .NET or ASP .NET MVC website and can be themed.

Can be easily deployed to websites using ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC
Can be themed with jQuery UI ThemeRoller
Shows multiple pages in a scroll viewer
Uses web handlers for server interaction

New DotImage OCR Engine: IRIS IDRS
DotImage 10.0 OCR now supports the IRIS IDRS engine. It currently supports 137 Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, etc. languages and add-ons offer recognition of Asian, Hebrew, and Farsi languages. It also offers zonal and page analysis support. Another feature, the I.R.I.S. Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) engine for all Latin based languages, supports spaced and even touching handprint.

Supports Asian character sets
Supports ICR

New Silverlight Imaging SDK that is a subset of DotImage and usable in the client-side of Silverlight applications without elevation.
A large subset of DotImage has been ported to run inside the Silverlight client and other managed environments such as Windows Phone 7, Office 365, and Partial-Trust environments, plug-in and other managed environments such as WinPhone 7, BPOS, and Partial-Trust environments.

Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
Many image processing commands including 1-bit

Silverlight viewer performance enhancements

Can use local isolated storage for client-side caching.
Can get pages on demand when in single-page view mode
Silverlight viewers can use TIFF directly without converting to PNG or JPEG.

New fully-managed AnyCpu subset of DotImage that can be used in partial-trust environments.

Includes TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and BMP codecs
Many image processing commands including 1-bit

New Barcode Reader Symbologies
In addition to Code 39, UPC, PDF417, QR Code, DataMatrix, and the rest of DotImage's 1D and 2D barcode symbologies, DotImage now supports

AustraliaPost
OneCode/Intelligent Mail
Planet
RM4SCC

EZTwainX is included in DotImage Document Imaging and DotTwain
Browser-based scanning has been significantly improved with the addition of ActiveX TWAIN capabilities from the Dosadi acquisition, and included in DotTwain and DotImage Document Imaging.

About Atalasoft

Established in 2000, Atalasoft is a provider of a high-performance, standards-compliant .NET Framework imaging libraries targeted towards authors of document processing and management systems and photographic imaging. Atalasoft offers unparalleled ease of integration through CLR compliant objects, logically laid-out object hierarchies, rock-solid implementation, and first-rate support. Atalasoft's components have been used to quickly add imaging functionality to applications thus saving money and reducing development time. Atalasoft's customers include fortune 500 companies, medical imaging corporations, aerospace engineering, software development firms, and web developers from all over the world.

LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro improves performance

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:01:26 GMT

Defining vector properties using LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging Pro SDK.

Version 17.5 optimizes load performance of PCL and CGM formats.

LEADTOOLS Vector Imaging SDK includes a low level API, and C++ Class library to add, edit, delete, rotate, translate, and scale objects. Group objects into layers. Change camera and lights. OpenGL, DirectX or GDI engines supported. Convert and save vector images to any of the over 150 raster file formats supported by LEAD.

The following editions are available:

Updates in V17.5

Added support for loading PCL6
Optimized load performance of PCL and CGM formats
CGM view options now support Virtual Device Coordinates (VDC)
Added support for loading different DXF paper spaces
Added Geometric text support for DXF
Added CMYK RLE raster data support within PCL
Added support in DWF filter to load according to sheet dimensions

About LEAD Technologies

LEAD Technologies, Inc. is a privately held company founded in 1990 by Moe Daher and Rich Little. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, LEAD was established to commercialize Mr. Daher's inventions in the field of digital imaging and compression technology. Over the course of LEAD's more than 20 year life span, LEAD has become the established global leader in the digital imaging development tool sector, with a leading market position in all major countries throughout the world. LEAD is the developer and publisher of LEADTOOLS, the award winning development toolkit.

Atalasoft DotImage updated to 9.0d

Wed, 11 May 2011 17:18:00 GMT

Adding annotations to a document with Atalasoft DotImage Document Imaging.

The following DotImage products are available:

Updates in 9.0d

Added ReferencedImageAnnotationRootPath property to the WebAnnotationViewer to allow caching of ReferencedImageAnnotation images in the browser
Added additional Type6 metadata parsing for unknown WANG Type6 data. It is now stored in the ExtraProperties of an annotation
.NET 4.0 WPF defaults to low quality instead of high quality for image resizes. DotImage set to high quality by default for its WPF viewers now
Added support for reading Wang Link Annotations, whose information is put in Extra Properties
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to render improperly if annotations were loaded in a RemoteInvoke when there were no layers
Fixed bug in TileSize for the WebImageViewer
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause TextAnnotations to render their text farther down the next line even when there was space left
Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer that stopped Chrome from working while using ASP.NET MVC
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would duplicate annotations on PostBack
Added Silverlight method for opening multiple files at once
A bug was fixed in the GifDecoder so that it will partially read some broken GIF files instead of throwing an exception
PDF Rasterizer bug fixed to rasterize PDF with 4bpp images in them
Fixed PDF/A compliance issue. endobj needs a newline before it
Fixed a rare bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause text fields containing annotation data to be added to the page
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that did not render annotation edges smoothly
Fixed a bug in PDF Annotation exporting when exporting no annotations over a page with annotations, it didn't remove the annotations that were there as expected
LevelsCommand support 16bpp Gray images now
Fixed a bug in the WebImageViewer when contained in an UpdatePanel in a TabControl
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would cause annotations to disappear while RemoteInvoking
TiffDecoder can now deal with more corrupt TIFF files that have their directory offsets set to impossibly large numbers
Fixed client side support of Annotation.CanSelect
Improved multiline text rendering on Canvas object
Fixed a bug saving PDF after removing pages
Wang saved EmbeddedImageAnnotation functionality improved
Fixed a bug in ResampleDocumentCommand with images set to minisblack (using 0 for black, 1 for white)
Fixed a problem with rendering WebControls inside ASP.NET MVC ViewUserControls
Fixed a bug in WebAnnotationViwer -- the annotation was still loading after its AnnotationLoaded event is raised
Fixed a bug in the PDFEncoder for 1bpp images in the same document as 24bpp images
PDFAnnotationExporter and Loading Annotations did not take Rotation into consideration
Handle null destinations in PDF
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would fire AnnotationChanged at the wrong time in some cases.
Fixed a bug in the WebAnnotationViewer that would not allow the ToolTip to be set from the client side when creating the annotation programmatically
fixed bug in SilverlightImageViewer when 1bpp images are rotated and antialiased. It didn't show it rotated
Fixed a bug in PDF generation with black outlines not showing up in Acrobat
Added a GetObjectType() to WebControls, so that customers can inherit from them, but original type is still known
Fixed a bug in the TWAIN ActiveX control to check availability of changing sizes before allowing it

About Atalasoft

New Web Parts for SharePoint 2010

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:05:00 GMT

Examples of C1Chart, C1DataGrid and C1Maps Web parts.

ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint improves data access, performance and usability and adds two image viewing Web Parts.

ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint is a suite of Silverlight-enabled Web Parts for visualizing Microsoft SharePoint lists and libraries. ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint enables administrators to easily add interactive and useful elements to their SharePoint sites. ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint access both SharePoint lists and SQL Server data. ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint is easily configurable by administrators and, if permissible, by end users alike. ComponentOne Studio for SharePoint exploits the full capability of the Silverlight platform. These SilverLight-based web parts help users visualize data with grids, charts, and Microsoft Virtual Earth-based maps. Each web part has a intuitive designer, so users can configure their own views.

Updates in 2011

2 New Web Parts: ImageViewer and CoverFlow. Both of these allow the user to view images in new and useful ways. With this release ComponentOne will have 5 Web Parts in their Studio - Chart, DataGrid, Map and 2 new Web Parts, CoverFlow and ImageViewer

CoverFlow displays SharePoint picture libraries in an interactive iTunes-style gallery
ImageViewer displays an image with a magnifying glass that lets you zoom in anywhere on the image

Point-and-Click Web Part Connections: Allows the user to create useful and interactive pages without needing a developer
DataGrid Enhancements: More control of row and column formatting with settings such as sizing, format, and word wrapping
Chart Enhancements: More control of axis and series formatting. Now the user can chart more than one series per axis

About ComponentOne

ComponentOne has provided a wide range of Microsoft Visual Studio components, IDE platform development tools and applications for over 22 years. This includes ComponentOne Studio Enterprise, which represents a broad and complete set of tools and solutions for Microsoft Windows, Web and Mobile application developers. ComponentOne has continued leadership in the Microsoft Visual Studio component industry and is a premier partner of Microsoft. It also offers ComponentOne SharePoint Web Parts, custom Web Parts that enable you to deliver rich, compelling SharePoint sites without writing a line of code; ComponentOne Doc-To-Help, a long-recognized product for technical communicators who write and develop Help systems; and ComponentOne DemoWorks, a screen recording tool to produce WMV, Flash, GIF, AVI, EXE and Java files.

ComponentOne has received numerous industry and user accolades including awards from SDTimes, The Code Project, TechWeb, Software Development Magazine, Visual Studio Magazine, Society for Technical Communication and SQL Server Magazine.

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, ComponentOne is a privately held company with offices throughout the world.

Prizm Viewer adds Windows 7 support

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:14:00 GMT

Selecting file associations with Prizm Viewer.

Version 9 also expands poster printing capabilities and features enhanced support for 2-up and 4-up document printing.

Prizm Viewer adds powerful document viewing to your Web browser. Display, annotate, e-mail, print, and export single and multi-page TIFF, PDF, CAD, JPEG, and many other files, all from within a single user interface. Prizm Viewer users have access to all product features after a simple installation. Administrative tools expose Prizm Viewer's extensive flexibility and full benefits, enabling the creation of Enterprise Solutions for document delivery and collaboration.

Updates in v9

Expansion of Poster Printing capabilities - Enables additional control over printing large engineering drawings on printers that only support smaller paper sizes
Enhanced support for 2-up and 4-up document printing - Allows printing of multiple image pages on a single piece of paper
Support for Windows 7

About Accusoft Pegasus

Founded in 1991 under the corporate name Pegasus Imaging, and headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Accusoft Pegasus 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. Today the combined Accusoft Pegasus, with its wide suite of products, deep R&D and generous customer focus, is the imaging SDK leader. 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.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging 17.0 released

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:36:00 GMT

Viewing a DICOM sample file with LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging SDK.

Latest version adds DICOM dataset support, viewers, codecs and image processing functions for Silverlight.

LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging includes hand-picked and optimized features to meet the specific needs of medical imaging application development, such as full DICOM dataset support, support for 8-16 bit grayscale, and 12 and 16 bit image processing and display with window leveling and LUT processing. DICOM 3, the industry standard medical imaging format/protocol is fully and completely supported, allowing programmers access to medical images retrieved from digital imaging modalities such as CT and MR scanners. LEAD's DICOM imaging support is one of the richest in the industry supporting 8, 10, 12, 16, 24 and 32 bit images including JPEG (8, 10 , 12, 16-bit Lossless grayscale, 8, 12-bit lossy grayscale, 24-bit lossless and lossy color), Run Length, Uncompressed, Photometric Interpretation (Monochrome1, Monochrome2, Palletized, RGB, ARGB, CMYK, YBR Full 422, YBR Full), and single and multi-page images. LEAD's Medical Imaging toolkit includes 8-16 bit grayscale display with window leveling. Window leveling is a linear conversion from stored pixel values to values to be displayed; LEADTOOLS can map the stored pixel values of interest using a user defined color map (using a LUT or Palette) or linear gray LUT.

The following products are available:

Updates in V17.0

LEADTOOLS V17.0 has an extensive offering of new imaging technology and enhancements. A substantial portion of LEADTOOLS functionality including image format load and save, image processing, compression, display, effects and annotation is optimized to support 100% pure Silverlight development and can be used in Silverlight without external dependencies or server calls. LEAD also now offers a .NET class library solution and x64 bit OS support for all functionality across the Document, Medical, Multimedia, and Raster imaging engines.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Medical Engine

Optimized internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of image handling and processing.
New Silverlight DICOM dataset support. Create, load, view, edit and save DICOM datasets including pixel data, elements and annotations in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight viewers. Image viewer, image list, pan window, and magnifying glass pixel shader.
New Silverlight codecs. Load, save and convert more than 100 formats and subformats including DICOM, TIFF, JBIG, JBIG2, IOCA, FAX (CCITT Group3/4), JPEG 2000, JPEG, BMP, CALS, GIF, PNG, TGA, and EXIF in Silverlight clients.
New Silverlight image processing functions. Process images on Silverlight clients with more than 130 advanced image processing functions including Window Level, Multiscale Enhancement, Tissue Equalization, Adaptive Contrast, Unsharp Mask, Auto Segment, Digital Subtract and Add Bitmaps.
New Silverlight annotations. Load, save, create and edit image annotations (markups) in Silverlight clients. Annotation object types include Rectangle, Ellipse, Highlight, Line, Redact, Text, Ruler, Protractor, CrossProduct, Image, TextPointer, Point, Curve, Point, Polygon and Polyline.
New Silverlight pixel shaders. Apply visual effects such as Window Level in Silverlight clients with more than 150 pixel shaders.
New Medical 3D module. Construct and view a 3-dimensional volume from a set of homogenous 2-dimensional medical images. Provides several rendering methods and tools for advanced visualization including MPR, A volume is constructed with Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR) by stacking axial slices. Slices of the volume are then cut in a different plane. VRT, A volume is constructed with VRT (Volume Rendering Technique) by assigning an opacity range to CT values to provide a clear definition of object outlines or a translucent visualization of objects. MIP, A volume is constructed with MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the maximum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MIP reconstructions are useful for angiographic studies. MinIP A volume is constructed with MinIP (Minimum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the minimum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MinIP reconstructions are useful for assessing lung structures. and SSD. A volume is constructed with Shaded Surface Display (SSD) by applying a surface to a structure of interest within the volume. SSD provides a realistic 3D view of objects of interest. Viewing options include planes, clip, slab, scale, zoom, threshold, image processing, and full camera control. 3D rendering can be stand alone or hosted in the high-level LEADTOOLS Medical Image Viewer control to leverage the built-in tools and automation provided by the viewer control. Medical 3D module is available as an add-on or included in the LEADTOOLS Medical Imaging Suite SDK.
New support included with the LEADTOOLS PACS Framework:
- New DICOM Router components. Route images to one or more PACS based on user-defined business rules.
- New DICOM Work List components. IHE compliant server and client components for Modality Work List (MWL), Modality Performed Procedure Step (MPPS).
- New DICOM High-Level Storage, Query and Retrieve Services. IHE compliant server and client components for DICOM Storage, Query and Retrieve.
Updates to the LEADTOOLS PACS Workstation Framework
- Added support to create, manipulate and render 3D volumes from DICOM stacks.
- Added cut-plane on 2D DICOM slices to generate 3D volumes with interactive support for positioning, orientation and volume thickness.
- Added DICOM series reference line and orientation tag support.
- Added extensive options to control the process of DICOM image storage into the Workstation database with the ability to generate images with different formats.
- Enhanced Workstation listener service logging and added new event log viewer.
New Print to PACS application with project source code. Captures image data from printer driver, TWAIN, WIA, image file, clipboard, or screen capture and then saves the resultant DICOM file to disk or stores it to PACS using C-STORE. Includes options to get the required metadata from manual entry, Modality WorkList or PACS Queries.
Updates to layout control in the LEADTOOLS Medical Viewer
- Supports unconstrained (non-grid) cell layouts.
- Cells can host other WinForm controls such as the InternetBrowserControl.
- Cells can be hosted by other WinForm controls.
- Added new 3D cell type to the Medical Image Viewer control to render and manipulate 3D volumes providing several rendering methods and tools for advanced visualization including MPR, A volume is constructed with Multi-Planar Reconstruction (MPR) by stacking axial slices. Slices of the volume are then cut in a different plane. VRT, A volume is constructed with VRT (Volume Rendering Technique) by assigning an opacity range to CT values to provide a clear definition of object outlines or a translucent visualization of objects. MIP, A volume is constructed with MIP (Maximum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the maximum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MIP reconstructions are useful for angiographic studies. MinIP A volume is constructed with MinIP (Minimum Intensity Projection) by projecting a volume of interest and rendering only the minimum CT values that intersect the viewing plane. MinIP reconstructions are useful for assessing lung structures. and SSD. A volume is constructed with Shaded Surface Display (SSD) by applying a surface to a structure of interest within the volume. SSD provides a realistic 3D view of objects of interest. Viewing options include planes, clip, slab, scale, zoom, threshold, image processing, and full camera control.
- Added image overlapping.
New image processing functions:
- New tissue equalization function to enhance x-ray images by performing equalization between hard and soft tissues.
- New anisotropic diffusion function to enhance medical images by removing noise while maintaining image integrity.
- New auto segment image processing function to automatically segment CT and MRI images by shrinking a defined rectangular region onto objects in the image.
- New mean shift image processing filter to enhance images based on the color distance of a pixel and the pixels in a radius of inspection.
New DICOM dataset edit control.
Import and export DICOM to XML to easily edit and compare DICOM datasets.
Up to date DICOM IOD tables.
New support for the Analyze medical file format.

What's new in the LEADTOOLS 17 Raster Engine

Optimized internal core functions to dramatically increase the speed of image handling and processing.
.NET 4.0 binaries
New Visual Studio 2010 projects from all .NET and Silverlight sample applications
Enhanced WPF viewer controls
WPF Pixel Shaders
Added multi-monitor support to screen capture
Load PowerPoint files as an image
Word Doc files as an image
Excel XLS files as an image
Added folder watch feature to the LEADTOOLS Thumbnail Browser so that the Thumbnail Browser can automatically update when files are modified, added or deleted to the folder.

For more information visit:
http://www.leadtools.com/corporate/pr/LEAD17Medical.pdf (Adobe PDF)

About LEAD Technologies

ImageDraw SDK adds callouts and RTL text

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 16:40:00 GMT

Online business card generator and AJAX slideshow in ImageDraw SDK for .NET.

ImageDraw SDK for .NET supports callouts including rectangle, rounded rectangle and oval shapes plus right-to-left text.

ImageDraw SDK for .NET is a lightweight royalty-free .NET component (.NET DLL Class Library a.k.a. assembly) which lets you easily add advanced Imaging Effects and Dynamic Image Composition to any .NET Framework-based application. ImageDraw allows you to use all the potential of GDI+ to dynamically create composite images (supporting image files, text like captions and watermarks as well as AutoShapes (lines and arrows, rectangles, ovals, polygons, stars, etc)) with lots of useful built-in Imaging effects like drop shadows, reflections, perspective views, Polaroid, filmstrip, scaling, resizing, skewing, and so on. Neodynamic ImageDraw SDK for .NET is 64 bit compatible.

Updates in V3.0

Callouts (a.k.a. Speech Bubbles) including rectangle, rounded rectangle and oval shapes
Path lines/curves with the new PathShapeElement class
Rich Text rendering with the new RichTextElement class including kerning, line spacing, etc.
Added RTL text rendering to for languages like Hebrew
Added sizing features to TextElement including "Fit To Width", "Fit To Height" and "Stretch"
Added multi-stroke feature to TextElement
Added Visible property to all elements
Added a new fitting feature called "FitIfMax" to Resize action
Added scanning direction support for RemovePixel and MakeTransparent actions
Added irregular path cropping to Crop action
ImageElement object can be instructed to not maintain EXIF metadata
EXIF metadata reader utility

About Neodynamic

Neodynamic designs and develops developer software components for Microsoft .NET platform related technologies. Its development force is focused on designing .NET controls and components for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, ASP.NET Mobile, and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. Founded in 2003, Neodynamic is a continuously growing and profitable company with customers in more than 55 countries all over the world. Some of the companies using Neodynamic products include Microsoft, UPS, HP, JPMorgan Chase, Invesco, AstraZeneca, Kyocera Mita, The World Health Organization, Lilly, etc.

Royalty-free image viewers now available

Tue, 25 May 2010 16:30:00 GMT

An image viewer sample application made with GdImageBox Pro ActiveX.

GdImageBox OCX and GdImageBox Pro ActiveX support popular image formats including GIF, JPEG, HDR, PNG, PSD and TIFF.

GdImageBox is a royalty-free Image Viewer ActiveX control for developers who need to support popular graphic image formats like TIFF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, BMP, WBMP, PCX, PNM, PFM, J2K, JP2, HDR, JBIG, PSD, TGA, JNG, EXR, DDS, PPM, SGI, PBM, PGM, XBM, XPM, KOALA and IFF. Using GdImageBox, you can view, zoom and rotate, define a display area, zoom in on an area, play animated gifs, display multi-page tiff files, define your own zoom in or zoom out values, use the keyboard to scroll down and across images, and set an anti-aliasing & smoothing display mode. GdImageBox Pro can be used within any Windows development environment that supports ActiveX components, like Visual C++, VB6, Visual Foxpro, Delphi, Visual Studio .NET, VB.NET, MS Access and WinDev.

The following editions are available:

Features

Unicode Support
Display single page and multi-page images
Read EXIF Tags, GPS Tags, Thumbnail Tags and IPTC Tags
Display large image files
Load images with embedded ICC profiles
Load images from IStream or IUnknown binary data
Load images from URLs using HTTP or FTP protocols
Support for 1-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 48-bit and 64-bit color depth images
Load images from Clipboard data, StdPicture objects, IPicture objects, HBitmap handles, DIB handles and Gdiplus handles
Rotate & flip 90°, 180°, 270° and flip X or Y-axes
User-defined display area
Loop an animated gif using minimal CPU resources
Move & scroll down and across images using vertical & horizontal scrollbars
Aspect ratio control of the horizontal & vertical image resolution
Built-in tools including pan, auto zoom and area selection
Move and scroll an image using the mouse
Zoom enhance, zoom by height, by width, fit to viewer
User-defined zoom-in & zoom-out step values and user-defined area zoom
Many keyboard and mouse events are available
Change image zoom or position using the mouse wheel
Smooth scrolling
Save and restore a specific position within an image

About GdPicture

GdPicture is a leading editor of comprehensive document imaging toolkits for developers. Delivered as ActiveX and .NET components, GdPicture products can quickly and easily add several features to your applications like OCR, image processing, PDF creation, image conversion, document displaying, document printing, image acquisition and all other features covering all areas of document imaging technologies. GdPicture has thousands of customers all over the world including ECM market companies and software development firms. Every day the company provides services and support to programmers and architects to reduce the time and cost of application development. GdPicture is based in Toulouse, France.

Manipulate vector data with THBVector

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:18:00 GMT

Detecting a click on an area of a vector based map.

New vector data processing component lets you edit, store, process and analyze your vector and geometry data.

THBVector SDK is a vector data processing component. It can hold one or more vector layers where each layer contains geometry objects and you can insert or delete layers. Geometry objects can be manually created and put into layers. You can create objects like point, line, line string, rectangle, polygon, polygon with holes, circle and ellipse. With THBVector you can edit, store, process, analyse your vector and geometry data. THBVector can render raster image data and vector data at more than 50 frames per second using DirectX or Toggle between DirectX and GDI rendering at runtime. THBVector Professional supports loading from vector files like DXF, DGN, SHP and SVG, writing shape files and DXF. THBVector is ideally suited for annotation purposes too.

The following editions are available:

Features

Place points, lines, rectangles, polygons, text, circles and ellipses
The end user can digitize geometry objects like points, lines, rectangles, polygons, texts, circles, ellipses on the available view area.
Spatial index
Data is stored internally in an intelligent spatial index that arranges data for fast access even if you work with an enormous number of geometry data.
DirectX Rendering
Render raster image data and vector data at more than 50 frames per second using DirectX. Toggle between DirectX and GDI rendering at runtime.
Limit image processing operations
You can easily access the geometry coordinates and use them for further processing. With these coordinates you can limit image processing operations to a specific area.
Mark parts of the image
THBVector is ideally suited for annotation purposes. The user can mark parts of an image. These annotation objects can be linked to websites or you can react to clicks on it.
Selecting, Highlighting
When clicking on a geometry object that is visible in THBView it will be selected. The grab handles will be adjusted to enclose all selected objects. To select multiple objects you can use a selection rectangle. Or you can hold down the SHIFT key to select multiple objects. You can access and further process all selected objects.
Snapping
When you move the mouse close to vector objects the mouse cursor will snap to the nearest point of interest. This can be a start, mid, endpoint, centerpoint, intersection point or simply a point on a line segment.
Response to clicks
Events provide you the possibility to response to clicks on geometry objects
File formats
You can read the following geometry file formats: DXF (AutoCAD ASCII drawing exchange format), DGN (Bentley Design File Format version v7), SHPESRI Shapefiles, SVG Scalable Vector graphics (Professional only)
Deskew
The deskewing algorithm works with 1bit, 8bit and RGB data. You can preprocess it to get the raster input data we need. Deskewing speed can be adjusted by lowering the input data quality.

About THBComponentware

THBComponentware is a privately owned company dedicated to the developer community since its inception in 1998. Its client base includes hundreds of developers from all over the world. The company develops .NET components, ActiveX controls and COM objects for professional Windows developers. The products are designed either for the .NET platform or for Visual Basic, Visual C++ and MSAccess. THBComponentWare's high-quality, timesaving components help you deliver your application on time, and make your job easier.

Neodynamic updates ImageDraw for ASP.NET

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:59:00 GMT

Editing ImageDrawMap properties in ImageDraw for ASP.NET.

Latest release adds support for rich text rendering, RTL text and EXIF metadata reading.

Neodynamic ImageDraw for ASP.NET can render all raster images supported by .NET Framework through the GDI+ Bitmap Object (i.e. BMP, GIF, JPEG/JPG, EXIF, PNG, TIFF and ICO), deliver dynamically generated composite images such thumbnails or image maps. ImageDrawMap control allows you to organize hot spot regions in a visual manner using the HotSpots Editor. ImageDraw for ASP.NET can be bound to SQL Server BLOB and works with Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. It is compatible with Visual Studio.NET, Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 (VB.NET, C#, VC++, etc.), Borland Delphi and C# Builder, etc.

Updates in V5.0

Callouts (a.k.a. Speech Bubbles) including rectangle, rounded rectangle and oval shapes
Path lines/curves with the new PathShapeElement class
Rich Text rendering with the new RichTextElement class including kerning, line spacing, etc.
Added RTL text rendering to for languages like Hebrew
Added sizing features to TextElement including "Fit To Width", "Fit To Height" and "Stretch"
Added multi-stroke feature to TextElement
Added Visible property to all elements
Added a new fitting feature called "FitIfMax" to Resize action
Added scanning direction support for RemovePixel and MakeTransparent actions
Added irregular path cropping to Crop action
ImageElement object can be instructed to not maintain EXIF metadata
EXIF metadata reader utility