ImageKit 10 ActiveX（一）

Add image-processing and scanning functions to your COM applications!
Easy to use imaging functions! Support for web camera too!

 

 Save to PDF file - NEW!
                                                   Save PDF with password protection! - NEW!
                                                   Thumbnail capabilities added - NEW!
                                                   Supports touch screen
                           Web camera functions include video recording, playback, snapshot
                                                   Enchanced scan functions
                                                   Contains both 32bit and 64bit DLLs and OCX files
                        Create 64bit scanning applications     (* Must have 64bit scan driver)
                                                   Supports unicode file names
                                        Load images from and save images to HTTP/FTP servers
                                               Set Exif information     (* Not all exif tags supported)

 

Powerful Image Processing! The ImageKit10 ActiveX is a component that allows you to add image processing functionality to your applications quickly and easily. With the ImageKit10 ActiveX, you can write applications that retrieve images from TWAIN scanners and digital cameras; that load and save image files and convert images from one format to another; that edit images, draw shapes and text on images; that display images and print images; that display images as thumbnails, and much more. Most all of the ImageKit10 functionality is also available in DLL style API. The ImageKit10 ActiveX component can be used in Visual Studio (2005 and above) via COM wrapper. A variety of sample programs for each supported development environment are included with the ImageKit10 ActiveX allowing you to quickly get up to speed. Each sample program clearly illustrates one or two key functions so it is easy to understand and easy to find the necessary code to enable that functionality in your own applications.   The ImageKit10 ActiveX has the same stable, easy to use functions as always, supports both 32bit and 64bit environments and comes with unicode and ansi versions.   While maintaining the stability and usability of the previous version "ImageKit 9 ActiveX", we have added scan functions and a PDF file save function.

 

The following corporations have been especially helpful in assisting us with our scanning functionality!

 

ImageKit10 ActiveX

The ImageKit10 ActiveX contains of five controls: the ImageKit control; three web camera controls, Record, Play, Preview; and the Thumbnail control. The ImageKit control provides comprehensive image-processing, printing, drawing, and scanning functionality. The WebCamera controls allow you to program and manipulate movie images from web cameras. The Thumbnail control provides an easy interface for displaying images as thumbnails. These controls are shipped in 4 editions: a 64 bit unicode edition, a 32 bit unicode edition, a 64 bit ANSI edition, and a 32 bit ANSI edition.

Below, we illustrate some of the main features of these controls.

 

ImageKit Control

Main Features - The ImageKit control provide functions that can retrieve images from TWAIN scanners and digital cameras, that can display and edit images, that can draw text and shapes on images or apply effect filters and transformations to images, that can make composite images from two seperate images, that can load and save image files and convert images from one format to another, that can print images, et.al.

ImageKit Control Design View Property Page

 

 Thumbnail Control

Main Features - The Thumbnail control provides an easy to use interface for displaying images as thumbnails. Select single thumbnails and display original image; select multiple thumbnails, save thumbnail information to file for quick loading, and more.

Thumbnail Control Design View Property Page

 

Record Control

Main Features - The Record Control captures movies from webcameras.

  Preview Control

Main Features - The Preview Control allows you to preview webcamera.

  Play Control

Main Features - The Play Control plays webcamera movies

 

 

Touch Screen Functions

Touch functions used by tablet PCs now provided

 Pinch in and Pinch out

 

 Touch scroll

 

When editing with touch
selecting objects is important. The size of the selection blocks change automatically when using a mouse or when using touch

 

WebCamera Functions

Supports web camera functions of preview, capture (save in avi and wmv formats) and play (avi, mpeg, etc.)

 

ImageKit10 Preview Control

 

Web camera Settings dialog

 

Image Display And Edit Functions

The ImageKit control provides powerful image display and editing functionality

 Automatically display the vertical and horizontal direction of the photo - NEW!
It is possible to retrieve Exif information from JPEG photos taken with smartphones and automatically adjust for vertical and horizontal display.
(* If the corresponding Exif information exists)

 Display Raster Data - supports BMP, FPX, GIF, EXIF JPEG, JPEG, JPEG2000, PCX, PNG, TIFF, TIFF CCITTRLE, TIFF G3, TIFF G4, TIFF LZW, TIFF Packbits, TIFF JPEG

 Display Vector Data (DXF(2D), WMF, EMF, SVG - uncompressed, SXF

Here is DXF data after it has been loaded and displayed in the ImageKit control:

 

The ImageKit control can display a graduated ruler on its border or a grid on top of images.

 Display graduated rule (supports pixels, millimeters, inches units)
 Display grid on images (supports pixels, millimeters, inches units)

Multi-layer functionality is provided by the ImageKit control's layer interface

The Layer Interface allows you to create applications that can display raster images like JPEG at the same time you are displaying vector data like DXF!

 Simultaneously display both raster and vector images (up to 100 distinct image layers)

 

Base image + raster image + vector image + graduated rule + grid
 

 Display coordinates in tooltip
 Scroll by mouse drag
 Display black and white (1 bit color) images in high quality display
   Automatically avoid data loss when black and white (1-bit color) images are reduced in size.

 

 Scale display mode
    If images are larger than the ImageKit Control, the image will be scaled to fit within the control.

 Actual Size display mode
    If images are larger than the ImageKit Control, scroll bars are automatically displayed

 Actual Size display mode (without scroll bars)
    If images are larger than the ImageKit Control, scroll bars are not displayed and image is not scaled

 Stretch display mode
    Images are resized to fit the dimensions of the ImageKit Control

 Set display position of the image
    With this functionality you can even display images at the very bottom of the ImageKit Control

 

The Pan Window (supports both raster and vector data)

The ImageKit control provides a useful Pan Window which can display the entire image while only a portion of that image is being displayed in the ImageKit Control. That portion of the entire image in the ImageKit Control is marked with a rectangle in the Pan Window. You can scroll the portion of the image displayed in the ImageKit control by moving this rectangle in the Pan Window. Multiple images simultaneously displayed in the ImageKit Control will also be shown in the Pan Window. Both raster and vector images are supported.

 

Here is a vector image being displayed in the Pan Window and the ImageKit control

 

 Scrollbar control action
Not only can you scroll with the mouse, but also with code. This includes diagonal scrolling!

 Regional selection
It is possible to select areas or regions on an image for processing. This is as easy as moving the mouse over the image. Regional selection can also be done via code.

 

Image editing toolbar

The Image editing toolbars are an easy to use interface for editing images. The image editing toolbars support both raster and vector data.

 Raster Image Editing Toolbar
Use this toolbar with raster images to zoom, to rotate, to select the entire image or select rectangular regions or freehand regions, to rotate selected areas, to undo changes, use a pen tool, retrieve colors from images, draw shapes like rectangles, ellipses, rounded rectangles, straight lines, curves, fill color, use air brush or eraser, set custom stamps, draw text, set fonts, copy and paste, set foreground and background colors, borders, etc.

 

Freehand selection and rotation of a region on a raster image

Provide your enduser with this rich image editing interface with just these three lines of code....

Vector Image Editing Toolbar
Use this toolbar with vector images to zoom, to rotate, undo changes, to move vector elements, to select single elements, to select elements in a region, to draw shapes like rectangles, ellipses, rounded rectangles, straight lines, polygons, polylines, to load raster images and embed them, to draw text, set fonts, set foreground and background color, borders, etc.

 

This shows the vector image editing toolbar selecting and changing vector objects

 

A vector object's (the red line) popup menu - property

 

Changing text in vector images

 

Image Effects And Transformation Functions

The ImageKit control provides numerous effect filters and transformation functions.

 Convert raster data to vector data
That’s right! You can covert raster images to vector data. Take those old hand-drawn diagrams and blue prints, run them through an image scanner and save them as JPEG or BMP files. Then, using the vectorizing functionality, convert those images to DXF or other vector format. Avoid the inevitable deterioration of physical diagrams, vectorized data scales easily, reuse as CAD data, et.al.

Here is an example of a program that scans, vectorizes, and saves diagrams

 

 Display vector data with antialias
By using antialias, you can smooth the rough edges in vector data. In the following two images, notice the outline of the shapes and the text (numbers).

No antialias

 

Antialias

 

 Digital Watermark
   Embed an "invisible" copyright or logo within an image and be able to detect it later.

Embedding an digital watermark

 

Checking for the watermark in an image