ImagXpress

New Features

What's new in ImagXpress 10 (.NET only)

• 64 bit support - Any CPU-compiled .NET SDK now supports application development for both 32 and 64 bit Windows platforms.
• Support for TWAIN 2.0 - including 64 bit TWAIN support
• Additional auto binarise options available
• Support for additional camera RAW formats

What's new in ImagXpress 9

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 ISIS Xpress Toolkit

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

Features

Compression & File Formats

• Supported file formats differ depending on version (Standard and Pro) and platform (.NET or ActiveX). Common formats with read/write support across both platforms and editions include BMP, DIB, GIF, JPEG, ICO, PNG, TGA and more.
• Interact with file formats on disk, in memory and URLs
• Support for 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32-bit images
• Password protect images using .pic, an Accusoft Pegasus format that allows greater compression and password capability. These files require Accusoft Pegasus products to view and manipulate them.
• And more

Photo and Color Image Processing & Editing

• Autocrop, Crop, Rotate, Scale, Zoom, Despeckle, Border Removal, and Color Deskew
• Auto Red Eye Removal to automatically detect and correct red eyes in digital photos with reporting and 'confidence level' for each region, supporting automated removal based on set criteria
• Auto Color Correction & Auto Lightness Correction
• Auto Color Level
• Auto Contrast
• Alpha Channel Support (e.g. alpha, integration, separation)
• Photo Collage Layout and Printing
• Dust Removal from color images
• Scratch Removal from color images
• EXIF tag editing without affecting image data
• Color Anti-Aliasing and Smoothing for zoomed images
• Advanced merging capabilities
• Retention of image transparency
• Adjust contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, gamma, and more
• Display adjustment of contrast, brightness, and gamma
• Color Matching with an easy to use interface, that allows reflected and emitted colors to be matched for visual equality.
• Supports monitor and printer profile selection, programmatically specifying rendering intent.
• Color Space Conversion using ICC Color Profile (CMYK to RGB and RGB to CMYK conversion for TIFF and JPEG images)
• Color Proof of printer output prior to printing
• 24, 8, 4, and 1-bit color depth conversions with advanced palette control
• Area and region processing

Thumbnail Image Support

An easy, flexible, memory-friendly way to add thumbnail image display and support a wide range of file formats.

• Display thumbnails of directories and/or multi-page image files
• Display thumbnails of PDF files (when PDF Xpress is installed)
• Load thumbnails from memory buffer or IOStream
• Generate thumbnails asynchronously to provide the fastest display of thumbnail images possible
• Cache thumbnail images for quick scrolling and redisplay
• Directory drill down
• Drag and drop thumbnails within and between thumbnail windows, and from other applications
• Programmatic scrolling, mouse wheel support, keyboard navigation, and more
• Set thumbnail display options including spacing between thumbnails, border width, border color, background color, and painting order
• Set labels displayed with each thumbnail
• Take advantage of extensive font formatting options
• Unicode support for thumbnail descriptors

Tools

• Hand tool, magnifying glass, pan and zoom, rubber band, rectangle (area and region), elliptical and free hand selection
• Create custom cursors
• Right click pop-up menu, including image information dialog, tool selection, zoom
• Create customized mouse and key sequences for tools in toolbar
• Automated support to maintain the Aspect Ratio for images with differing horizontal and vertical resolutions
• Multiple image scaling algorithms
• Advanced scrollbar, smooth scroll, mouse wheel support, 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 - add annotation and redaction capability to applications.

Document Image Processing & Editing

• Auto Binarise using image analysis and optimised settings when converting to a bitonal image
• Anti-Alias and Scale to Gray
• Dilate to add black pixels which extend objects vertically, horizontally, or diagonally
• Erode bitonal images by removing black pixels from objects
• Smooth Zoom enhances clarity by replacing small images with larger, smoothed images.
• Color Anti-Aliasing and Smoothing for zoomed images
• Shear enables degree rotation of bitonal images
• Hole Punch & Blob Removal with results reporting
• Blank Page Detection

TWAIN Scanning

• Acquire images from TWAIN scanners and digital cameras using the included TwainPRO component with support for TWAIN v2.0 standard, including 64-bit TWAIN support (.NET Only).
• Read and write basic G3/G4 TIFF, JPEG, BMP, and PackBits
• Save / compress to JPG, J2K, JBIG2, and TIFF-G4 within PDF files
• Speed optimised TIFF writing (faster creation of large multi-page TIFFs)
• Specify image resolution, image scaling, units, and color depth

Printing

• Add powerful printing features to applications with just a few lines of code
• Print to File, including multi-page TIFF and multi-page PDF output (containing G4 compressed image data)
• View and change printer properties, including default printer, bin, paper size, orientation, duplex mode, and more
• Supports single and multi-page documents
• Cancel print jobs that have been previously sent to the printer
• Print single or multiple Device Independent Bitmaps (DIB) and Device Dependent Bitmaps (DDB) on any page
• Color management support
• Automatically maintain the bitmap's aspect ratio to print large images at any size

Editions

Version 10 .NET Edition Comparison

Standard

• Basic imaging processing
• Common file format support
• TWAIN Scanning
• Thumbnail Support

Professional

All of the features in the Standard edition, plus:

• Advanced document image processing
• Advanced photo image processing
• Common and additional file format support
• Annotations
• Advanced Printing