PICTools Document Features

Compression & Decompression

Leverage faster compression/decompression and higher quality images with unmatched support and continuous improvement.

Document Image Processing and Editing

Gain low-level access to key document processing features, such as auto-binarization, auto border crop, dot shading removal, perspective warp correction, and more.

• Advanced JPEG editing within compressed JPEG DCT space
• Accusoft has conducted a vast amount of research to enhance its JPEG editing, compression, speed, clean up, and artifact removal algorithms. Because of it, Accusoft is one of the only companies that provides JPEG editing directly on JPEG compressed data, avoiding the quality loss of recompression and color conversion normally associated with editing JPEG images.
• Auto border removal
• Perspective warp correction fixes camera-captured images taken off-angle, so they can be accurately read by OCR, check deposit apps, and other capture technologies.
• Auto inverse text correction
• Auto negate
• Blank page / Blank rectangle detection
• Character completion & smoothing
• Comb removal (commonly used in ICR forms)
• Line removal
• Deskew
• Despeckle
• Manual and auto dot shading removal
• EXIF metadata editing
• Hole punch & blob removal
• Image binarization and thresholding
• Image resizing
• IPTC metadata support within JPEG
• Noise removal
• Scale to gray
• Sub-Image processing
• Quickly decode and view a rectangle within a JPEG image without decoding the rest of the image data 
• TIFF tag editing utilities
• Buffer to buffer image processing for maximum flexibility
• The high-performance API offers total control of image processing functions

Color Image Processing and Editing

• Auto binarize
• Auto color detection
• Analyze image content then recommend if image should remain color or can safely be converted to bitonal
• Brightness and contrast adjustment
• Color conversion, palette creation, rotation
• Color drop
• Remove specific colors from an image
• Image detergent®
• Reduce color noise and variation (great for removing JPEG compression artifacts around characters)
• Virtual bulb
• Emulate a color dropout scanner

Compression and File Formats

• JBIG2
• Provides higher compression ratios for lossy and lossless compression of binary images
• JPEG (Progressive)
• JPEG (Sequential) – 24-bit RGB, 8-bit grayscale
• Patented technology for enhanced JPEG decompression will remove block artifacts from over-compressed JPEG images without blurring
• IPTC metadata support within JPEG
• JPEG 2000 – 24-bit RGB, 8-bit grayscale
• Supports a user-configurable number of threads per operation for optimal throughput on multicore CPUs
• Metadata support
• MO:DCA
• PCX
• PDF
• Single or Multi-Page with Embedded Image
• TGA
• TIFF
• Metadata support
• BMP
• CAD
• Render from CAD format to DIB
• DXF, DWG, DWF
• CALS
• DCX
• GIF / LZW