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Current Version: 4.1.0 Released: 23 Feb. 2012 |
ImageEn is the most powerful native image library available for Delphi and C++ Builder, and is also available for .NET. The library includes a complete suite of components to handle all aspects of image and editing, analysis and display. Join thousands of other developers who rely on ImageEn to add professional multimedia functionality to their software.
Compatibility
Delphi 5 - XE2, C++ Builder 5 - XE2 and any programming environment supporting ActiveX objects or .NET 2.0 - 4.0.
File Operations
- Asynchronous loading and saving
- Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping
- Support for Color Management Systems to process ICC profiles
- Loading and saving of digital camera (EXIF) fields in JPEG, TIFF, RAW and HD Photo files (without modifying the original image)
- Loading and saving of EXIF GPS fields
- Loading and saving of Adobe XMP fields from JPEG, TIFF, HD Photo and PSD files
- Raw camera support including access to internal thumbnails and other data fields
- Loading and saving of IPTC data (most commonly used by Photoshop) from JPEG and TIFF files (without modifying the original image)
- Quick reading of image properties (dimensions, color depth, etc) without loading image
- Image load and save dialogs which include a preview and relevant save settings
- Support for alpha channel in GIF, TIFF, PNG, ICO, CUR, TGA, PSD files
- Load images directly from the internet (using http/ftp protocol)
- Encryption and decryption using a 128 bit key
Image Display
- Images can be automatically displayed "To-Fit" or with real time zoom. Six quality settings are available to enhance its display (from fastest to best quality)
- Images from digital cameras that support EXIF rotation data can be automatically displayed with the correct orientation
- 180 stunning image transition and Pan-Zoom effects
- Many selection types: rectangle, ellipse, polygon and "magic wand" (to instantly select a colored area) and other options (including selection intensity and feathering)
- Other mouse interaction options include mouse wheel support and click-dragging to navigate and zoom the image
- Multilevel undo and redo
- Support for alpha channel (transparency) and multiple layers (with 37 layer blend modes). All layers can be moved, resized and rotated (programmatically or by the user)
- Display and navigate images using Coverflow-style animation
Image Editing and Processing
- Image resizing with 11 quality filters including Triangle, Hermite, Bell, BSpline, Lanczos3, Mitchell, FastLinear, Bilinear and Bicubic
- Many color adjustment facilities including contrast, HSL, HSV channel separation, RGB, histogram equalization, Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT), gamma correction, temperature and noise removal. All can be applied programmatically or using the built-in dialog
- Image effects including custom filters, bump map, lens, wave, morphing, Gaussian and motion blurring and sharpening. All can be applied programmatically or using the built-in dialog
- Conversion to gray scale and negative
- Conversion of color ranges
- Image cropping, auto-cropping, flipping and rotation with anti-alias
- Edge and skew detection
- Red-eye removal
- Soft shadow and inner shadow effects
- Supports a wide range of native pixel formats: 1 bit, 8 bit paletted, 8 bit grayscale, 16 bit grayscale, 24 bit RGB, 32 bit float point, 24 bit CMYK, 48 bit RGB, CIELab
Image and Video Acquisition
- Acquire images from Twain (modal and modeless) and WIA compatible scanners and cameras
- Capture from screen
- Visual and non-visual components for video capture (supporting freeze frames and real-time processing). Supports all installed codecs and video capture cards
- Video capture and saving of multimedia using DirectShow
Thumbnails
Powerful thumbnail components that displays a grid of images (e.g. read from a folder or database table):
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Vectorial Object Component
Vectorial Editing component that allows you to add and manipulate objects on a background image:
- Width object support: lines, boxes, circles, ellipses, bitmaps, text (including curved, multi-line and formatted), rulers, polylines, polygons, angles and arrows
- Many object options including transparency, soft-shadow and anti-alias
- Save/Load to compressed IEV format and import from AutoCAD DXF files
- Undo and redo support
- Measurement of lines, perimeters, areas and angles
- Full clipboard support
Other Features
- Printing of single images and sheets of multiple images, including print preview support
- Data-aware versions of image and thumbnail components to automatically display files stored as blob or path references in a database table
- One-click selection of languages for all dialogs with support for: English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Japanese, Czech, Finnish, Farsi, Chinese, Danish, Turkish and Hungarian
- Also works with the standard TImage component and TPicture class
Supported Formats
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| JPEG | Supports 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 sub-sizes for fast preview |  |
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| JPEG2000 | |
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| GIF | Including editing and display of animated GIFs | |
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| PNG | |
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| BMP | Compressed and uncompressed | |
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| TIFF | Editing and display of single and multipage TIFF. Also supports FAX, G3F and G3N sub-formats | |
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| PCX | Including DCX (Multipage PCX) format | |
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| Raw Camera Formats | Including Digital Negative Format (*.dng), Canon (*.cr2, *.crw), Kodak (*.dcr), Minolta (*.mrw), Nikon (*.nef), Olympus (*.orf), Pentax (*.pef), Fuji (*.raf), Leica (*.raw), Sony (*.srf) and Sigma (*.x3f) | |
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| Icons (ICO) | With multiple resolution and color depth support | |
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| DICOM (Medical Imaging) | Single and multipage | |
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| Adobe Photoshop (PSD) | With multiple layer support | |
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| WMP | Also known as Microsoft HD Photo | |
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| PostScript (PS and EPS) | Single and multipage | |
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| Adobe PDF | Single and multipage images | |
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| Metafiles (WMF and EMF) | |
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| Cursors (CUR) | |
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| AVI | Including retrieval and modification of frames | |
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| Media formats (MPEG, WMV, etc) | Via the Directshow API | |
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| And many more | Paintshop Pro (*.psp), Kodak Photo-CD (*.pcd), Alias Wavefront RLE (*.pix), Apple Pict (*.pict), Dr. Halo (*.cut, *.pal), FITS (*.fits), Gimp Image (*.xcf), Graphviz Dot (*.dot), HDF (*.hdf), HP PCL Printer Image (*.pcl), JBIG (*.jbig, *.jbg, *.bie), Khoros VIFF (*.viff), Kodak Cineon (*.cin), Magick (*.miff), Matlab (*.mat), Portable Bitmap (*.pbm, *.pgm, *.ppm, *.pxm), Scalable Vector Graphic (*.svg), Seattle File Works (*.pwp), SGI Wavefront (*.rla, *.rpf), Pagis Pro (*.xif), SGI (*.bw, *.rgb, *.rgba, *.sgi), DPX (*.dpx), Sun Rasterfile (*.sun), Truevision Targa (*.tga, *.targa), Vicar Rasterfile (*.vicar), Wireless Bitmap (*.wbmp), XWindows Bitmap (*.xbm) and XWindows Pixmap (*.xpm)
Note: Extended formats are supported via Plug-in |
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IEVision Advanced Tools Plug-In
IEVision is an optional plug-in for ImageEn that adds enhanced features.
- Face and other object detection and tracking
- OCR: Image to Text Conversion
Supported Languages: English, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese - Patching of images (to hide blemishes and copy content)
