| Product
Features |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| Includes
5 controls: ImagXpress, NotateXpress, TwainPRO, CapturePRO, PrintPRO |
X |
|
|
| Includes
3 controls: ImagXpress, NotateXpress, PrintPRO |
|
X |
|
| Client/server
Web development capabilities |
X |
X |
X |
| Streaming
image support from the Internet, allowing progressive image viewing
online |
X |
X |
X |
| Increased
image processing speed available via an easy to use multiple image
buffering mechanism |
X |
X |
X |
| Synchronous
or asynchronous multi-threaded control |
X |
X |
X |
| BLOB database
support |
X |
X |
X |
| Document
Imaging |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| Single
and multi-page TIFF and PDF reading and writing, including TIFF
tag handling |
X |
|
|
| Single
and multi-page TIFF and PDF reading, including TIFF tag handling |
X |
X |
|
| File conversion |
X |
X |
X |
| Sophisticated
TWAIN scanning support (TwainPRO control) |
X |
X |
|
| TWAIN scanning
support |
X |
X |
X |
| Annotation
capabilities (NotateXpress control) |
X |
X |
|
| Advanced
printing capabilities beyond Internet Explorer including Print to
TIFF (PrintPRO control) |
X |
X |
|
| Provides
high-performance support for document imaging features, 1-bit image
operations, half-toning, thresholding, binarization, deskew and
despeckle functions, scale to gray, antialias |
X |
X |
|
| Compression
& File Formats |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| TIFF, JPG,
GIF, RAW, BMP, WBMP, PNG, DCX, DIB, PIC, PBM, PCX, PGM, PPM, TGA,
ICO, PGM, 1 bit PCX, RLE, and more |
X |
X |
X |
| TIFF formats
including JPEG, CCITT RLE, Group 3 and Group 4, LZW, Pack Bits,
and Deflate |
X |
X |
X |
| Writes
progressive JPEG and PNG. |
X |
|
X |
| Reads progressive
JPEG and PNG. |
X |
X |
X |
| Multi-page
TIFF support, including compacting of multiple page files, TIFF
tag editing, and Wang TIFF annotation compatibility |
X |
|
|
| PDF support
for reading and writing document image PDF files (consisting of
black and white image data) |
X |
|
X |
| Writes
multiple page PDF (Image only), TIFF , ICO and DCX. |
X |
|
|
| Reads multiple
page PDF (image only), TIFF, ICO and DCX. |
X |
X |
|
| JPEG 2000,
lossless JPEG, JPEG-LS, and WSQ support available as add on's |
X |
X |
X |
| Reads ftp
and http Internet addresses |
X |
X |
X |
| Writes
to ftp and http Internet addresses |
X |
|
X |
| EXIF tag
editing |
X |
|
|
| EXIF tag
reading |
X |
X |
|
| Support
for 1, 4, 8, 16, 24, 32 bpp images |
X |
X |
X |
| Support
for 2 ?16 bpp grayscale images, including window leveling |
X |
X |
X |
| Beyond
8 bpp, grayscale lossy JPEG image compression and decompression |
X |
X |
X |
| 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. |
X |
X |
X |
| Low-level
C++ Class Library compression interface available within PICTools
products |
X |
X |
X |
| Image
and Video Acquisition |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| Interfaces
with any video capture device that supports USB, FireWire, WDM,
or native DirectShow including legacy Video For Windows devices |
X |
|
|
| Capture
images directly into an application instead of resorting to third-party
applications and loading files from disk |
X |
|
|
| Complete
control over image capture, compress and save options |
X |
|
|
| Acquire
both still images and video streams under program control |
X |
|
|
| Capture
and compress video with or without audio |
X |
|
|
| Output
compressed or uncompressed formats including AVI, Windows Media
Content, and others, depending on DirectShow filters the user has
installed |
X |
|
|
| Image
Processing and Editing |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| Configurable
binarization and half-toning |
X |
X |
|
| Anti-alias
and scale to gray |
X |
X |
|
| Color anti-aliasing
and smoothing for zoomed images |
X |
X |
X |
| Supports
sophisticated merge, and image composition features |
X |
X |
X |
| Retention
of image transparency |
X |
X |
X |
| Automated
1 bpp image cleanup |
X |
X |
X |
| Border
removal |
X |
X |
X |
| Autocrop |
X |
X |
X |
| Adjust
contrast, brightness, hue, saturation, gamma, and more (Display
adjustment of contrast, brightness, and gamma) |
X |
X |
X |
| 24, 8,
4, and 1-bit color depth conversions with advanced palette control |
X |
X |
X |
| Area and
region processing |
X |
X |
X |
| Tools |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| Create
customized interactive toolbar |
X |
X |
X |
| Right click
pop up menu, including image information dialog, tool selection,
zoom |
X |
X |
X |
| Automated
support to maintain the Aspect Ratio for images with differing horizontal
and vertical resolutions |
X |
X |
X |
| Multiple
image scaling algorithms |
X |
X |
X |
| Advanced
scrollbar and autosize features |
X |
X |
X |
| Built in
timer with TimerTick event |
X |
X |
X |
| Image property
interface |
X |
X |
X |
| Programmable
image alignment within the control |
X |
X |
X |
| 1/1000
degree rotation increments |
X |
X |
X |
| Annotation |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| Add annotation
and redaction capability to applications |
X |
X |
|
| Standard
annotation objects include ruler, freehand, text, rectangle, ellipse,
polygon, line, polyline, image and rubber-stamp |
X |
X |
|
| Create,
display, save, restore, and password-protect annotations in independent
layers |
X |
|
|
| Display,
restore, and read password-proteced annotations in independent layers |
X |
X |
|
| Brand annotations
into images |
X |
X |
|
| View and
Print annotations with the image |
X |
X |
|
| Add, delete,
query, and manipulate annotation elements programmatically |
X |
X |
|
| Query,
and manipulate annotation elements programmatically |
X |
X |
|
| Read and
write the Wang TIFF annotation format, and store all annotations
in either TIFF files or in external files |
X |
|
|
| Read the
Wang TIFF annotation format, and read annotations in either TIFF
files or in external files |
X |
X |
|
| Unicode
(double-byte) characters are supported for languages with extended
character sets |
X |
X |
|
| Supports
opaque, translucent, and transparent backgrounds for notations |
X |
X |
|
| Supports
opaque and translucent notations, useful for watermarking |
X |
X |
|
| Multiple
layer support |
X |
X |
|
| Printing |
Pro |
View |
Standard |
| Add powerful
printing features to applications with just a few lines of code |
X |
X |
|
| Create
a custom printing interface for Internet Explorer to bypass I.E.'s
printing interface |
X |
X |
|
| Print Preview
is provided |
X |
X |
|
| Print to
File, including multi-page TIFF and multi-page PDF output (containing
G4 compressed image data) |