AccuSoft ImageGear Professional
Acquisition
The ImageGear Acquisition functions allow developers to access images through three methods; file loading and saving, access via the internet, and two methods of scanner interface, TWAIN and ISIS.
Loading and Saving
ImageGear features highly flexible support for the reading and writing of image files and offers many functions for complete program control.
- Access to each line of an image while loading and saving
- A call-back mechanism for adding your own algorithms during load and save
- Ability to replace I/O functions (read, write, seek, etc.) with your own functions
- Read from memory, path, URL, FTP, port, etc.
- Read any sub-region of an image
- Reduce the size of an image while loading
- Reduce the bit-depth of an image while loading
- Access all tags and other non-image data while loading
- Modify all optional tags while saving images
- Access to all pages of any multi-page file
- Setting save options for various formats
Load images from file with any offset, save images to files at specified offsets (data binding), load images from and save images to a database, decode images using various compression algorithms without specific format headers and import/export images from/to various types of memory formats.
ImageGear has the fastest TIFF, JPEG, GIF, MO:DCA, and Group IV processing available. Our algorithms are continuously tested against all industry benchmarks with constant efforts being made to improve performance and stay abreast of new and emerging technologies.
Internet Support
ImageGear for Windows features built-in Web page support, making it the toolkit of choice for Web-enabled applications. Both the DLL and ActiveX versions provide the ability to load a file from a URL, FTP or GOPHER. The two methods are:
- Simple URL Loading
Regular image loading APIs (LoadImage property for ActiveX and IG_load_file function for DLL) check if file name starts with http:// and recognize that the file should be loaded from a URL - Advanced Loading
Includes a special API to load a file from URL, FTP or GOPHER - the Web site and file name of the site can be set along with the user name and password, TCP/IP port and service type (HTTP, FTP or GOPHER)
ImageGear ActiveX can be used in ASP pages to create dynamic image content for the Web. An ASP script that demonstrates this capability is included with ImageGear. Additionally, the ActiveX product can be packaged into a CAB file, signed and then used on a Web page via VBScript or JavaScript.
TWAIN and ISIS Scanning
ImageGear provides full support of the Captiva (formerly Pixel Translations) Image and Scanner Interface Specification (ISIS®). ISIS is the industry standard, enterprise-level interface that unites a universe of scanners and applications, supporting every feature of leading document scanners. Learn more about ISIS scanning.
ImageGear provides comprehensive support for the latest TWAIN specification, Version 1.9, facilitating support for TWAIN scanning. High-level functions provide quick implementation of superior TWAIN support without a steep learning curve. A single function call initiates the scanning process.
ImageGear TWAIN support allows for:
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Getting and setting all available TWAIN 1.9 capabilities from the device
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Processing device events
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Capturing multiple images using automatic capture
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Capturing images using a device’s preview camera
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Browsing, creating, copying, renaming and deleting files and directories in a device’s file system
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Retrieving images along with any associated audio snippets from a device’s file system
