Technical Notes

Programming environments: Win32 visual development environments including Vista (see "Pegasus Imaging Toolkits and the Windows Vista Environment" technical bulletin)
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 (see "Building Robust Imaging Components for the Microsoft .NET Platform" white paper )
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
Can be used in a multi-threaded environment and perform synchronous thread-safe processing (more).
BLOB database support
Free full-featured trial version available for immediate download

Photo Editing & Image Processing

Auto Red Eye Removal
Automatically detect and correct red eyes in digital photos using the Pegasus Imaging algorithm
Receive a list of red eye regions and the associated "confidence level" for each region, supporting automated removal based on set criteria 
    
BEFOREAFTER
Auto Color Correction & Auto Lightness Correction
Manually or automatically adjust color and contrast, while maintaining detail in shadow and highlight areas of the image
Auto Color Level
   
BEFOREAFTER
Auto Contrast
Alpha Channel Support
Support the full color channel within images (e.g. alpha, integration, separation) including alpha channels
Float images and entities (including with transparency) on top of the base image with smooth display
Photo Collage Layout and Printing
Precisely place borders and other images by specifying pixels, twips, points, millimeters, centimeters, character or inches
Dust Removal
Remove dust specks from color images
User provided parameter settings include speck size, light or dark specks, and smoothing adjustments
Scratch Removal
Remove scratches from a color image along a line
User provided parameter settings include thickness, brightness, and light or dark scratches
Color Deskew
EXIF tag editing without affecting image data
Sharpen, Unsharp, and Soften filters
Autocrop, crop, rotate, scale, zoom, despeckle, and border removal
Comprehensive set of over 80 image processing functions
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
24, 8, 4, and 1-bit color depth conversions with advanced palette control
Area and region processing

Compression & File Formats

Over thirty-five image formats are supported from files, memory and URLs
Read and write PDF, TIFF, JPG, GIF, BMP, WBMP, MO:DCA, CALS, PNG, DCX, DIB, PIC, PBM, PCX, PGM, PPM, TGA, ICO, RLE, and more
Vendor-specific Camera RAW - automatic detection and decompression of digital RAW photos from Canon, Fuji, Kodak, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus and more. (See list of makes and models)
Read WSQ and WMF image files
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
JPEG 2000, lossless JPEG, JPEG-LS, JBIG2, and WSQ compression support available as add ons
EXIF tag editing supported, without affecting the image data
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
Read and write multi-page TIFF, PDF, ICO, DCX, MO:DCA, and CALS
TIFF format support includes Group 3 and Group 4, JPEG, JPEG Type 7, CCITT RLE, LZW, Pack Bits, and Deflate
Multi-page TIFF support, including compacting of multiple page files, TIFF tag editing, and Wang TIFF annotation compatibility
CALS format support includes Type 1, raster format, single and multi-page
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)
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  

Color Management

Color Matching, with an easy to use interface:
Reflected and emitted colors can be matched to achieve visual equality
Supports monitor and printer profile selection, programmatically specifying rendering intent
Color Space Conversion using ICC Color Profile
CMYK to RGB conversion for TIFF and JPEG images
RGB to CMYK conversion for TIFF and JPEG images
Color Proof of printer output prior to printing

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  

Printing

Advanced printing support through PrintPRO
Image Color Management supported, including user provided monitor and print
Print collages, including precise placement of borders and other images by specifying pixels, twips, points, millimeters, centimeters, character or inches
Add powerful 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  

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