File Operations

• Support for all common image formats
• Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping
• Loading and saving of digital camera fields (EXIF) in JPEG, TIFF, PNG, 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, PNG, HD Photo and PSD/PSB 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/PSB files
• Asynchronous loading and saving
• Support for Color Management Systems to process ICC profiles
• Load images directly from the internet (via http/ftp)
• Encryption and decryption using a 128 bit key
• Support for other formats such as HEIF, AVIF, 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
     
• Measurement of lines, perimeters and areas
     
• Display and navigate images using Coverflow-style animation
     

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, cloning, mouse wheel support and click-dragging to navigate and zoom the image
     
• Interactive adjustment of perspective distortion
     
• Painting tool with tablet/pen pressure support, and many brush styles and options
     
• Clone tool to remove unwanted areas the image
     
• Eraser and Smart (background detecting) brushes to delete image content
     
• Retouch tools to fix images using smudge, blur, inpaint, sharpen, etc.
    
     
• Effects Chain: 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
     
• Red-eye removal
• Color and monochrome image dithering
     
• Pixelation to obscure image content
     
• Soft shadow and inner shadow effects
       
• Color curve editing component
     
• Conversion of color ranges, gray scale and negative
• 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

Thumbnails

• Powerful thumbnail component that displays a grid of images (e.g. read from a file, folder or database)
     
• Many style and other customizations
       
• Supports multiple selection and/or checkboxes
• Display all frames/pages of: AVI, GIF, PDF, TIFF, ZIP or video files (using Directshow)
• Very memory efficient and fast with multi-threaded background image loading, disk caching, memory caching and optional use of embedded thumbnails

Layer and Vector Support

• Image, text, vector shape, angle and poly-line layer support
     
• Many options including curves, rotation, grouping, transparency, soft-shadow, anti-alias and gradients
        
• Easily edit polygons by point dragging, including adding curves
         
• Over 100 built-in vector shapes
                       
• Component to preview layers of image
     
• Component and dialog to edit layer properties
     
• Shape and gradient masks
     
• Import/export layers from PSD, PDF and SVG
     

Image and Video Acquisition

• Acquire images from Twain and WIA compatible scanners and cameras, and connected portable devices, like mobile phones (ImageEn provides a generic interface to acquire from all devices regardless of type)
     
• Video capture and saving of multimedia using DirectShow and Microsoft Media Foundation. Supports all installed codecs and video capture cards
     
• Capture from screen

IEVision Advanced Features Plug-In

IEVision is an optional plugin for ImageEn which adds advanced features:

• OCR (Image to Text Conversion) with support for 110 languages
     
• Facial recognition: Searching for specific faces
     
• Face detection: Finding faces and other parts of the body, eyes, glasses, smiles, cat faces and number plates
     
• Face and objects tracking
     
• Searching an image for matches
     
• Barcode reading (EAN-13/UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN-8, Code 128, Code 39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and QR Code)
     
• Photo Stitching
     
• Using a Neural Network (with local model files) to classify objects, detect text and upscale images
    
• Automatic orientation of images
     
• Inpainting/Image patching (to hide blemishes and copy content)
     
• Blob Detection: Detecting and counting objects in an image
     
• Automatic Background Removal from images and videos
     
• Image classification by training with positive and negative samples
     
• Exposure Fusion to merge images taken with multiple exposures into a single image
     
• Other advanced image processing algorithms (Non-local Means Denoising, Hough transformations, edge detection, image erosion and dilation, etc)

Adobe PDF Features

• Viewing and editing of Adobe PDF documents including image and text selection
     
• Display a single page or all pages at once
     
• User and programmatic editing of page objects (images, text, paths, etc) with clipboard support
• User editing of form fields and programmatic reading and setting of values
     
• View and edit edit page annotations
• Rotate, import, export, delete and move pages
• Search and highlight text in the current page or document
• Page thumbnail viewer with one-click navigation
     
• Navigation by PDF Bookmarks
     
• High quality printing and bitmap exporting
• Support for attachments, web links and keyboard shortcuts

Other Features

• Use the Google Vision API to recognize objects, text, handwriting, faces, famous landmarks and logos in images
     
• Debugging visualizers to allow you to inspect the content of bitmaps and objects while debugging
     
• Over 400 actions for all common ImageEn functions, allowing you to build applications with minimal code
     
• Customizable toolbar components
     
• Customizable popup menus
       
• Printing of images with Print Preview and poster support
     
• Printing and saving of thumbnail pages (contact sheets) with 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 standard TImage, TPicture and TBitmap classes: Instantly add support for loading and saving to all ImageEn formats, all editing operations, plus printing and acquisition
• Supports VCL Themes
    
     

Other Components

• Windows Explorer style Folder Tree and File List components
          
• Advanced Rich Editing control with automatic toolbar, and importing from and exporting to Word documents
     
• Histogram display control
     
• ListView component to view and edit image properties, EXIF, IPTC and XMP data, PDF fields and Dicom tags
     
• Color Palette and Color button controls
     

Supported Formats

ImageEn supports over eighty image and video formats:
Items with a pale tick use a plug-in

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