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The
Image SDK/ActiveX is built upon Black Ice technology
used by customers for many years. The Image
SDK/ActiveX is a software development tool that
helps application developers and programmers create
applications with sophisticated image processing
capabilities. The Image SDK is compatible with the following development languages: .NET, VB.NET, C#, J#., C, C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, MS FoxPro, and MS Access.
Image SDK/ActiveX can
be divided into the following main components:
Display
The Image SDK/ActiveX includes a very powerful feature
that makes displaying images to any display device
easy. The display feature included in the Image
SDK/ActiveX provides an easy to use solution for
developers. Application developers now do not have
to spend expensive engineering time implementing
complicated display routines. Just a few function
calls and the Black Ice display routine will do
the rest.
Compression
The
Image SDK/ActiveX control supports all of the popular
data compression methods used in Document Imaging.
TWAIN
scanner support
Scanning
support is based on the latest TWAIN 1.9 drivers.
With the latest TWAIN drivers, application developers
have total control over almost every aspect of the
scanning process. Applications can even turn on
and off the use of the document feeder that some
newer scanners have in order to perform batch scanning
or automated scanning.
File formats (loading,
saving and converting images from one format to
another)
The
Image SDK/ActiveX support several file formats.
From simple BMP files to more complex TIFF and JPEG
files, everything is included. The Image SDK can
help create standard Group 3 1d, Group 3 2d or Group
4 faxable TIFF files, create JPEG files for web
sites, color faxing or photo albums, or use other
formats like PCX, DCX, PNG. The TIFF and JPEG libraries
developed by Black Ice Software are one of the first
and most extensive TIFF
and JPEG file format processing
and encoding/decoding
library available on the market.
The Image SDK/ActiveX control
can be further enhanced by upgrading to Document
Imaging SDK with PDF file format support.
Printing
Black
Ice imaging and image processing tools provide an
easy way to print images in single or multiple print
jobs with a wide variety of options. When printing,
today’s applications not only want to create a paper
copy of an image file but also want to specify the
way in which the image will be printed. The image
has to be positioned on the paper according to a
predefined location, printed with its original size
or stretched to a specific size. Some applications
even require printing more than one image on the
same page so the amount of paper wasted would be
minimal. Black Ice imaging tools provide several
powerful options to meet these needs.
Fax Image Processing
One
very important area where image processing is commonly
used is faxing. During faxing image files are being
transferred from one device to another. The format,
the size and the resolution of the image file that
can be transferred is specified by the fax standard
and by the device (i.e. fax board) that will transmit
the file.
Internet
Black Ice Software’s
Image SDK ActiveX controls are designed to assist
developers in building web-based Internet imaging
applications. You can build a server based
or client based image-processing web application
with quick integration using the Document Imaging
ActiveX controls.
Color Space Conversion
The
Color Space Conversion functions implement features
that change the way that colors are represented
in images. Today’s devices represent colors in many
different ways. Some devices, such as printers accept
1 bit monochrome images, others accept 24 bit full
color images. But there is also a difference in
the methods used to encode colors. Some devices,
like display devices, works with RGB color space.
Others devices such as printers may use CMYK colors
space. The Image SDK/ActiveX has over 60 functions,
which can be grouped into three sets of functions.
There is a group of function to convert a Device
Independent Bitmap, a buffer or a single pixel to
any of the color spaces. Black Ice imaging tools
currently support the following 9 color spaces:
RGB, CMY, CMYK, HIS, HSV, L*a*b, XYZ, YIQ, YUV.
Color Depth Conversion
The
Color Depth Conversion functions implement features
that change the way that colors are represented
in images. Today’s devices represent colors in many
different ways. Some devices, such as printers accept
1 bit monochrome images, others accept 24 bit full
color images. Converting a color image to black
and white is called halftoning or clustered-dot
ordered dither in computer graphics. The Image
SDK/ActiveX has 9 sophisticated dithering algorithm,
some of them only available from Black Ice such
as Stevenson Arce dithering.
Transformations
Image
transformations are important and one of the most
widely used components of any imaging toolkit.
Image transforms produce results quickly without
degrading the quality of the image.
Text Processing
Black
Ice imaging tools include a wide variety of text
processing functions that can be very helpful in
many different application areas.
Sample
Applications:
Additionally,
the Image SDK contains a variety of new sample applications,
which demonstrate the new document conversion capabilities
and features. The product is fully .NET compatible
and also provides sample source code written in
C#, VB.NET, and J# to demonstrate the powerful document
conversion options
Visual
Studio 2005, and VB.NET 8.0 Support has also been
added.
Operating Systems Supported:
Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000 (32 and 64 bit)
Windows Server 2008 R2/2008/2003/2000 (32 and 64 bit)
Ctrix XenApp (Citrix Presentation Server)/XenDesktop
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