ImageEn Features

 

File Operations

• Support for all common image formats
• Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping
• 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
• Camera Raw image 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
• Asynchronous loading and saving
• Support for Color Management Systems to process ICC profiles
• Load images directly from the internet (using http/ftp protocol)
• Encryption and decryption using a 128 bit key
• Support for other formats such as HEIF, WebP, JBIG, etc, via plug-ins

 

Image Display

• Images can be automatically displayed "To-Fit" or with real time zoom. Eighteen quality filters are available to enhance its display (from fastest to best quality)
• Images from digital cameras can be automatically displayed with the correct orientation
• 180 stunning image transition and Pan-Zoom effects

  

• Automatic rulers

  

• Display and navigate images using Coverflow-style animation

  

• Measurement of lines, angles, perimeters and areas

  

 

Image Editing and Processing

• 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 cropping, mouse wheel support and click-dragging to rotate, navigate and zoom the image

  

• Interactive adjustment of perspective distortion

  

• Clone tool to remove unwanted areas the image

  

• Painting tool with tablet/pen pressure support, and many brush styles and options

  

• Eraser and Smart (background detecting) brushes to delete image content

  

• Retouch tools to fix images using smudge, blur, inpaint, sharpen, etc.

  

  

• Batch perform effects, editing and color operations

  

• Multilevel undo and redo

  

• Easily manipulate and edit single and multi-page images in code using TIEBitmap and TIEMultiBitmap classes
• Image resizing with eighteen quality filters including Triangle, Hermite, Bell, BSpline, Lanczos3, Mitchell, FastLinear, Bilinear and Bicubic
• Many color adjustment features including automatic enhancement, contrast, HSL, HSV, RGB, histogram equalization, Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT), gamma correction, and color curve adjustment (using code or the built-in dialog)

  

• Image effects including custom filters, bump map, lens, wave, morphing, Gaussian and motion blurring and sharpening (using code or the built-in dialog)

  

• Image cropping, auto-cropping, flipping, rotation and resizing (using code or the built-in dialog)

  

• Chromakey background removal

  

• Edge and skew detection

  

• Soft shadow and inner shadow effects

  

• Pixelation to obscure image content

  

• Conversion of color ranges, gray scale and negative
• Color and monochrome image dithering

  

• Supports a wide range of native pixel formats: 1 bit, 8 bit paletted, 8 bit grayscale, 16 bit grayscale, 24 bit RGB, 32 bit floating point, 24 bit CMYK, 48 bit RGB, CIELab

 

Layer and Vector Support

• Image, text, angle, shape and poly-line layer editing

  

• Many options including curves, rotation, grouping, transparency, soft-shadow, anti-alias and gradients

  

• Over 100 built-in vector shapes

  

• Component to preview layers of image

  

• Load/save to PSD and export to PDF and SVG

 

Thumbnails

Powerful thumbnail component that displays a grid of images, videos and other files (e.g. read from a folder or database table):

• Many style and other customizations, including wallpaper
• Supports multiple selection and/or checkboxes
• Display all frames/pages of: AVI, GIF, PDF, TIFF or video files (using DirectShow)
• Very memory efficient and fast with multi-threading background image loading, disk and memory caching and optional use of embedded thumbnails

  

 

Image and Video Acquisition

• Acquire images from Twain and WIA compatible scanners and cameras, and connected portable devices

  

• Video capture and saving of multimedia using DirectShow and Microsoft Media Foundation. Supports all installed codecs and video capture cards

  

• Capture from screen

 

Adobe PDF Features

• Viewing and manipulation of Adobe PDF Files including image and text selection

  

• Display a single page or all pages at once

  

• Editing of form fields

  

• Rotate, import, export, delete and move pages
• Search and highlight text in the current page or document
• Page thumbnail viewer with one-click navigation

  

• Support for Bookmarks, attachments, web links and keyboard shortcuts

  

• High quality printing and bitmap exporting

 

Other Features

• Use Google Vision API to recognize objects, text, handwriting, faces, famous landmarks and logos in images

  

• Over 400 actions for all common ImageEn functions, allowing you to build applications with minimal code
• Fully customizable toolbar components and popup menus

  

• 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 twenty-five languages: Arabic, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish

   

• Also works with the standard TImage component and TPicture class
• Supports VCL Themes

  

 

Other components

• Windows Explorer style Folder Tree and File List component (with device support)

  

• Advanced Rich Editing control with automatic toolbar, and importing from and exporting to Word documents

  

• ListView component to view and edit image properties, EXIF, IPTC and XMP data, PDF fields and Dicom tags

  

• Color Curve and Histogram controls

  

 

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IEVision

Advanced Features Add-On

IEVision is an optional add-on for ImageEn that delivers enhanced functionality:

• OCR: Image to Text Conversion with support for 110 languages

  

• Barcode Recognition in images and videos (EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39 and QR Code)

  

• Facial Recognition: Searching images and video streams for specific faces

  

• Face detection: Finding faces and other parts of the body, eyes, glasses, smile, cat faces and number plates

  

• Face and object tracking in video streams

  

• Automatic orientation of images

  

• Patching of images to hide blemishes and copy content

  

  

• Detect and count shapes

  

• Searching an image for matches

  

• Classifying images (based on training with positive and negative samples)

  

• Background Removal (based on a source background image)

  

• Photo Stitching

  

• Plus many other advanced image processing algorithms: "Watershed" and "Grabcut" automatic selection, "Non-local Means" denoising, "Hough" transformations, "Canny" edge detection, image erosion and dilation, blurring and thresholding.

 

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Specifications

Components

TImageEnView	Display images and videos (with layer support)
TImageEnViewToolbar	Toolbar with buttons for TImageEnView
TImageEnProc	Analyze and edit images
TImageEnIO	Load and save images of all formats, print, acquire from scanner, camera or digital device
TImageEnDBView	Display image from database
TImageEnMView	Display multiple images or thumbnails
TImageEnMIO	Load and save images of all multi-page formats, print thumbnails, acquire images from scanner, camera or digital device
TImageEnFolderMView	Display thumbnails of files in a folder
TImageEnLayerMView	Display preview of all layers of an image
TImageEnVect	Display and edit vector images
TOpenImageEnDialog	Open dialog with preview of all image formats
TSaveImageEnDialog	Save dialog with preview of image properties
TIEFolderTree	Windows Explorer style Shell Folder Tree
TIERichEdit	Advanced Rich Editing component
TIERichEditToolbar	Toolbar with buttons for TIERichEdit
TIEColorCurve	Manipulate colors of an image using a color curve
TIEColorPalette	Color display and selection control
THistogramBox	Color and hue histogram control

 

Key Classes

TIEBitmap	ImageEn's bitmap class, supporting all images formats and advanced functionality
TIOParams	Provides access to the properties and meta-data of image files
TIEDBBitmap	Access to an image stored or referenced in a database (connect to a TImageEnView for display)
TIEMultiBitmap	Loading, editing and saving of multi-frame image formats, such as TIFF, GIF, etc.
TIOMultiParams	Provides access to the properties and meta-data of multi-frame image files
TIEDBMultiBitmap	Access to the images stored or referenced in a database (connect to a TImageEnMView to display as thumbnails)
TIEAcquireParams	Access to scanners, camera and digital devices available via Twain, WIA or Windows Portable Device API
TIEVisionLibrary	Advanced features add-on class for ImageEn: OCR, barcode reading, facial detection and recognition, etc.
TIEGoogleVision	Use Google Vision API to recognize objects, text, handwriting, faces, famous landmarks and logos

 

Supported Formats

Format	Notes	Load	Save
JPEG	Supports fast preview at 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 size
JPEG2000
GIF	Including editing and display of animated GIFs
PNG
BMP
TIFF	Editing and display of single and multipage TIFF and BigTIFF
Raw Camera Formats	Including Digital Negative Format (*.dng), Canon (*.cr2, *.cr3, *.crw), Kodak (*.dcr), Minolta (*.mrw), Nikon (*.nef), Olympus (*.orf), Pentax (*.pef), Fuji (*.raf), Leica (*.raw), Sony (*.srf), Sigma (*.x3f) and more
Icons (ICO)	With multiple resolution and color depth support
DICOM (Medical Imaging)	Single and multipage
Adobe Photoshop (PSD/PSB)	With multiple layer support
ImageEn	Compressed format with support for transparency, vectors, annotations and layers (images, text, shapes and lines)
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)	Vector format supported by web browsers
Adobe PDF	Single and multipage documents
PostScript (PS and EPS)	Single and multipage documents
Metafiles (WMF and EMF)
Cursors (CUR)
AVI	Including retrieval and modification of frames
JPEG XL (JXL)
WebP
HEIF/HEIC/AVIF
WIC Formats	All WIC formats are supported, including DirectDraw Surface (*.dds), Microsoft HD Photo (*.wdp, *.hdp) and JPEG XR (*.jxr)
Media formats (MPEG, WMV, etc)	Via the DirectShow or MMF API
Other native formats	PCX, DCX (Multipage PCX), Targa (*.tga), PXM, Raw and Wireless BMP (*.wbmp)
And many more	GIMP (*.xcf), TrueType Fonts (*.ttf, *.otf), Kodak Photo-CD (*.pcd, *.pcds), Apple Pict (*.pict), CALS Image (*.cals, *.cal), Flexible Image Transport System (*.fits), HP PCL Printer Image (*.pcl), Kodak Cineon (*.cin), Embrid Embroidery Format (*.pes), SMPTE (*.dpx), Magick (*.miff, *.mvg), Matlab (*.mat), JPEG Network Graphics (*.jng), Multiple-Image Network Graphics (*.mng), High Dynamic Range File (*.exr), Microsoft XML Page (*.xps), MPEG (*.mp4, *.mpeg, *.mpg*.mov; *.m2v; *.m4v), etc

(Items with a pale tick use a plug-in)