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ImageMan ActiveX Suite

The ImageMan ActiveX Suite® is a set of 32 bit ActiveX controls for adding sophisticated image processing and scanner support to your Windows applications. The ImageMan controls are optimized for Windows and include high performance support for loading, saving, displaying, printing, converting and processing images in the most common raster and vector formats.

While some library vendors think more properties are better, our API which has evolved over the last 10 years provides a compact yet powerful set of properties, methods and events. While our high level functions make it easy to create image enabled applications in minutes, our low level functions give you total control over image processing. ImageMan's modular architecture also allows you to ship only the import/export filters that you need with your application, allowing you to save disk space. Also, you can create your own import/export filters for proprietary formats. Our continuing commitment to ImageMan assures you of future releases including increased performance and support for new image formats. Our dedicated support staff will also be here if you have any questions about ImageMan or how to best use it in your application.

Here's a partial list of ImageMan ActiveX Suite's features:

• Support for 35+ raster and vector image formats including  JPEG 2000, FlashPix, Photo CD, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, RLE, DIB, EPS, GIF, PNG, TGA, IMG, DXF, PCX, DCX, PDF *
• Image processing features including Image Filters like embossing, edge detection, blur, sharpen, and more. Adjust Brightness, Contrast and Gamma. Interpolated Scaling for the best image quality. Rotate images by hundredths of degrees. Mirror, flip and invert. Automatic Thumbnail generation.
• AntiAliasing support makes displaying scaled high quality black and white images a snap. Automatic thumbnail generation is just a function call away. Support for reading and writing multi page TIFF files including support for Group 3/4 compression assures compatibility with document management standards. Deskew method for correcting scanned images. 
• ImageMan includes support for TWAIN compatible scanners, frame grabbers and digital cameras. It only takes a few lines of code to acquire an image from any supported device and ImageMan also has lower level functions that allow you to scan from an Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) and control image attributes such as resolution, color depth, scan area and more. Includes support for both 16 & 32 bit TWAIN Sources.
• ImageMan includes several features that make it ideal for Color image processing and display. Our new Interpolated scaling support assures you the best image quality when scaling images up or down and it's fast. Our new Color reduction algorithms allow you to reduce the number of colors in an image with excellent image quality. While you're reducing your image you can also specify one of several supported dithering methods be used to further improve the image quality. Images can be reduced to an optimized palette or a fixed palette for displaying multiple images on a palettized system, Images can even be reduced/dithered to a user specified palette.
• ImageMan's printing support gives you complete control over the printing process. You can mix graphics and text on any Windows supported printers.
• The ImageMan Special Effects control includes over 50 special image transitional effects.
• Simple, easy licensing and 100% Royalty Free runtime Distribution
• Fully supported by Data Techniques professional support staff