An Image Processing Tool by Black Ice Software

Summary of Black Ice Imaging Functionality:

Display

Display images to any display device. The display feature 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.

File formats (loading, saving and converting images from one format to another)

From simple BMP files to more complex TIFF, JPEG and PDF file, everything is included. The Black Ice Imaging Toolkits can 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 PDF, PCX, GIF, PNG, etc..

Transformations

Image transformations such as rotations, inversions, etc., 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.

Internet

The Black Ice Software’s Imaging 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 Imaging ActiveX controls.

Compression

Supports all of the popular data compression methods used in Imaging.

Document Image Processing

Image processing functions are used to make images look better or correct and remove visual artifacts from images. These image processing functions are can be used together with filters and effects to produce better over all result. The Document Imaging SDK implements several image-processing methods that can provide solutions to problems that happen during image acquisition such as faxing, scanning and photography.

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.

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, work with the RGB color space. Others devices, such as printers, may use the CMYK colors space. The Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX has over 60 color space conversion functions, which can be grouped into three sets of functions. There is a group of function to convert a Device Independent Bitmap, a group to convert buffers and a group to convert 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.

Common Dialogs

Black Ice imaging tools include 55 common dialog boxes for developers. The common dialog boxes are optional and were designed to drastically reduce user interface development time. There are 37 common dialogs for filters and in addition, there are common dialogs for image processing features such as Red Eye Removal, Selective Color, Brightness, Contrast, and Gamma Correction.

Database

The Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX allows developers to process images in memory and also provides functionality which allows developers to quickly and easily index their application within a specified ODBC database. You can use the database features to store images in any of the file formats supported by the Document Imaging SDK/ActiveX and the database support includes a variety of callback routines and features multipage support.

Effects and Filters

Effects and filters are designed to change the appearance of an image by applying sophisticated mathematical algorithms to the image. The Document Imaging SDK includes almost 50 different filters and effects that provide developers access to image processing tools that could take years to develop.

Text Processing

Black Ice imaging tools include a wide variety of text processing functions that can be very helpful in many different application areas.

Annotation

A complete set of easy to use tools that enable software engineers to add annotation, drawing, text, graphics, images, signature, stamps and sticky notes to a document in a shorter timeframe.

Image PDF Read/Write

Enables the conversion from different image formats to the popular PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) file format. Any color or monochrome image type supported by the Black Ice imaging toolkits can be converted into Image PDF format.

Licensing

To speak with a sales representative please call +1-603-673-1019 or email sales@blackice.com

System Requirements

Windows