ImageGear Professional v16 - The Global Standard

PDF Enhancements

ImageGear provides the latest PDF support for developers working with Acrobat files. Developers can quickly integrate PDF annotation, editing, and creation into their applications. Here are the latest PDF enhancements in ImageGear:

Powerful 3D PDF Content

Developers can create applications with support for 3D PDF content. Starting with version 1.6, PDF introduces the capability for collections of 3D objects, such as those used by CAD formats, to be embedded in PDF files. Such collections are called 3D models, and PDF refers to them as 3D Artwork. In PDF documents, 3D Artwork is represented by 3D annotations stored in Universal 3D (U3D) format.

Robust PDF/X and PDF/A Verifiers

There is new ImageGear API that verifies compliance with PDF/X and PDF/A standards, which are defined by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

• PDF/X - The PDF/X standards apply to graphic content exchange. The most widely used standards for a print publishing workflow are several PDF/X formats: PDF/X-1a, PDF/X-3, and PDF/X-4.
• PDF/A - The PDF/A standards apply to long-term archiving of electronic documents. The most widely used standards for PDF archiving are PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b (for less stringent requirements).

Optimized PDF Display

ImageGear introduces optimized PDF display rendering and scrolling capabilities. Developers can control the IG display API to re-render PDF page content for display.

Vector Improvements

ImageGear provides developers with tools to read, write, and render vector images. The latest version of ImageGear provides the following new features to integrate and work with vector-based images and data.

Use Universal 3D (U3D)

The U3D file format, short for "Universal 3D", is a universal vector standard for storing three-dimensional data of all kinds to facilitate data exchange. The U3D format is natively supported by PDF, and 3D objects in U3D format can be inserted into PDF document files and interactively visualized by PDF viewers. The ImageGear U3D Vector Component supports reading, writing and rasterizing the U3D vector files.

Work with Design Web Format (DWF)

DWF is an open file format developed by AutoDesk for storing DWG files on the Internet. DWF contains a vector based description of drawings and illustrations.

Digital Camera Support

ImageGear provides developers with support for a wide range of digital camera RAW formats. Each camera model is exhaustively tested to work with ImageGear so you can develop your application without worrying about compatibility problems. The following are the latest digital camera features:

Nearly 200 Digital Cameras Supported

Support for more than 80 new digital camera RAW file formats. Learn more about supported digital camera RAW file formats.

Powerful Color Reconstruction GUI

Interactive GUI for Digital Camera RAW color reconstruction. Developers can reconstrct Camera Raw images with an ImageGear Processing API and Control Parameters for the Digital Camera Raw and Headerless Camera Raw Filters.

More File Formats

ImageGear provides developers a large library of supported files formats. We make sure that we support new files as they are created and in addition, the AccuSoft Image Guarantee™ allows developers to know that we stand behind our imaging tools. The following are the latest file formats available in our imaging SDKs:

Quickly Work with the Latest XPS Docs

Support for the new file format: XPS. The XPS Document format represents a set of related pages with a fixed layout, which are organized as one or more documents.

Easily Handle Huge Adobe PSB Files

ImageGear provides support for the Adobe PSB (Photoshop Big) or Large Document format, which is a newer version of Adobe PSD designed for files over 2 gigabytes, supporting up to 300,000 pixels in any dimension. The PSB format is almost identical to the Photoshop native format (PSD).

Juggle Photoshop Layers Easily

ImageGear now allows users to load layered Photoshop image files (Adobe PSD and Adobe PSB) and retain image layers for editing. Users can also create new image layers, delete existing ones, as well as flatten and display the selected composition of image layers.

Manipulate Spot Colors Easily

Developers can easily work with spot colors from Pantone or Adobe colorbooks via API.  ImageGear supports multiple extra channels and can preserve spot colors while converting these into file formats or color spaces like RGB and CMYK.

New Image Processing

ImageGear provides a wide range of image processing features for developers. We constantly enhance and develop new time-saving image processing tools for imaging developers. The following are the latest image processing enhancements:

Save Time with ImageClean™ Enhancements

For developers working with 1-bit images, ImageGear provides many time-saving methods to modify and enhance black and white data with a set of ImageClean functions. The following are new ImageClean features:

No More Punch Hole Marks

RemovePunchHoles automatically detects and removes the punch holes on a 1-bit scanned image. It works for most common hole puncher standards including 2, 3, 4 and 5 hole puncher marks. The method takes a 1-bit image page and the set of advanced parameters specifying the location and diameter of punch holes.

Watch Lines Disappear

RemoveLines automatically detects and removes horizontal and vertical solid and broken lines on the 1-bit scanned image. The method takes a 1-bit image page and the set of advanced parameters specifying the line's attributes.

Dot Lines Removed in a Snap

RemoveDotLines automatically detects and removes horizontal and vertical dotted lines on the 1-bit scanned image. The method takes a 1-bit image page and the set of advanced parameters specifying the attributes to be used for the processing.

Powerful Mathematical Morphology

The field of mathematical morphology contributes a wide range of operators to image processing, all based around a few simple mathematical concepts from set theory. The operators are particularly useful for the analysis of binary images and common usages include edge detection, noise removal, image enhancement and image segmentation.

The following morphology image processing functions have been added: Erode, Dilate, Open, and Close.

Time-Saving Special Effects

Developers can now use the following new image processing effects:

Shear

The Shear function applies a shearing effect to an image, moving the image rasters or columns according to the specified offsets.

Aging

The Aging function applies an aging effect to make an image look older.

Spatter

The Spatter function applies a spatter effect to an image, making it look to have been painted in the impressionist style of painting.

Shadow

The DropShadow function adds a drop shadow to an image.

Oilify

The Oilify function makes the image appear similar to an oil painting.

Functional Light

• The DirectionalLight function adds bars of light according to a sine wave pattern.
• The RadialLight function adds circles of light according to a sine wave pattern.
• The FreeDirectionalLight function adds bars of light according to a custom pattern.
• The FreeRadialLight function adds circles of light according to a custom pattern.

Fragmentation

The Fragment function fragments an image into four blended images which move diagonally outward from the original image.

Lens Flare

The LensFlare function applies a lens flare effect to the image.

Pointillist

The Pointillist function makes the image appear to have been painted in the pointillism style of painting.

Additional New Features

ImageGear provides the latest features developers need to quickly build robust imaging-enabled applications. Developers can count on AccuSoft's imaging tools to help them build better applications faster. Below are the latest features in ImageGear:

New Interpolation

Bilinear and bicubic interpolation support for down size resize.

Work with multi-page images

Added capability to save a multi-page image into memory.

Use Floodfills

Implemented the floodfill functionality to fill an image area with a specified color.

Work with LUTs

Implemented the new function to transform the image pixel values, using a LUT.

Easily Integrate DirectShow

The Multimedia component now supports DirectShow. DirectShow is a Microsoft framework and API for working with multimedia data. It supports a variety of formats. Developers can access still images, animations, movies with video and audio, and audio-only files loaded and exported on the fly from DirectShow.

New Visual Studio Samples

Visual Studio 2008 samples are included.

Improved Resizing

Added Top-Left corner padding mode to the image processing resize functionality.

Expanded TGA Format Support

Implemented support for noncompliant TGA RGBA images.

Version 16.0

Our latest imaging toolkit, ImageGear v16, offers software developers everything they need in one toolkit. With a comprehensive list of available features, including OMR, ICR, OCR, and barcode recognition, PDF file editing and creation, guaranteed file format support and more — our imaging SDKs help you build better imaging applications faster. Here is a quick review of each release:

• Work with 3D PDF content using the latest PDF v1.6 standard
• New PDF/X and PDF/A verifiers for preflighting printing press
• Optimzed PDF display offers performace improvements
• Quickly work with vector data in Universal 3D (U3D) format
• Integrate AutoDesk Design Web Format (DWF) files for vector-based drawings
• Easily use new linear and radial gradient fills
• Expanded support of nearly 200 digital camera RAW formats
• New interactive GUI for digital camera RAW color reconstruction
• Easily integrate XMP - Adobe's Extensible Metadata Platform into your applications
• New support of the XPS document format
• Work with large 2GB+ files in Adobe's PSB large document format
• New API for full layer support for Photoshop PSD and PSB formats
• Easily use Adobe Color books and extra channel spot colors
• Add time-saving ImageClean™ functions for line removal and hole punch removal on scanned images
• Powerful new mathematical morphology functions such as edge detection, noise removal, etc.
• Work with new and improved image processing special effects such as red eye removal, lens flare, mosaic, perspective, and more
• Add more options when resizing with new bilinear and bicubic interpolation support
• Easily use and learn from new Visual Studio 2008 samples
• Implemented support for non-compliant TGA RGBA images

Version 15.4

• Work with digital camera RAW formats for more Canon, Nikon, and Olympus models
• Added support for Windows Vista SP1 on 32-bit and 64-bit platforms
• New shading dictionary API
• Use text orientation with protractor marks in annotations
• Work with 9-16 bit images in JPIP
• Optimized raster routine in PDF
• Use the PNG ICC profile in Adobe Photoshop
• Work with alpha and extra channels when burning annotations
• Enhanced Save Dialog GUI to save RGB+Alpha (32-bit) Win Cursor files
• New control parameters for saving JPEG compressed thumbnails
• Added RAW control parameter to read uncompressed packet files
• New API to use text during recognition and add it to a PDF page

Version 15.3

• New comprehensive support for HD Photo, Microsoft’s latest photo imaging format
• Additional DICOM enhancements such as support for DICOM overlays, edit DICOM data-set without updating pixel data, work with individual elements of DICOM data-set with new API, and read more easily RLE files
• Expanded functionality in frequency domains, including FFT, DCT, and DST methods
• New ability to rotate an image with interpolation, bringing you higher quality
• New emboss function
• New function for counting the number of unique colors within an image area
• New API to create, delete, and modify PDF Layers
• New Automatic tile stitching for TIFF, JPEG 2000 (JP2, JPX, MJP2), IBM AFP, IBM IOCA, and IBM MO:DCA formats to improve performance and optimize memory usage
• New ability to orient each text mark differently, enabling you to annotate mixed content documents

Version 15.2

• Additional support for reading LZW compressed RAW images
• New capability to rasterize password protected PDFs so that the user can print with non-PDF-native printing
• New ability to read and write comments for JPX images
• Enhanced performance by reducing the time to create a small thumbnail from a few hundred Meg sized image
• Additional functionality for alignment mode options for the ArtX text marks
• Enhanced performance to get image element information with certain PDFs by using raster data versus pixel data
• Enhanced the SVG reader and writer to be able to render more features, as well as be able to save raster images as SVG with embedded images
• Additional functionality to allow you to add IGPage objects directly to the thumbnail control
• Additional font verification for PDFs to ensure that the fonts being used in the file are on the system. If not, the user will see an appropriate error message
• New functionality to save 32 bit CMYK JPEGs
• New functionality to load 8 bit grayscale TIFF images with embedded 24 bit RGB JPEG streams
• New functionality to allow for getting and setting the measurement units and scale factor for vector drawings
• New access to the font style and metrics for PDFs
• Additional support for ICC profile reading and writing for JPEG2000 and JPX formats
• Improved the burning of large fonts and other ART marks by using GDI+, resulting in improved precision
• New PDF libraries to print according to the specified DEVMODE parameter
• Additional read and write support for EXIF_TIF_LZW, EXIF_TIF_DEFLATE, and EXIF_TIF_JPEG

Version 15.1

• New support for Windows Vista
• Enhanced API for working with grayscale Look Up Tables (LUTs) used for displaying a specific range of image intensities as well as for tone correction
• New support for non-linear DICOM Modality and Value Of Interest Look Up Tables (LUTs)

Version 15.0

• New Annotations Component, ARTX, to annotate any image that loads into ImageGear
• New JPIP API to build client server solutions
• New CAD/Vector (SVG) Component to support SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format to detect, read single-page and multi-page files, and save it
• New 3D Isosurface API to build 3D models out of multiple 2D slices (e.g. MRIs)
• Enhanced vector API to expand 3D display capabilities
• Improved support for camera RAW images
• New support for DICOM Waveform
• New support for PDF in Recognition Component

System Requirements

Windows

• Microsoft Windows 98SE, ME, 2000, Server 2003, XP, Vista

Macintosh

• PowerPC® G4 or G5 processor
• Mac OS X v10.2.8 through v10.4 (10.3.4 through 10.4 recommended)
• 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
• 150MB of available hard-disk space
• Color monitor with 16-bit video card
• 1,024x768 monitor resolution
• CD-ROM drive

Unix

IBM AIX System Requirements

• POWER, POWER2 or PowerPC hardware platform
• AIX 5.3 operating system
• IBM xlC compiler v7.0
• X11R6 include files & libraries
• Motif 1.2 optional (to compile the samples)

HP-UX System Requirements

• HP 9000/785 series platform
• HP-UX 11.x operating system
• HP aC++/ANSI C HP-UX Version 11 compiler
• X11R6 include files & libraries
• Motif 1.2 optional (to compile the samples)

HP-UX Itanium 64 (32-bit or 64-bit) System Requirements

• HP IA64 series platform
• HP-UX 11.x operating system
• HP aC++/ANSI C HP-UX Version 11 compiler  
• X11R6 include files & libraries
• Motif 1.2 optional (to compile the samples)

Linux (i386) System Requirements

• Intel based platform running one of the following distributions:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• Ubuntu 6.0
• X11R6 include files & libraries (openmotif-devel package under RHEL) required to build GUI samples
• Detailed requirements:
• 2.4 or 2.6 kernel
• Following libraries built with thread local storage enabled:
• libstdc++.so.5
• libX11.so.6
• libc.so.6
• libm.so.6
• libgcc_s.so.1
• libXau.so.6
• GCC 3.3 compiler
• Motif 1.2 optional (to compile the samples)

Linux (PowerPC) System Requirements

• PowerPC 64 based platform
• Red Hat Enterprise 3
• GCC 3.2 compiler
• X11R6 include files & libraries
• Motif 1.2 optional (to compile the samples)

Sun Solaris (32-bit or 64-bit) System Requirements

• Sun SPARC platform
• Solaris 5.9 operating system
• SUN Work Shop Pro C/C++ 5.6
• X11R6 include files & libraries
• Motif 1.2 optional (to compile the samples)

Development Environments

Our imaging SDKs can help you integrate imaging functions in almost any language, from C++ to Visual Basic .NET so you reduce your development time. ImageGear can be used in a wide variety of development environments and platforms. No need to learn a new environment or change what you are familiar with. ImageGear can work in your existing imaging development environment.

DLL/ActiveX: Visual Studio 6, Visual Studio .NET 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Borland C++ Builder, Borland Delphi 6, Powerbuilder
Java: JBuilder, Visual Cafe, Visual J++

Java Development Kits: JDK 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4

Code Samples

ImageGear functionality can be called from your development environment and platform of choice. To facilitate its use, numerous coding samples are installed with the product. They are available for re-use without additional licensing and help you build your applications faster. You can also use the ImageGear tutorials as well as sample applications and example code available online.

The imaging code samples cover all aspects of ImageGear and illustrate how to call over 1500 powerful imaging functions from C#, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Java, HTML and ASP pages with JavaScript, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++ with MFC, VBScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and even from within environments such as Microsoft Access.

Samples are provided to illustrate many imaging development tasks.

Customer Listing

Every day, millions of users around the world use applications that were created with our time-tested imaging technology. With over 2,000 built-in imaging functions in 27 categories and support for more than 150 file formats, developers in diverse industries turn to AccuSoft time and time again to accelerate the development of their imaging and image-enabled solutions. Learn more

U.S. Department of Homeland Security MedPlus Nationwide Mutual Life Patent & Trademark 3M Softmed U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Paperwise Snap-On Business Solutions National City Corporation McKesson CitiGroup Cognos DocStar Ektron Jack Henry

Corel Xerox Airbus Printsoft Development Pty. Ltd. Sovereign Services Ltd. Unisys China Siemens AG Medical Solutions GFT Solutions GmbH Cistec AG Itesoft SA CSC Ltd UK IBA Dosimetry BancTec GmbH Fujitsu Services UK Ltd.

Evaluation Support

Support is provided at no charge when you evaluate AccuSoft's toolkit products, enabling you to judge their suitability for use within your application. You can log questions via our online support center, and have access to a Technical Support Engineer during your product evaluation period.

Preferred Support

This is the base-level support option and is included in the purchase price of AccuSoft's toolkit products. It includes an ever-evolving set of online support services that allow you to quickly find answers to your questions interactively from our knowledge databasebase or to submit a support ticket via our Web site. Users register with an email username and password, which provides access to this secure support section of our Web site. Preferred support is entirely Web-based and customer-driven with access to updates and fixes limited to version-specific items only.

Preferred Support includes:

• Electronic submission of product problems and questions, and the ability to update and track the progress of your case
• Knowledge databases for our products that provide answers and fixes to commonly asked questions and problems
• Comprehensive product documentation including the latest guides and manuals, technical bulletins, flashes, and release notes
• Product fixes, release and maintenance information
• Preferred Support provides access to ALL patches, fixes, updates, enhancements (including new versions/releases) that may be issued to the licensed product during your support term. Preferred support is entirely Web-based.

Premier Support

Our Premier Support option provides a more personalized service level, and ensures prompt access to our expert technical support analysts.

Included are all of the Preferred Support services as well as access to AccuSoft’s Customer Support Department during our normal business hours (Monday thru Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. EST (except on designated holidays). Premier Support is pro-active, with personalized contact via any/all methods (Web, email, phone, etc.) and includes all updates to new versions or releases.

Premier Support guarantees a response to your issue, and includes access to a browser-based, real-time, electronic support solution that creates an interactive customer service environment that is significantly more personal and effective. Should we need to investigate an issue within your own environment, our electronic support solution enables our support analysts to:

• Access your system to view, diagnose and solve your problems remotely
• Run applications to ensure proper installation and configuration
• Demonstrate AccuSoft products
• Download and install patches or updates to your system
• Upload your files for analysis
• Include other analysts for consultation
• Interact with you via text chat
• Show and annotate diagrams, schematics, and videos
• Record the entire support session for archival purposes

Pricing Plans

Flexible Business Terms Help You Stay Competitive

When it comes to pricing, our customers benefit from our decades of experience in structuring agreements that support their needs. While others take a cookie-cutter approach to pricing, we understand that our customers have unique business models and requirements. We offer flexible licensing & pricing options and work diligently with each customer to put together a deal that is mutually beneficial. Whether you’re developing an enterprise application to support your organization or you’re an ISV or OEM creating a solution for resale, our goal is to help you be successful.

ImageGear SDKs

Pricing starts at U.S. $3,995 with many licensing options to meet your needs. Customer support and maintenance are included in the purchase price.